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Mysterious British investor Ian Osborne has dazzled the tech and finance industries through Social Capital Hedosophia, his SPAC with Chamath Palihapitiya.
Before the SPAC boom, the secretive Osborne parlayed his gig as a teenager theater producer into a career as an elite connector and fixer to billionaires.
Though the press-shy Osborne has spent his career behind the scenes, his success in finance has thrust him into the the spotlight.
Standing on the elevated stage at the New York Stock Exchange, dressed in a pink button-down and three-piece suit, the flamboyant and media centric investor Chamath Palihapitiya smiled brightly as he rang the bell. It was 2017 and the first day of trading for Social Capital Hedosophia, the blank check company Palihapitiya launched with a little known British financie
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PRESS: Social Capital Hedosophia plans UK IPO - Bloomberg
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(Alliance News) - Social Capital Hedosophia, a partnership of dealmakers Chamath Palihapitiya and Ian Osborne, is planning to list a company in London worth at least USD1 billion that will be focused on climate-change solutions, Bloomberg reported late Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter .
The investment vehicle will pursue multiple acquisitions, while also building out its own operations tackling environmental issues, Bloomberg said. Social Capital Hedosophia is working with Barclays PLC and Credit Suisse Group AG on the listing, which is targeted for later this year, the news agency said.