As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2022

Registration No. 333-        

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

VROOM, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

1375 Broadway, Floor 11

New York, New York 10018

Telephone: (631) 760-1215

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Vroom, Inc. 2020 Incentive Award Plan

(Full Title of the Plan)

Paul J. Hennessy

Chief Executive Officer

Vroom, Inc.

1375 Broadway, Floor 11

New York, New York 10018

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

(631) 760-1215

(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 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 is being filed for the purpose of registering an additional 5,483,716 shares of the common stock of Vroom, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to be issued pursuant to the Vroom, Inc. 2020 Incentive Award Plan (the “2020 EIP”). A Registration Statement of the Registrant on Form S-8 relating to the 2020 EIP is effective.

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF CONTENTS OF

REGISTRATION STATEMENTS ON FORM S-8

Except as set forth below, the contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No.  333-239093), including any amendments thereto, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, relating to the Plans, are incorporated by reference herein.

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 New York, New York, on this 28^th day of February, 2022.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Paul J. Hennessy and Robert R. Krakowiak , or either of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to file and sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to this registration statement, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney shall be governed by and construed with the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable federal securities laws.

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.

Exhibit 5.1

				1271 Avenue of the Americas
				New York, New York 10020-1401
				Tel: +1.212.906.1200     Fax: +1.212.751.4864
				www.lw.com
				FIRM / AFFILIATE OFFICES
				Austin		Moscow
				Beijing		Munich
				Boston		New York
				Brussels		Orange County
				Century City		Paris
February 28, 2022				Chicago		Riyadh
				Dubai		San Diego
				Düsseldorf		San Francisco
				Frankfurt		Seoul
				Hamburg		Shanghai
				Hong Kong		Silicon Valley
				Houston		Singapore
				London		Tel Aviv
				Los Angeles		Tokyo
				Madrid		Washington, D.C.
				Milan
				File No. 049712-0014

Vroom, Inc.

1375 Broadway, Floor 11

New York, New York 10018

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share

To the addressees set forth above:

We have acted as special counsel to Vroom, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of a registration statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), relating to the issuance by the Company of up to an aggregate of 5,483,716 shares of common stock of the Company, $0.001 par value per share (the “Shares”), issuable under the Vroom, Inc. 2020 Incentive Award Plan (the “Plan”). This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement or the prospectus forming a part thereof, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issuance of the Shares.

As such counsel, we have examined such matters of fact and questions of law as we have considered appropriate for purposes of this letter. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company and others as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We are opining herein as to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws.

Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the purchasers, and have been issued by

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the Company for legal consideration in excess of par value in the circumstances contemplated by the Plan, assuming that the individual grants or awards under the Plan are duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and duly granted or awarded and exercised in accordance with the requirements of law and the Plan (and the agreements and awards duly adopted thereunder and in accordance therewith), the issue and sale of the Shares will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and the Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that the Company will comply with all applicable notice requirements regarding uncertificated shares provided in the DGCL.

This opinion is for your benefit in connection with the Registration Statement and may be relied upon by you and by persons entitled to rely upon it pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Act. We consent to your filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Vroom, Inc. of our report dated February 28, 2022 relating to the financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Vroom, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

New York, New York

February 28, 2022

Exhibit 107

CALCULATION OF FILING FEE TABLE

FORM S-8

(Form Type)

VROOM, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table I: Newly Registered Securities