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Latest SPAC News: Sportradar files for IPO following SPAC flop, SomaLogic and Twist Bioscience announce partnership to create novel antibodies, and Swvl buys on-demand bus service Shotl
Sportradar Files for U.S. IPO After SPAC Merger Flops
Sports data provider Sportradar Group AG has filed for an IPO in the U.S. after merger talks with a SPAC collapsed.
The company, based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in its filing Tuesday with the U.S. SEC listed the size of offering as $100 million, a placeholder that will likely change. Sportradar had held talks with Horizon Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE:HZAC), a blank-check company started by Eldridge Industries co-founder Todd Boehly.
READSomaLogic And Twist Bioscience Corporation Announce Partnership To Discover Novel Therapeutic Targets and Antibodies
CM Life Sciences II (NASDAQ: CMIIU) and proteomics technology leader SomaLogic, Inc. and Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced a collaboration aimed at creating novel antibodies and enabling innovative drug discovery based on key disease biomarkers.
The collaboration will allow Twist to use the SomaScan® Platform to quickly identify antibodies against targets resulting from SomaLogic’s industry-leading 7,000-plex assay, believed to be one of the broadest views of the proteome available.
READSwvl Buys On-Demand Bus Service Shotl
Dubai-based transport startup Swvl has agreed to buy Shotl, an Uber-like service for bus and van operators that caters to municipalities, corporations and educational institutions, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Swvl last month agreed to merge with blank check firm Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, setting the stage for a Nasdaq listing in the fourth quarter of this year.
READPlanet And Google Cloud Partner To Bring Planetary-Scale Satellite Data Analysis To Governments and Enterprises
Under a new agreement, Google Cloud will collaborate with Planet to create joint solutions that combine Planet’s high-frequency Earth observation data with Google Cloud’s cloud-based infrastructure to enable better data-driven decision-making.
Last month, Planet entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (NYSE:DMYQ), a SPAC, to become a publicly-traded company.
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Terms Tracker for the Week Ending July 11, 2025 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. One more IPO priced this week bringing July’s total to 8. However, there are still three more weeks left in the month so that number...
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At the SPAC of Dawn One thing that SPAC investors can typically count on while their money is invested in a SPAC’s trust is that it is going to grow one way or the other between now and their next redemption opportunity, but the devil can occasionally be in the details. In 2024, it became...
Thunderstone has filed for a $50 million SPAC to put a new first-time Asia-based team in action on a generalist hunt. The new SPAC is offering investors a right to a 1/8 share in each unit with 18 months to initially complete a business combination. It is the 8th fresh S-1 filed with underwriter D....