Company: STAA
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form Type: PX14A6G
Source: 0001193125-25-250625
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Company: STAAR SURGICAL CO
Filing Date: 2025-10-27
Form: PX14A6G
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 NOTICE OF EXEMPT SOLICITATION Submitted Pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g) (Amendment No. _)

| 1. | Name of the Registrant: |

STAAR SURGICAL CO

| 2. | Name of Person Relying on Exemption: |

Yunqi Capital Limited

| 3. | Address of Person Relying on Exemption: |

Unit 3703, 37/F, AIA Tower, 183 Electric Road, North Point, Hong Kong

| 4. | Written Materials. The following written material is attached hereto: |

Press release, dated October 25, 2025, attached hereto as Exhibit 1. * * * Written material is submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)(1)promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This is not a solicitation of authority to vote any proxy. Yunqi Capital Limited (together with its affiliates, “Yunqi Capital”) is not asking for your proxy card and will not accept proxy cards if sent. The cost of this filing is being borne entirely by Yunqi Capital. PLEASE NOTE: Yunqi Capital is not asking for your proxy card and cannot accept your proxy card. Please DO NOT send us your proxy card. (Written material follows on next page)

Exhibit 1

Yunqi Capital Issues Letter to STAAR Surgical Board Opposing Adjournment of the Special Meeting and Calling for the Company to Move Beyond the Proposed Merger with Alcon

STAAR Should Not Delay the Inevitable and Should Let Shareholders Vote

Company Should Not Commence a New “Go Shop” Period or Run a Rushed Sales Process

HONG KONG, October 25, 2025 – Yunqi Capital Limited (together with its affiliates and the funds it advises, “Yunqi Capital”), an
investment management firm and 5.1% shareholder of STAAR Surgical Company (“STAAR” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:STAA), today released the following letter to the Board of Directors of STAAR after the decision by STAAR Surgical
and Alcon Inc. (SIX/NYSE:ALC) to adjourn STAAR’s Special Meeting of Stockholders to vote on the proposed sale to Alcon on the terms announced on August 5, 2025.

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