M&A
confidence high
sentiment positive
materiality 0.80
Securitize to go public via SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II at $1.25B valuation
Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc.
- Pre-money equity value of $1.25B; existing shareholders (BlackRock, ARK Invest, Morgan Stanley) rolling 100% of interests.
- Upsized $225M committed common stock PIPE led by Arche, Borderless Capital, Hanwha, InterVest, and ParaFi Capital.
- Combined company to be named Securitize Corp., expected to trade on Nasdaq under ticker SECZ; CEPT contributes ~$244M trust cash.
- Securitize plans to tokenize its own equity, an industry first for a public company; transaction expected to close H1 2026.
- Securitize platform tokenized over $4B in assets; partners include BlackRock, Apollo, Hamilton Lane, KKR, VanEck.