---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-013760"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WINV"
cik: "0001854463"
company_name: "WinVest Acquisition Corp."
filed_at: "2025-09-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:32:59.979376+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WinVest stockholders approve extension of business combination deadline to Oct 17, 2025; $511k redeemed

## Summary
- Stockholders approved extending Termination Date from Sept 17 to Oct 17, 2025, with up to five more monthly extensions to March 17, 2026.
- Sponsor provided $180K unsecured promissory note; $30K deposited into trust for first month extension.
- 38,215 Public Shares redeemed at ~$13.37/share, total ~$511K; trust balance reduced to ~$2.94M with 220,036 shares outstanding.
- Charter and Trust Agreement amended; extension provides additional time to complete initial business combination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-013760
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WINV
- cik: 0001854463
- company_name: WinVest Acquisition Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-09-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 5.03, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854463/000149315225013760/0001493152-25-013760-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854463/000149315225013760/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WinVest Acquisition Corp.: Extended the company's termination date from September 17, 2025, up to March 17, 2026, with multi-month extension option without additional stockholder vote (effective 2025-09-16).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-16
  source text: At the Extension Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation," and such amendment, the “Extension Amendment"), to extend the Termination Date from September 17, 2025 (the “Current Termination Date") to the Charter Extension Date, and to allow the Company, without another stockholder vote, to elect to extend the Termination Date on a monthly basis for up to five times by an additional one month (or such shorter period as may be requested by the Sponsor) each time (each, an “Extension") after the Charter Extension Date, by resolution of the Company’s board of directors, if requested by the Sponsor, and upon five days’ advance notice prior to the applicable Termination Date, until March 17, 2026, or a total of up to six months after the Current Termination Date, unless the closing of the Company’s Business Combination shall have occurred prior thereto (the “Exten
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1854463/000149315225013760/0001493152-25-013760-index.htm

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