Developing new medical treatments takes time and money, which is generally where investors come in. But, has managed to resolve many of those questions before SPAC investors will join the show.
This week, we speak with Abpro Chairman and CEO Ian Chan and Shahraab Ahmad, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Coastal Acquisition Corp II (Nasdaq: ACAB). The two announced a $725 million dollar combination in September 2023.
Shahraab explains how Abpro came onto Atlantic Coastal II’s radar after the SPAC had originally been fishing in the mobility space, and why the particularities of its capital needs could be a fit for the current market conditions.
Ian also walks through Abpro’s clinical path moving forward and how it can use a mix of its internal discovery engines and M&A to expand its portfolio.
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Terms Tracker for the Week Ending September 6, 2024 Welcome to our weekly column where we discuss the findings from our IPO terms tracker based on the previous week’s pricings. It was a short holiday week and while it was light on filings, SPACs did manage to price two IPOs. That means 2024 has now...
Compass Digital (NASDAQ:CDAQ) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with renewable energy firm EEW at a pro forma enterprise value of $386 million. London-based EEW is a solar, hydrogen and energy storage project developer with 1.4 GW of solar projects sold to date in Australia, the UK, Spain, and Sweden. The combined company...
Evergreen (NASDAQ:EVGR) has entered into a definitive agreement to combine with enterprise software firm Forekast at a pre-money enterprise value of $105 million. The company provides data analytics and customer engagement tools backed by some degree of AI automation to improve efficiencies for its business clients. The combined company is expected to trade on the...
At the SPAC of Dawn The auto-reply messages are off. SPACs are definitively back from vacation and in the thick of it. Two new SPACs are set to debut in trading today in Vine Hill (NASDAQ:VCICU) and Andretti II (NASDAQ:POLEU) and two SPACs have also landed their search on new targets, which could pull a...
Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. announced the pricing of its $200 million IPO and its units are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “VCICU”, Friday, September 6, 2024. The new SPAC intends to focus its search on a target business in the industrial and services industries, where it believes the expertise...