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RA Capital (Research Alliance)

#62 of 117
52/100Mixed recordlow confidence

52/100 from 2 resolved vehicles (1 closed, 1 failed), 29% of the raw 59 after small-sample shrink. Confidence: low.

Vehicles
4
2 in the live DB · 2 SEC-verified priors · computed by SpacBrain from cited rows, as of 2026-09-10
Resolved
2
1 closed · 1 liquidated · 0 terminated
Best priced exit
+25.0%
POINT Biopharma (acq. by Eli Lilly) vs the $10.00 baseline
Worst priced exit
+25.0%
POINT Biopharma (acq. by Eli Lilly) vs the $10.00 baseline

Sponsor DNA

what has happened before, with its sample size
  • Completion raten=2 resolved vehiclesderived

    2 resolved vehicles on record; this rate is published from 3. Below three the percentage can only be 0, 50 or 100 and says less than the counts beside it.

  • Liquidation raten=2 resolved vehiclesderived

    2 resolved vehicles on record; this rate is published from 3. Below three the percentage can only be 0, 50 or 100 and says less than the counts beside it.

  • Median post-close returnn=1 priced completed deSPACderived

    1 priced completed deSPAC on record; this median is published from 3. Two points have no middle — a median over them is their mean, and moves with either one.

  • Median redemptionn=0 redemption events with a stated ratederived

    No redemption event with a stated rate on record — absent, which is not the same as zero. Extraction covers part of the universe, so a low count is our coverage as much as the sponsor’s history.

  • Deals terminated0terminated dealscounted

    No announced combination on this sponsor’s record has been terminated.

  • Extension votes on record0extension votescounted

    No extension vote extracted for this sponsor. Extraction is partial across the universe, so this is an absence of rows, NOT evidence of zero extensions.

2 of 6 statistics carry a figure for this sponsor. A rate is published from 3 resolved vehicles and a median from 3 observations: two points have no middle, and a rate over two can only be 0, 50 or 100. Counts have no threshold — a count is an observation, not an estimate.

Everything marked derived is arithmetic we did to rows we hold, not a figure any filing states.

What this panel will not tell you, and why (6)
  • Median day-one move on announcement

    PriceBar holds 2026-05-11 → 2026-08-17 only. Of 83 dated announcements across the whole universe, 16 fall on a day we hold a bar for a scored sponsor’s vehicle, spread over 14 sponsors — one sponsor reaches three observations. A bar that does not exist is not a 0% move.

  • Pre-vote move

    Only 12 deals carry a vote date at all, and exactly 1 of them falls inside the PriceBar window. One observation is an anecdote with a decimal point.

  • Median time from IPO to announcement

    42 IPO→announcement pairs exist, but only six sponsors have two and one has three. Enough for a statistic about the asset class; not for one about a sponsor, which is what this panel claims to be.

  • Median time from signing to close

    Exactly 1 deal in the entire database is CLOSED and carries an announcement date. There is no 2nd observation anywhere to take a median over.

  • 12-month post-deSPAC return

    `SponsorPriorVehicle.postCloseReturnPct` is measured at the LAST close we hold, whenever that is — not on a 12-month anniversary. We hold no price history for the resulting companies, so the anniversary price does not exist. The median post-close return above is the honest version of this number and says what it is measured against.

  • Sponsor capital at risk

    Nothing stores it. The only sponsor-economics column we hold is `Deal.promotePct` (founder shares as a percentage of post-IPO shares, on 34 deals under a scored sponsor), and that measures the equity the sponsor got nearly free — the opposite of the dollars it put in. Deriving at-risk capital from a promote percentage would be an invention with a citation stapled to it.

Score breakdown

every component, what it measured, and what it could not
  • Deal completion20% weightn=250/100

    1/2 resolved vehicles closed a deal (50%); 1 liquidated, 0 terminated. Not gated: measured post-close quality is 54/100, at or above the money-back mark, so the full completion credit is earned. Small sample — the shrink below keeps this near neutral.

  • Liquidation / termination drag16% weightn=475/100

    1 liquidation and 0 terminations across 4 vehicles raised → 25% attrition (terminations 1.25×, stale shells 0.75×).

  • Post-close outcome quality40% weightn=154/100

    1 priced deSPAC vs trust value (prior vehicles against the $10.00 IPO baseline, in-DB vehicles against the trust they filed): median +25%, 1/1 still worth at least half of trust, 0 at under a tenth of it. Worst: POINT Biopharma (acq. by Eli Lilly) +25%. n=1, pulled toward neutral.

  • Redemption behaviour10% weightnot measurable

    No redemption events extracted for this sponsor yet (coverage is partial) — held neutral; absence of rows is NOT evidence of zero redemptions.

    Held at the neutral 50 across its full 10% weight — missing data is never scored as a failure, but it never earns credit either.

  • Extension reliance8% weightnot measurable

    No extension filings extracted for this sponsor — held neutral (partial coverage, not a clean record).

    Held at the neutral 50 across its full 8% weight — missing data is never scored as a failure, but it never earns credit either.

  • Live fleet vs trust6% weightn=2100/100

    2/2 live vehicles trading at or above the trust value they filed.

  • Measured weak recordflat penaltyn=1not measurable

    Only 1 measured prior vehicle (median +25%) — one vehicle is an anecdote, not a record; the rule needs ≥2.

How the number is built: weighted mean of the six components above = 59, then pulled 71% of the way back to the neutral 50 for small sample size (2 resolved vehicles) = 52.

2 components are not measurable for this sponsor (redemption behaviour, extension reliance) — 18% of the weight is a neutral placeholder rather than evidence. That is why the confidence chip reads low.

How the Sponsor Score worksoutcome-first weighting

The score answers one question: did this sponsor make money for the people who held through the merger? Not “did they get a deal signed”. Those are different questions, and most sponsor rankings quietly answer the second one.

So post-close outcome quality carries 40% — the realised return of every prior vehicle we can price from a primary filing, measured against the $10.00 trust baseline. Deal completion carries 20%, and it is gated: closing deals that ended below trust value only earns part of the completion credit, because closing is a precondition for a return, not a return. Liquidation and termination drag takes 16%, redemption behaviour 10%, extension reliance 8%, and what the tape says about the live fleet just 6% — a quote is an opinion, not evidence.

A component with no data is never guessed. It is held at the neutral 50 across its full weight and labelled “not measurable”. Dropping it and re-weighting the rest would quietly reward a sponsor for having no verifiable record — exactly backwards. The consequence: a sponsor with no post-close evidence at all cannot read above 71, and cannot be labelled a strong operator no matter how many deals it closed.

Experience never inflates the score. There is no “years in business” component. A first-time sponsor sits at exactly 50 and reads “unproven” with low confidence — new is not bad. Sample size only pulls a score toward or away from that neutral 50, so nobody is called great or terrible on one vehicle.

Every input is a row already in the database, sourced from SEC primary filings: prior vehicles verified on EDGAR, redemption results read out of 8-Ks, prices from public feeds. The arithmetic is deterministic — no model, no LLM, no judgement call. Research tooling, not investment advice.

Prior vehicles

2 SEC-verified — what happened to holders who stayed in
VehicleOutcomeBecamevs $10.00TodaySource
Therapeutics Acquisition CorpIPO 2020CompletedPOINT Biopharma (acq. by Eli Lilly)+25.0%Acquired$12.50 · Dec 27, 20230001193125-23-303512 opens on sec.gov in a new tab
Research Alliance Corp IIIPO 2021Liquidated0001104659-22-127804 opens on sec.gov in a new tab

1 of 2 prior vehicles carry an honest post-close price, split-adjusted against the $10.00 trust baseline a holder gave up at the merger. Cash buyouts are read from the per-share consideration stated in the DEFM14A / SC 14D-9; a buyout no filing prices stays unpriced and stays out of the score. “Listing ended” means the quote stopped with no buyer — scored as a total loss because that is what the evidence says, but never printed as a percentage we cannot source.

Research profile

synthesized from SEC filings + sourced research

RA Capital (Research Alliance) — Peter Kolchinsky's platform. Prior-vehicle track record (SEC-verified via formerNames): (1) Therapeutics Acquisition Corp COMPLETED → POINT Biopharma (2020; acquired by Eli Lilly 2023, 25-NSE 2023-12 — a strong outcome). (2) Research Alliance Corp II LIQUIDATED (25-NSE 2022-12). Current vehicles RACC (in-deal) and RACD (searching). Net: 1 completed deSPAC (acquired by Lilly), 1 liquidation. Sources: SEC EDGAR submissions API (formerNames) + full-text search, efts.sec.gov.

— research profile — RA Capital Management, L.P. is the sponsor behind the Research Alliance Corporation series of SPACs. Founded in 2002 by Peter Kolchinsky, PhD, who serves as Managing Partner alongside Rajeev Shah, RA Capital is a Boston-based, evidence-based, multi-stage healthcare and planetary health investment firm with over $15 billion in regulatory assets under management as of December 31, 2025, and a team of more than 200 professionals. The firm's proprietary knowledge engine, TechAtlas, maps competitive landscapes across 130-plus healthcare subsectors and 30-plus planetary health territories to develop investment conviction. The SPAC vehicles are led operationally by Matthew Hammond, PhD, MBA, a Partner on RA Capital's investment team, who serves as CEO and Director of the Research Alliance entities, joined by Henry Stusnick as Chief Business Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Earlier vehicles also featured Tess Cameron as a founding Principal serving as CFO and Director. The firm has been exclusively healthcare-focused since its launch and deploys capital across private and public companies, having deployed over $650 million into private financings in 2025 alone.

RA Capital's SPAC track record spans four vehicles. Research Alliance Corporation I merged with POINT Biopharma in March 2021, providing the radiopharmaceutical company with approximately $300 million in capital; Eli Lilly subsequently acquired POINT Biopharma for $1.4 billion in 2023, representing a clear win for the sponsor and its investors. Research Alliance Corporation II (RACB), which raised $130 million in its March 2021 IPO, failed to identify and complete a business combination and ultimately liquidated, returning capital to trust holders but producing no value creation beyond that. Research Alliance Corporation III (RACC) raised $75 million in its May 2026 IPO and announced a definitive business combination agreement with Oak Hill Bio on July 27, 2026, a rare disease biotech developing rugonersen, an antisense oligonucleotide therapy for Angelman syndrome currently in a pivotal Phase 3 trial. The transaction is structured to provide approximately $175 million in gross proceeds, including $75 million from RACC's trust account fully backstopped by RA Capital and $100 million in committed private financing, with PIPE participants including Balyasny Asset Management, Janus Henderson Investors, BVF Partners, venBio, Cormorant Asset Management, Perceptive Advisors, and Foresite Capital. RACC shares rallied approximately 128 percent in the month following the announcement, reaching roughly $26 per share, reflecting strong investor enthusiasm for the target and deal structure. Research Alliance Corporation IV (RACD) filed with the SEC in June 2026 to raise up to $75 million, targeting healthcare, life sciences, and healthtech companies, and notably does not plan to offer units with warrants or rights attached.

The firm's broader reputation in the life sciences investment community is strong. RA Capital's portfolio includes companies such as 89bio, which was acquired by Roche for $3.5 billion, and Aktis Oncology, which completed the first biotech IPO of its year with a $318 million raise. The firm is known for its hands-on, analytically rigorous approach, combining deep scientific training with operational…

Data provenance & audit trail1 internal entry

Written by SpacBrain’s data agents whenever a figure is captured, corrected or flagged, and kept verbatim so every number on this page can be traced back to the filing that states it. This is a running log, not the current record: an early entry may be superseded by a later correction — the panels above always hold the current values.

RA Capital (Research Alliance) — sponsor record
NOTE-SEAL2026-08-15

Raw SEC identifiers lifted out of the public prose above (the sentences are unchanged); verbatim, each shown with the words it followed: "…merNames): (1) Therapeutics Acquisition Corp (CIK 0001811764)" · "…rong outcome). (2) Research Alliance Corp II (CIK 0001819724)"

The Sponsor Score is a deterministic research heuristic over primary-sourced rows — never a recommendation, and never a prediction. It cannot tell you whether this sponsor’s next deal will work; it tells you, precisely and with its own uncertainty attached, what the last ones did.