Catalyst Acquisition Corp.CATL
Cash in trust
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Not yet disclosed
Trust per share
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Redemption value
IPO
Jul 2026
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Combination deadline
Jul 29, 2028
649 days remaining
Filings on record
23
Latest Sep 15, 2026
Overview
Catalyst Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002104391. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2026 and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker CATL, units under CATLU, rights under CATLR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Catalyst through Catalyst Sponsor LLC. The mandate targets media & entertainment. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
“we intend to focus our efforts on opportunities in traditional and digital media sectors including, but not limited to, video game companies, mobile gaming, publishers, studios, and media platforms.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Catalyst 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.
Time on the clock
649 days to the Jul 29, 2028 deadline. The vehicle is early in its search window, and the deadline is not yet the binding constraint.
Underwriting
Santander led the offering. It has been named on 19 SPAC IPOs, book-running 16 of them, and 66.7% 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.
From listing to the date Catalyst Acquisition Corp. must close a deal, extend again, or return the trust. The marker is today.
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.
23 filings in all. 22 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 14.
Scores
Recomputed 6m agoThree readings of Catalyst Acquisition Corp., each an unweighted mean of the components shown beneath it, and each component a percentile against every live SPAC rather than an absolute we invented. They describe the setup, not the merit. How they are built
FOMO
ModerateHow much attention is this vehicle attracting right now?
26/100
- Filing activity0
0 in 30 days
- News coverage52
2 stories in 30 days
Attention is not quality. FOMO rises on news volume and on the market paying above trust, both of which have preceded plenty of disappointments.
Potential
ModerateHow likely is this vehicle to complete a combination, and at what scale?
36/100
- Lead bank record56
66.7%
- Bank franchise13
19 SPAC mandates
- Stage40
searching
Potential is about execution, not about the target. It says nothing about whether the eventual deal is worth owning, because the target is usually unknown when the score is computed.
These are derived measures, not ratings of investment merit. They carry no view on the target, no price target and no recommendation, and a high score is not a reason to buy anything.
News on Catalyst Acquisition Corp.
Last 90 days- All News for CATL : Catalyst Acquisition Corp.Neutral
via Google NewsZacks · 21d ago
- CATL: Catalyst Acquisition Corp. - Comparison to IndustryNeutral
via Google NewsZacks · 25d ago
News sentiment
NeutralAcross 2 recent stories, weighted towards the newest. Scored by our own headline classifier using finance- and SPAC-specific terms. It reads what a story is about, not what the shares are worth.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-100217
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-099697
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001213900-26-098787
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-26-100431
- SCHEDULE 13D
Beneficial ownership report (activist)
Accession 0001213900-26-085791
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-26-090545
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-085285
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001193125-26-330676
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-083960
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Other events
Items 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001213900-26-082795
- 424B4
Final IPO prospectus
Accession 0001213900-26-081980
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-002460
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081950
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081949
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081948
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081947
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081945
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081944
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001213900-26-081943
- CERT
Exchange listing certification
Accession 0001354457-26-000733
- 8-A12B
Registration of securities on an exchange
Accession 0001213900-26-081776
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001213900-26-076132
- DRS
Draft registration statement (confidential)
Accession 0001213900-26-027132
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Catalyst Acquisition Corp.: questions answered
What is Catalyst Acquisition Corp. (CATL)?
Catalyst Acquisition Corp. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002104391. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2026 and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker CATL, units under CATLU, rights under CATLR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Catalyst through Catalyst Sponsor LLC. The mandate targets media & entertainment. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
How much does Catalyst Acquisition Corp. hold in trust?
No trust balance has been disclosed in a filing we have indexed for Catalyst Acquisition Corp.. For a newly priced IPO this is normal: the figure first appears in the quarterly report after closing.
When must Catalyst Acquisition Corp. complete a merger?
By Jul 29, 2028. If no combination closes by then the sponsor must seek a further extension or wind the vehicle up and return the trust.
What happens if Catalyst 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 Catalyst 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. 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.
What tickers does Catalyst Acquisition Corp. trade under?
Class A shares trade as CATL on Nasdaq, the units as CATLU, with rights as CATLR. Units trade first and separate into their component securities roughly 52 days after the IPO; only the Class A shares carry the redemption right against the trust.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Catalyst 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 Catalyst Acquisition Corp.'s founder shares and warrants create?
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 Catalyst Acquisition Corp., and what is their track record?
Catalyst Sponsor LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Catalyst franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Catalyst Acquisition Corp. IPO?
Santander. Santander was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Catalyst Acquisition Corp. tradeable, and where?
Yes. CATL returned a live quote of $9.79 on Nasdaq. Quotes here are delayed and refreshed on a schedule rather than streamed, so treat the figure as indicative and confirm on your own venue. Units and warrants trade under their own symbols and are quoted separately.
Is Catalyst Acquisition Corp. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Catalyst 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 Catalyst Acquisition Corp. data come from?
Filings Catalyst Acquisition Corp. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0002104391: 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.
Compiled by the SPACListing research desk
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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