The Deep Tech Founder’s Guide to Going Public Through a SPAC

Lab to Market Leadership with Chris Reichhelm · Sep 10, 2026 · 47m · transcript

In this episode of Lab-to-Market Leadership, Chris sits down with Brandon Sun, Managing Director and Head of SPAC Investment Banking at Cohen & Company Capital Markets, to unpack an increasingly important financing route for later-stage deep tech companies: going public through a SPAC.

Brandon begins by explaining how SPACs work. A sponsor raises capital into a publicly traded vehicle, typically with a defined period to identify a private company and complete a transaction. Unlike a traditional IPO, the de-SPAC process operates more like an M&A negotiation, allowing the target company and…