Company: GROVW
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-020642
Chunk: 3

Company: Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 3
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 the Merger, VGAC II changed its jurisdiction of incorporation from the Cayman Islands to the State of Delaware and changed its name to Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc. (the “Domestication”), a public benefit corporation. On the Closing Date, VGAC II Merger Sub I merged with and into Legacy Grove with Legacy Grove being the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Initial Merger”), and immediately following the Initial Merger, and as part of the same overall transaction as the Initial Merger, Legacy Grove merged with and into VGAC II Merger Sub II, the separate corporate existence of Legacy Grove ceased, and VGAC II Merger Sub II continued as the surviving company and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and changed its name to Grove Collaborative, Inc. (together with the Initial Merger and the Domestication, the “Business Combination”).

#### EXPLANATORY NOTE
We are an “emerging growth company” under applicable federal securities laws and therefore permitted to take advantage of certain reduced public company reporting requirements. As an emerging growth company, we provide in this Proxy Statement the scaled disclosure permitted under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act, including the compensation disclosures required of a “smaller reporting company,” as that term is defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). In addition, as an emerging growth company, we are not required to conduct votes seeking approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers or the frequency with which such votes must be conducted. We may remain an emerging growth company until December 31, 2026, provided that, if we issue more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt before that time or if we have annual gross revenues of $1.235 billion or more in any fiscal year, we will cease to be an emerging growth company as of December 31 of that year.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THESE PROXY MATERIALS AND VOTING

#### Why am I receiving these materials?
Grove has sent you these proxy materials because its board of directors (the “Board”) is soliciting your proxy to vote at the Annual Meeting on June 19, 2025, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and any adjournments or postponements thereof. Grove intends to mail a Notice of