Company: CRCL
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001193125-25-070481
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Company: Circle Internet Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-01
Form: S-1
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Other transactions On September 21, 2023, one of our subsidiaries entered into an agreement to purchase 240,000 of our common shares at $25.09 per share from M. Michele Burns, a member of our board of directors, to cover the tax liability arising from the exercise of her stock options. On November 7, 2022, we entered into an agreement to invest $0.3 million into a startup focused on consumer interaction with the digital economy, in return for equity under a simple agreement for future equity and token warrants. On February 19, 2025, the startup closed a preferred equity financing round, in connection with which our simple agreement for future equity converted into shares of preferred stock in the startup. Sean Neville, a member of our board of directors, is the founder and chief executive officer and owns 40% of this company. Additionally, Bradley Horowitz, a current member of our board of directors, is a minority investor in the company, and Anita Sands, a member of our board of directors at the time of our initial investment, is a minority investor in and strategic advisor to this company. On October 7, 2022, we entered into an agreement to invest $0.3 million in the Series A funding of a startup focused on building an integrated platform that deconstructs loan documents into digital data. Jeremy Fox-Geen, one of our executive officers, is the domestic partner to the founder and chief executive officer of this company. 193

Indemnification agreements

We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. These agreements provide that we will hold harmless and indemnify each
indemnitee against all expenses and losses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her by reason of the fact that he or she is or was our director, officer, employee, or agent, or is or was serving at our request as a director, officer, employee,
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law.

Policy concerning related-party transactions

Our board of directors has
adopted a written policy for the review of any transaction, arrangement, or relationship (or any series of similar transactions, arrangements, or relationships) or any proposed transaction, arrangement, or relationship, in which we are or will be a
participant and in which a related party has or will have a direct or indirect material interest and the aggregate