Venture Lending & Leasing IX, Inc. 8-K

What Happened Venture Lending & Leasing IX, Inc. announced that at a special shareholder meeting held July 16, 2026, its sole shareholder approved a Plan of Liquidation under which the company will distribute all assets to its sole shareholder, Venture Lending & Leasing IX, LLC, and dissolve. The meeting record date was May 1, 2026; the Fund had 100,000 common shares outstanding, all owned by the LLC. The LLC’s members vote on behalf of the LLC (pass-through voting), and a majority of LLC membership approval was required to approve the proposals.

Key Details

• Meeting date: July 16, 2026; Form 8-K filed July 22, 2026.
• Proposal 1 (approve Plan of Liquidation): 324,066.72 votes FOR, 0 abstain/against — representing 70.45% of 460,000 outstanding LLC Shares.
• Proposal 2 (terminate status as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940): same voting result — 324,066.72 FOR (70.45%).
• The LLC cast 100% of the Fund’s 100,000 common shares in favor of liquidation and BDC termination.

Why It Matters The company will wind down operations: it has approved distributing its assets to the LLC and dissolving, and it will no longer be regulated as a BDC under the 1940 Act. For investors and counterparties, this signals the end of the fund’s operating existence and a transfer of assets to the LLC owners; timelines and amounts for actual distributions were not specified in the 8-K.