Completed
Aurora
First | 2021-05-10 | $10.00 | |
Merger | 2022-01-11 | $8.66 | 13% |
Merger +6mo | 2022-07-13 | $2.05 | 80% |
Merger +1yr | 2023-01-11 | $1.32 | 87% |
Recent | 2024-06-04 | $2.12 | 79% |
Reinvent Technology Partners Y
- Registration2021-02-12 Filed S1
- IPO2021-03-17 IPO, search begins
- Definitive Agreement2021-07-14 Agreement for merger
- Completed2022-01-10 Merger Completed
- Raised
- $850M
- CIK
- 1828108
- SPAC Ticker
- RTPY
- Merger
- Aurora
- Merged Ticker
- AUR
- Focus
- Technology, Ecommerce, Payment Platforms, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Healthcare, Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Unicorns
SPAC Team
Leadership
Reid Hoffman will serve as our Co-Lead Director following the completion of this offering. He also is a co-founding member of Reinvent Capital. Mr. Hoffman is a highly accomplished entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded LinkedIn, served as its founding Chief Executive Officer, and served as its Executive Chairman until the company’s acquisition by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. Early in his career, he was Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President and served on the founding Board of Directors of PayPal. Mr. Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock (joining Greylock in 2009), a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he focuses on investing in technology products that can reach hundreds of millions of people. Mr. Hoffman currently serves as Co-Lead Director of RTP and RTPZ. He also serves on Microsoft’s Board and as a director or observer for a number of private companies including Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Blockstream, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Nauto, Neeva, and Xapo. Additionally, Mr. Hoffman also serves on ten not-for-profit boards, including OpenAI, Kiva, Endeavor, CZI Biohub, Berggruen Institute, Research Bridge Partners, Lever for Change, New America, Do Something, and Opportunity @ Work. Mr. Hoffman also serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Media Lab. Over the years, Mr. Hoffman has made early investments in over 100 technology companies, including companies such as Facebook, Ironport, and Zynga. He is the co-author of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies and two New York Times best-selling books: The Start-up of You and The Alliance. He also hosts the podcast Masters of Scale. Mr. Hoffman earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. Mr. Hoffman has an honorary doctorate from Babson College and an honorary fellowship from Wolfson College, Oxford University. Mr. Hoffman has received a number of awards, including the Salute to Greatness from the Martin Luther King Center.
Mr. Hoffman has built an intellectual practice around entrepreneurship at scale. Through this, and his decade-long track record as a partner at Greylock, Mr. Hoffman has built a depth of experience and network connectivity across many diverse areas of the technology industry, including marketplaces, social networks, ecommerce, payments, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle technology, and transportation and logistics. Mr. Hoffman’s network and expertise also expand geographically into networks of technology entrepreneurship across Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Mr. Hoffman was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his depth of expertise and network connectivity across diverse areas of the technology industry including: marketplaces, social networks, ecommerce, payments, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicle technology, and transportation & logistics.
Mark Pincus has been our director since October 2020 and will serve as our Co-Lead Director following the completion of this offering. He is also a co-founding member of Reinvent Capital. Mr. Pincus is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor. He founded several internet companies including Zynga, which pioneered social games to help establish gaming as a mass-market activity. Mr. Pincus currently serves as Co-Lead Director of RTP and RTPZ. He is the Chairman of Zynga’s Board (since May 2018) and previously served as Zynga’s Executive Chairman (from March 2016 to May 2018) and twice as its Chief Executive Officer (April 2007 to July 2013 and April 2015 to March 2016), including when he returned in 2015 to lead its turnaround and reinvention as a mobile-first games company. Before Zynga, Mr. Pincus founded tribe.net, one of the earliest online social networks whose technology was acquired by Cisco Systems. He also founded Support.com, a provider of help desk service and support automation software, one of the first enterprise software companies to go to market with a subscription-based model. Support.com went public in 2001. Mr. Pincus also founded FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based, push technology news company, which was acquired by Individual, Inc.
Mr. Pincus has made numerous investments in many internet, media, and software companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Snap, Epic Games, Xiaomi, JD.com, and Niantic. He is also an active angel investor in technology startups. Mr. Pincus has prioritized social impact in his personal and professional life. Zynga was one of the first companies to use in-game virtual goods to allow players to contribute directly to disaster relief and other nonprofit efforts. Mr. Pincus was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board of the Presidio Trust, a federal agency that operates the Presidio as part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. He also regularly lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs at colleges and universities, including Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Business School, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pincus graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mr. Pincus has built an intellectual practice around product management. He was an early pioneer in reimagining product management for consumer internet products, notably the use of rapid testing and experimentation to inform design decisions in all stages of product development. He also developed a product roadmapping process that tracks engineering resources to expected outcomes. Mr. Pincus was among the first to bring these lessons to games, spawning an always-on, product-as-a-service operating model that empowers product teams to react in real time to user behavior by deploying product updates. Mr. Pincus co-created the Stanford Graduate School of Business course on Product Management with Professor Amir Goldberg.
Mr. Pincus was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive experience in the technology sector, specifically the social media, gaming, and internet industries, and in identifying, fostering and scaling new products, technologies and consumer trends.
Michael Thompson has been our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since December 2020 and will serve as one of our directors following the completion of this offering. He also is a co-founding member of Reinvent Capital. Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and a director of RTP and RTPZ. Mr. Thompson was previously co-founder, managing member, and portfolio manager for BHR Capital, which managed as much as $1.9 billion of special situations funds from 2009-2016. Mr. Thompson played an active role in several of BHR Capital’s portfolio companies, developing operating and financing strategies alongside management. While managing BHR Capital, Mr. Thompson was responsible for all portfolio construction, security selection, and risk management activities and oversaw the firm’s investment team. He also led several investments in which BHR Capital took active protagonist roles. Additionally, since the early 2010s, he has made dozens of private investments. He has experience as a board member and regularly advises companies on business and financial matters. Mr. Thompson graduated magna cum laude with a BBA in International Finance from the Honors Program at the University of Georgia, where he received Alumni, Governor’s, and Hope Scholarships. Mr. Thompson was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his extensive investment experience as well as his experience developing operating and financing strategies alongside management.
David Cohen has been our Secretary since December 2020. Mr. Cohen is also the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Reinvent Capital. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, public and private corporate and securities transactions, special situation investing, asset management, and reinventions. Mr. Cohen joined Reinvent Capital in 2018 as part of the founding team. Mr. Cohen currently serves as Secretary of RTP and RTPZ. Since 2017, he has also worked as general counsel of certain of Mr. Pincus’s business entities. From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Cohen served as Associate General Counsel of Zynga and led the legal team responsible for mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities and finance matters. Prior to this, he spent nine years in private legal practice, most recently as Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s corporate and private equity groups. Mr. Cohen received an A.B. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Katharina Borchert will serve as one of our directors following the completion of this offering. Ms. Borchert is a journalist and executive with more than a decade of experience in technology, media and journalism. From 2016 to 2020, Ms. Borchert served as Chief Innovation Officer of Mozilla, where she previously served as non-executive director from 2014 to 2015. Prior to joining Mozilla, she served as Chief Executive Officer at Spiegel Online, the online division of DER SPIEGEL magazine. Prior to that, Ms. Borchert was Editor-in-Chief at WAZ Media Group and Chief Executive Officer at WAZ NewMedia, where she launched the “Der Westen” digital news portal based upon user participation, integrated social media, and a focus on location-based data in journalism. She was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” in 2020, a “Power Women to Watch” by Forbes Magazine in 2011, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2011, and a Member of the European Commission’s “40 under 40 - Young European Leader’s Programme” in 2011/2012. Ms. Borchert was selected to serve on our board of directors due to her broad experience in media and technology.
Karen Francis will serve as one of our directors following the completion of this offering. Ms. Francis has served as the Chair of the Board of Vontier Corporation, a spin-off from Fortive Corporation focused on mobility and transportation businesses, since its spin-off in 2020. Ms. Francis also serves as Chair of the Compensation & Management Development Committee for Vontier. From December 2016 to November 2019, Ms. Francis served on the Board of Directors of Telenav, Inc., where she served as lead independent director, chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of Telenav, Inc. Prior to that, she served as a director of The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. from May 2014 to May 2017 and AutoNation, Inc. from February 2016 to April 2018. In addition, Ms. Francis serves as Senior Advisor to TPG Capital and is an independent director for private equity and venture capital funded companies in Silicon Valley, including Metawave, Nauto and Wind River. Ms. Francis served as Chief Executive Officer of AcademixDirect, Inc., a technology innovator in education, from 2009 to 2014 and as its Executive Chairman from 2009 to 2017. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Francis was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Publicis & Hal Riney, based in San Francisco and part of the Publicis global advertising and marketing network. From 2001 to 2002, she served as Vice President of Ford Motor Company, where she was responsible for the corporate venture capital group, as well as global e-business strategies, customer relationship management and worldwide export operations. From 1996 to 2000, Ms. Francis held several positions with General Motors, including serving as General Manager of the Oldsmobile Division. Ms. Francis was selected to serve on our board of directors due to her experience as a Chief Executive Officer, director, strategic advisor and investor with a deep knowledge of corporate governance and a strong track record of successfully building companies and businesses across multiple industries and sizes.
Colleen McCreary will serve as one of our directors following the completion of this offering. Ms. McCreary has served as the Chief People Officer at Credit Karma, a financial technology company that allows consumers to monitor and evaluate their credit and financial status, since 2018. She has over 20 years of experience in managing and developing talent primarily in the technology and entertainment industries. Ms. McCreary previously served as Chief People Officer for Vevo, a multinational music video platform from 2016 to 2018. She previously served as Chief People Officer for The Climate Corporation and as Chief People Officer for Zynga. Earlier in her career, Ms. McCreary worked for Electronic Arts and Microsoft. She has been featured at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Conferences, Fortune Brainstorm Tech, LeanIn blog, and other publications. Currently, Ms. McCreary serves on the non-profit Boards of Second Harvest Food Bank and the Molina Foundation and advises several startups. She holds a B.S. from Boston University and M.A. from Columbia University Teachers College. Ms. McCreary was selected to serve on our board of directors due to her experience with technology companies, including experience advising, assessing and managing the growth of these types of companies.
Anne-Marie Slaughter will serve as one of our directors following the completion of this offering. Dr. Slaughter has served as the Chief Executive Officer of New America, a think and action tank based in Washington, D.C. since 2013. She is also the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009 to 2011, Dr. Slaughter served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Upon leaving the State Department, she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, as well as meritorious service awards from USAID and the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. Prior to her government service, Dr. Slaughter was the Dean of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School) and the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School. Dr. Slaughter has written or edited eight books and over 100 scholarly articles. She was the convener and academic co-chair of the Princeton Project on National Security, a multi-year research project aimed at developing a new, bipartisan national security strategy for the United States. Dr. Slaughter is a contributing editor to the Financial Times and writes a bi-monthly column for Project Syndicate. Foreign Policy magazine named her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. She received a B.A. from Princeton, an M.Phil and D.Phil in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Dr. Slaughter was selected to serve on our board of directors due to her extensive global exposure and government and research experience.