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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 11, 2023

 

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter) 

 

 

 

Aterian, Inc.
350 Springfield Avenue, Suite 200

 

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

(347) 676-1681
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former Name, or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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Aterian, Inc. (the “Company”) reconvened its adjourned Annual Meeting of Stockholders on August 11, 2023 (the “Annual Meeting”). The purpose of the Annual Meeting was described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 2, 2023 and the supplement to the proxy statement filed with the SEC by the Company on June 30, 2023 (together, the “Proxy Statement”). Of the 81,625,501 shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding as of May 17, 2023 (the “Record Date”), 34,189,455 shares, or 41.88% were represented in person or by proxy, which total constituted a quorum of the issued and outstanding shares as of the Record Date.

 

Set forth below is a brief description of the matters voted upon at the Annual Meeting and the voting results with respect to such matters.

 

Proposal No. 1: To approve the election of Bari A. Harlam and William Kurtz as Class I Directors to serve until our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

 

Proposal No. 2: To grant discretionary authority to our Board to (A) amend our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to effect one or more consolidations of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), pursuant to which the shares of Common Stock would be combined and reclassified at ratios within the range from 1-for-2 up to 1-for-30 (the “Reverse Stock Split”) and (B) determine whether to arrange for the disposition of fractional interests by stockholders entitled thereto, to pay in cash the fair value of fractions of a share of Common Stock as of the time when those entitled to receive such fractions are determined, or to entitle stockholders to receive from our transfer agent, in lieu of any fractional share, the number of shares of Common Stock rounded up to the next whole number, and to amend our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in connection therewith, provided that any Reverse Stock Split must be completed on or before the day immediately prior to the date of the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

 

Proposal No. 4: To ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 203.

 

 

 

 

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.