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): September 26, 2025

Star Mountain Lower Middle-Market Capital Corp.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

DELAWARE		814-01399		86-3924884
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification Number)

140 E. 45th Street, 37th Floor

New York, NY 10017

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Zip Code)

(212) 810-9044

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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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
N/A		N/A		N/A

Item 3.02.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

Pursuant to a capital drawdown notice to its investors, Star Mountain Lower Middle-Market Capital Corp. (the “Company”) issued and sold 153,074.024 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), on September 26, 2025, for an aggregate offering price of $3,660,000.00. In addition, the Company issued an additional 2,067.648 shares of Common Stock, as of June 13, 2025.

The sales of Common Stock were made pursuant to subscription agreements entered into by the Company and its investors. Under the terms of the subscription agreements, investors are required to fund drawdowns to purchase shares of Common Stock up to the amount of their respective capital commitments on an as-needed basis with a minimum of eight business days’ prior notice to the funding date.

Each of the sales of Common Stock is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Regulation D thereunder. The Company has not engaged in general solicitation or advertising with regard to the issuance and sale of the Common Stock and has not offered securities to the public in connection with such issuance and sale. The Company relied, in part, upon representations from the investors in the subscription agreements that each investor was an accredited investor as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act.

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.

	Star Mountain Lower Middle-Market Capital Corp.

Dated: September 26, 2025	By:	/s/ Brett A. Hickey
	Name:	Brett A. Hickey
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer

Star Mountain Lower Middle-Market Capital Corp 8-K