---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-013203"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MKTW"
cik: "0001805651"
company_name: "MARKETWISE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-24T16:04:41.345450+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# MarketWise dismisses Deloitte & Touche, engages Grant Thornton as auditor

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed Deloitte & Touche on March 14, 2025; no disagreements were reported.
- Previously reported material weaknesses in internal control as of Dec 31, 2022 were remediated by Dec 31, 2023.
- Grant Thornton LLP appointed as independent auditor for FY ending Dec 31, 2025, effective March 17, 2025.
- Deloitte's reports for FY2023 and FY2024 were unqualified; no adverse opinions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-013203
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MKTW
- cik: 0001805651
- company_name: MARKETWISE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-03-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 1.01, 3.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828025013203/0001628280-25-013203-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828025013203/mktw-20250314.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-013203
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-013203.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-013203.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  MARKETWISE, INC. dismissed Deloitte & Touche LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  source text: On March 14, 2025, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of MarketWise, Inc. (the "Company") approved the dismissal of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805651/000162828025013203/0001628280-25-013203-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.