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Better Therapeutics To Go Public Through Merger With Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp. II

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | April 07, 2021 08:13am

Transaction values Better Therapeutics at a pro forma fully diluted enterprise value of approximately $187 million with existing Better Therapeutics shareholders rolling over 100% of their equity into equity of the combined company

Transaction expected to provide up to $113 million of cash proceeds, including a fully committed $50 million PIPE and up to $57.5 million of cash held in the Mountain Crest II trust account assuming no redemptions

The PIPE was led by Farallon Capital ManagementRS InvestmentsSectoral Asset Management, and Monashee Investment Management, with participation from other undisclosed investors

Better Therapeutics also received commitments through a separate private placement of $6 million

Transaction is expected to close in the summer of 2021, with the combined company expected to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "BTTX"

Better Therapeutics, Inc. a prescription digital therapeutics company delivering cognitive behavioral therapy to address the root causes of cardiometabolic diseases, will go public, raising up to $113 million to advance its robust pipeline of products to treat cardiometabolic diseases, conditions which cost the U.S. healthcare system almost $500 billion each year. Better Therapeutics has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Mountain Crest Acquisition Corp II (NASDAQ:MCAD, ", Mountain Crest II", ))))), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition corporation or SPAC. The transaction values Better Therapeutics at a pro forma fully diluted enterprise value of approximately $187 million with existing Better Therapeutics shareholders rolling over 100% of their equity into equity of the combined company. Upon completion of the transaction, which is anticipated in the summer 2021, the combined company will operate as Better Therapeutics and securities are expected to be listed on Nasdaq under the symbol "BTTX."

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The transaction includes a $50 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) from leading healthcare investors and thought leaders that are led by Farallon Capital Management, RS Investments, Sectoral Asset Management, and Monashee Investment Management, with participation from other undisclosed investors. Better Therapeutics has also received commitments through a separate private placement of $6 million.

The proceeds of the transaction will be used to advance Better Therapeutics' lead product for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, BT-001, to marketing authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and advance Better Therapeutics' pipeline of prescription digital therapeutics for a range of cardiometabolic diseases.

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