Company: KITTW
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form Type: DEFA14A
Source: 0001849820-25-000263
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Company: Nauticus Robotics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-28
Form: DEFA14A
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ated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) to increase the number of shares of authorized Common Stock from 625,000,000 to 5,000,000,000.

#### Background
Article IV of our Charter currently authorizes the Company to issue up to 625,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share (“Preferred Stock”). As of October 24, 2025, 6,848,891 shares of Common Stock were issued, including no shares held as treasury shares, with warrants outstanding to purchase up to an aggregate of 60,602 shares of Common Stock, 630,225 shares of Common Stock underlying outstanding convertible term loans, 230,662 shares of Common Stock underlying outstanding convertible debentures, 2,308,536 shares of Common Stock underlying outstanding convertible preferred equity, 1,880 shares of Common Stock underlying stock options under the Company’s equity incentive plan, and 143,133 shares of Common Stock reserved for possible future issuance pursuant to the remaining authorized and unissued stock awards under the Company’s equity incentive plan. The adoption of the proposed Authorized Shares Amendment would provide for an additional 4,375,000,000 authorized shares of Common Stock for future issuance, which would bring the aggregate total of authorized shares of capital stock to 5,010,000,000, composed of 5,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock.

The Authorized Shares Amendment amends and restates the first sentence of Article IV of our Charter in its entirety to read as follows:

The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 5,010,000,000. The total number of shares of Common Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 5,000,000,000, having a par value of $0.0001 per share, and the total number of shares of Preferred Stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is 10,000,000, having a par value of $0.0001 per share.

#### Reasons for Seeking Stockholder Approval
A proposed amendment to our Charter is to ensure that the Company has a sufficient number of authorized shares of our Common Stock for future corporate needs. The additional shares of our Common Stock