- Strive purchased 6,182 bitcoin between October 17 and 23, 2026 at an average price of approximately $82,732 per bitcoin, including fees and expenses
- The purchase raised the company’s total holdings from 36,818 bitcoin as of October 16 to 43,000 bitcoin as of October 23, 2026
- Strive separately filed for a new at-the-market program of up to $1 billion for its 15.00% Series A SATS Preferred Stock, with Cantor Fitzgerald, Barclays and several other firms acting as agents
Strive, the bitcoin treasury company linked to Vivek Ramaswamy that is pending a merger with Semler Scientific, disclosed in an 8-K filed October 26, 2026 that it purchased 6,182 bitcoin between October 17 and October 23, 2026. The company paid an average price of approximately $82,732 per bitcoin for the purchase, inclusive of fees and expenses, a figure that gives a sense of the price environment the company was buying into during that specific week.
The purchase brought Strive’s total bitcoin holdings from 36,818 as of October 16, 2026 up to 43,000 as of October 23, 2026, an increase of roughly 17 percent in a single week. Regularly disclosing bitcoin purchases through 8-K filings has become standard practice among publicly traded bitcoin treasury companies, giving investors a running tally of how aggressively each company is adding to its position and at what approximate cost basis.
Alongside the bitcoin purchase disclosure, Strive filed a separate 8-K the same day establishing a new at-the-market equity program allowing it to sell up to $1 billion of its 15.00% Series A SATS Preferred Stock over time. The filing names Cantor Fitzgerald, Barclays, Clear Street, StoneX, B. Riley, Maxim and H.C. Wainwright as agents for the program, a broad syndicate that suggests the company is setting up significant flexibility to raise capital incrementally as market conditions allow, rather than through a single large offering.
An at-the-market program lets a company sell new shares gradually into the existing public market at prevailing prices, rather than pricing a fixed block of stock all at once, giving the issuer more control over timing and potentially less market impact than a traditional offering. For a company pursuing an aggressive bitcoin accumulation strategy, that kind of flexible funding mechanism can be used to fund further purchases as capital becomes available.
Strive’s pending merger with Semler Scientific remains a separate, ongoing corporate development alongside these bitcoin purchases and financing activities. The bitcoin purchase disclosure is filed on SEC EDGAR.
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