- 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. (NASDAQ: KCHVU) is a blank check company incorporated in the Cayman Islands in January 2025 and headquartered at 575 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, New York; the company focuses on effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses, primarily targeting the defense and aerospace industries while remaining open to opportunities in any sector or geography. It offers no current products or services beyond its capital-raising structure, which includes units comprising one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive one-seventh of a Class A ordinary share upon consummation of an initial business combination; separated Class A ordinary shares (KCHV) and rights (KCHVR) began trading separately on Nasdaq in July 2025. In May 2025, the company completed an initial public offering of 25.3 million units at $10.00 per unit, including the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, raising gross proceeds of $253 million, supplemented by a concurrent private placement of 524,050 units for $5.24 million; as of late 2025, certain Class B ordinary shares remain subject to a lock-up agreement expiring in November 2025, with no business combination announced to date.