SEC Form S-8 filed by Remitly Global Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 19, 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

REMITLY GLOBAL, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2100

Seattle, WA 98101

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Remitly Global, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan

Remitly Global, Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full titles of the plans)

Matthew Oppenheimer

Chief Executive Officer

Remitly Global, Inc.

1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2100

Seattle, WA 98101

(888) 736-4859

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Saema Somalya

Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer

Remitly Global, Inc.

1111 Third Avenue, Suite 2100

Seattle, WA 98101

(888) 736-4859

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. ☐

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES

PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, Remitly Global, Inc. (the “Registrant”) is filing this Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register 10,026,731 additional shares of common stock under the Registrant’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2,005,346 additional shares of common stock under the Registrant’s 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan pursuant to the provisions of those plans providing for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance under such plans. In accordance with the instructional note of Part I of Form S-8 as promulgated by the Commission, the information specified by Part I of Form S-8 has been omitted from this Registration Statement.

PART II

Information Required in the Registration Statement

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), are incorporated herein by reference:

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment, which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing such documents, except as to specific sections of such documents as set forth therein. This Registration Statement hereby incorporates by reference the contents of the Registrant’s previous registration statements on Form S-8 filed with the Commission on September 23, 2021 (Registration No. 333-259737), March 29, 2022 (Registration No. 333-263958), February 28, 2023 (Registration No. 333-270112), and February 23, 2024 (Registration No. 333-277337) to the extent not superseded hereby. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in any subsequently filed document, which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended 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 the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on this 19th day of February, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Matthew Oppenheimer, Vikas Mehta, and Gail Miller, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with the full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Registration Statement (including post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.