Perception Capital Corp. III
Cash in trust
$17.9M
$17,853,173
Trust per share
—
Redemption value
IPO
Jul 2021
—
Combination deadline
—
Not disclosed
Filings on record
124
Latest Jun 3, 2025
Overview
Perception Capital Corp. III is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001853580. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by PFTA through PFTA I LP. The mandate targets financial services. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
“we intend to focus on acquiring a business in the FinTech or financial services industries, which may be challenged by various factors.”
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Perception Capital 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.
Warrant coverage
Each unit carried one-third 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
Goldman Sachs led the offering. It has been named on 63 SPAC IPOs, book-running 39 of them, and 4.8% 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- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-25-000485
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-008287
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-24-007688
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001829126-24-007570
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001326389-24-000179
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-24-004960
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001193125-24-255917
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001104659-24-109765
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Items 3.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-005936
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-24-005933
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001829126-24-005555
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-004934
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Submission of matters to a vote of security holders; Other events
Items 1.01, 5.03, 5.07, 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-004612
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001829126-24-004402
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-004401
- DEFA14A
Additional proxy soliciting material
Accession 0001829126-24-004374
- 8-K
Other events
Items 8.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-004373
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001829126-24-004274
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001829126-24-003992
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-24-003569
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001829126-24-003417
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001829126-24-002579
- NT 10-K
Late annual report notification
Accession 0001829126-24-002108
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001172661-24-001596
- SC 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001398344-24-002849
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001315863-24-000229
- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001213900-24-012581
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001829126-24-000892
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Items 1.01, 3.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-24-000891
- SC 13G/A
SC 13G/A
Accession 0001193125-24-030054
Perception Capital Corp. III: questions answered
What is Perception Capital Corp. III?
Perception Capital Corp. III is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001853580. It completed its initial public offering in Jul 2021. The vehicle is sponsored by PFTA through PFTA I LP. The mandate targets financial services. Deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
How much does Perception Capital Corp. III hold in trust?
Approximately $17,853,173, 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 Perception Capital 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 Perception Capital 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 Perception Capital 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. 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 Perception Capital 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 Perception Capital Corp. III's founder shares and warrants create?
Each unit also carried one-third 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 Perception Capital Corp. III, and what is their track record?
PFTA I LP is the sponsor entity, part of the PFTA franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor. Named principals: Adam Felesky.
Which banks underwrote the Perception Capital Corp. III IPO?
Goldman Sachs, BTIG, Scotiabank, SoFi. Goldman Sachs and BTIG were credited as book-running managers on the cover. Syndicate membership and role are read from the prospectus cover and the underwriting section.
Is Perception Capital Corp. III a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Perception Capital 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 Perception Capital Corp. III data come from?
Filings Perception Capital Corp. III submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001853580: 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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