SEC Form S-8 filed by Netcapital Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2025

Registration No. 333-  

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Netcapital Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

2023 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)

Coreen Kraysler

Chief Financial Officer

Netcapital Inc.

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111

(781) 925-1700

(Name, Address, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

With a copy to:

Richard A. Friedman, Esq.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, NY 10012

Telephone: (212) 653-8700

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act..

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 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

This Registration Statement will become effective upon filing in accordance with Rule 462(a) under the Securities Act.

PART I

STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8, relating to the 2023 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”) of Netcapital Inc. (the “Company”), is being filed for the purpose of registering additional securities of the same class as other securities for which a Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Plan has previously been filed and is effective and consists only of those items required by General Instruction E to Form S-8. Accordingly, this Registration Statement incorporates by reference the contents of the (i) Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No.333-271120, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 4, 2023 and (ii) Registration Statement on Form S-8, File No.333-279193, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 8, 2024, by the Company, relating to the Plan (the “Prior Registration Statements”), except for Items 3 and 8, which are being updated by this Registration Statement.

This Registration Statement is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 1,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) that that are being issued as a Restricted Stock Award under the Plan in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c)(4) to Kevin Kilduff to induce him to accept employment with the Registrant as its General Counsel. The Restricted Stock Award will be an Exempt Award (as defined in the Plan) under the Plan by reason of being an award granted as an inducement grant pursuant to NASDAQ Listing Rule 5635(c), as this award is specifically made to induce Mr. Kilduff to become an employee of the Company.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of documents by reference.

The following documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) pursuant to the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated herein by reference:

Item 8. Exhibits.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Boston, Massachusetts on December 8, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint Rich Wheeless and Coreen Kraysler, with full power of substitution, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to act for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file each of the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in order to effectuate the same as fully, to all intents and purposes, as he or she could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or substitutes, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by each of the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.