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In a bold play to ride the soaring demand for AI-driven infrastructure, Boost Run LLC announced Tuesday it will go public through a $614 million merger with blank-check firm Willow Lane Acquisition Corp. The deal, architected by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP, positions Boost Run to accelerate its growth in the red-hot AI cloud market.

Building the Future of AI Infrastructure

Boost Run, a provider of certified, secure and production-ready AI infrastructure, supports multiple GPU architectures to power enterprise, financial, government, and third-party platforms. Its technology spans real-time inference, distributed training, edge compute, and other mission-critical workloads—the plumbing behind the next wave of artificial intelligence.

“Going public will give us the capital and financing access we need to push harder into government and regulated industries while scaling our automation layer,” said Andrew Karos, Boost Run’s founder.

The transaction will transform the private company into Boost Run Inc., with shares set to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker BRUN.

Willow Lane’s Bet on AI’s Long Game

SPACs—special purpose acquisition companies—exist to take private firms public, often catapulting them into growth trajectories that traditional IPOs can’t match. For Willow Lane, this is a bet on AI infrastructure as a long-term secular trend.

“The team at Willow Lane has spent over 12 years acquiring and advising companies,” said Luke Weil, the firm’s CEO and chairman. “Boost Run’s leadership and track record fit squarely into our strategy of backing high-integrity operators with a vision for value creation.”

A Hot SPAC Market and Legal Muscle Behind the Deal

The announcement comes amid a fresh wave of SPAC activity—just a day after ESH Acquisition Corp. unveiled its own $500 million plan to take fitness-tech company The Original Fit Factory Ltd. public.

On Boost Run’s side, Winston & Strawn LLP steered the deal with a team led by partner Mike Blankenship alongside partners Peter Clarke, Katherine Erbeznik and Ben Smolij. Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP advised Willow Lane with a powerhouse lineup including Douglas Ellenoff, Stuart Neuhauser, David Landau, Anthony Ain and Jeffrey Rubin.

If successful, the Boost Run listing could become another signal that Wall Street is betting heavily on AI as the backbone of future economies.