GigCapital8 (GIW)
Blank-check company pursuing a high-technology business combination.
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Identifies and pursues a business combination with a high-technology target, using IPO trust proceeds and potential financing rather than operating revenue. The pre-combination business depends on completing a transaction through shareholder, exchange, regulatory, and financing processes.
Operates as a Nasdaq-listed blank-check company formed to identify and complete an initial business combination rather than sell products or generate customer revenue. Its global search focuses on high-technology targets in aerospace and defense services, cybersecurity and secured communications, quantum-based command-and-control systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
Sources candidates through networks of its sponsor, management, advisers, entrepreneurs, intermediaries, and investment funds; evaluates financial performance, strategic fit, products, services, and potential synergies; then negotiates a transaction. A non-binding letter of intent proposes a combination with Quantisimo, a planned trusted-quantum platform, but no definitive agreement or finalized contributed-asset schedule has been disclosed. Completion remains subject to shareholder, exchange, regulatory, and financing processes within a 24-month window.
Company facts
No analyst consensus on record.
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Balance sheet, Jun 30, 2026Cash & short-term investments $716.1K · Total debt $0 · Total assets $260.7M · Shareholders' equity $260.6M
- Revenue
- $0
- Operating income
- −$289.4K
- Net income
- $610.1K
No dividends on record.
| Institutions53 holders · as of Mar 31, 2026 | 65.00% | 23.71M shares | |
| Otherremainder | 35.00% | 12.77M shares |
36.47M company shares as of Sep 3, 2026 · institutions as of Mar 31, 2026 · holders as of their latest filing
Two share counts disagree (36.47M in the company's Sep 3, 2026 report, 25.66M elsewhere); stakes use the report.
This company has 2 share classes; every stake here is a share of the whole company.
Top shareholders13F · 13D/G · Form 4
| Holder | Stake | Shares | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
Glazer Capital, LLCInstitution | 5.93% | 2.16M A | 13Fas of Mar 31, 2026 |
AQR Capital Management, LLCInstitution | 4.65% | 1.69M | 13Gfiled Feb 12, 2026 ↗ |
AQR Arbitrage LLCInstitution | 4.64% | 1.69M A | 13Fas of Mar 31, 2026 |
Tenor Capital Management Co., L.P.Institution | 4.11% | 1.50M A | 13Fas of Mar 31, 2026 |
Lynrock Lake LPInstitution | 4.02% | 1.47M | 13Gfiled Feb 17, 2026 ↗ |
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13F — a manager's quarterly holdings · 13D/13G — an ownership statement filed at 5% or more
Insider tradesForm 4
Nothing filed in the last 12 months.
- GigCapital9
Direct sponsor conflict in A&D and high-technology target sourcing.
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| Company | Price | Change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GigCapital8 | $10.17 | +0.10% | $260.7M | 67.5 | — | — | — |
| GigCapital9 | $9.88 | −1.20% | $220.0M | 116.0 | — | — | — |
| Median | 116.0 | — | — | — |