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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-415730"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QNCX"
cik: "0001662774"
company_name: "Quince Therapeutics, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-10-06T20:57:49+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T16:10:51.608791+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Quince Therapeutics stockholders approve 2026 equity plans, charter amendment, and Series C conversion proposals

## Summary
- Stockholders approved the 2026 Equity Incentive Plan with an initial reserve of 821,872 shares plus up to 1,377,845 returning shares, and the 2026 ESPP with 142,045 shares.
- The charter amendment increased authorized common stock from 250,000,000 to 275,000,000 shares and was filed in Delaware on Oct. 6, 2026.
- At the Oct. 6, 2026 special meeting, 611,465 of 1,017,063 outstanding shares, or 60%, were present; all five presented proposals were approved.
- Proposal 1, covering Series C preferred conversion and warrants/options, was approved 180,550 to 5,742, with 162,971 shares excluded; it may result in a change of control under Nasdaq Rule 5635(b).
- The 2026 Plan reserve automatically increases 5% annually from Jan. 1, 2027 through Jan. 1, 2036; the ESPP increases by the lesser of 1% or two times its initial reserve.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-415730
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QNCX
- cik: 0001662774
- company_name: Quince Therapeutics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-10-06T20:57:49+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1662774/000119312526415730/0001193125-26-415730-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1662774/000119312526415730/d115238d8k.htm

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