Filed by dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV pursuant
to
Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: dMY Technology Group, Inc.
IV
Commission File No.: 333-258431
Date: November 10, 2021
This filing relates to the proposed merger involving dMY Technology
Group, Inc. IV (“dMY IV”) with Planet Labs Inc. (“Planet”),
pursuant to the terms of that certain Merger Agreement, dated as of
July 7, 2021.
On November 10, 2021, Planet published the following blog
post, announcing that it has entered into an agreement to acquire
VanderSat, a leading provider of advanced earth data and
analytics.
Planet To Acquire VanderSat To Deliver Advanced Agriculture Data
Products To Customers
Robbie Schingler | November 10, 2021
We are excited to announce that Planet has entered into an
agreement to acquire VanderSat, a leading provider of advanced
earth data and analytics. Vandersat’s innovative products help
customers better measure and understand water management and crop
health in major markets. Planet intends to leverage VanderSat’s
technologies and products in further pursuit of bringing to market
next-generation solutions that combine the best of commercial and
public satellite data to provide clear and actionable information
to help industries, non-profits, and governments around the
world.
VanderSat has world-class expertise in providing insights to
customers by drawing from NASA, ESA and JAXA satellite data, and
has built a suite of novel products that report on key conditions
on the Earth’s surface, like soil moisture, land surface
temperature, vegetation optical depth, and biomass. VanderSat’s
unique algorithms deliver daily, global data products with great
accuracy, unhindered by changing cloud-cover and atmospheric
conditions.
“VanderSat is a mission-driven company with the goal to serve one
billion hectares of land in 2024. By joining Planet, our mission
and impact will be dramatically accelerated and together, we aim to
reach that goal in 2022,” said Dr. Thijs van Leeuwen, CEO of
VanderSat.
“We’re thrilled to be welcoming the VanderSat team to Planet. We
expect VanderSat’s analytics and industry expertise will help
Planet provide solutions ‘up the stack’ to bridge the gap from
complex remote-sensing science to products that offer improved data
to the ecosystem and our customers. And when one combines their new
data with Planet’s, the value is far greater than the sum of its
parts,” said Will Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder of Planet. “We believe
VanderSat’s products will add value in Planet’s core verticals of
agriculture, and civil government, and will help us open up to
others such as insurance and banking, to help grow our
business.”
At Planet, one of our goals is to bridge the gap between real-world
problems and the complexity of remote-sensing science. VanderSat is
another step towards that goal with their advanced analytics. We
believe their products will accelerate and expand our position in
one of our most important verticals – agriculture – and help mature
our offerings for others such as insurance, civil government, and
finance. For example, easier-to-consume data can
enable modeling to help financial institutions and insurers
quantify climate impacts on water availability and crop
production.
Adding VanderSat’s unique, all-weather data products to Planet’s
high-cadence and high-resolution global monitoring will bring even
greater value to users in agriculture, civil government and
insurance by providing them with richer insights and more precise
measurements. Plus, Planet’s unique platform and integrations will
make these products more accessible than ever before.