Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-015868
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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Market Trends and Uncertainties

We anticipate growing demand for our 4SightTM Intelligent Sensing Platform across our two major markets, Automotive and Non-Automotive. We believe this expected growth will enable us to capture market share across both the Automotive and Non-Automotive markets. We plan to pursue opportunities in advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS, autonomous driving, and commercial trucking, while also exploring opportunities in the Non-Automotive market, such as in the railway, security, and intelligent transportation systems, or ITS segments. This diversified approach provides us with multiple opportunities for sustained growth by enabling new applications and product features across a broad range of industries and market segments. However, as our customers continue their R&D projects to commercialize solutions that rely on lidar technology, it is difficult to estimate the timing of ultimate end market demand and customer adoption. In the Automotive market for example, our growth and financial performance will be heavily influenced by our ability to successfully integrate into OEM programs that require years of development, testing, and validation. Because of the size and complexity of these OEM programs, having Tier 1 partnerships should provide a substantial competitive advantage over our competitors given their large scale, mass-production capabilities, and existing OEM relationships held by our Tier 1 partners. If we fail to remain engaged with one or more Tier 1 automotive suppliers, it may have an adverse effect on our business. The markets for lidar are projected to see significant growth in both the near and long-term.

As is common in early-stage companies with limited operating histories, we are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Part II, Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Since inception, we have incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operations and expect to continue incurring losses up to commercialization which means we are dependent upon raising additional capital to provide the cash necessary to continue our ongoing operations. As a result, it remains critical for us to preserve cash and manage spending to extend our liquidity. We also plan to improve our liquidity position through securing additional financing, engaging with partners and OEMs, and executing on our critical milestones. However, successfully raising capital is outside of our control and there can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain additional financing on terms acceptable to us, on a timely basis, or at all.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we raised $11,055 in gross proceeds through share issu