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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
Erich Spangenberg , our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors since our inception, has served as a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of SIM since January 2023. From January 2018 to January 2023, Mr. Spangenberg was the Founder and CEO of IPwe, a global financial technology company in the intellectual property space. In January 2024, IPwe, Inc. filed a petition for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the District of Delaware. The case was converted to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in March 2024 and is still pending. From September 2014 to March 2017, Mr. Spangenberg was CEO of nXn Partners, a predictive analytics company focused on analyzing key attributes of intellectual property. From January 2015 to March 2017, Mr. Spangenberg was a Partner at the Coalition For Affordable Drugs, which challenged patent validity through the USPTO’s inter-partes review process. From April 2003 to August 2014, Mr. Spangenberg was Founder and CEO of IP Navigation Group (IPNav), a full-service patent monetization and global licensing business. From March 1998 to March 2003, Mr. Spangenberg was President of Acclaim Venture Group, which invested in technology and industrial companies. From December 1996 to November 1998, Mr.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001331984 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 38 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 17 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.