MARKETWISE, INC.

Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp, trading under the ticker ACND and sponsored by Ascendant Digital Sponsor, LLC, completed its initial public offering in October 2020, targeting the financial media and subscription research sector. The blank-check company filed a Form 10-Q with the SEC on November 16, 2020, one of its earliest post-IPO quarterly disclosures. ACND subsequently closed a business combination with MarketWise, Inc., a subscription-based financial research and media platform serving individual investors, with the transaction completing in 2021 and the merged company trading on Nasdaq as MKTW. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filing histories, sponsor profiles, and deal data across the SPAC market.