Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001493152-25-029121
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-12-23
Form: S-4
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<div align='center'>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2025</div>

Registration No. 333-

<div align='center'>UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-4REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Cayman                   
 Islands                  |     |                       6770 |     | 99-4813262            |
| (State                   
 or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation            
 or organization)         |     |                   -Primary 
        Standard Industrial 
 Classification Code Number |     | -I.R.S.               
 Employer              
 Identification Number |

<div align='center'>For Co-Registrant, see “Co-Registrants Table” on the following page.

195 US Hwy 50, Suite 207

Zephyr Cove, Nevada 89448

Telephone: (775) 339-1671
(Address, including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Copies to:</div>

| Jeffrey                   
 N. Smith                  
 Michael P. Heinz          
 Sidley Austin LLP         
 One South Dearborn Street 
 Chicago, IL 60603         
 Tel: (312) 853-7000       |     | Jonathan                          
 H. Talcott                        
 E.                                
 Peter Strand                      
 Nelson                            
 Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP   
 101                               
 Constitution Avenue, NW Suite 900 
 Washington,                       
 D.C., 20001                       
 Tel:                              
 (202) 689-2800                    |

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public:As soon as practicable after this registration statement is declared effective and all other conditions to the business combination described in the enclosed proxy statement/prospectus have been satisfied or waived.

If the securities being registered on this Form are being offered in connection with the formation of a holding company and there is compliance with General Instruction G, check the following box: ☐

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering: ☐

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the