Company: HVIIR
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001493152-25-019005
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Company: Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form: 425
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<div align='center'>UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 22, 2025

Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. VII

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Cayman                   
 Islands                  |     | 001-42479   |     | 98-1813620         |
| (State                   
 or other jurisdiction of 
 incorporation            
 or organization)         |     | -Commission 
 File Number |     | -IRS Employer      
 Identification No. |

| 195                             
 US Hwy 50, Suite 207            
 Zephyr                          
 Cove, Nevada                    |     | 89448 |
| (Address                        
 of principal executive offices) |     |  -Zip 
  Code |

<div align='center'>(775) 339-1671

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)</div>

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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| ☐ | Pre-commencement                                                                      
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

| Title                                                                                                                                       
 of Each Class                                                                                                                               |     | Trading   
 Symbol(s) |     | Name                                 
 of Each Exchange on Which Registered |
| Class                                                                                                                                       
 A ordinary shares, par value $0.0001 per share                                                                                              |     | HVII      |     | The                                  
 Nasdaq Stock Market LLC              |
| Rights,                                                                                                                                     
 each right entitling