Company: GSRF
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-080052
Chunk: 23

Company: GSR IV Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-08-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 23
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. This is exhibited in our team’s extensive track record in consummating complex transactions for SPAC sponsors and target companies; • Extensive Understanding of Capital Markets and Public Market Investors:We have significant experience in formulating a variety of investment theses and structures for private companies that have elected to become public companies. We are focused on the attributes that tend to be the most well -receivedin the public markets: from readily identifiable and measurable catalysts, to visibility and ease of modeling projections; from well -explainedfinancial forecasts, to valuations reflective of prevailing market conditions; from management teams with public company experience, to a track record of accurately forecasting and budgeting — just to name a few. This focus on public company attributes is underscored by our deep familiarity with the key performance indicators and growth metrics of companies in our target industries;

9 • Significant Experience in Relevant Sectors:We have extensive experience in analyzing attractive companies in our target sectors that have compelling public -marketnarratives, high visibility of growth prospects, and attractive cash flow dynamics now or in the near future. Business Combination Criteria Consistent with our business strategy, we have identified the following general criteria and guidelines that we believe are important in evaluating prospective target businesses. We will use these criteria and guidelines in evaluating initial business combination opportunities, but we may decide to enter into our initial business combination with a target business that does not meet these criteria and guidelines. While we intend to utilize these criteria in evaluating business combination opportunities, we expect that no individual criterion will entirely determine a decision to pursue a particular opportunity. • Financial Stability and Visibility:We expect to target an initial business combination with a company in which we can readily identify current and future revenues, a path to sustained long -termprofitability and attractive future cash flow dynamics; • Leading Industry and Market Position:We intend to seek targets whose products and/or services currently enjoy, or are expected to enjoy, leading positions in their respective markets with sustainable competitive advantages and natural barriers to market entry; • Resilient Barriers to Entry:We seek established and emerging market leaders with defensible and self -reinforcingcompetitive advantages such as high switching costs, network effects, proprietary data/integrations and learning effects; • Multiple Growth Avenues:Our ideal business combination partners have the capability to grow both organically and through targeted acquisitions, and can leverage our own expertise across M&A and capital markets advisory for evaluation of strategic processes; • Strong and Public -Company-Ready Management Team:We will seek to acquire or merge with a business with