Company: VLDXW
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060611
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Company: Velo3D, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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<div align='center'>INTERNET AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS</div>

In accordance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, rules, we are using the Internet as our primary means of furnishing proxy materials to stockholders. Consequently, most stockholders will not receive paper copies of our proxy materials. We will instead send these stockholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials with instructions for accessing the proxy materials, including our Proxy Statement and annual report, and voting via the Internet. The Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials also provides information on how stockholders may obtain paper copies of our proxy materials if they so choose. We believe furnishing these materials using the Internet makes the proxy distribution process more efficient, less costly and helps in conserving natural resources.

<div align='center'>GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEETING</div>

Purpose of the Annual Meeting

You are receiving this Proxy Statement because our Board is soliciting your proxy to vote your shares at the Annual Meeting with respect to the proposals described in this Proxy Statement. This Proxy Statement includes information that we are required to provide to you pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC and is designed to assist you in voting your shares.

We intend to ensure that our stockholders are afforded the same rights and opportunities to participate virtually as they would at an in-person meeting. We believe the virtual format makes it easier for stockholders to attend, and participate fully and equally in, the Annual Meeting because they can join with any Internet-connected device from any location around the world at no cost. Our virtual meeting format helps us engage with all stockholders-regardless of size, resources, or physical location, saves us and stockholders’ time and money, and reduces our environmental impact.

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Record Date; Quorum

Only holders of record of our common stock at the close of business on April 29, 2025, or the Record Date, will be entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. At the close of business on the Record Date, we had 210,232,762 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote. At the close of business on the Record Date, our directors and executive officers and their respective affiliates beneficially owned and were entitled to vote 185,219,601 shares of common stock at the Annual Meeting, or approximately 88.1% of the voting power of the shares of our common