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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001880613-25-000129"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRCT"
cik: "0001880613"
company_name: "Direct Digital Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:25:35.576948+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Direct Digital ups equity facility to $100M; amends credit to allow preferred-to-common exchange

## Summary
- Increased equity facility with New Circle from $20M to $100M; $50k fee per $5M drawn plus 100,000-share upsize fee.
- Tenth Amendment enables $35M of Series A Preferred to be exchanged into Class A Common at 20-day VWAP; exit fee of $35M due when preferred is gone, reduced by redemptions.
- Proceeds from equity sales expected to reduce debt and fund working capital; company acknowledges substantial doubt about going concern.
- Credit parties agreed to pay $35M exit fee on preferred, waived if fully redeemed by Dec 31, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001880613-25-000129
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRCT
- cik: 0001880613
- company_name: Direct Digital Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1880613/000188061325000129/0001880613-25-000129-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1880613/000188061325000129/drct-20251024.htm

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