SEC Form S-8 filed by Varonis Systems Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 30, 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

VARONIS SYSTEMS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Amended and Restated Varonis Systems, Inc. 2023 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
(Full title of the plan)

Yakov Faitelson
Chief Executive Officer and President
Varonis Systems, Inc.
801 Brickell Avenue
Miami, Florida
(877) 292-8767
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Colin Diamond
Shai Marshall
Paul Hastings LLP
200 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10166
(212) 318-6000

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, 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 on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is being filed by Varonis Systems, Inc. (the “Company”) for the purpose of registering 1,880,000 additional shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2023 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the “A&R 2023 Incentive Plan”).

On April 17, 2025, the board of directors of the Company approved an increase of 1,880,000 shares of Common Stock available for issuance under the A&R 2023 Incentive Plan, which was also approved by the stockholders of the Company at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 5, 2025.

Pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the contents of the Company’s prior registration statements on Form S-8 registering shares of Common Stock under the A&R 2023 Incentive Plan filed with the SEC on August 1, 2023 (File No. (File No. 333-273579) and July 30, 2024 (File No. 333-281103) 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 following documents previously filed with the SEC are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:

All documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all securities offered 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 part hereof from the date of filing of such documents with the SEC, except as to any portion of any future current report furnished under Items 2.02 or 7.01 of Form 8-K that is not deemed filed under such provisions.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in any other subsequently filed document that also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement contained in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed document that is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement modifies or supersedes such prior statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

You should rely only on the information provided or incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement or any related prospectus. The Company has not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. You should not assume that the information in this Registration Statement or any related prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front of the document.

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 Miami, State of Florida, on July 30, 2025.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Yakov Faitelson and Guy Melamed, and each of them, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, severally, for them and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, 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 and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

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

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