GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

            1521 WESTBRANCH DRIVE, SUITE 100

            McLEAN, VA 22102

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Proxy Card For Common Stockholders

VOTE BY INTERNET

Before The Meeting - Go to www.proxyvote.com or scan the QR Barcode above

Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information. Vote by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form.

During The Meeting - Go to  www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GAIN2023SM

You may attend the meeting via the Internet and vote during the meeting. Have the information that is printed in the box marked by the arrow available and follow the instructions.

VOTE BY PHONE - 1-800-690-6903

Use any touch-tone telephone to transmit your voting instructions. Vote by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time the day before the cut-off date or meeting date. Have your proxy card in hand when you call and then follow the instructions.

VOTE BY MAIL

Mark, sign and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or return it to Vote Processing, c/o Broadridge, 51 Mercedes Way, Edgewood, NY 11717.

 

 

 

TO VOTE, MARK BLOCKS BELOW IN BLUE OR BLACK INK AS FOLLOWS:

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THIS PROXY CARD IS VALID ONLY WHEN SIGNED AND DATED.                        DETACH AND RETURN THIS PORTION ONLY

 

    GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION            
       
         
     

        

      
       
 

 

        The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposal:   For     Against     Abstain  
 

1.   To approve a new investment advisory agreement between Gladstone Investment Corporation (the “Company”) and Gladstone Management Corporation, the investment adviser to the Company.

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Please sign exactly as your name(s) appear(s) hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary, please give full title as such. Joint owners should each sign personally. All holders must sign. If a corporation or partnership, please sign in full corporate or partnership name by authorized officer.

 

 
                      
 

Signature [PLEASE SIGN WITHIN BOX]

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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting:

The Notice and Proxy Statement and Annual Report are available at www.proxyvote.com.

 

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GLADSTONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION

Special Meeting of Stockholders

[TBD], 2023 – 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time

This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors

The undersigned hereby appoints Rachael Easton and Michael LiCalsi, and each of them acting individually, as attorneys and proxies of the undersigned, with full power of substitution, to vote all of the shares of stock of Gladstone Investment Corporation which the undersigned may be entitled to vote at the 2023 Special Meeting of Stockholders of Gladstone Investment Corporation to be held virtually at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GAIN2023SM, on [TBD], 2023 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time, and at any and all postponements, continuations and adjournments thereof, with all powers that the undersigned would possess if personally present, upon and in respect of the following matters and in accordance with the following instructions, with discretionary authority as to any and all other matters that may properly come before the meeting.

Unless a contrary direction is indicated, this proxy will be voted in favor of the proposal 1 as more specifically described in the proxy statement. If specific instructions are indicated, this proxy will be voted in accordance therewith.

 

Continued and to be signed on reverse side