Company: GAINI
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-143255
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Company: GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION\DE
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: DEF 14A
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 stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the Annual Meeting and at any adjournment or postponement thereof. Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting to be held on Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 11:00 a.m., Eastern Time, virtually, in a live webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GAIN2025. The Proxy Statement accompanying this Notice and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 are also available at www.proxyvote.com.

| By Order of the Board of Directors, |
| Michael LiCalsi                     |
| General Counsel and Secretary       |

McLean, Virginia June 20, 2025 All of our stockholders are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting via webcast. Whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting, you are urged to complete, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card as promptly as possible, submit your proxy electronically via the Internet, or by telephone as instructed in these materials. Submitting your proxy or voting instructions promptly will assist us in reducing the expenses of additional proxy solicitation, but it will not affect your right to vote if you attend the Annual Meeting (and, if you are not a stockholder of record, you have obtained a legal proxy from the bank, broker, trustee or other nominee that holds your shares giving you the right to vote the shares at the Annual Meeting).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

| NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 7, 2025                 
 PROXY STATEMENT FOR THE 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS                           |     |  1 |
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| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THIS PROXY MATERIAL AND VOTING                            |     |  1 |
| PROPOSAL 1—ELECTION OF DIRECTORS                                                      |     |  8 |
| INFORMATION REGARDING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE                 |     | 15 |
| PROPOSAL 2—RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM |     | 24 |
| REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS                               |     | 26 |
| SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT                        |     | 27 |
| EXECUTIVE COMP