Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

On March 30, 2023, Home Plate Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") issued an aggregate of 3,650,000 shares of its Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Class A Common Stock") to Home Plate Sponsor LLC (the sponsor of the Company), Michael A. DeSimone, Michele Docharty, Ross Fubini and Rhonda Ramparas, holders of the Company's Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Class B Common Stock" and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the "Common Stock") (such holders of shares of Class B Common Stock collectively, the "Initial Stockholders"), upon the conversion of an equal number of shares of Class B Common Stock (the "Conversion"). The 3,650,000 shares of Class A Common Stock issued in connection with the Conversion are subject to the same restrictions as applied to the shares of Class B Common Stock before the Conversion, including, among other things, certain transfer restrictions, waiver of redemption rights and the obligation to vote in favor of an initial business combination, as described in the prospectus for the Company's initial public offering.

Following the Conversion, there are 5,922,935 shares of Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding, and 1,350,000 shares of Class B Common Stock issued and outstanding. As a result of the Conversion, the Initial Stockholders hold approximately 61.6% of the outstanding shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock.

The issuance of the shares of Class A Common Stock upon the Conversion has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 3(a)(9) thereof.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

The disclosure set forth above in Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in this Item 7.01.



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