Company: AWRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058702
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Company: AWARE INC /MA/
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. )

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| ☐ |     | Preliminary Proxy Statement                                                     |
| ☐ |     | Confidential, for Use of the Commission only (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2)) |
| ☒ |     | Definitive Proxy Statement                                                      |
| ☐ |     | Definitive Additional Materials                                                 |
| ☐ |     | Soliciting Material Under Rule 14a-12                                           |

AWARE, INC. (Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter) (Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)

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| ☐                                                  |     | Fee paid previously with preliminary materials.                                                    |
| ☐                                                  |     | Fee computed on table in exhibit required b item 25(b) per Exchange Act Rules 14a-6(i)(1) and 0.11 |

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April 25, 2025 Dear Fellow Stockholder: You are cordially invited to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Aware, Inc. ("Aware") to be held at Aware’s corporate office, located at 76 Blanchard Road in Burlington, Massachusetts 01803 on Friday, June 11, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. local time. The attached notice and proxy statement describe the formal business to be transacted at the meeting. We are furnishing proxy materials to our shareholders over the Internet. You may read, print and download our 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders and our Proxy Statement at www.proxydocs.com/AWRE . On April 25, 2025, we mailed our stockholders a notice containing instructions on how to access these materials and how to vote their shares. The notice provides instructions on how you can request a paper copy of these materials by mail, by telephone or by email. If you requested your materials via email, the email contains voting instructions and links to the materials on the Internet