efficiently and profitably deliver services, coordinate care and manage health to improve health outcomes, quality and costs, and also provide solutions to address healthcare disparities and access to care. We look forward to completing the merger transaction with GigCapital2 and Cloudbreak in early June, which will give us access to significant growth capital and help accelerate expansion of our unique technologies and solutions across the care continuum,” stated Dr. Ramesh Balakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer of UpHealth.
About the Transaction:
In November 2020, UpHealth, Cloudbreak and GigCapital2, a special-purpose acquisition company or SPAC, announced that they had each entered into definitive agreements for a business combination. Upon closing of the two business combinations, the combined operating company will be named UpHealth and will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “UPH”. On January 21, 2021 GigCapital2 announced that it had signed subscription agreements with institutional investors for the sale of $255 Million of convertible notes and $30 Million of common stock in connection with the two business combinations with UpHealth and Cloudbreak. On April 28, 2021, GigCapital2 filed an amended registration statement on Form S-4/A in regards to the proposed combinations.
About UpHealth Holdings, Inc.
UpHealth is a global comprehensive digital health technology and tech-enabled services platform that empowers providers, health systems and payors globally to manage care for people with complex medical, behavioral and social needs, while dramatically improving access to primary care. For more information, please visit https://uphealthinc.com and follow us at @UphealthInc on Twitter, UpHealth Inc. on LinkedIn and @uphealthinc on Instagram.
About GigCapital Global and GigCapital2, Inc.
GigCapital Global (www.gigcapitalglobal.com) is a Private-to-Public Equity (PPE)™ investment group, sponsoring and operating Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPAC”, also known as Blank-Check companies). Founded in 2017 by Dr. Avi Katz, the GigCapital Group and its sponsored SPACs are led by an affiliated team of technology industry experts, deploying a unique Mentor-Investors™ methodology to partner with exceptional privately-held and U.S. and non-U.S. public technology companies led by dedicated, innovative entrepreneurs. The GigCapital Group companies offer financial, operational and executive mentoring to U.S. and global private, and non-U.S. public companies, in order to accelerate their path from inception and as a privately-held entity into the growth-stage as a publicly traded company in the U.S. The partnership of the GigCapital Group with these companies continues through an organic and roll-up strategy growth post the transition to a public company. For more information, visit www.gigcapitalglobal.com.
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