Quartzsea Acquisition CorpQSEA
Redeem by
Oct 8, 2026passed
Shareholder meeting
Oct 13, 2026
The election deadline is when you must tender to take the trust. Miss it and you hold through whatever the meeting decides. Read from the proxy statement, not assumed from the meeting date.
“two (2) business days prior to the Special Meeting (or October 8, 2026)”
Cash in trust
$74.6M
$74,568,817
Trust per share
—
Redemption value
IPO
Mar 2025
$82.8M raised
Combination deadline
Jun 23, 2026
Deadline passed
Filings on record
76
Latest Oct 19, 2026
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- May 15, 2026
Overview
Quartzsea Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002047455. It completed its initial public offering in Mar 2025, raising $82.8M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker QSEA, units under QSEAU, rights under QSEAR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Blue Jay through Blue Jay Investment LLC. 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 Quartzsea 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
The stated combination deadline of Jun 23, 2026 has passed without a closing in our filing record. Either an extension was approved that we have not yet indexed, or the vehicle is in wind-down. Check the latest proxy statement.
Extension history
Shareholders have already approved 1 extension. Each one opened a redemption window, so the public float and the trust are almost certainly smaller than at IPO, and each typically came with a sponsor contribution that lifts trust per share. A vehicle on its second or third extension is one where the sponsor is paying to keep the search alive.
Rights, not warrants
Each unit carried one right per unit, convertible into one-fifth of a share. A right converts automatically on closing rather than needing to be exercised at a strike, so it is dilution that arrives whatever the share price does — unlike a warrant, which only bites if the stock works. For a holder redeeming at the trust it is worth nothing either way; for one staying in, it is a certain claim rather than an option.
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.
From listing to the date Quartzsea 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.
76 filings in all. 11 in the last three months, against a busiest month of 19.
Scores
Recomputed 27m agoThree readings of Quartzsea 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?
49/100
- Filing activity83
6 in 30 days
- News coverage0
0 stories in 30 days
- Deal freshness65
announced 157 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?
48/100
- Lead bank record34
61.5%
- Bank franchise46
44 SPAC mandates
- Trust scale26
$75M
- 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp
Last 90 daysNothing in the last 90 days that names this vehicle. We attribute a story only when the release carries the ticker or the registered name, so an empty section means no press release or wire story matched — not that nothing was published. The filings below are the primary record either way.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-26-010988
- DEFR14A
DEFR14A
Accession 0001829126-26-010634
- DEFR14A
DEFR14A
Accession 0001829126-26-010575
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001829126-26-010512
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-010281
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001829126-26-010154
- 8-K
Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Item 3.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-009312
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001072613-26-000681
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001104659-26-095334
- SCHEDULE 13G
Beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001628280-26-054435
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001140361-26-028659
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-26-007542
- 8-K
Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
Item 5.07 · Accession 0001829126-26-006786
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-006629
- DEFR14A
DEFR14A
Accession 0001829126-26-006627
- 8-K/A
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-006550
- 8-K
Other events
Item 8.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-006522
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001376474-26-000423
- SCHEDULE 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0001072613-26-000509
- DEFR14A
DEFR14A
Accession 0001829126-26-005913
- DEFR14A
DEFR14A
Accession 0001829126-26-005817
- DEF 14A
Definitive proxy statement
Accession 0001829126-26-005762
- PRE 14A
PRE 14A
Accession 0001829126-26-005378
- 425
Business-combination communication
Accession 0001829126-26-005260
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Regulation FD disclosure
Items 1.01, 7.01, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-005259
- 10-Q
Quarterly report
Accession 0001829126-26-003799
- NT 10-Q
Late quarterly report notification
Accession 0001829126-26-003492
- 10-K/A
10-K/A
Accession 0001829126-26-003289
- 8-K
Entry into a material definitive agreement; Termination of a material definitive agreement
Items 1.01, 1.02, 9.01 · Accession 0001829126-26-002461
- 10-K
Annual report
Accession 0001829126-26-002326
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Quartzsea Acquisition Corp: questions answered
What is Quartzsea Acquisition Corp (QSEA)?
Quartzsea Acquisition Corp is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Cayman Islands and registered with the SEC under CIK 0002047455. It completed its initial public offering in Mar 2025, raising $82.8M in gross proceeds and listing on Nasdaq. Class A shares trade under the ticker QSEA, units under QSEAU, rights under QSEAR on Nasdaq. The vehicle is sponsored by Blue Jay through Blue Jay Investment LLC. The mandate targets generalist. Definitive business-combination agreement signed, closing pending.
How much does Quartzsea Acquisition Corp hold in trust?
Approximately $74,568,817, 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp complete a merger?
By Jun 23, 2026, after 1 shareholder-approved extension. 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 Quartzsea 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 Quartzsea 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp trade under?
Class A shares trade as QSEA on Nasdaq, the units as QSEAU, with rights as QSEAR. 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 Quartzsea 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 Quartzsea 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp, and what is their track record?
Blue Jay Investment LLC is the sponsor entity, part of the Blue Jay franchise. This is the only vehicle we have attributed to that sponsor.
Which banks underwrote the Quartzsea Acquisition Corp IPO?
SPAC Advisory Partners, 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp tradeable, and where?
Yes. QSEA returned a live quote of $10.74 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Quartzsea 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 Quartzsea Acquisition Corp data come from?
Filings Quartzsea Acquisition Corp submitted to the SEC under CIK 0002047455: 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 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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