Lafayette Digital Acquisition I, a blank check company targeting the technology and finance sectors, filed on Tuesday with the SEC to raise up to $250 million in an initial public offering.
The company plans to raise $250 million by offering 25 million units at $10.00. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and one quarter of one warrant, exercisable at $11.50.
Lafayette Digital Acquisition I is led by CEO Samuel Jernigan IV, the CIO of Lafayette Macro Investors, and a Senior Advisor to the Scroll Foundation, Puffer Foundation, and Liquid Collective. He is joined by CFO Robert Munro, the co-founder, General Partner, COO, CFO, and CCO of Black Pill Capital. The SPAC intends to target businesses in the financial services and technology industries, including blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure and the broader digital-asset ecosystem, financial technology and payments, artificial-intelligence-enabled financial software, encryption and cybersecurity, and enabling compute and hardware.
The Miami, FL-based company was founded in 2025 and plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol ZKPU. BTIG is the sole bookrunner on the deal.
