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Helix Acquisition Corp. III

For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 31, 2026.

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FY2025 · Filed Mar 31, 2026

HLXC$10.30+0.1%Stored close · as of Nov 6, 2026
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31,2025

OR

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM ________ TO ________

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 001-43069

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Cayman Islands98-1895727
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
Cormorant Asset Management, LP
200 Clarendon Street, 52nd Floor
Boston, MA02116
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:(857) 702-0370

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each classTrading SymbolsName of each exchange on which registered
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per shareHLXCThe Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes☐ No ☒

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer☐Accelerated filer☐Non-accelerated filer☒Smaller reporting company☒
Emerging growth company☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements.☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b).☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes☒ No☐

The registrant’s Class A ordinary shares began trading on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC on January 23, 2026. Accordingly, there was no market value for the registrant’s common equity as of the last business day of the second fiscal quarter of 2025. The aggregate market value of the outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares, other than shares held by persons who may be deemed affiliates of the registrant, computed by reference to the closing price for the Class A Ordinary Shares on March 27, 2026, as reported on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, was $169,270,500.

As of March 30, 2026, there were 17,747,500 of the registrant’s Class A ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value and 4,312,500 of the registrant’s Class B ordinary shares, $0.0001 par value, issued and outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I
Item 1.Business.1
Item 1A.Risk Factors.8
Item 1B.Unresolved Staff Comments.46
Item 1C.Cybersecurity.46
Item 2.Properties.46
Item 3.Legal Proceedings.46
Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures.46
PART II
Item 5.Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Shareholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.47
Item 6.Reserved.47
Item 7.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.48
Item 7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk50
Item 8.Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.50
Item 9.Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.51
Item 9A.Controls and Procedures.51
Item 9B.Other Information.51
Item 9C.Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections.51
Part III
Item 10.Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.52
Item 11.Executive Compensation.60
Item 12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Shareholder Matters.61
Item 13.Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence63
Item 14.Principal Accountant Fees and Services.66
Part IV
Item 15.Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.F-1

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of the statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Form 10-K” or “Annual Report”) may constitute “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our or our management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.

Forward-looking statements in this Annual Report may include, for example, statements about:

●our ability to select an appropriate target business or businesses;
●our ability to complete our initial business combination;
●our expectations around the performance of the prospective target business or businesses;
●our success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, our officers, key employees or directors following our initial business combination;
●our officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses and potentially having conflicts of interest with our business or in approving or consummating our initial business combination;
●our potential ability to obtain additional financing to complete our initial business combination;
●our pool of prospective target businesses;
●the adverse impacts of events that are outside of our control, such as increased geopolitical unrest, pandemic outbreaks (such as COVID-19) and increased volatility in the debt and equity markets, may have on our ability to consummate an initial business combination;
●the ability of our officers and directors to generate a number of potential business combination opportunities;
●our public securities’ potential liquidity and trading;
●the lack of a market for our securities;
●the use of proceeds not held in the trust account or available to us from interest income on the trust account balance;
●certain members of our management team may have economic incentives that differ from those of public shareholders;
●global geopolitical conditions resulting from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and the recent escalation of conflicts in the Middle East;
●the trust account not being subject to claims of third parties; or
●our financial performance following our initial public offering or following our initial business combination.

The forward-looking statements and risk factors contained in this Annual Report are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting us will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described under section of this Annual Report entitled “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

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An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. The occurrence of one or more of the events or circumstances described in the section titled “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” alone or in combination with other events or circumstances, may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. In that event, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment. Such risks include, but are not limited to:

●We are a blank check company with no operating history and no revenues, and you have no basis on which to evaluate our ability to achieve our business objective.
●Our public shareholders may not be afforded an opportunity to vote on our proposed initial business combination, and even if we hold a vote, holders of our founder shares will participate in such vote, which means we may complete our initial business combination even though a majority of our public shareholders do not support such a combination.
●Your only opportunity to affect your investment decision regarding a potential business combination may be limited to the exercise of your right to redeem your shares from us for cash.
●If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our initial shareholders and management team have agreed to vote in favor of such initial business combination, regardless of how our public shareholders vote.
●The ability of our public shareholders to exercise redemption rights with respect to a large number of our shares and the amount of deferred underwriting compensation may not allow us to complete the most desirable business combination or optimize our capital structure, and may substantially dilute your investment in us.
●The requirement that we complete our initial business combination within the completion window may give potential target businesses leverage over us in negotiating a business combination and may limit the time we have in which to conduct due diligence on potential business combination targets, in particular as we approach our dissolution deadline, which could undermine our ability to complete our initial business combination on terms that would produce value for our shareholders.
●Our search for a business combination, and any target business with which we ultimately consummate a business combination, may be materially adversely affected by events that are outside of our control, such as increased geopolitical unrest, pandemic outbreaks (such as COVID-19) and volatility in the debt and equity markets.
●We may not be able to complete our initial business combination within the completion window, in which case we would cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up and we would redeem our public shares and liquidate.
●If we seek shareholder approval of our initial business combination, our Sponsor, initial shareholders, directors, officers, advisors and their affiliates may elect to purchase shares from public shareholders, which may influence a vote on a proposed business combination and reduce the public “float” of our Class A ordinary shares.

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●If a shareholder fails to receive notice of our offer to redeem our Public Shares in connection with our initial business combination, or fails to comply with the procedures for submitting or tendering its shares, such shares may not be redeemed.
●You will not be entitled to protections normally afforded to investors of many other blank check companies.
●Because of our limited resources and the significant competition for business combination opportunities, it may be more difficult for us to complete our initial business combination. If we are unable to complete our initial business combination, our public shareholders may receive only their pro rata portion of the funds in the Trust Account that are available for distribution to public shareholders.
●Past performance by our management team and their affiliates, including investments and transactions in which they have participated and businesses with which they have been associated, may not be indicative of future performance of an investment in the Company.
●You will not have any rights or interests in funds from the Trust Account, except under certain limited circumstances. Therefore, to liquidate your investment, you may be forced to sell your public shares, potentially at a loss.
●Nasdaq may delist our Class A ordinary shares from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors’ ability to make transactions in our securities and subject us to additional trading restrictions.
●The nominal purchase price paid by our Sponsor for the founder shares may result in significant dilution to the implied value of your public shares upon the consummation of our initial business combination.
●Unlike some other similarly structured special purpose acquisition companies, our initial shareholders will receive additional Class A ordinary shares if we issue certain shares to consummate an initial business combination.
●We may be a passive foreign investment company, or “PFIC,” which could result in adverse United States federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors.
●Because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, you may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through the U.S. Federal courts may be limited.

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