Artius II Acquisition Inc. (ticker “AACB”) is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (or “SPAC”) that seeks to effect a business combination with one or more operating businesses and deliver long-term shareholder value for our investors. While we may pursue a business combination in any sector, we intend to focus our efforts on technology-enabled businesses that offer specific technology solutions, broader technology software and services, or financial services to companies of all sizes.
Artius II Acquisition
Partner of Choice
for Public Capital
We know how to create long-term shareholder value. We have credibility with investors, and our governance, domain, operating and transactional expertise can help partner companies thrive under public ownership.
Strategy
Belief
We believe that our management team is well positioned to identify attractive business combination opportunities with a compelling industry backdrop, customer proposition and market position, as well as multiple vectors to create value post-combination.
Expertise
Our founder, board of directors and special advisor have decades of experience identifying, acquiring, and operating leading companies in the technology and financial-technology sector, and have developed deep industry networks among operating executives, experts, investors and advisors.
Objective
Our objective is to generate attractive returns for shareholders and enhance value through both operational improvements and new initiatives to organically or inorganically expand the target business we acquire.
Founder
Boon Sim
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Director
Founder
Our founder, Mr. Boon Sim, has a multi-decade career providing strategic advisory and investment services to boards and senior executives of Fortune 500 corporations, governments and institutional investors. Prior to founding Artius Capital Partners in September 2017, Mr. Sim served in a variety of senior executive roles at Temasek International, a financial investment company privately-owned by the Government of Singapore with approximately $290 billion of assets under management. At Temasek, he served as President, Americas, Head of the Markets, Life Science and Credit Groups. Mr. Sim also served as Deputy Chairman of the Management, Investment, and Strategic Policy and Risk Committees at Temasek and had direct day-to-day responsibility for origination and investment of private equity and growth investments, public investments and buy-outs in North America. Prior to joining Temasek in 2012, Mr. Sim was a senior executive with global leadership responsibilities at Credit Suisse based in New York serving as the Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. Mr. Sim has also served on the board of directors of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board since 2020.
Board
We have a board of distinguished independent directors who have decades of experience successfully leading and transforming emerging companies in the technology, software, information services, internet commerce, e-learning, industrial, and technology-enabled business services sectors. In addition to providing board oversight to the company, they will also provide connections through their business networks, strategic insights, and expert advice to our management team in any due diligence and acquisition process.