---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-052859"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001389002"
company_name: "MARIN SOFTWARE INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T17:09:14.528914+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Marin Software board approves dissolution plan; 30% workforce reduction with $0.4M severance costs

## Summary
- Board approved Plan of Dissolution and Liquidation, subject to stockholder approval at special meeting in Q2 2025.
- Reduction-in-force of 20 employees (~30% of global workforce) and 9 independent contractors; estimated $0.4M severance costs.
- Company will wind down operations, delist from Nasdaq, pay liabilities, and distribute remaining assets to stockholders.
- Previously disclosed potential asset sale is no longer being pursued; company proceeds directly to dissolution.
- Board reserves right to abandon dissolution even if approved by stockholders if deemed not in best interest.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-052859
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001389002
- company_name: MARIN SOFTWARE INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389002/000095017025052859/0000950170-25-052859-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389002/000095017025052859/mrin-20250409.htm

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## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  MARIN SOFTWARE INC announced a restructuring with charges of between approximately $0.4 million affecting global employees (reduction of the Company’s global employees by 20 employees, representing approximately 30% of the Company’s global empl).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: between approximately $0.4 million
  - Affected area: global employees
  - Headcount: reduction of the Company’s global employees by 20 employees, representing approximately 30% of the Company’s global empl
  source text: to substantially complete the April 2025 Restructuring Plan by the end of the quarter ending June 30, 2025. The Company estimates that it will incur between approximately $0.4 million of cash expenditures in connection with the April 2025 Restructuring Plan, substantially all of which relates to severance costs. The Company expects to recognize the majority of
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389002/000095017025052859/0000950170-25-052859-index.htm

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