Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., ticker IPOA, was a blank-check company sponsored by Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment firm led by Chamath Palihapitiya, that completed its IPO in September 2017 targeting the technology and innovation sector. The company filed an 8-K on July 9, 2019, disclosing a definitive agreement to merge with Virgin Galactic, the commercial human spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson. The transaction closed in October 2019, with IPOA subsequently trading as SPCE, making Virgin Galactic the first publicly traded commercial spaceflight company and establishing the deal as one of the most widely covered SPAC business combinations of that era. Sign up for SpacDesk to access full filing histories, deal timelines, and analytics across thousands of SPAC transactions.