Illumina's cancer diagnostics spinoff, which has raised more than $1.9bn in funding, has filed to float on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Grail, a US-based medical diagnostics technology developer that has raised more than $1.9bn in funding from investors including a range of corporates, filed for a $100m initial public offering yesterday.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and BofA Securities are lead bookrunners for the IPO while Cowen and Evercore ISI are also bookrunners. The $100m represents a placeholder figure and the offering is set to take place on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Founded in 2015 by genomics technology producer Illumina,…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.