Bark, Inc., the New York-based pet products company best known for its BarkBox subscription service, agreed in December 2020 to go public through a merger with Northern Star Acquisition Corp., a blank-check vehicle sponsored by Northern Star Investments that completed its IPO earlier that year. The transaction, disclosed in an 8-K filed on December 17, 2020 under accession number 0001193125-20-319637, positioned Bark within the consumer products and e-commerce sector, targeting the rapidly growing pet care market. The combined company subsequently began trading on the NYSE under the ticker BARK following the deal's close in mid-2021. Sign up at SpacDesk for complete filing history, sponsor profiles, and deal analytics on BARK and hundreds of other SPAC transactions.