{"id":1025379,"date":"2026-08-01T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025379"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:22:06","slug":"eric-trump-backed-defense-technology-company-space-eyes-to-go-public-in-638-million-spac-deal-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/eric-trump-backed-defense-technology-company-space-eyes-to-go-public-in-638-million-spac-deal-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Trump-backed defense technology company Space-Eyes to go public in $638 million SPAC deal, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense technology company Space-Eyes has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company McKinley Acquisition Corp, in a deal valuing the combined business at $638 million, according to four people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s son Eric Trump has recently become the third-largest private investor in the original Space-Eyes, which has operated primarily as a research-and-development company and generated about $1 million in annual revenue, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense technology company Space-Eyes has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company McKinley Acquisition Corp, in a deal valuing the combined business at $638 million, according to four people familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump&#8217;s son Eric Trump has recently become the third-largest private investor in the original Space-Eyes, which has operated primarily as a research-and-development company and generated about $1 million in annual revenue, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025403,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025379\/revisions\/1025403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}