IPCX 8-K
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III (IPCX)
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Item 8.01. Other Events.
As previously reported, on April 28, 2025, Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III (the “Company”) consummated its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 25,300,000 units (the “Units”), including the issuance of 3,300,000 Units as a result of the underwriters’ exercise of their over-allotment option. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”), and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share, subject to adjustment, upon the consummation of the Company's initial business combination. The Units were sold at a price of $10.00 per Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $253,000,000.
Also as previously reported, on April 28, 2025, simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO, the Company completed the private sale (the “Private Placement”) of an aggregate of 740,000 private placement units (the “Private Placement Units”) to Inflection Point Holdings III LLC (the “Sponsor”) and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., as representative of the underwriters (the “Representative”) at a purchase price of $10.00 per Private Placement Unit, generating gross proceeds to the Company of $7,400,000. Of the 740,000 Private Placement Units, the Sponsor purchased 500,000 Private Placements Units and the Representative purchased 240,000 Private Placement Units.
A total of $253,000,000 of the proceeds from the IPO and Private Placement, which amount includes $12,045,000 of the underwriters’ deferred discount, was placed in a U.S.-based trust account maintained by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee.
An audited balance sheet as of April 28, 2025 reflecting receipt of the proceeds upon consummation of the IPO and the Private Placement has been issued by the Company and is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
| (d) | Exhibits |
EXHIBIT INDEX
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 99.1 | Audited Balance Sheet as of April 28, 2025. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III | ||
| By: | /s/ Michael Blitzer | |
| Name: | Michael Blitzer | |
| Title: | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | |
| Dated: May 2, 2025 | ||
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Exhibit 99.1
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
| Page | ||
| Audited Balance Sheet of Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III: | ||
| Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm | F-2 | |
| Balance Sheet as of April 28, 2025 | F-3 | |
| Notes to Financial Statement | F-4 |
F-1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III.
Opinion on the Financial Statement
We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III. (the “Company”) as of April 28, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the financial statement). In our opinion, the financial statement presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of April 28, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
This financial statement is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statement based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statement is free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statement. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ UHY LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2024.
New York, New York
May 2, 2025
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
BALANCE SHEET
APRIL 28, 2025
| ASSETS | ||||
| Current Assets | ||||
| Cash | $ | 2,151,222 | ||
| Prepaid expenses | 33,326 | |||
| Total current assets | 2,184,548 | |||
| Cash held in Trust Account | 253,000,005 | |||
| TOTAL ASSETS | $ | 255,184,553 | ||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | ||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||
| Accrued expenses | $ | 1,863 | ||
| Accrued offering costs | 152,899 | |||
| Promissory note – related party | 187 | |||
| Total current liabilities | 154,949 | |||
| Deferred legal fees | 49,445 | |||
| Deferred underwriting fee payable | 12,045,000 | |||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES | 12,249,394 | |||
| Commitments and Contingencies (Note 6) | ||||
| Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption, 25,300,000 shares at a redemption value of $10.00 per share | 253,000,000 | |||
| SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | ||||
| Preference shares, $0.0001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued or outstanding | — | |||
| Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 500,000,000 shares authorized; 740,000 shares issued and outstanding, excluding 25,300,000 shares subject to possible redemption | 74 | |||
| Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized; 8,433,333 shares issued and outstanding | 844 | |||
| Additional paid-in capital | — | |||
| Accumulated deficit | (10,065,759 | ) | ||
| TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | (10,064,841 | ) | ||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ DEFICIT | $ | 255,184,553 | ||
The accompanying notes are an integral part of this financial statement.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 1 — Organization and Plan of Business Operations
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III (the “Company”) is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company on January 31, 2024. The Company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses (“Business Combination”).
Although the Company is not limited to a particular industry or geographic region for purposes of completing a Business Combination, the Company intends to capitalize on the ability of its management team to identify and combine with a business or businesses that can benefit from its management team’s established global relationships and operating experience. The Company is an early stage and emerging growth company and, as such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with early stage and emerging growth companies.
As of April 28, 2025, the Company had not commenced any operations. All activity for the period from January 31, 2024 (inception) through April 28, 2025 relates to the Company’s formation and the initial public offering (“Initial Public Offering”), which is described below. The Company will not generate any operating revenues until after the completion of a Business Combination, at the earliest. The Company will generate non-operating income in the form of interest and dividend income from the proceeds derived from the Initial Public Offering. The Company has selected December 31 as its fiscal year end.
The Company’s Sponsor is Inflection Point Holdings III LLC (the “Sponsor”).
The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering was declared effective on April 24, 2025. On April 28, 2025, the Company consummated the Initial Public Offering of 25,300,000 units at $10.00 per unit (the “Units” and with respect to the ordinary shares included in the Units, the “Public Shares”), which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option of 3,300,000 Units (see Note 3), generating gross proceeds of $253,000,000. Each Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive one-tenth of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination.
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company consummated the sale of an aggregate of 740,000 units (the “Private Placement Units”), to the Sponsor and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., the representative of the underwriters ("Cantor"), at a price of $10.00 per unit, or $7,400,000 in the aggregate. Of the 740,000 Private Placement Units, the Sponsor purchased 500,000 Private Placement Units and Cantor purchased 240,000 Private Placement Units.
Transaction costs amounted to $17,305,941, consisting of $4,400,000 of cash underwriting fee, $12,045,000 of deferred underwriting fee, and $860,941 of other offering costs.
The Company’s management has broad discretion with respect to the specific application of the net proceeds of the Initial Public Offering and the sale of the Private Placement Units, although substantially all of the net proceeds are intended to be applied generally toward completing a Business Combination. The Company must complete one or more Business Combinations having an aggregate fair market value equal to at least 80% of the net assets held in the Trust Account (as defined below) (excluding the deferred underwriting commissions and taxes paid or payable on the income earned on the Trust Account) at the time of the agreement to enter into the initial Business Combination. The Company will only complete a Business Combination if the post-Business Combination company owns or acquires 50% or more of the issued and outstanding voting securities of the target or otherwise acquires a controlling interest in the target business sufficient for it not to be required to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). There is no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully effect a Business Combination. Upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering on April 28, 2025, an amount of $253,000,000 ($10.00 per Unit) from the net proceeds of the sale of the Units, and a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the Private Placement Units, are held in the trust account (“Trust Account”) and will be initially be invested only in U.S. government treasury obligations with a maturity of 185 days or less or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations; the holding of these assets in this form is intended to be temporary and for the sole purpose of facilitating the intended Business Combination and, may at any time be held as cash or cash items, including in demand deposit accounts at a bank, as determined by the Company, until the earlier of: (i) the completion of a Business Combination and (ii) the distribution of the funds in the Trust Account to the Company’s shareholders, as described below.
The Company will provide its shareholders with the opportunity to redeem all or a portion of their Public Shares in connection with the completion of a Business Combination either (i) in connection with a general meeting called to approve the Business Combination or (ii) without a shareholder vote by means of a tender offer. The decision as to whether the Company will seek shareholder approval of a Business Combination or conduct a tender offer will be made by the Company. The public shareholders will be entitled to redeem their Public Shares for a pro rata portion of the amount held in the Trust Account (initially $10.00 per share), calculated as of two business days prior to the completion of a Business Combination, including interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account (net of amounts withdrawn to fund our working capital requirements, subject to an annual limit of $250,000 (plus the rollover of unused amounts from prior years), and/or to pay for our taxes (any withdrawals to pay for our taxes (which shall exclude any 1% U.S. federal excise tax on stock repurchases under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that is imposed on us, if any) shall not be subject to the $250,000 annual limitation described in the foregoing)) (such withdrawals, “Permitted Withdrawals”).
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 1 — Organization and Plan of Business Operations (cont.)
The Public Shares are recorded at redemption value and classified as temporary equity upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering, in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.”
If the Company seeks shareholder approval, the Company will complete a Business Combination only if it receives an ordinary resolution under Cayman Islands law approving a Business Combination, which requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the Company’s ordinary shares which are represented in person or by proxy and are voted at a general meeting of the Company. If a shareholder vote is not required under applicable law or stock exchange listing requirements and the Company does not decide to hold a shareholder vote for business or other reasons, the Company will, pursuant to its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, conduct the redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and file tender offer documents containing substantially the same information as would be included in a proxy statement with the SEC prior to completing a Business Combination. If the Company seeks shareholder approval in connection with a Business Combination, the Sponsor has agreed to vote its Founder Shares (as defined in Note 5), the Private Placement Shares (as defined in Note 4) and any Public Shares purchased in or after the Initial Public Offering in favor of approving a Business Combination and to waive its redemption rights with respect to any such shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve a Business Combination (subject to applicable law). Cantor has agreed to vote its Private Placement Shares in favor of approving a Business Combination and to waive its redemption rights with respect to such shares in connection with a shareholder vote to approve a Business Combination (subject to applicable law). Additionally, each public shareholder may elect to redeem its Public Shares, without voting, and if they do vote, irrespective of whether they vote for or against a proposed Business Combination.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company seeks shareholder approval of a Business Combination and it does not conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules, the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provides that a public shareholder, together with any affiliate of such shareholder or any other person with whom such shareholder is acting in concert or as a “group” (as defined under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), will be restricted from redeeming its shares with respect to more than an aggregate of 15% of the then-outstanding Public Shares without the Company’s prior written consent.
The Sponsor has agreed (a) to waive its redemption rights with respect to any Founder Shares, Private Placement Shares (as defined in Note 4) and Public Shares held by it in connection with the completion of a Business Combination and (b) not to propose an amendment to the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (i) to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window (as defined below) or (ii) with respect to any other material provision relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial business combination activity, unless the Company provides the public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their Public Shares in conjunction with any such amendment and (iii) to waive its rights to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account with respect to the Founder Shares and Private Placement Units if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination.
The Company will have until the date that is (i) 24 months from the closing of the Initial Public Offering or such earlier liquidation date as the board of directors may approve or (ii) such later date approved by the holders of the Company’s ordinary shares pursuant to an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (such date, the “Completion Window”) to complete a Business Combination. If the Company is unable to complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window, the Company will as promptly as reasonably possible but no more than ten business days thereafter, redeem 100% of the outstanding Public Shares, at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned and not previously released as Permitted Withdrawals (less taxes paid or payable and up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then issued and outstanding Public Shares, which redemption will constitute full and complete payment for the Public Shares and completely extinguish public shareholders’ rights as shareholders (including the right to receive further liquidation or other distributions, if any), subject to its obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 1 — Organization and Plan of Business Operations (cont.)
The Sponsor has agreed to waive its liquidation rights with respect to the Founder Shares and Private Placement Units if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window. However, if the Sponsor acquires Public Shares in or after the Initial Public Offering, such Public Shares will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the Trust Account if the Company fails to complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window. The underwriters have agreed to waive their rights to their deferred underwriting commission (see Note 6) held in the Trust Account in the event the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window and, in such event, such amounts will be included with the funds held in the Trust Account that will be available to fund the redemption of the Public Shares. In the event of such distribution, it is possible that the per share value of the assets remaining available for distribution will be less than the Initial Public Offering price per share ($10.00).
The Sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to the Company, if and to the extent any claims by a third party for services rendered or products sold to the Company, or by a prospective target business with which the Company has entered into a written letter of intent, confidentiality or other similar agreement or Business Combination agreement, reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account to below the lesser of (1) $10.00 per Public Share and (2) the actual amount per Public Share held in the Trust Account as of the date of the liquidation of the Trust Account, if less than $10.00 per Public Share due to reductions in the value of trust assets, less taxes paid or payable. This liability will not apply to any claims by a third party or prospective target business who executed a waiver of any and all rights to the monies held in the Trust Account nor will it apply to any claims under the Company’s indemnity of the underwriters of the Initial Public Offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Moreover, in the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third party, the Sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims. The Company will seek to reduce the possibility that the Sponsor will have to indemnify the Trust Account due to claims of creditors by endeavoring to have all vendors, service providers (other than the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm), prospective target businesses or other entities with which the Company does business, execute agreements with the Company waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to monies held in the Trust Account.
Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying financial statement is presented in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Emerging Growth Company
The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected not to opt out of such extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the financial statement in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statement.
Making estimates requires management to exercise significant judgment. It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statement, which management considered in formulating its estimate, could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events. Accordingly, the actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company had cash of $2,151,222 and did not have any cash equivalents as of April 28, 2025.
Cash Held in Trust Account
As of April 28, 2025, the assets held in the Trust Account, amounting to $253,000,005, were held in cash.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist of a cash account in a financial institution, which, at times, may exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation coverage limit of $250,000. Any loss incurred or a lack of access to such funds could have a significant adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Offering Costs
The Company complies with the requirements of the ASC 340-10-S99 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5A, “Expenses of Offering.” Deferred offering costs consist principally of professional and registration fees that are related to the Initial Public Offering. FASB ASC 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options,” addresses the allocation of proceeds from the issuance of convertible debt into its equity and debt components. The Company applies this guidance to allocate Initial Public Offering proceeds from the Units between Class A ordinary shares and rights, using the residual method by allocating Initial Public Offering proceeds first to assigned value of the rights and then to the Class A ordinary shares. Offering costs allocated to the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption were charged to temporary equity and offering costs allocated to the Public and Private Placement Units were charged to shareholder’s deficit as the Public and Private Placement Units, based on the equity classification of underlying financial instruments.
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes under ASC 740, “Income Taxes” (“ASC 740”), which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement process for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. For those benefits to be recognized, a tax position must be more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. The Company recognizes accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense. There were no unrecognized tax benefits and no amounts accrued for interest and penalties as of April 28, 2025. The Company is currently not aware of any issues under review that could result in significant payments, accruals or material deviation from its position. The Company is subject to income tax examinations by major taxing authorities since inception.
There is currently no taxation imposed on income by the Government of the Cayman Islands. In accordance with Cayman income tax regulations, income taxes are not levied on the Company. Consequently, income taxes are not reflected in the Company’s financial statement. The Company’s management does not expect that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefits will materially change over the next twelve months.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont.)
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The fair value of the Company’s assets and liabilities, which qualify as financial instruments under ASC Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures,” approximates the carrying amounts represented in the accompanying balance sheet, primarily due to their short-term nature.
Share Rights
The Company accounted for the Public and Private Placement Rights issued in connection with the Initial Public Offering and the private placement in accordance with the guidance contained in FASB ASC Topic 815, “Derivatives and Hedging”. Accordingly, the Company evaluated and classified the rights under equity treatment at their assigned value.
Class A Shares Subject to Possible Redemption
The Public Shares contain a redemption feature which allows for the redemption of such Public Shares in connection with the Company’s liquidation, if there is a shareholder vote (A) to modify the substance or timing of the Company's obligation to allow redemption in connection with a Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the Public Shares if the Company does not complete an initial business combination within the completion window or (B) with respect to any other material provisions relating to shareholders’ rights or pre-initial Business Combination activity, or if there is a shareholder vote or tender offer in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination. In accordance with ASC 480-10-S99, the Company classifies Public Shares subject to redemption outside of permanent equity as the redemption provisions are not solely within the control of the Company. The Company recognizes changes in redemption value immediately as they occur and will adjust the carrying value of redeemable shares to equal the redemption value at the end of each reporting period. Immediately upon the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Company recognized the accretion from initial book value to redemption value. The change in the carrying value of redeemable shares will result in charges against additional paid-in capital (to the extent available) and accumulated deficit. Accordingly, as of April 28, 2025, Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption are presented at redemption value as temporary equity, outside of the shareholders’ deficit section of the Company’s balance sheet. As of April 28, 2025, the Class A ordinary shares subject to possible redemption reflected in the balance sheet are reconciled in the following table:
| Gross proceeds | $ | 253,000,000 | ||
| Less: | ||||
| Proceeds allocated to Public Rights | (7,369,890 | ) | ||
| Class A ordinary shares issuance cost | (16,778,066 | ) | ||
| Plus: | ||||
| Accretion of carrying value to redemption value | 24,147,956 | |||
| Class A Ordinary Shares subject to possible redemption, April 28, 2025 | $ | 253,000,000 |
Share-based compensation
The Company records share-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, “Compensation-Share Compensation” (“ASC 718”), guidance to account for its share-based compensation. It defines a fair value-based method of accounting for an employee share option or similar equity instrument. The Company recognizes all forms of share-based payments at their fair value on the grant date, which are based on the estimated number of awards that are ultimately expected to vest. Share-based payments are valued using a Probability Weighted Expected Return Method (“PWERM Model”). Grants of share-based payment awards issued to non-employees for services rendered have been recorded at the fair value of the share-based payment, which is the more readily determinable value. The grants are amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods, which is generally the vesting period. If an award is granted, but vesting does not occur, any previously recognized compensation cost is reversed in the period related to the termination of service. Share-based compensation expenses are included in costs and operating expenses depending on the nature of the services provided in the statement of operations.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures”. The amendments in this ASU require disclosures, on an annual and interim basis, of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), as well as the aggregate amount of other segment items included in the reported measure of segment profit or loss. The ASU requires that a public entity disclose the title and position of the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses the reported measure(s) of segment profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources. Public entities will be required to provide all annual disclosures currently required by Topic 280 in interim periods, and entities with a single reportable segment are required to provide all the disclosures required by the amendments in this ASU and existing segment disclosures in Topic 280. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted ASU 2023-07 on January 31, 2024, date of incorporation.
Management does not believe that any other recently issued, but not yet effective, accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the Company’s financial statement.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 3 — Initial Public Offering
Pursuant to the Initial Public Offering on April 28, 2025, the Company sold 25,300,000 Units, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option in the amount of 3,300,000 Units, at a purchase price of $10.00 per unit. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right (the “Public Right”) to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination.
Note 4 — Private Placement
Simultaneously with the closing of the Initial Public Offering, the Sponsor and Cantor purchased an aggregate of 740,000 Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per Private Placement Units, for an aggregate purchase price of $7,400,000. Each Private Placement Unit consists of one Class A ordinary share (the “Private Placement Shares”), and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial Business Combination (the “Private Placement Rights”). Of those 740,000 Private Placement Units, the Sponsor purchased 500,000 Private Placement Units and Cantor. purchased 240,000 Private Placement Units. The proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units were added to the net proceeds from the Initial Public Offering held in the Trust Account. If the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the Completion Window, the proceeds from the sale of the Private Placement Units held in the Trust Account will be used to fund the redemption of the Public Shares (subject to the requirements of applicable law).
The Private Placement Units are identical to the Units sold in the Initial Public Offering except that, for so long as the Private Placement Units are held by the Sponsor, Cantor. or their permitted transferees, the Private Placement Units (i) may not (including the private placement shares, private placement rights and Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement rights), subject to certain limited exceptions, be transferred, assigned or sold by the holders until 30 days after the completion of the Company’s initial business combination, (ii) each private placement share included in each Private Placement Unit will not have any redemption rights or be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account, (iii) the Private Placement Units (including the private placement shares, private placement rights and Class A ordinary shares underlying the private placement rights) will be entitled to registration rights, (iv) each holder of private placement shares will agree to vote any private placement shares in favor of a proposed initial business combination if the Company seeks shareholder approval for such business combination and in favor of any proposals recommended by the Company’s board of directors in connection with such business combination, and (v) with respect to private placement rights held by Cantor. and/or its designees, will not be convertible more than five years from the commencement of sales in this offering in accordance with FINRA Rule 5110(g)(8). The Private Placement Units will be worthless if the Company does not complete an initial business combination.
Note 5 — Related Party Transactions
Founder Shares
On February 5, 2024, the Sponsor made a capital contribution of $25,000, or approximately $0.004 per share, to cover certain of our offering and formation costs in exchange for 5,750,000 Class B ordinary shares (the “Founder Shares”). Subsequently on October 10, 2024, the Company effected a share capitalization of 1,916,667 Class B ordinary shares, as a result of which the Sponsor owned 7,666,667 Founder Shares. On November 18, 2024, the Company effected a share capitalization of 766,667 Class B ordinary shares, as a result of which the Sponsor owns 8,433,333 Founder Shares for which it paid approximately $0.003 per share. The share capitalizations are disclosed as retroactive adjustments. The Founder Shares include an aggregate of up to 1,100,000 shares subject to forfeiture by the Sponsor to the extent that the underwriters’ over-allotment is not exercised in full or in part, so that the number of Founder Shares collectively represents 25% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares upon the completion of the Initial Public Offering (excluding the Private Placement Units). As a result of the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriter, the 1,100,000 Founder Shares are no longer subject to forfeiture.
In April 2025, the Sponsor sold membership interests equivalent to an aggregate of 340,000 Class B ordinary shares to four independent director nominees for approximately $0.003 per share. The sale of the Founders Shares to the Company’s independent directors is in the scope of FASB ASC Topic 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation” (“ASC 718”). Under ASC 718, stock-based compensation associated with equity-classified awards is measured at fair value upon the grant date. The fair value of the 340,000 shares granted to the Company’s independent directors was $775,892 or $2.29 per share. Also, in April 2025, the Sponsor sold membership interests equivalent to an aggregate of 791,382 Class B ordinary shares to three officers for approximately $0.003 per share. The fair value of the 791,382 shares granted to the Company’s officers was $1,805,962 or $2.29 per share. Such amount has been recorded as compensation expense on April 2, 2025, the date the shares were granted, as there are no service restrictions. The valuation was derived using PWERM model in which the expected share price at the initial Business Combination close is $9.709, the likelihood of the Initial Public Offering was 80%, the likelihood of a Business Combination was 30% and the applied Discount for Lack of Marketability (DLOM) was 1.8%.
The Sponsor has agreed not to transfer, assign or sell any of the founder shares and any Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion thereof until the earlier to occur of: (i) 180 days after the completion of the initial Business Combination or (ii) the date on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction after the initial Business Combination that results in all of the shareholders having the right to exchange their Class A ordinary shares for cash, securities or other property.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 5 — Related Party Transactions (cont.)
Promissory Note — Related Party
On October 10, 2024, an affiliate of the Sponsor, Inflection Point Fund I, LP, had agreed to loan the Company up to $300,000 to be used for a portion of the expenses of the Initial Public Offering. The loan was non-interest bearing, unsecured and due at the earlier of December 31, 2025 or the closing of the Initial Public Offering. The Company repaid $184,282 at the closing of the Initial Public Offering. As of April 28, 2025, the Company had $187 outstanding under the promissory note. Borrowings under the note are no longer available.
Services and Indemnification Agreement
Commencing on the date the securities of the Company are first listed on Nasdaq, April 25, 2025, the Company will pay an aggregate of $29,166.66 per month to Inflection Point Asset Management LLC (“IPAM”), an affiliate of the Sponsor and executive officers, for the services of Kevin Shannon, Chief Operating Officer and for office space and administrative services provided to members of our management team. Upon completion of a Business Combination or its liquidation, the Company will cease paying these monthly fees. In addition, the Company, pursuant to the services and indemnification agreement with the Sponsor, IPAM and Kevin Shannon relating to the monthly payment for the services of Kevin Shannon, Chief Operating Officer and for office space and administrative services provided to members of our management team, that the Company will indemnify the Sponsor and IPAM from any claims arising out of or relating to the Initial Public Offering or the Company’s operations or conduct of the Company’s business or any claim against the Sponsor and/or IPAM alleging any expressed or implied management or endorsement by the Sponsor and/or IPAM of any of the Company’s activities or any express or implied association between the Sponsor and/or IPAM, on the one hand, and the Company or any of its other affiliates, on the other hand, which agreement provides that the indemnified parties cannot access the funds held in the Trust Account.
Related Party Loans
In order to finance transaction costs in connection with an intended initial Business Combination, the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of the officers and directors may, but are not obligated to, loan the Company funds as may be required. If the Company completes its initial Business Combination, the Company would repay such loaned amounts. In the event that the initial Business Combination does not close, the Company may use amounts held outside the Trust Account to repay such loaned amounts and funds received from permitted withdrawals but no proceeds from the Trust Account would be used to repay such loaned amounts. Up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into additional Private Placement Units at a price of $10.00 per Unit at the option of the lender. As of April 28, 2025 no such loans were outstanding.
Note 6 — Commitments and Contingencies
Registration Rights
The holders of the Founder Shares, Private Placement Units and shares that may be issued upon conversion of the Working Capital Loans are entitled to registration rights pursuant to a registration rights agreement signed prior to the effective date of the Initial Public Offering requiring the Company to register a sale of any of the securities held by them, including any other securities of the Company acquired by them prior to the consummation of the Company’s initial Business Combination. The holders of these securities will be entitled to make up to three demands, excluding short form demands, that the Company register such securities. In addition, the holders have certain “piggyback” registration rights with respect to registration statements filed subsequent to the completion of a Business Combination. The Company will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any such registration statements.
Risks and Uncertainties
The United States and global markets are experiencing volatility and disruption following the geopolitical instability resulting from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the recent escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict. In response to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (“NATO”) deployed additional military forces to eastern Europe, and the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and other countries have announced various sanctions and restrictive actions against Russia, Belarus and related individuals and entities, including the removal of certain financial institutions from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) payment system. Certain countries, including the United States, have also provided and may continue to provide military aid or other assistance to Ukraine and to Israel, increasing geopolitical tensions among a number of nations. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict and the resulting measures that have been taken, and could be taken in the future, by NATO, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel and its neighboring states and other countries have created global security concerns that could have a lasting impact on regional and global economies. Although the length and impact of the ongoing conflicts are highly unpredictable, they could lead to market disruptions, including significant volatility in commodity prices, credit and capital markets, as well as supply chain interruptions and increased cyberattacks against U.S. companies. Additionally, any resulting sanctions could adversely affect the global economy and financial markets and lead to instability and lack of liquidity in capital markets.
Any of the above mentioned factors, or any other negative impact on the global economy, capital markets or other geopolitical conditions resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the escalation of the Israel-Hamas conflict and subsequent sanctions or related actions, could adversely affect the Company’s search for an initial Business Combination and any target business with which the Company may ultimately consummate an initial Business Combination.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 6 — Commitments and Contingencies (cont.)
Underwriting Agreement
The underwriter had a 45-day option from the date of the Initial Public Offering to purchase up to an additional 3,300,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any. On April 28, 2025, the underwriter fully exercised its over-allotment option. The underwriters was entitled to a cash underwriting discount of $0.20 per unit, or $4,400,000 in the aggregate (whether or not the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units was exercised), which was paid upon closing of the Initial Public Offering.
In addition, the underwriters are entitled to a deferred fee of $0.45 per unit on units other than those sold pursuant to the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units and $0.65 per unit on units sold pursuant to the underwriters’ option to purchase additional units, or $12,045,000 in the aggregate due to the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The deferred fee will become payable to the underwriters from the amounts held in the Trust Account solely in the event that the Company completes a Business Combination, subject to the terms of the underwriting agreement.
Deferred Legal Fees
As of April 28, 2025, the Company had a total of $49,445 of deferred legal fees to be paid to the Company’s Cayman legal advisors upon the consummation of the Business Combination, which is classified as non-current liability in the accompanying balance sheet as of April 28, 2025.
Note 7 — Shareholders’ Deficit
Preference Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 5,000,000 preference shares with a par value of $0.0001. The Company’s board of directors will be authorized to fix the voting rights, if any, designations, powers, preferences, the relative, participating, optional or other special rights and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, applicable to the shares of each series. The board of directors will be able to, without shareholder approval, issue preference shares with voting and other rights that could adversely affect the voting power and other rights of the holders of the ordinary shares and could have anti-takeover effects. At April 28, 2025, there were no preference shares issued or outstanding.
Class A Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 500,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of Class A ordinary shares are entitled to one vote for each share. At April 28, 2025, there were 740,000 Class A ordinary shares issued and outstanding, excluding 25,300,000 shares subject to possible redemption.
Class B Ordinary Shares — The Company is authorized to issue 50,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, with a par value of $0.0001 per share. Holders of the Class B ordinary shares are entitled to one vote for each share. At April 28, 2025, there were 8,433,333 Class B ordinary shares issued and outstanding, of which an aggregate of up to 1,100,000 Founder Shares are subject to forfeiture to the extent that the underwriters’ over-allotment option is not exercised in full or in part so that the number of Founder Shares will equal 25% of the Company’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares after the Initial Public Offering (excluding the Private Placement Units). As a result of the full exercise of the over-allotment option by the underwriter, the 1,100,000 Founder Shares are no longer subject to forfeiture
Prior to the closing of the initial Business Combination, only holders of the Class B ordinary shares will be entitled to vote on continuing the Company in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands (including any special resolution required to amend the constitutional documents of the Company or to adopt new constitutional documents of the Company, in each case, as a result of the Company approving a transfer by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands). On any other matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s shareholders prior to or in connection with the completion of the initial Business Combination, holders of the Class B ordinary shares and holders of the Class A ordinary shares will vote together as a single class, except as required by law.
The Class B ordinary shares will automatically convert into Class A ordinary shares immediately prior to, concurrently with or immediately following the completion of a Business Combination or earlier at the option of the holder on a one-for-one basis, subject to adjustment. In the case that additional Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities are issued or deemed issued in connection with a Business Combination, the number of Class A ordinary shares issuable upon conversion of all Founder Shares will equal, in the aggregate, 25% of the sum of (i) the total number of Class A ordinary shares outstanding (excluding the Private Placement Units and the ordinary shares underlying the rights and after giving effect to any redemptions of Public Shares by public shareholders) after such conversion plus (ii) the sum of the total number of Class A ordinary shares issued, or deemed issued or issuable upon conversion or exercise of any equity-linked securities or rights issued or deemed issued, by the Company in connection with or in relation to the consummation of a Business Combination, excluding any Class A ordinary shares or equity-linked securities exercisable for or convertible into Class A ordinary shares issued, or to be issued, to any seller in a Business Combination and any Private Placement Units issued to the Sponsor, officers or directors upon conversion of Working Capital Loans; provided that such conversion of Founder Shares will never occur on a less than one-for-one basis.
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INFLECTION POINT ACQUISITION CORP. III
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT
APRIL 28, 2025
Note 7 — Shareholders’ Deficit (cont.)
Rights — Except in cases where the Company is not the surviving company in a business combination, each holder of a right will automatically receive one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share upon consummation of the initial Business Combination. The Company will not issue fractional shares in connection with an exchange of rights. Fractional shares will either be rounded down to the nearest whole share or otherwise addressed in accordance with the applicable provisions of Cayman law. In the event the Company is not the surviving company upon completion of the initial business combination, each holder of a Right will be required to affirmatively convert his, her or its rights in order to receive the one-tenth (1/10) of one Class A ordinary share underlying each Right upon consummation of the Business Combination. If the Company is unable to complete the initial Business Combination within the required time period and the Company will redeem the public shares for the funds held in the Trust Account, holders of Rights will not receive any of such funds for their Rights and the Rights will expire worthless.
Note 8 — Fair Value Measurements
The fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities reflects management’s estimate of amounts that the Company would have received in connection with the sale of the assets or paid in connection with the transfer of the liabilities in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. In connection with measuring the fair value of its assets and liabilities, the Company seeks to maximize the use of observable inputs (market data obtained from independent sources) and to minimize the use of unobservable inputs (internal assumptions about how market participants would price assets and liabilities). The following fair value hierarchy is used to classify assets and liabilities based on the observable inputs and unobservable inputs used in order to value the assets and liabilities:
| Level 1: | Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. An active market for an asset or liability is a market in which transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis. |
| Level 2: | Observable inputs other than Level 1 inputs. Examples of Level 2 inputs include quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities and quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in markets that are not active. |
| Level 3: | Unobservable inputs based on assessment of the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. |
The Public Rights have been classified within shareholders’ deficit and will not require remeasurement after issuance. The Public Rights were classified within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy at the measurement dates due to the use of unobservable inputs inherent in assumptions related to the market adjustments as noted below. The following table presents the quantitative information regarding market assumptions used in the valuation of the Public Rights:
| April 28, 2025 | ||||
| Trade price of Unit | $ | 10.00 | ||
| Stock price | $ | 9.709 | ||
| Market adjustment(1) | 30 | % | ||
| Fair value per share right | $ | 0.2913 | ||
| (1) | Market adjustment reflects additional factors not fully captured by low volatility selection, which may include likelihood of business combination occurring, market perception of lack of available or suitable targets, or possible post-acquisition decline of stock price prior to beginning of the exercise period. The adjustment is determined by comparing traded warrant prices to simulated model outputs. |
Note 9 — Subsequent Events
Management has evaluated subsequent events to determine if events or transactions occurred after the balance sheet date up to the date the financial statement was issued. Based upon this review, the Company did not identify any subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statement.
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