ARTEMIS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONDENSED UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
OPERATIONS
Artemis Strategic Investment Corporation (the “Company”) is a blank
check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation on
January 4, 2021. The Company was formed for the purpose of
effectuating a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition,
stock purchase, reorganization or other similar business
combination with one or more businesses (the “Business
Combination”). The Company is an early stage and emerging
growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the
risks associated with early stage and emerging growth
companies.
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had not yet commenced any
operations. All activity since inception relates to the Company’s
formation and the initial public offering (the “Initial Public
Offering” or “IPO”), and subsequent
to the IPO, identifying a target business to complete a Business
Combination with, as well as activities in connection with the
Proposed Business Combination which is described below. The Company
will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion
of its initial Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company
generates non-operating income in the form of interest income from
the proceeds of the Initial Public Offering. The Company has
selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
Prior to the consummation of the IPO, on January 5, 2021, Artemis
Sponsor, LLC (the “Sponsor”) purchased
4,312,500 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per
share (“Founder Shares” or
“Class B Common
Stock”), for an aggregate purchase price of $25,000, or
$0.006 per share. On March 16, 2021, Artemis effected a stock split
of the Class B Common Stock, resulting in an aggregate of 5,031,250
shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding and held by the Sponsor.
The number of Founder Shares issued was determined based on the
expectation that the total size of the IPO would be a maximum of
20,125,000 units if the underwriters’ option to purchase additional
units was exercised in full, and therefore, that such Founder
Shares would represent 20% of the issued and outstanding shares of
common stock after the IPO.
On October 4, 2021, the Company consummated the Initial Public
Offering of 20,125,000 units (the “Units”), including the
issuance 2,625,000 Units as a result of the underwriters’
exercise of their over-allotment option in full, at $10.00 per
Unit, generating gross proceeds of $201,250,000, which is described
in Note 3. Each Unit issued in the IPO consists of one share
of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the
“Public
Shares” or “Class A Common Stock”)
and
one-half of one redeemable warrant (the “Public Warrants”). As
a result of the exercise by the underwriters of their
over-allotment option in full, 656,250 shares of Class B Common
Stock were no longer subject to forfeiture.
Certain institutional anchor investors (the “Institutional Anchor
Investors”) that are not affiliated with the Company, the
Sponsor or the Company’s officers, directors, and certain members
of the Company’s management purchased an aggregate
of 13,020,000 Units. The Units were sold at an offering
price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of
$130,200,000. In addition to and as part of the Initial Public
Offering, certain entities affiliated with the Sponsor, purchased
an aggregate of 2,732,500 Units at an offering price of
$10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds of $27,325,000.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the
Company consummated the sale of 8,000,000 warrants (the
“Sponsor
Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Sponsor Warrant in a
private placement to the Sponsor, generating gross proceeds of
$8,000,000, which is described in Note 4. The Company also
consummated the sale of 2,000,000 warrants (the
“Anchor Investor
Warrants”, together with the Sponsor Warrants, the
“Private
Placement Warrants”) at a price of $1.00 per Anchor
Investor Warrant in a private placement to certain Institutional
Anchor Investors, generating gross proceeds of $2,000,000.
Simultaneously with the closing the Initial Public Offering, the
Sponsor forfeited 1,618,434 Founder Shares and the
Company sold 1,618,434 Founder Shares to certain
Institutional Anchor Investors at the original purchase price of
$0.006 per share. The Founder Shares will automatically
convert into shares of Class A Common Stock at the time of the
Company’s initial Business Combination on a one-for-one basis,
subject to adjustment as provided in the Company’s final
prospectus, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”) on
October 1, 2021 (“Final
Prospectus”).
Transaction costs amounted to $25,559,771 consisting of
$3,825,000 of underwriting fees, $7,043,750 of deferred
underwriting commissions, $13,796,426 of offering costs
related to the fair value of the Founder Shares issued to certain
Institutional Anchor Investors and $894,595 of other offering
costs. Offering costs related to the Founder Shares amounted to
$13,796,426, of which $13,158,020 were charged to
stockholders’ equity/(deficit) upon the completion of the Initial
Public Offering and $638,407 were expensed to the statements
of operations and included in transaction costs allocated to
warrant liabilities. Effective as of July 14, 2022, Barclays
Capital