Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's a pleasure to welcome you to the 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. I am James P. Labe, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the company, and I will be presiding at this meeting. This meeting was called to be held at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time today. It being 10:00 A.M., I will now call the meeting to order pursuant to the bylaws of the company and written notice to all stockholders. At this time, I would like to introduce certain of the key members of our management team and our Board of Directors in attendance today. Sajal Srivastava, our President, Chief Investment Officer, and one of our Directors. Mike Wilhelms, our Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer.
Steven Levinson, our Chief Compliance Officer, and all of our independent directors, including Gilbert E. Ahye, Steven P. Bird, Stephen A. Cassani, Cynthia M. Fornelli, Katherine J. Park, and Kimberly Vogel. Also attending this meeting is Scott Kaufer of Deloitte, our independent auditors. Although Mr. Kaufer, as Deloitte's representative, has indicated that Deloitte does not wish to make a statement, he is available to respond to appropriate questions submitted during the annual meeting. You are participating in this meeting virtually. We're pleased to hold our annual stockholders meeting virtually as we aim to increase access and participation. Stockholders may submit questions at any time during this meeting in the space provided on the virtual meeting screen. Questions from stockholders should pertain to the proposals being considered and otherwise comply with the rules of conduct for the meeting.
Questions submitted by stockholders relating to other matters will be addressed following the meeting at another time, if appropriate. If there are any matters of individual concern to a stockholder, they should be raised after the meeting. Pursuant to the company's bylaws, Mr. Levinson has been appointed to serve as the inspector of the election for this meeting. I request that he file his oath of office with Mr. Wilhelms, who I hereby appoint to serve as the secretary for this meeting for inclusion in the records of the meeting. In terms of the format for today's meeting, we will first conduct the voting on the matters set forth in the company's proxy statement, which was previously mailed to each of the stockholders.
The proxy statement and proxy card, including the notice of annual meeting of stockholders, was first mailed to stockholders of record on or about March ninth, 2026. Mr. Wilhelms, will you please report on the proof of notice of meeting?
Thank you, Jim. I have an affidavit of mailing from Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., certifying as to the giving of notice of this annual meeting and the sending to stockholders of record as of March 9th, 2026, the notice of availability of proxy materials or the notice of annual meeting, proxy statement, and proxy card, which Broadridge commenced distributing to stockholders on March 9th, 2026. I also have a copy of the company's 2025 annual report, which includes financial statements certified by Deloitte. A copy of this annual report was sent or made available to each stockholder entitled to vote at this meeting, and an electronic copy of the annual report is available on the company's website. The notice of meeting and the affidavit of mailing, together with the attachments thereto and the 2025 annual report, will be filed with the records of this meeting.
I would like next to call your attention to the order of business for the meeting. The business to be transacted is to vote on, one, the proposal to elect three Class three directors who will each serve on the company's board of directors until the company's 2029 annual meeting of stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. two, the proposal to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. Mr. Wilhelms and I have each been appointed as a proxy to vote the shares of all stockholders of the company who have previously and properly returned their proxy cards to be voted at this meeting or otherwise properly submitted instructions.
Mr. Wilhelms, will you please present the report on attendance at this meeting so that we can determine whether a quorum is present?
On March nine, 2026, the record date for the annual meeting, there were outstanding and entitled to vote a total of 40,491,145 shares of the Company's common stock. The inspector of election has indicated that of the shares entitled to vote at this annual meeting, there are 27,096,322 shares present in person, by proxy, or by attorney, or approximately 66.9%.
Therefore, a quorum of the stockholders of the company is present at this meeting, and this meeting has been properly convened at 10:00 A.M. on April twenty-ninth, 2026.
Thank you. We will now proceed to vote. I declare the polls open at 10:06 A.M. on April 29, 2026. All TPVG stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting have the ability to do so online. If you are a stockholder entitled to vote and have not yet voted, or if you want to change your previously cast vote, please do so via the website used to access this meeting. Please remember that if you have already voted by proxy, it is not necessary to vote again. After voting has been completed on all matters on the agenda, we will close the polls and the Inspector of Election will provide his preliminary report.
Since no stockholder nominations or proposals were properly filed with the corporate secretary of the company in advance of this meeting, as provided in the company's bylaws, the business of this meeting is limited to the foregoing two matters. The first item of business is to elect three Class three directors who will each serve on the company's board of directors until the company's 2029 annual meeting of stockholders, or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. Information concerning the nominees' principal occupation, their service with the company, and other matters that may be of interest are contained in the proxy statement. On behalf of the board of directors, I confirm that the following persons have been nominated for election by the board of directors as Class three directors, each of whom is currently serving as a director of the company. James P. Labe, Cynthia M.
Fornelli, Katherine J. Park. I hereby declare the nominations closed. The second item of business is to consider and act upon the proposal to ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026. The proposals as to the nomination for election of class three directors of the company and the ratification of the appointment of an independent registered public accounting firm for the company are now presented before this meeting. The polls are about to close. If you have not yet voted, please do so. The polls are now closed. The Inspector of Election has delivered his preliminary report. Mr. Levinson, would you please announce the preliminary results of the voting?
We received 10,389,888 votes for, and 2,693,523 votes withheld from the election of James P. Labe. 9,193,531 votes for, and 3,889,880 votes withheld from the election of Cynthia M. Fornelli, and 9,523,300 votes for, and 3,560,111 votes withheld from the election of Katherine J. Park. Accordingly, each nominee has received the affirmative vote of holders of a plurality of the votes cast in the election of the class three directors at this meeting.
With respect to the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP, we received 24,214,560 votes for, 1,024,317 votes against, and 1,857,445 votes to abstain. Deloitte & Touche LLP has received the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of all the votes cast on this matter at this meeting. These are preliminary tabulations and all votes cast during today's meeting will be included in the final tabulation. It is not anticipated that the votes cast virtually during the meeting today will change the outcome. We will file my final report as the Inspector of Election with the records of this meeting.
We expect to report the results of the voting on Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within 4 business days of this meeting. Accordingly, Mr. Labe, Ms. Fornelli, and Ms. Park, the Class three director nominees have been reelected and the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP has been ratified.
That concludes the formal business at our annual meeting. Mr. Wilhelms, please safeguard the notice of annual meeting of stockholders and proof of mailing thereof, the proxies voted at this meeting, including the ballot cast for the number of shares represented by the proxy committee, and the oath and certificate and report of the Inspector of Election, and maintain them among the records of the company. The meeting is hereby adjourned. We will now answer questions submitted during the annual meeting. If you have a question, please type your question into the Ask a Question field and click Submit. No questions pertaining to the proposals being considered are in the queue. Therefore, on behalf of the board of directors, I want to thank you all for attending our annual meeting. This concludes our meeting. You may now disconnect. That concludes the meeting. Thank you for joining.