MARKETWISE, INC.

MarketWise, Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTW) is a subscription-based financial research and analytics company that reached the public markets through a de-SPAC transaction with Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp., which completed its blank-check IPO in July 2020 under the ticker ACND. Ascendant Digital was sponsored by Ascendant Capital, LLC and targeted opportunities in the digital media and financial services sectors. The de-SPAC merger with MarketWise, a multi-brand platform offering investment research, financial education, and data analytics to retail investors, closed in 2021, at which point the combined company began trading as MKTW. MarketWise operates across the financial media and subscription analytics industry. For complete filing history, merger documents, and real-time SPAC data on MKTW and thousands of other transactions, create a free account at SpacDesk.