OVERVIEW

Acri Capital Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq:ACACU) is a newly organized blank check company formed as a Delaware corporation for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. We have not selected any potential business combination target or initiated any discussions, directly or indirectly, with any potential business combination prospects. 

 

Our efforts to identify a prospective target will not be limited to a particular industry or geographic region, although we intend to initially focus our search on identifying a prospective target in the technology-enabled industries. Our strategy is informed by our experience and expertise in investing, managing, and operating technology-enabled companies across different market segments and development stages. 

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Yi Hua

CEO, CFO, Chairwoman

Ms. Hua has over 18 years of experience in investment management, hedge fund, private equity and real estate investment around the world. Since June 2016, Ms. Hua has served as the Managing Director of Serene View Capital LLC, an investment management and consulting firm. In June 2018, Ms. Hua founded Cohere Education LLC, an online education start-up engaged in the distribution of STEAM curriculum and programs to K-12 and college students in the U.S. and China. Before that, Ms. Hua co-founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer for MeshImpact LLC for the period between July 2016 and December 2018, overseeing financial and strategic planning for the consulting firm providing data analytics and machine learning solutions. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hua worked for CornerStone Parnters LLC for 8 years from 2008 to 2016 where she managed private equity and real assets portfolios of over 3 billion US dollars for 12 non-profit clients. Ms. Hua started her investment career at UVIMCO, the organization that manages the University of Virginia’s $14.5 billion endowment, from 2004 to 2008. Ms. Hua received her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, and a B.A. in Economics from Shanghai University of Finance & Economics in 1997. She has been a CFA charter holder since 2004.

James C. Hardin

Independent Director

Chairman of the audit committee

Mr. Hardin has 20 years of experience in direct investments, co-investments, and fund investments in multiple private and public asset classes, sectors, and countries. He has particular investing experience in healthcare, fintech (bank software, payments), and community banks. He is currently an investment banker affiliated with Deer Isle Group, LLC and The Sponsor Fund Partners LLC. On the advisory side through Deer Isle Group, LLC, Mr. Hardin works with clients as a fractional general partner — which is similar to a fractional strategic CFO role — where he provides senior bandwidth to private equity general partners to support transaction execution and capital raising. Prior to partnering with Deer Isle, Mr. Hardin founded a technology-enabled service company for the lower middle market private equity ecosystem between 2014 and 2020, led private equity investing at full-service outsourced investment firm and Duke University-spinout Global Endowment Management (now $12B AUM) between 2009 and 2013, acquired and exited a point of sale payments company between 2009 and 2017, and co-managed a healthcare portfolio at the multi-strategy hedge fund Farallon Capital Management/Noonday (now $35B AUM) between 2004 and 2008. Mr. Hardin has also been a director of Affirmative Technologies, a provider of electronic payment risk management and fraud detection software, since 2018. Mr. Hardin has also been the President of Fund Investor Toolkit, LLC, a consulting service, since 2014. Mr. Hardin graduated cum laude in Economics (AB) from Harvard College.

Edmund R. Miller

Independent Director

Mr. Miller is a Senior Managing Director of Pan American Finance, LLC, an investment advisory firm where he has held this position since 2012. He has extensive private equity investment, fundraising and Telecommunication, Media, & Technology (TMT) experience. From 2002 to 2011, he was the Managing Director at Parmenter Realty Partners where he was in charge of all aspects of documenting and raising their second, third, and fourth institutional funds. Earlier in his career, from 1984 to 1996, Mr. Miller was co-manager of the largest Caribbean Basin and Latin American coverage team for Goldman Sachs, based in Miami. From 1996 to 1999, he managed a high yield fund for a large Latin American bank, managed a hedge fund, and was a founder and led the initial investment round in Answerthink (now known as The Hackett Group, NASDAQ: HCKT), an information technology consulting company. Mr. Miller was the co-founder of Interprise Technology Partners, a $110 million technology venture fund which made seven lead investments between 1999 and 2002. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1984, Mr. Miller worked for Price Waterhouse in New York City in international tax for 4 years. He is a graduate of the University of Florida Warrington College of Business and the Levin College of Law. Mr. Miller was previously certified as a CPA and was a member of the New York Bar.

Andrew Pierce

Independent Director

Chairman of the compensation committee

Mr. Pierce has more than a decade of experience in everything from data center auditing and IT support, to building world-class software and leading teams of engineers. Since 2014, Mr. Pierce has led the Platform Applications team for BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY), a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring services, and has helped grow it from a $1M ARR startup into a publicly-traded powerhouse valued at over $1B on opening day. Prior to BlackSky, Mr. Pierce served as the Engineering Manager of Thermopylae Science and Technology’s iSpatial platform. He is also the founder and owner of Banana Stand Technologies, Inc., a company engaged in “web3” consulting services. From 2009 to 2010, he was on the team that built FederalReporting.gov, the system responsible for tracking the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus spending. He graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Japanese Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2009, and has spent time abroad living and working in Japan.

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Acri Capital Acquisition Corp.

Acri Capital Acquisition Corp. Announces the Separate Trading of its Class A Common Stock Shares and Warrants, Commencing August 1, 2022
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Acri Capital Acquisition Corp. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Exercise of Full Over-Allotment Option
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Acri Capital Acquisition Corp. Announces Pricing of $75 Million Initial Public Offering
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