SEC Form S-8 filed by Tigo Energy Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 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

TIGO ENERGY, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

655 Campbell Technology Parkway, Suite 150

Campbell, California 95008

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

Tigo Energy, Inc. 2023 Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Bill Roeschlein
Chief Financial Officer

655 Campbell Technology Parkway, Suite 150

Campbell, California 95008

(Name and address of agent for service)

(408) 402-0802

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

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. ☐ 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement is filed by Tigo Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) for the purpose of registering additional shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) under the Company’s 2023 Incentive Plan (the “2023 Incentive Plan”).

The number of shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the 2023 Incentive Plan are subject to automatic increase on the first trading day of each calendar year, beginning with calendar year 2024 by a number of shares of Common Stock equal to three percent (3%) of the total outstanding shares of Common Stock on the last day of the prior calendar year (the “2023 Incentive Plan Evergreen Provision”). Pursuant to the 2023 Incentive Plan Evergreen Provision, the number of shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the 2023 Incentive Plan was increased by 1,824,003 shares effective January 1, 2025. This Registration Statement registers the additional shares available for issuance under the 2023 Incentive Plan as a result of the 2023 Incentive Plan Evergreen Provision.

Pursuant to Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Company’s prior registration statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-273897 and 333-279917) registering shares of the Common Stock under the 2023 Incentive Plan are hereby incorporated by reference herein, and the information required by Part II of Form S-8 is omitted, except as supplemented by the information set forth below.

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.*

Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The Company hereby incorporates by reference in this Registration Statement the following:

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to which this Registration Statement relates, 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 in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing or furnishing of such documents.

Any statement contained herein or in a document, all or a portion of which is 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 herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no information is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement where such information under applicable forms and regulations of the SEC is not deemed to be “filed” under Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, unless the report or filing containing such information indicates that the information therein is to be considered “filed” under the Exchange Act or is to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. 

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 the City of Campbell, State of California on the 20th day of March, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints each of Zvi Alon and Bill Roeschlein, each acting alone, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign this Registration Statement on Form S-8 and all post-effective amendments thereto, of Tigo Energy, Inc., and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other document in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that any such attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, 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 the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.