- CEO
- Menachem Shalom
- Full Time Employees
- 2
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Investment - Banking & Investment Services
- Address
- 575 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor New York NY United States of America 10017
- IPO Date
- May 28, 2025
- Business
- Kochav Defense Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company whose principal business activity is to effect a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses, with a primary focus on the defense and aerospace industries. Incorporated in the Cayman Islands on January 7, 2025, and headquartered at 575 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, New York 10017, United States, the company does not currently generate revenue from products or services but maintains trust account proceeds from its initial public offering for deployment in a prospective initial business combination. The management team is led by Chief Executive Officer and Director Menachem Shalom, Chief Financial Officer Asaf Yarkoni, and independent directors Doron Dovrat, Yair Ramati, and Gill Zaphrir. In May 2025, Kochav Defense Acquisition Corp. completed its initial public offering of 25.3 million units at $10.00 per unit, raising $253 million including the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, followed by a concurrent private placement of 524,050 units generating approximately $5.2 million; the units began trading on Nasdaq under KCHVU, with separate trading of Class A ordinary shares under KCHV and rights under KCHVR commencing July 21, 2025. SPAC Advisory Partners LLC served as sole book-running manager, with no further mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, or product launches announced as of December 2025.