---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-017980"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVVC"
cik: "0001495584"
company_name: "Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T09:43:29.808164+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Firsthand Technology Value Fund shareholders reject auditor ratification; directors elected

## Summary
- Directors Greg Burglin and Kevin Landis elected; Burglin received 784,639 for and 2,526,816 withheld; Landis 846,353 for, 2,465,102 withheld.
- Ratification of Tait, Weller & Baker LLP as auditor failed: 2,176,606 for, 2,953,581 against, 29,934 abstain.
- Annual meeting held May 21, 2024; quorum of 5,160,121 shares present from 6,893,056 outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-017980
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVVC
- cik: 0001495584
- company_name: Firsthand Technology Value Fund, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495584/000143774924017980/0001437749-24-017980-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1495584/000143774924017980/sccv20240521_8k.htm

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