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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-117587"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "POLE"
cik: "0002025341"
company_name: "Andretti Acquisition Corp. II"
filed_at: "2025-12-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T15:30:14.656319+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Andretti Acquisition Corp. II enters definitive merger with StoreDot at $800M pre-money valuation

## Summary
- StoreDot's XFC batteries charge 100 miles in 5 minutes, addressing key EV barrier.
- StoreDot has 90 registered and 11 pending patents; shipping samples to OEMs as of Sept 2025.
- Merger values StoreDot at $800M pre-money; pubco XFC Battery Ltd. to list on Nasdaq.
- Strategic investors include Daimler, Volvo, Polestar, VinFast, BP, TDK, Samsung.
- Andretti management (Bill Sandbrook, Matt Brown) have prior success with U.S. Concrete.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-117587
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: POLE
- cik: 0002025341
- company_name: Andretti Acquisition Corp. II
- filed_at: 2025-12-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2025341/000121390025117587/0001213900-25-117587-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2025341/000121390025117587/ea0268318-8k425_andretti2.htm

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