# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001835814
**File Stem:** 0001213900-23-012895
**Filing Date:** 2023-2
**Character Count:** 5729
**Document Hash:** 73c2eda6d1466d5972c4de917b54c287
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001213900-23-012895.hdr.sgml**: 20230217

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001213900-23-012895

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20230214

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20230217

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20230217

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Northern Star Investment Corp. IV
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001835814
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** BLANK CHECKS [6770]
- **IRS NUMBER:** 854156787
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0930

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-40135
- **FILM NUMBER:** 23643137

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O GRAUBARD MILLER
- **STREET 2:** 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10174
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (212) 818-8800

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** C/O GRAUBARD MILLER
- **STREET 2:** 405 LEXINGTON AVENUE
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10174

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**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): February 14, 2023**

**NORTHERN STAR INVESTMENT CORP. IV**

**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)**

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| **Delaware** | **001-40135** | **85-4156787** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction** <br> **of Incorporation)** | **(Commission** **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer** <br> **Identification No.)** |

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**c/o Graubard Miller**

**The Chrysler Building**

**405 Lexington Avenue, 44th Floor**

**New York, NY 10174**

**(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)**

**(212) 818-8800**

**(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)**

**Not Applicable**

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)**

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 (*see* General Instruction A.2. below):

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Securities registered pursuant to section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of Each Class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange** **on which registered** |
| **Units, each consisting of one share of Class A Common Stock and one-sixth of one redeemable warrant** | **NSTD.U** | **The New York Stock Exchange** |
| **Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share** | **NSTD** | **The New York Stock Exchange** |
| **Redeemable warrants, exercisable for shares of Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share** | **NSTD WS** | **The New York Stock Exchange** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Directors; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**

On February 14, 2023, the board of directors of Northern Star Investment Corp. IV (the "<u>Company</u>") appointed Howard Yeaton as a Class B director of the Company. Mr. Yeaton will serve on the audit committee, compensation committee and nominating committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Howard Yeaton has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Bark Inc. (NYSE: BARK) since November 2021. Mr. Yeaton has served as the managing principal of Financial Consulting Strategies, LLC, a financial consulting firm, since 2003. From October 2018 to December 2019, Mr. Yeaton served as Chief Executive Officer of Akers Biosciences, Inc., a biotechnology company, now merged with MyMD Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:MYMD) from October 2018 to August 2020, he also served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Akers Biosciences, Inc. From October 2014 to November 2019, Mr. Yeaton served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Propel Media, Inc (OTCMKTS: PROM).

The Company expects to enter into a standard form of indemnification agreement with Mr. Yeaton. Mr. Yeaton has not engaged in any transactions with the Company that are required to be reported pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| Dated: February 17, 2023 | NORTHERN STAR INVESTMENT CORP. IV | NORTHERN STAR INVESTMENT CORP. IV |
|  | By: | /s/ Jonathan Ledecky |
|  |  | Jonathan Ledecky |
|  |  | Chief Operating Officer |

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