# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001672688
**File Stem:** 0001628280-25-030953
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 6114
**Document Hash:** fcffa1b4d2bd70ce28646f25a312c6c6
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001628280-25-030953.hdr.sgml**: 20250612

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001628280-25-030953

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250611

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250612

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250612

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Absci Corp
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001672688
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-COMMERCIAL PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH [8731]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 08 Industrial Applications and Services
- **EIN:** 853383487
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-40646
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251042867

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 18105 SE MILL PLAIN BLVD
- **CITY:** VANCOUVER
- **STATE:** WA
- **ZIP:** 98683
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (360) 949-1041

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 18105 SE MILL PLAIN BLVD
- **CITY:** VANCOUVER
- **STATE:** WA
- **ZIP:** 98683

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** AbSci Corp
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20201026

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** AbSci, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20201026

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** AbSci, LLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20160420

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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): June 11, 2025**

**ABSCI CORPORATION**

**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

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| **Delaware** | **001-40646** | **85-3383487** |
| **(State or other jurisdiction**<br>**of incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br>**File Number)** | **(I.R.S. Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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**18105 SE Mill Plain Blvd**

**Vancouver, WA 98683**

**(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)** 

**(360) 949-1041**

**(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:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

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

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|:---|:---|:---|
| <u>Title of each class</u> | <u>Trading Symbol(s)</u> | <u>Name of each exchange on which registered</u> |
| Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share | ABSI | The Nasdaq Global Select Market |

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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. ☐

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**Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.**

Absci Corporation (the "Company") held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") on June 11, 2025. As of April 15, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 127,548,423 shares of the Company's common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. The Company's stockholders voted on the following matters, which are described in detail in the Company's definitive proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 28, 2025: (i) to elect each of Frans van Houten and Karen McGinnis, CPA, as a Class I member of the Company's board of directors, to serve until the Company's 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until his or her respective successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation or removal ("Proposal I"); and (ii) to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 ("Proposal II").

The Company's stockholders approved the Class I director nominees recommended for election in Proposal I at the Annual Meeting. The Company's stockholders voted for the Class I directors as follows:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **Class I Director Nominees** | **For** | **Withhold** | **Broker<br>Non-Votes** |
| Frans van Houten | 51,405,674 | 15,731,680 | 26,090,975 |
| Karen McGinnis, CPA | 66,582,376 | 554,978 | 26,090,975 |

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The Company's stockholders ratified the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 in Proposal II, with the votes cast as follows:

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;**For** | **Against** | **Abstain** |
| 92,808,027 | 211,676 | 208,626 |

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No other matters were submitted to or voted on by the Company's stockholders at the Annual Meeting.

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**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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|:---|:---|:---|
| | Absci Corporation | Absci Corporation |
| Date: June 11, 2025 | By: | /s/ Sean McClain |
|  |  | Sean McClain |
|  |  | Founder & CEO |

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