Koch Industries Invests in Covid-19 assessments, IoT firm

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Koch Industries has disclosed investments in three corporations.

Koch Industries, helmed by way of Chairman and CEO Charles Koch, mentioned it owned gigantic stakes in Cue health (ticker: HLTH), Kore group Holdings (KORE), and Hennessy Capital investment Corp. VI (HCVIU). The business disclosed the positions in fillings to the Securities and trade fee.

Koch Industries didn't give a touch upon the investments.

The company, through subsidiaries, owned 7.9 million shares of Cue fitness, a 5.5% stake in the maker of Covid-19 exams, as of Oct. 8. The shares were priced at $sixteen for its initial public offering on Sept. 24. The inventory has slipped 33% since then.

Koch Industries' stake rose above the 5% threshold of Sept. 29, necessitating the regulatory submitting, however the certain timing of its acquisition of the shares wasn't disclosed. The enterprise may additionally were an early investor in Cue fitness, but neither Koch Industries nor its subsidiaries have been listed as most important stockholders in Cue fitness's pre-IPO SEC filings. Such a listing is required for traders who own stakes of 5% or greater.

Koch Industries owned 10 million Kore community shares, a 14.9% stake in the issuer of internet of things solutions. The business referred to in April that it had invested in Kore, when Kore had agreed to go public through a unique-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by using Cerberus Capital administration, but before the transaction closed on Sept. 30. Kore had cited in an SEC submitting that Koch Industries would personal 10 million shares with the shut of trading. Shares started buying and selling Oct. 1.

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Koch Industries additionally disclosed that it owned about three million shares of Hennessy Capital investment Corp. VI, a 9.9% stake in the clean-investigate enterprise concentrated on making a deal within the industrial know-how sector. It didn't have a particular transaction selected when shares started trading publicly on Sept. 29. Koch Industries purchased the shares within the IPO, which priced every unit at $10 every, with each unit together with one share and one third of a redeemable warrant. each complete warrant permits the purchase of 1 share for $eleven.50.

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