Strive, Inc. filings document the company’s structured finance and asset management business, bitcoin treasury operations, preferred stock structure, and public-company governance. Its 8-K reports disclose business updates such as bitcoin, cash, investment and capital stock balances, dividend actions for the Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, and quarterly operating and financial results.
Strive’s SEC record also includes proxy materials for annual meeting matters, including auditor ratification, and disclosures identifying the company as a Nevada corporation and emerging growth company. Filing subjects include Class A and Class B common stock, SATA preferred stock, advisory activities through Strive Asset Management, LLC, forward-looking risk language, and material-event reporting tied to capital allocation and treasury strategy.
YA II and affiliated entities reported beneficial ownership of 38,576,603 shares of Class A common stock of Strive, Inc., representing 9.9% of the class. The total includes 17,250,000 outstanding Class A shares directly held plus 21,326,603 shares acquirable on exercise of warrants subject to a blocker that prevents exercise above 9.99%. The filing cites a base share count of 364,825,582 common shares outstanding as of September 12, 2025 and a conversion-limit adjusted total of 386,152,185 for calculating the percentage. The reporting persons are affiliated investment vehicles and principals within the Yorkville group; Mark Angelo is named as the individual who makes investment decisions. Signatures are dated October 7, 2025.
Strive, Inc. reported governance changes tied to a leadership transition. On October 5, 2025, Benjamin Werkman resigned from the Board of Directors and its Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees so he can join the company full time as Chief Investment Officer and serve as a board observer. The company states his resignation was not due to any disagreement over operations, policies, or practices.
To fill the resulting board committee vacancies, the Board appointed James Lavish to the Audit Committee, Mahesh Ramakrishnan to the Compensation Committee, and Jonathan Macey to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, effective the same day. The Board also reduced its size to ten directors, aligning the board structure with the new composition.
Matthew Ryan Cole, the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Strive, Inc. (ASST), reported multiple transactions related to Restricted Stock Units and common stock on October 1, 2025 (with one item dated September 12, 2025). Time‑ and performance‑based Restricted Stock Units vested and were settled into 18,459,504 shares of Class B common stock on October 1, 2025. A portion of shares, 7,262,330, were withheld by the company to cover required tax withholding in connection with the settlement. The filing also shows a gift of 3,691,901 Class B shares to a charitable organization controlled by the reporting person and spouse; those shares were transferred without consideration and are no longer beneficially owned by them. The Form 4 notes a prior administrative correction (previously reported as 57,183 RSUs) and explains the conversion mechanics between Class B and Class A shares under the company charter.
Strive, Inc. (ASST) reported insider transactions by CFO and director Benjamin Pham. On 10/01/2025, 1,359,496 Restricted Stock Units settled into Class B Common Stock; 1,359,496 and 212,930 shares of Class B were converted into the same number of Class A shares pursuant to the company’s conversion terms. The filing also shows 534,153 shares withheld to cover tax obligations at $2.5 per share.
Footnotes state the reporting person did not voluntarily sell Class A or Class B shares in connection with these events. Vesting for restricted stock and RSUs follows a 25% first‑anniversary schedule with the remainder vesting quarterly, subject to continued employment.
Brian Logan Beirne, Chief Legal Officer and Director of Strive, Inc. (ASST), reported the settlement of time‑vested restricted stock units into common stock on October 1, 2025. The filing discloses the conversion/settlement of 87,903 RSUs that yielded 87,903 Class A shares and an additional 494,430 RSUs that yielded 494,430 Class A shares, resulting in a reported total of 582,333 Class A shares beneficially owned following the transactions. The filing also shows 228,393 shares of Class B common stock were withheld by the registrant to satisfy tax withholding obligations in connection with RSU settlement. The RSUs originally time‑vested on June 15, 2025, and were settled on the October date; the report states the reporter did not voluntarily sell any shares in these transactions.
Strive, Inc. reports preliminary capital and investment balances as of September 30, 2025. The Company held $108.6 million of cash and cash equivalents and 5,886 bitcoins, which were acquired at an average cost of $116,053 per bitcoin. Through that date, Strive sold 10,993,213 shares of Class A common stock under its at-the-market offering program at an average price of $5.3854 per share, adding to its liquidity.
Strive states it intends to strategically increase cash reserves for potential interest obligations while focusing on issuing a perpetual preferred equity security in 2025. The Company emphasizes that its third-quarter financial closing procedures are not complete and that the figures provided are preliminary, unaudited estimates that may change once full GAAP financial statements and reviews are finalized.
Strive, Inc. filed an 8-K reporting material disclosures tied to its proposed merger with Semler Scientific. The filing lists specific risks that could affect completion and expected benefits of the transaction, including the right of one or both parties to terminate the merger agreement, potential failure to satisfy closing conditions, and pending or possible litigation that could influence the outcome. The company warns that anticipated benefits such as cost savings and strategic gains may not be realized, and highlights risks from implementing Bitcoin treasury strategies, integration challenges, dilution from additional Class A share issuance, customer or employee reactions, and market or macroeconomic factors.
Strive, Inc. filed a current report to provide additional financial information related to its pending all-stock acquisition of Semler Scientific, Inc.. The report states that Strive and Semler previously entered into a Merger Agreement unanimously approved by both boards of directors, with Semler to be acquired by Strive upon specified terms and conditions.
Strive is furnishing Semler’s audited consolidated financial statements for 2023 and 2024, interim unaudited financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2025, and unaudited pro forma combined condensed financial information for the two companies, including a pro forma income statement as if the merger had occurred on January 1, 2024 and a pro forma balance sheet as if it had occurred on June 30, 2025. The report emphasizes that these pro formas are illustrative only and not predictions of future results.
The filing also notes that Strive plans to file a Form S-4 registration statement to register Class A common stock to be issued in the merger, which will include an information statement/proxy statement/prospectus for Semler stockholders, and urges Semler investors to review those materials when available before making any voting or investment decisions.
Strive, Inc. received a joint Schedule 13G disclosing that Graham-related reporting persons and Kenneth Tropin beneficially own a combined 37,037,038 shares of Class A common stock, representing 9.66% of the outstanding class on a basis that assumes exercise of warrants for 18,518,519 shares. The filing breaks ownership across entities: Graham Macro Strategic Ltd. holds 15,740,741 shares (plus warrants for the same amount), Graham Credit Opportunities Ltd. holds 2,777,778 shares (plus identical warrants), and the aggregate positions are reported as shared voting and dispositive power. The filers certify the holdings were not acquired to influence control. The statement lists issuer headquarters in Dallas and is signed on September 22, 2025 by authorized parties.
Benjamin Werkman, identified as a director of Strive, Inc. (ASST), submitted an initial Form 3 reporting that he does not beneficially own any securities of the issuer. The filing indicates it is an initial ownership statement under Section 16 and includes a power of attorney exhibit. The form was signed by an attorney-in-fact on behalf of the reporting person, and no non-derivative or derivative securities are listed on the statement.