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MTech Acquisition Corp

MTEC · Nasdaq

Trust settledMJ Freeway LLC · Finished

NO ACTION REQUIRED

Nothing left to do

The purchase completed and the shares became shares in the company it bought. There is no deadline left to miss.

No price history on file yet — daily closes accumulate from the market data feed.

Trust settled · There is no line to draw here. This vehicle has finished: the cash was paid back or spent closing the deal, so the last filed figure describes an account that no longer exists and would be a floor under nothing.

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Trust settled

The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).


In plain terms

What it is
A SPAC from MTech Sponsor, LLC, listed on Nasdaq in January 2018.
What it's doing now
It agreed in April 2019 to buy MJ Freeway LLC, a Cannabis industry software company. That purchase completed, and it stopped being a SPAC — the shares became shares in the business it bought.
What you should know
This SPAC has finished. The purchase completed, and the shares became shares in the company it bought — anyone who wanted the cash instead asked for it at the vote, so there is no cash left here to claim and no deadline left to miss.

At a glance

Where it stands
Closed (deSPAC)
The business it bought
MJ Freeway LLC
Industry
Cannabis industry software/technology (seed-to-sale tracking and compliance platform)
Deal value
not stated in the filings we hold
announced 19 April 2019
Price vs cash at settlement
no live price on file
Cash in trust when it settled
not yet extracted into a snapshot — the filings below may state it
the last trust total filed while this was still a SPAC — the account has since been paid out or used to close the deal
IPO
30 January 2018
size not on file · 100.0% of each $10 unit into trust
Headquarters
10124 FOXHURST CT, ORLANDO, FL, 32836
registered in Delaware
Lead underwriter
not extracted from the prospectus yet
Key officers
Sozio Scott (Director and CEO) · VAN DYKE STEVEN A (Director) · Effron Drew
Listed securities
MTEC common
Cash held per sharenot filed for this window

This vehicle has finished, so there is no window to file a cash-per-share figure for and none will follow. No estimate is shown in its place.

Next date that mattersno dated event on file

Nothing dated is on file. That is an absence in the record, not a statement that nothing is coming.

Yield to redemption

Nothing left to redeem — no yield to compute.

This SPAC has finished — its trust was paid back or used to close the deal, so there is nothing left to redeem and no yield to compute. A yield to redemption is a claim that you can hand these shares back for the trust cash. That account is closed, so this page will not print a number here.


What happened to the cash

The reasoning behind the verdict above, in the order the filings establish it.

  1. The deal closed — SPAC shares became the target's shares, so there is no trust left to redeem (nobody missed a window; holders who wanted cash elected it at the vote).

What has happened, and what is coming

2 dated milestones

Every dated step from the day it listed to the next date you may have to act on. Where you have to do something, the day your broker needs the instruction is marked too.

  1. 30 January 2018IPOpassed

    IPO size not on file

  2. 19 April 2019Deal announcedpassed

    Combination with MJ Freeway LLC


The deal

terms as filed

What it is buying, on what terms, and how much of the combined company new shares take from you.

  • MJ Freeway LLC · announced 19 April 2019
    closedCannabis industry software/technologySEC primary

The score

deterministic, from filed fields

MTEC is not in the scored universe, so no score is shown. A withheld score is a fact about the record, not a verdict about the company.

Asymmetric return scoreNeither a price nor a cash-per-share figure is on file for this vehicle, and the score is a ratio between the two. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

The score is only published for names that carry both a price and a filed cash-per-share figure — 292 of the tracked fleet today. The rest keep an empty dial rather than a modelled one, and fill in by themselves as the fields land.

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The company

from SEC filings
Read the full profile

MTech Acquisition Corp was a blank-check company that priced its initial public offering on January 30, 2018, and traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker MTEC. The company's SEC CIK is 0001719893, and it is classified under SIC industry code 7374. Its IPO was registered under SEC file number 333-221957 via S-1 0001615774-17-007221, with the pricing prospectus filed as 424B4 0001615774-18-000677. The company completed a business combination, as established by an 8-K filing on June 17, 2019, and the vehicle no longer files.


Material findings

from the full read of every filing

Every document this company files gets read whole — body and exhibits. These are the ones the read flagged as material, newest first, each citing its filing.

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  • Cash outside the trust is $6,853 against $569,546 of current liabilities: this SPAC is running entirely on sponsor drawdowns in the quarter before its shareholder vote.

  • A duplicate of the same-day 8-K filed under Rule 425; the board terms are identical.

  • Shifts post-closing board control further toward the target: five of eight directors are MJ Freeway appointees rather than four of seven. The Seller Representative also changed hands, from Harold Handelsman to MJ Freeway's CEO.

  • The company ended the year with $4,489 of cash outside the trust against $314,387 of payables — the deal costs of the MJ Freeway transaction had consumed essentially all working capital, which is why the sponsor note followed in February.

  • The sponsor is now funding deal costs directly: up to $500,000 of unsecured, interest-free credit that is repaid only if a combination closes, and is written off if the SPAC winds up.

  • Names the post-closing entity and puts the first operating scale figures for the target on the record — customer geography and cumulative sales processed — though no revenue or EBITDA figure appears.

  • Deal costs on the MJ Freeway transaction turned the quarter to a loss and cut cash outside the trust to under $250,000 against $228,960 of payables — the working-capital squeeze a SPAC hits between signing and closing.

  • Puts a number on redemption sensitivity: the SPAC side's post-closing ownership falls from about 52% to about 27% between no redemptions and the maximum the deal can absorb — the range that determines what public holders own of the combined company.

  • Puts the signed merger agreement into the proxy-solicitation record, which is what starts the disclosure clock for the MTech shareholder vote. The extracted text is the agreement's table of contents and recitals, not the consideration terms.

  • Names MTech's target and fixes the transaction structure: Pubco, not MTech, becomes the listed company, and the seller side is already locked up by voting agreements. The extracted text covers the table of contents and recitals; the merger consideration, escrow and termination-fee amounts are in articles not reproduced here.

  • Trust income keeps accruing on the $57.5 million principal while working capital outside the trust drops below $400,000 — the balance that has to fund the search and any deal expenses.

  • First reported quarter for the post-over-allotment $57.5 million trust, with no deferred underwriting liability on the balance sheet and roughly $490,000 of cash to run the search.

  • Restates the trust after the full over-allotment at the same $10.00 per share, so the additional 750,000 public units dilute nobody's redemption claim.

  • Establishes a $10.00 trust with no deferred underwriting liability on the balance sheet, and flags an over-allotment that had been noticed but not yet closed as of this filing.

  • Sets this SPAC's trust funding at $10.00 per firm unit against a $9.75 net price, and gives the underwriter a 750,000-unit over-allotment that would enlarge the trust if exercised.

  • The warrant is worth reading twice: one whole warrant per unit rather than the half or third this cohort usually sells, so the dilution on exercise is two to three times the norm at the same $11.50 strike. The call has an unusual shape too - $0.01 AT ANY TIME during the exercise period, on 30 days' notice, if the last sale price is at least $18.00 for 20 of 30 trading days ending three business days before notice, AND only if a current registration statement is then in effect. Class A and warrants separate on the 90th day after the prospectus, not the 52nd.


Filings

live EDGAR feed

Everything this company has filed with the SEC recently, newest first, each with a plain summary of what changed and why it matters.

Show the other 10 filings
  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed the same disclosure as definitive additional proxy material: 685,599 Class A shares previously subscribed at $10.21 for about $7.0 million, plus 215,475 more on June 7 and June 10, 2019 at the same price for about $2.2 million, for 901,074 shares and approximately $9.2 million of gross proceeds, converting one-for-one into Pubco stock and conditioned on the business combination closing immediately after. Why it matters: A duplicate of the same-day 8-K filed as soliciting material; the PIPE totals are identical.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition reported that, having previously entered subscription agreements for 685,599 Class A shares at $10.21 for approximately $7.0 million, it signed further subscription agreements on June 7 and June 10, 2019 for an additional 215,475 shares at the same $10.21, approximately $2.2 million. At the private placement closing it expects to issue 901,074 shares for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $9.2 million, converting one-for-one into Pubco common stock after the combination. Why it matters: The PIPE is filled at $9.2 million against a $10.21 price — under the 1,485,506-share ceiling in the form agreement, so roughly 40% of the authorised size went unsubscribed.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed the form of subscription agreement for a private placement of Class A common stock at $10.21 per share in connection with the MJ Freeway merger, under which the company expects to issue and sell up to an aggregate of 1,485,506 shares. The closing of each subscription is contingent on the substantially concurrent consummation of the transaction and occurs immediately prior to it, on not less than five business days' written notice. Certain investors are separately entering into letter agreements with the company and sponsor MTech Sponsor LLC. Why it matters: A PIPE priced at $10.21 — above the trust's per-share value — that funds only if the deal closes, and is sized to backfill cash lost to redemptions. The side letter agreements with the sponsor mean some investors are getting terms the form agreement does not show.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed the same form of subscription agreement as definitive additional proxy material: Class A common stock at $10.21 per share, up to an aggregate of 1,485,506 shares, closing immediately prior to and contingent on the MJ Freeway transaction closing, with certain investors entering separate letter agreements with the company and sponsor MTech Sponsor LLC. Why it matters: A duplicate of the same-day 8-K filed as soliciting material; the PIPE terms are identical.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed the same May 21, 2019 announcement of the Form S-4's effectiveness as definitive additional proxy material, naming MTech Acquisition Holdings, Inc. as the registrant to be renamed Akerna Corp., and stating the definitive proxy statement/prospectus was mailed to holders of record as of May 13, 2019. Why it matters: A duplicate of the same-day 8-K filed as soliciting material; no change to terms.

  • What changed: On May 21, 2019 MTech Acquisition and MJ Freeway announced the effectiveness of the Form S-4 (File No. 333-228220) filed by MTech Acquisition Holdings, Inc., which is to be renamed Akerna Corp. and which includes MTech's proxy statement for the merger. The filing states the registration statement was declared effective on May 14 and that the definitive proxy statement/prospectus was mailed to holders of record as of May 13, 2019. The press-release paragraph gives the effectiveness year as 2018 while the Additional Information section gives 2019. Why it matters: Confirms the registration statement is effective and the proxy mailed — the two conditions that had to clear before a vote could be held. The document states the effective year inconsistently; the 2019 date is the one consistent with the May 21, 2019 announcement.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed the same May 16, 2019 announcement of Mark D. Iwanowski's addition to MJ Freeway's board as definitive additional proxy material, together with the statement that Pubco's Form S-4 was filed and declared effective on May 14, 2019 and that the definitive proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to holders of record as of May 13, 2019. Why it matters: A duplicate of the same-day 8-K filed as soliciting material; no change to terms.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition reported that on May 16, 2019 MJ Freeway issued a press release announcing the addition of Mark D. Iwanowski to its board of directors. The filing states that Pubco filed its Form S-4 with the SEC on May 14, 2019 containing MTech's proxy statement, that the registration statement was declared effective on May 14, 2019, and that the definitive proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to MTech stockholders of record as of May 13, 2019. Why it matters: Records that the S-4 went effective and fixes the record date at May 13, 2019 — the point from which the redemption and voting windows run.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition filed its definitive proxy statement/prospectus for the special meeting on the MJ Freeway merger. The board unanimously approved the merger agreement and unanimously recommends a vote FOR all proposals, while directing stockholders to the section on the interests of MTech's directors and officers that may conflict with theirs. Public stockholders are not required to vote for or against the business combination to redeem: holders of Class A common stock on or before June 13, 2019 — two business days before the special meeting — are eligible to elect redemption for cash. Why it matters: Decouples the redemption right from the vote, so a holder can redeem and still vote in favour; and fixes June 13, 2019 as the tender deadline that determines how much cash survives to closing.

    outside datenothing moved · 1 with no prior record of ours
    Outside date
    no earlier filing2019-02-10

    SpacBrain reads this as the agreement may be terminated from 2019-02-10.

    The clause …“to the Closing set forth in Article VII have not been satisfied or waived by February 10, 2019 (the “ Outside Date ”); provided, however, the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 8.1(b) shall not be available to a Party”…

    Read from stored SEC filing text by a regex — no model is involved — and each side links to the filing it came from. “Not previously extracted” is a statement about our record, not about the company: the clause may be present in wording we do not match.

  • What changed: MTech Acquisition reported the quarter ended March 31, 2019. Trust held $58,729,953 and 5,217,077 shares are carried subject to redemption at $53,169,180. A $180,000 related-party promissory note now appears on the balance sheet — the first drawdown on the February 19, 2019 sponsor facility — alongside $275,090 of accounts payable and accrued expenses and $114,456 of income taxes payable. Operating costs rose to $214,885 from $86,652 a year earlier; interest income of $347,228 less a $9,167 unrealized loss gave net income of $86,378 after tax. Cash outside trust was $6,853. Why it matters: Cash outside the trust is $6,853 against $569,546 of current liabilities: this SPAC is running entirely on sponsor drawdowns in the quarter before its shareholder vote.

    What changed vs 2018-11-13trust $58.1M → $58.7M +1%
    trust account, redeemable shares, combination deadline +11 moved · 3 with no prior record of ours
    Trust account
    $58.1M$58.7M

    SpacBrain reads this as $599,541 was added to the trust between the two filings.

    The clause …“Assets 6,853 20,985 Deferred tax asset 1,925 1,618 Marketable securities held in Trust Account 58,729,953 58,451,942 Total Assets $ 58,738,731 $ 58,474,545 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY Current liabilities Accounts payable”…

    Redeemable shares
    not previously extracted5.22M

    The clause …“authorized; 776,673 and 759,616 shares issued and outstanding (excluding 5,217,077 and 5,234,134 shares subject to possible redemption) as of March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively 78 76 Class B Common stock, $0.0001”…

    Combination deadline
    2019-08-01 · unchanged

    The clause “Offering, our capital stock, debt or a combination of cash, stock and debt. We have until August 1, 2019 to complete a Business Combination. The issuance of additional shares of common stock or preferred stock: ● may significantly reduce”…

    Going-concern doubt
    stated · unchanged

    The clause …“to it on commercially acceptable terms, if at all. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern through August 1, 2019, the scheduled liquidation date. These financial”…

    Read from stored SEC filing text by a regex — no model is involved — and each side links to the filing it came from. “Not previously extracted” is a statement about our record, not about the company: the clause may be present in wording we do not match.


The record

The reference detail — how the shares were structured at listing, how thinly they trade, and where the company is registered.

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Unit structure

Cash in trust at IPO$10.00

Unit: U = S + W · 100.0% of the $10 unit

from 424B4 0001615774-18-000677

Trading & liquidity

Average daily volume (20d)no volume reported on the bars we hold
Average daily $ volumeneeds both volume and a live price
Range over the bars heldnot enough price history
Total cash in trustthe trust total is not in the last XBRL stamp

Company profile

Industry (SIC)Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)
Registered inDelaware
Exchange · CIKNasdaq · 0001719893

All filings on EDGARopens on sec.gov in a new tab

Directors & officers


Institutional holders

from SC 13G/13D

Funds that have declared a stake above 5%. Heavy ownership by arbitrage funds usually means heavy cash-outs at the next vote.

Show the declared stakes

5 filers with a stake on file · 0 re-affirmed in the last 12 months. A stake with no amendment since is the filer’s last word on it, not proof it is still held — and percentages filed in different years are percentages of different floats, because this vehicle’s share count collapses at every redemption.

One line per filer, not per reporting person: a joint schedule names the management company, its funds and often the individual who controls them, and all of them report the same shares. Click a name for that filer’s whole footprint across every SPAC it has declared a stake in.


Sources on file

harvested pages, kept in full

Every public page we have read about this company, stored in full so a source can never go missing.

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38 full SEC filing texts archived — searchable, never lost.


In plain English

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Every piece of jargon this page could have used, and what it actually means.

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No floor / floorlessthe cash guarantee is gone — the price is unprotected

A SPAC's downside protection is not the cash in trust; it is your right to demand that cash. Once the redemption window closes, the cash stays with the company and the share can trade anywhere.

Redemption deadlinethe last day to hand shares back for cash

Set by the filing that calls the meeting. Tender after it and the company is under no obligation to pay you the trust value.

Broker action datethe day your broker needs the instruction — earlier than the official date

Brokers batch redemption instructions to the transfer agent, so the practical cutoff is roughly two business days before the published deadline. This is the date that actually costs people the floor.

Cash in trust / trust per sharethe cash the company is holding for each public share

Filed quarterly in the 10-Q's XBRL. It earns interest between filings, so the figure on a given day is slightly higher than the last filed one — where we show that we label it an estimate.

Trust discountbuying below the cash held for you

Only meaningful while a redemption right exists. On a floorless name the same arithmetic is not a discount, it is the market pricing distress, and this product will not call it a yield.

Dilutionhow much of the company new shares take from you

Sponsor promote, PIPE shares, warrants and rights all issue stock that did not pay $10 for it. The headline deal value is before that; the effective value is after.

Pro-forma equitywhat the company is valued at once the deal closes

The combined company's equity value assuming the announced terms and the redemptions that have actually happened.

ARShow much upside you get per unit of downside

SpacBrain's asymmetric-return score. It is deterministic — the same inputs always produce the same number — and it is capped, not zeroed, when the floor is gone.

De-SPACthe day the SPAC becomes the real company

The shares stop being a claim on a pot of cash and start being equity in an operating business. Roughly 80% of recent de-SPACs traded below $10 within a year.

Outside datethe contractual long-stop for closing the deal

A deadline between the SPAC and its target, not between the SPAC and you. It confers no right to cash, which is exactly why it must never be counted as a redemption window.

Accession numberthe SEC's unique id for one filing

Every figure on this page carries the accession of the filing that states it, so you can open the primary document rather than trust us.

Accreted NAV (estimate)the last filed cash figure, plus the interest it should have earned since

A model, not a filing: last filed value compounded at the 3-month T-bill for the days elapsed. Always shown in italic with the word estimate, and never printed beside a filed number without it.


Ask the brain

from its filings
Data provenance & audit trail5 internal entries

Written by SpacBrain’s data agents whenever a figure is captured, corrected or flagged, and kept verbatim so every number on this page can be traced back to the filing that states it. This is a running log, not the current record: an early entry may be superseded by a later correction — the panels above always hold the current values.

MTEC — company record
UNIVERSE-IPO-INDEX2026-08-17

admitted from EDGAR's QUARTERLY FORM INDEX, walked without any SIC filter. The SIC 6770 census could not reach this registrant: EDGAR reassigns a shell's SIC the day it stops being one, and this CIK now files under 7374 (Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation). The screen found it by filing SHAPE instead — S-1 2017-12-08 → 8-A12B 2018-01-26 → 424B4 2018-01-30 — which nothing rewrites. Admission rule: src/lib/universe-admit.ts. SIC 7374 + self-described blank check in 424B4 0001615774-18-000677; 424B 0001615774-18-000677 priced 2018-01-30 under S-1 0001615774-17-007221 (file 333-221957, an offering for cash); common ticker MTEC off 8-K 0001213900-19-010555 (2019-06-12); lifecycle EXITED. The pricing prospectus was filed under SEC file number 333-221957, which belongs to S-1 0001615774-17-007221 (2017-12-08) — a registration of shares sold for CASH, which is what makes it an IPO rather than merger consideration. Blank-check status from the registrant's own first-person sentence in that prospectus (EDGAR full-text search, 424B4 2018-01-30). Ending PROVEN, not inferred: CLOSED per 8-K exhibit f8k061719ex99-1_mtechac.htm 0001213900-19-010867 (2019-06-17) — e technology provider and developer of the cannabis industry’s first enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, announced they have completed their previously announced business combination— becoming the first compliance technology company in the cannabis space to be traded on Nasdaq. The business combination was approved at a meeting of MTech stockholders today. In connection with t. ipoSizeM and deadline left NULL: gross-proceeds prose conflates the over-allotment with the offering, and a charter deadline belonging to a vehicle that has ended is a date nobody can act on. ipoDate is the 424B pricing date.

SPONSOR-ID2026-08-14

sponsor "MTech Sponsor, LLC" sourced from prospectus definition (10-K) acc 0001615774-19-004058.

Deal — MJ Freeway LLC
DEAL-TARGET2018-10-15

AI-extracted target (z-ai/glm-5.2, conf 0.98)

BACKFILL2026-08-26

target recovered for a completed de-SPAC

PROFILE-STUB2026-08-27

entity created from the filed target name; no About paragraph on file, so every other field awaits a sourced read

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