Cartica Acquisition Corp
Cash in trust
$16.8M
$16,794,222
Trust per share
$7.47
Redemption value
IPO
Jan 2022
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Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
155
Latest Feb 25, 2026
Overview
Cartica Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001848437. It completed its initial public offering in Jan 2022. The vehicle is sponsored by Cartica through Cartica Acquisition Partners, LLC. The mandate targets technology. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“Our strategy is to identify and complete a business combination with a suitable business combination partner focused on the technology space in India.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Cartica Acquisition Corp 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 $7.47 per public share, below the $10.00 unit price. A trust that has fallen under the offering price usually means charges against it or a restatement, so read the most recent quarterly report before relying on the figure.
Sponsor promote
The sponsor's founder block is 750,000 shares against 2,249,422 public shares, or 25.0% 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 of one 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.
Underwriting
J.P. Morgan led the offering. It has been named on 41 SPAC IPOs, book-running 30 of them, and 2.5% 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.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 15-12G
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001104659-26-019640
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule; Other events
Items 3.01, 8.01 · Accession 0001104659-26-017107
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-26-013889
- 8-K
Termination of a material definitive agreement; Other events
Items 1.02, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-26-001822
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-118507
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001104659-25-117482
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-117479
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-117476
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001104659-25-116022
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-116020
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-116021
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-113819
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001104659-25-112480
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001104659-25-107994
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-107993
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-107992
- DEFM14A
Definitive merger proxy statement
Accession 0001104659-25-107893
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001104659-25-101592
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001104659-25-101591
- 8-K
Regulation FD disclosure
Items 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-101590
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 1.01, 2.03, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-098410
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001104659-25-091740
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-25-010128
- PRER14A
PRER14A
Accession 0001104659-25-090483
- CORRESP
Correspondence with SEC staff
Accession 0001104659-25-090484
- UPLOAD
SEC staff comment letter
Accession 0000000000-25-009880
- 8-K
Other events
Items 5.08, 8.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-087488
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001104659-25-087486
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001410578-25-001760
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001104659-25-077542
Cartica Acquisition Corp: questions answered
What is Cartica Acquisition Corp?
Cartica Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001848437. It completed its initial public offering in Jan 2022. The vehicle is sponsored by Cartica through Cartica Acquisition Partners, LLC. The mandate targets technology. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Cartica Acquisition Corp hold in trust?
Approximately $16,794,222, or about $7.47 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp, 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 $7.47 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp?
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 Cartica Acquisition Corp's founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 750,000 shares against 2,249,422 public shares, so roughly 25.0% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. Each unit also carried one-half of one 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp, and what is their track record?
Cartica Acquisition Partners, LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Cartica franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Cartica Acquisition Corp IPO?
J.P. Morgan. J.P. Morgan was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Cartica Acquisition Corp a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Cartica Acquisition Corp 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 Cartica Acquisition Corp data come from?
Filings Cartica Acquisition Corp submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001848437: 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 Sep 4, 2026
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