Company: BOLT
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-054294
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Company: Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: DEF 14A
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 addresses, each proxy should be signed and submitted to ensure that all of your shares will be voted. Instructions on how to attend the meeting webcast, ask questions or vote your shares online are included in the attached Proxy Statement.

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to Be Held on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 electronically via webcast at www.proxydocs.com/BOLT . This Proxy Statement and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 are available free of charge at www.proxydocs.com/BOLT . On behalf of the Board of Directors, thank you for your participation in this important annual process. By Order of the Board of Directors

| William P. QuinnPresident, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and SecretaryRedwood City, California |
| April [ ], 2025                                                                                                   |

You are cordially invited to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders by logging into www.proxydocs.com/BOLT and following the attendance instructions on the website. Whether or not you expect to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, please vote on the internet, by phone or by mail as instructed in these materials, as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the meeting. Even if you have voted by proxy prior to the meeting, you may still attend the meeting online and submit your vote prior to voting being closed at www.proxydocs.com/BOLT . Please note, however, that if you are a beneficial stockholder and hold our stock in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee and you wish to vote at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, you must obtain a proxy issued in your name from that record holder.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THESE PROXY MATERIALS AND VOTING PROCEDURES                                                                             | ​ | ​ |  1 |
| PROPOSAL 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS                                                                                                                   | ​ | ​ |  7 |
| information regarding the board of directors and corporate governance                                                                               |   |   | 10 |
| DIRECTOR COMPENSATION                                                                                                                               |   |   | 17 |
| REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                                                             |   |   | 19 |
| PROPOSAL 2: RATIFICATION OF SELECTION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM                                                              | ​ | ​ | 20 |
| PROPOSAL 3: APPRO