Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III
Cash in trust
$308M
$308,042,301
Trust per share
$10.27
Redemption value
IPO
Nov 2021
$300M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
51
Latest Feb 14, 2024
Overview
Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001850316. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2021, raising $300M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Ascendant through Ascendant Sponsor LP. The mandate targets technology, consumer, media & entertainment. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus our search on companies in what we call the Attention Economy, which refers to various converging sectors within interactive (digital) entertainment, film/television, music, print and digital books (including magazine and comics publications), e-sports, live events and other forms of consumer entertainment and enabling services and technologies.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.27 per public share, 2.7% above the $10.00 the units were sold at. That spread is accrued interest on the trust and, where the charter provides for it, sponsor contributions paid in to buy more time. It is the floor a public shareholder can redeem at, not a valuation of the business.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 978,750 shares against 30,000,000 public shares, or 3.2% of the combined count, acquired before the IPO at nominal cost. That promote is the structural dilution every public shareholder carries into a combination, and it is why the economics of a de-SPAC differ so sharply from a conventional IPO.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-half warrant per unit. Warrants are dilution deferred: they cost the holder nothing until exercised, and they overhang the post-combination share count. Thinner coverage is generally a sign of a stronger book at pricing.
Sponsor record
Ascendant has launched 2 vehicles. Of the 2 that have resolved, 1 closed a combination and 1 liquidated, a 50% completion rate. A sponsor's record is not a forecast, but it does tell you whether the team has taken a deal across the line before.
Underwriting
Goldman Sachs led the offering. It has been named on 97 SPAC IPOs, book-running 59 of them, and 58.3% of its resolved vehicles closed a deal. The syndicate has no control over whether a sponsor finds a target, but the quality of the book at pricing shapes who ends up holding the units.
Filings per month since the first one. A vehicle that has gone quiet with a deadline ahead is a different proposition from one that is still working.
51 filings in all. 2 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 21.
News on Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III
Last 90 daysNothing in the last 90 days that names this vehicle. We attribute a story only when the release carries the ticker or the registered name, so an empty section means no press release or wire story matched — not that nothing was published. The filings below are the primary record either way.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-24-001534
- SC 13G/A
FORM SC 13G/A
Accession 0001062993-24-002143
- 15-12G
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001193125-23-052072
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0000876661-23-000125
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-23-001329
- SC 13G/A
FORM SC 13G/A
Accession 0001062993-23-003204
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001766806-23-000041
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000902664-23-001479
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001326389-23-000566
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001104659-23-009701
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-23-020440
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0000876661-23-000038
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001193125-22-312630
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-22-284584
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-22-219950
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-22-150464
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001193125-22-085155
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-22-000856
- SC 13G/A
FORM SC 13G/A
Accession 0001062993-22-003889
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000902664-22-001496
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001766806-22-000027
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001193125-22-034500
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-22-008692
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001193125-21-366378
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-21-366281
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-21-335254
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001062993-21-011208
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Other events
Items 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-21-331370
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-21-044675
- 424B4
Final IPO prospectus
Accession 0001193125-21-328168
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Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III: questions answered
What is Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III?
Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001850316. It completed its initial public offering in Nov 2021, raising $300M in gross proceeds. The vehicle is sponsored by Ascendant through Ascendant Sponsor LP. The mandate targets technology, consumer, media & entertainment. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III hold in trust?
Approximately $308,042,301, or about $10.27 per public share, as at the most recent filing on record. Trust balances move: shareholders redeem at extension votes and at the combination vote, and sponsors pay contributions in to extend. Treat the figure as a point-in-time disclosure, not a running balance.
When must Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III, and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.27 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
How much dilution do Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III's founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 978,750 shares against 30,000,000 public shares, so roughly 3.2% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. Each unit also carried one-half warrant per unit, which is dilution deferred until exercise. Both are disclosed in the prospectus and both survive into the combined company, which is why a de-SPAC at $10 is not economically the same as an IPO at $10.
Who sponsors Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III, and what is their track record?
Ascendant Sponsor LP is the sponsor entity, part of the Ascendant franchise. That franchise has launched 2 vehicles in total, of which 1 closed a combination and 1 liquidated, a 50% completion rate on resolved vehicles.
Which banks underwrote the Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III IPO?
Goldman Sachs, Odeon Capital. Goldman Sachs was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III data come from?
Filings Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp. III submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001850316: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
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Last reconciled Oct 19, 2026
Every figure on this page is read from documents the registrants filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, principally the IPO prospectus (Form 424B4), quarterly and annual reports, current reports and proxy statements, the registrant's own XBRL tags for trust economics. Nothing is sourced from press coverage, from the companies themselves, or from a third-party aggregator. Where a filing does not disclose something, the field is left blank rather than estimated.
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