---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-035059"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CURI"
cik: "0001776909"
company_name: "CuriosityStream Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:17:00.009927+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CuriosityStream extends CEO Clint Stinchcomb’s contract through 2029 with performance-based equity and cash incentives

## Summary
- Base salary unchanged at $717,000; annual cash bonus targets rise from $1.6M (2025) to $2.8M (2028).
- Award of 2.4M performance-based RSUs with dividend equivalents; vesting on stock price and financial metrics (revenue, adjusted FCF growth).
- Subject to shareholder approval, up to 1.6M additional RSUs based on share price thresholds.
- Agreement auto-renews annually unless terminated on 6 months' notice; effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2029.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-035059
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CURI
- cik: 0001776909
- company_name: CuriosityStream Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1776909/000162828025035059/0001628280-25-035059-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1776909/000162828025035059/curi-20250710.htm

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