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Last updated on October 6, 2020 5:53 PM IST
Insurance startup Clover Health will go public through a merger with blank check company Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp III in a deal valued at $ 3.7 billion including debt, the company said Tuesday. / p>
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Clover, whose investors include Alphabet Inc and Sequoia Capital, is expected to receive up to $ 728 million of the proceeds, with up to $ 500 million allocated to existing shareholders
Palihapitiya, who also helped bring Virgin Galactic to the public last year, plans to raise a total of $ 2 billion through initial public offerings for three new blank check companies
In September, Opendoor Labs Inc, the door-to-door selling platform backed by SoftBank Group, agreed to go public through a merger with another Palihapitiya-backed blank check company in an agreement of a value of $ 48 billion
Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings is a partnership between the investment firms of Social Capital and Hedosophia, and was listed earlier this year
A blank check company, also known as a special purpose acquiring company, uses capital raised in an initial public offering to buy a private company, typically within two years The agreement then takes the private company on the stock market
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