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accession: "0001641172-25-018393"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DARE"
cik: "0001401914"
company_name: "Dare Bioscience, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T08:52:00.327655+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dare Bioscience shareholders approve 600,000-share increase to 2022 stock plan; re-elect directors

## Summary
- Stockholders re-elected directors Matz, Rastetter, and Steele; each received >2.4M votes for.
- Ratified Haskell & White LLP as independent auditor for FY2025 with 4.5M votes for, 106K against.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved with 2.38M votes for, 243K against.
- Approved amendment increasing shares reserved under 2022 Stock Incentive Plan by 600,000 to 1,383,333.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-018393
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DARE
- cik: 0001401914
- company_name: Dare Bioscience, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401914/000164117225018393/0001641172-25-018393-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1401914/000164117225018393/form8-k.htm

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