OceanLight Acquisition CorpOCLT
Cash in trust
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Not yet disclosed
Trust per share
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Redemption value
IPO
Aug 2026
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Combination deadline
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Not disclosed
Filings on record
12
Latest Aug 28, 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. Class A shares trade under the ticker OCLT, units under OCLTU. The vehicle is sponsored by OceanLight through OceanLight Capital Sponsor Ltd. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
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.
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 38 SPAC IPOs, book-running 28 of them, and 13.6% 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.
Scores
Recomputed 4m 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
FOMO
ModerateHow much attention is this vehicle attracting right now?
47/100
- Filing activity94
9 in 30 days
- News coverage0
0 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?
40/100
- Lead bank record32
13.6%
- Bank franchise48
38 SPAC mandates
- Stage40
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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.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 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
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. Class A shares trade under the ticker OCLT, units under OCLTU. The vehicle is sponsored by OceanLight through OceanLight Capital Sponsor Ltd. IPO closed, trust funded, no definitive agreement announced.
How much does OceanLight Acquisition Corp hold in trust?
No trust balance has been disclosed in a filing we have indexed for OceanLight Acquisition Corp. For a newly priced IPO this is normal: the figure first appears in the quarterly report after closing.
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. 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, the units as OCLTU. 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. 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 OceanLight Acquisition Corp's founder shares and warrants create?
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, StoneX Financial, Benchmark Company, 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?
Our market-data provider returns no quote for OCLT. That is normal for a vehicle that has not begun trading, has been delisted after a wind-up, or is too thinly traded to carry a two-sided market. The absence of a quote is shown as "not quoted" rather than as a zero.
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.
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Last reconciled Sep 4, 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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