As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 28, 2026
Registration Statement No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Singapore | N/A | |
| (State or incorporation or organization) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
29 Media Cir. #05-22 Singapore |
138565 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) |
Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd.
2026 Equity Incentive Plan
(Full Title of Plan)
Puglisi & Associates
850 Library Avenue, Suite 204
Newark, DE 19711
302-738-6680
(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
with copies to:
Adam Berkaw, Esq.
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
1345 Avenue of the Americas; Suite 1100
New York, New York 10105
Telephone: (212) 370-1300
Fax: (212) 370-7889
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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Registration Statement is being filed by Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. (Company Registration No.: 202537774K) (“we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register the grant of up to 12,774,942 Class A ordinary shares of the Company, with no par value (the “Class A Ordinary Shares”), pursuant to the Company’s 2026 Equity Incentive Plan and comprised of (i) up to 6,375,193 Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon exercise of certain equity stock options currently issued and outstanding, subject to certain vesting provisions; and (ii) up to 6,399,749 Class A Ordinary Shares issuable to directors, certain employees of and consultants to the Company either as share grants, share options or other equity-based incentives, and the subsequent exercise of any share options or other equity-based incentives pursuant to the 2026 Equity Incentive Plan.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item 1. Plan Information
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of this Registration Statement will be sent or given to eligible employees as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended as of the date of this Registration Statement (the “Securities Act”). Such documents are not required to be and are not filed with the Commission either as part of this Registration Statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
Upon written or oral request, any of the documents incorporated by reference in Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement (which documents are incorporated by reference in this Section 10(a) Prospectus), other documents required to be delivered to eligible employees pursuant to Rule 428(b) or additional information about the Offering are available without charge by contacting:
Corporate Secretary
Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd.
24 Fitzwilliam Place
Dublin 2, D02 T2996, Ireland
Attention: Catherine Fitzsimons
+65 6591-8840
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PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
In this Registration Statement, Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. is sometimes referred to as “Registrant,” “we,” “us” or “our.”
Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The Commission allows us to “incorporate by reference” the information we filed with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this Registration Statement, and later information filed with the Commission will update and supersede this information. The following documents and information heretofore filed with the Commission by the Registrant are incorporated herein by reference in this Registration Statement:
| (a) | The Registrant’s Form 8-A12B, which was filed with the Commission on March 19, 2026. |
| (b) | The Registrant’s annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the Commission on April 14, 2026, as amended. |
| (c) | The Registrant’s registration statement on Form 20-F, which was filed with the Commission on March 25, 2026. |
| (c) | The Registrant’s current report on Form 6-K, which was filed with the Commission on May 4, 2026. |
| (e) | The description of the Class A Ordinary Shares contained in Exhibit 2.5 of the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F, filed with the Commission on April 14, 2026, as amended. |
All reports and documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and reports on Form 6-K furnished by the Company to the Commission which indicate that they are incorporated herein by reference on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which de-registers all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part of this Registration Statement from the date of filing or furnishing of such reports and documents.
Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, in an amendment hereto or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed amendment to this Registration Statement or in any document that also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Item 4. Description of Securities.
The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act and accordingly, no information under Item 202 of Regulation S-K is required.
Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
None.
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Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Under Section 172 of the Companies Act 1967 of Singapore ("Singapore Companies Act"), any provision (whether in the constitution, contract with the company or otherwise) which purports to exempt or provides an indemnity for exempting or indemnifying the officers of a company (including directors) against any liability which by law would otherwise attach to them in connection with any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to a company will be void. However, a company is not prohibited from: (a) as provided in Section 172A of the Singapore Companies Act, purchasing and maintaining for an officer of the company insurance against any such liability incurred by him or her in connection with any negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust in relation to the company; or (b) as provided in Section 172B of the Singapore Companies Act, indemnifying an officer of a company against liability incurred by an officer to a person other than the company, except when the indemnity is against (i) any liability of the officer to pay a fine in criminal proceedings or a sum payable to a regulatory authority by way of a penalty in respect of non-compliance of any requirement of a regulatory nature (howsoever arising); or (ii) any liability incurred by the officer (A) in defending criminal proceedings in which he or she is convicted; (B) in defending civil proceedings brought by the company or a related company in which judgment is given against him or her; or (C) in connection with an application for relief under Section 76A(13) or Section 391 of the Singapore Companies Act in which the Singapore courts refuses to grant him or her relief.
Under the Singapore Companies Act, “officer” in relation to a corporation includes (a) any director or secretary of the corporation or a person employed in an executive capacity by the corporation, (b) a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument, and (c) any liquidator of a company appointed in a voluntary winding up, but does not include any receiver who is not also a manager, any receiver and manager appointed by the Singapore court, any liquidator appointed by the Singapore court or by the creditors, or a judicial manager appointed under Part 7 of the Singapore Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.
In cases where an officer is sued by the company, the Singapore Companies Act gives the court the power to relieve officers either wholly or partially from the consequences of their negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust. In order for relief to be obtained, it must be shown that (i) the officer acted reasonably and honestly; and (ii) it is fair, having regard to all the circumstances of the case including those connected with such officer’s appointment, to excuse the officer.
However, Singapore case law has indicated that such relief will not be granted to an officer who has benefited as a result of his or her breach of trust.
Our amended and restated constitution provides that, subject to the provisions of and so far as may be permitted by the Singapore Companies Act and every other legislation for the time being in force concerning companies and affecting our company, every director or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified by it against all costs, charges, losses, expenses and liabilities incurred or to be incurred by him in the execution and discharge of his duties or in relation thereto. In addition, the Company has entered into an indemnification agreement with each of its directors and executive officers that provides for indemnification of that director and/or executive officer against certain claims that arise by reason of their status or service as a director or executive officer. The Company has purchased directors and officers liability insurance to cover its indemnification obligations to its directors and executive officers as well as to cover directly certain claims made against its directors and executive officers.
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Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.
Not applicable.
Item 8. Exhibits.
| * | Filed herewith. |
| + | Indicates a management contract or compensation plan. |
Item 9. Undertakings.
| (a) | The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes: |
| (1) | To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement: |
| (i) | to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933; |
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| (ii) | to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; | |
| (iii) | to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement. |
Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if this Registration Statement is on Form S-8, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
| (2) | That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. | |
| (3) | To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. | |
| (4) | The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this Registration Statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: |
| (i) | Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (§ 230.424 of this chapter); | |
| (ii) | Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant; | |
| (iii) | The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and | |
| (iv) | Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser. |
| (b) | The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
| (c) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Singapore, on May 28, 2026.
| Horizon Quantum Holdings Ltd. | ||
| By: | /s/ Joseph Fitzsimons | |
| Joseph Fitzsimons | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Joseph Fitzsimons and Gregory Gould and each of them acting singly, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him and in his name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign (1) any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and (2) any registration statement or post-effective amendment thereto to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other regulatory authority, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:
| Signature | Capacity | Date | ||
| /s/ Joseph Fitzsimons | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Jospeh Fitzsimons | (Principal Executive Officer) | |||
| /s/ Gregory Gould | Chief Financial Officer | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Gregory Gould | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer) | |||
| /s/ Harry L. You | Director | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Harry L. You | ||||
| /s/ Danielle Lambert | Director | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Danielle Lambert | ||||
| /s/ Jill Turner | Director | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Jill Turner | ||||
| /s/ Peter Oey | Director | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Peter Oey |
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AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned, solely in his capacity as the duly authorized representative of Horizon Quantum Computing Ltd., has signed this registration statement or amendment thereto in the City of Newark, State of Delaware, on May 28, 2026.
| Puglisi & Associates | ||
| By: | /s/ Donald J. Puglisi | |
| Donal J. Puglisi | ||
| Managing Director | ||
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