OceanLight Acquisition CorpOCLT
Cash in trust
$115M
$115,216,257
Trust per share
$10.02
Redemption value
IPO
Aug 2026
$115M raised
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
21
Latest Oct 2, 2026
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- Sep 30, 2026
Overview
OceanLight Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002137679. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2026, raising $115M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker OCLT, units under OCLTU, warrants under OCLTW, rights under OCLTR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by OceanLight through OceanLight Capital Sponsor Ltd. The mandate targets generalist. Definitive business-combination agreement signed, closing pending.
“We intend to focus our efforts on identifying and completing our initial business combination with a company that aligns with our team's experiences, expertise and network of relationships.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what OceanLight 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.
Trading at a discount to trust
At $9.95 the shares change hands 0.69% below the $10.02 they can be redeemed for. A holder buying here is paid that spread to carry deadline and redemption risk until the vote, and the trust keeps accreting underneath it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.02 per public share, 0.2% 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 4,933,500 shares against 11,500,000 public shares, or 30.0% 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 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
EF Hutton led the offering. It has been named on 44 SPAC IPOs, book-running 32 of them, and 61.5% 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.
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.
21 filings in all. 18 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 9.
Scores
Recomputed 14m agoThree readings of OceanLight 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
Edge
ModerateHow much does the structure protect a holder right now?
36/100
- Discount to trust64
0.69%
- Trust accretion9
$10.02 per share
Edge reads the setup, not the business. A vehicle can score well on protection and still be a poor place to leave money once a deal closes.
FOMO
ElevatedHow much attention is this vehicle attracting right now?
73/100
- Filing activity63
3 in 30 days
- News coverage90
4 stories in 30 days
- News tone80
positive
- Premium to trust36
-0.69%
- Deal freshness96
announced 19 days ago
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?
50/100
- Lead bank record34
61.5%
- Bank franchise46
44 SPAC mandates
- Trust scale35
$115M
- Stage85
definitive agreement signed
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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp
Last 90 days- AIRE Inc. Announces Entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with OceanLight Acquisition CorporationNeutral
Press releaseGlobeNewswire · 20d ago
- AIRE Reveals Entering Into An Agreement And Plan of Merger With OceanLight AcquisitionPositive
Benzinga · 20d ago
News sentiment
PositiveAcross 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- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-26-010750
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001829126-26-010595
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Regulation FD disclosure
Items 1.01, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-010594
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-010007
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001829126-26-009886
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001829126-26-009885
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001829126-26-009884
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001829126-26-009883
- 3
Initial statement of beneficial ownership
Accession 0001829126-26-009880
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001376474-26-000583
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-009426
- SCHEDULE 13D
Beneficial ownership report (activist)
Accession 0001829126-26-009072
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-008909
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 3.02, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-008704
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-26-002583
- 424B4
Final IPO prospectus
Accession 0001829126-26-008478
- CERT
Exchange listing certification
Accession 0001354457-26-000765
- 8-A12B
Registration of securities on an exchange
Accession 0001829126-26-008440
- S-1/A
S-1/A
Accession 0001829126-26-007426
- S-1/A
S-1/A
Accession 0001829126-26-006632
- S-1
Registration statement for the initial public offering
Accession 0001829126-26-006500
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OceanLight Acquisition Corp: questions answered
What is OceanLight Acquisition Corp (OCLT)?
OceanLight Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002137679. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2026, raising $115M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker OCLT, units under OCLTU, warrants under OCLTW, rights under OCLTR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by OceanLight through OceanLight Capital Sponsor Ltd. The mandate targets generalist. Definitive business-combination agreement signed, closing pending.
How much does OceanLight Acquisition Corp hold in trust?
Approximately $115,216,257, or about $10.02 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 OceanLight 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 OceanLight 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 OceanLight 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 $10.02 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.
What tickers does OceanLight Acquisition Corp trade under?
Class A shares trade as OCLT on Nasdaq, the units as OCLTU, and the warrants as OCLTW, with rights as OCLTR. 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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp?
No, and the gap between them is the whole trade. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure of $10.02, being what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at: most recently $9.95, a discount of 0.69% to the redemption value. Quotes on this site are delayed and indicative; confirm on your own venue before trading.
How much dilution do OceanLight Acquisition Corp's founder shares and warrants create?
The founder block is 4,933,500 shares against 11,500,000 public shares, so roughly 30.0% of the combined count sits with the sponsor at nominal cost. Each unit also carried 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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp, and what is their track record?
OceanLight Capital Sponsor Ltd is the sponsor entity, part of the OceanLight franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Ping Zhang.
Which banks underwrote the OceanLight Acquisition Corp IPO?
Polaris Advisory Partners, Benchmark Company, StoneX Financial, EF Hutton. EF Hutton was credited as book-running manager on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is OceanLight Acquisition Corp tradeable, and where?
Yes. OCLT returned a live quote of $9.95 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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. OceanLight 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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp data come from?
Filings OceanLight Acquisition Corp submitted to the SEC under CIK 0002137679: 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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