---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-26-009480"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SERV"
cik: "0001832483"
company_name: "Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/"
filed_at: "2026-01-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T06:32:14.767816+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Serve Robotics completes Diligent Robotics acquisition for ~$48M in stock and cash

## Summary
- Aggregate consideration: $29M in common stock (incl. up to $5.3M earnout) plus ~$19M cash for debt adjustment.
- Issued 32,835 shares at $14.3794/share; up to 366,332 earnout shares possible.
- Assumed 1,319,151 RSUs from Diligent; all Diligent options and warrants cancelled.
- Diligent survives as wholly owned subsidiary of Serve Robotics.
- Financial statements and pro forma info to be filed within 71 days.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-26-009480
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SERV
- cik: 0001832483
- company_name: Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/
- filed_at: 2026-01-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832483/000121390026009480/0001213900-26-009480-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832483/000121390026009480/ea0274698-8k_serve.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-26-009480.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: fb8bbbd2f9627c4362bbd152cd33dc6c6828e4d9
  claim: Serve Robotics Inc. /DE/ completed an acquisition involving Diligent Robotics, Inc. for $29.0 million in common stock (including potential earnout of $5.3 million) and approximately $19.0 million in cash paid for debt adjustment (closed 2026-01-27).
  evidence_excerpt: the closing (the “Closing”) of the Transaction consisted of (1) a number of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”) with an aggregate value of $29.0 million, subject to a net debt adjustment, networking capital adjustment and such other adjustments as set forth in the Merger Agreement (which amount includes potential earnout amount
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1832483/000121390026009480/0001213900-26-009480-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.