Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., ticker IPOA, was a blank-check company sponsored by Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital Hedosophia that completed its IPO in 2017 targeting technology-enabled businesses. The 8-K filed October 29, 2019 disclosed the closing of IPOA's business combination with Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., the commercial space tourism company founded by Sir Richard Branson, a transaction widely recognized as one of the most prominent SPAC deals of the era and among the first to bring a space-focused enterprise to public equity markets. Following the close, Virgin Galactic began trading as a publicly listed aerospace company. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filings, analytics, and deal data on this SPAC and hundreds more.