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- LightWave Acquisition Corp. LightWave Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company, or special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on January 22, 2025, and headquartered at 14755 Preston Road, Suite 520, Dallas, Texas. The company focuses on effecting a merger, amalgamation, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses, primarily targeting the technology industry while remaining open to other sectors and geographies. It offers no current products or services beyond its SPAC structure, which provides public market exposure to private companies through de-SPAC transactions; each unit comprises one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant, exercisable at $11.50 per share 30 days post-combination and expiring five years thereafter.
LightWave Acquisition Corp. completed its initial public offering on June 25, 2025, raising $215.625 million through the sale of 21,562,500 units at $10.00 per unit on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker LWACU, including full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option led by BTIG, LLC as sole book-running manager and Roberts & Ryan, Inc. as co-manager. Post-IPO on June 26, 2025, its sponsor, LightWave Founders LLC, purchased 606,250 shares at $10.00 per share for $6.06 million, signaling management confidence ahead of the post-IPO quiet period ending in early August 2025. As of September 30, 2025, the company has commenced no operations, holds substantially all IPO proceeds in trust, and filed a notice on August 14, 2025, for delayed 10-Q submission, with no business combination target announced to date.