It's a brave new world for So­ma­Log­ic, as the pro­teomics biotech rides Eli Cas­d­in's newest SPAC to Nas­daq with $1.2B val­u­a­tion

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The bur­geon­ing field of pro­teomics has court­ed heavy in­vest­ment over the last few years, and on Mon­day a promi­nent pro­teomics biotech scored a new heap­ing of cap­i­tal.

So­ma­Log­ic an­nounced plans to re­verse-merge with Eli Cas­din and Kei­th Meis­ter’s sec­ond SPAC on Mon­day, dubbed CM Life Sci­ences II, fetch­ing the com­pa­ny a $1.23 bil­lion val­u­a­tion. The deal gives So­ma­Log­ic a cash in­fu­sion of $276 mil­lion from the SPAC’s IPO last month, as well as a pri­vate in­vest­ment of $375 mil­lion from a syn­di­cate of new and re­turn­ing in­vestors.

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