Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001140361-25-010248
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Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: PREC14A
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<div align='center'>**Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual Meeting**</div>

The Notice of 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, this Proxy Statement, the accompanying WHITE universal proxy card, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 are available free of charge at: [•]. You may also obtain these materials at https://investors.aeye.ai/financial-information/sec-filings or the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at https://www.sec.gov.

Please complete, sign, date and promptly return the enclosed

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universal proxy card in the envelope provided (if you requested a paper copy) or grant a proxy and give voting instructions by Internet, so that you may be represented at the Annual Meeting. Instructions are on your

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universal proxy card or on the voting instruction form provided by your brokerage firm, bank, trustee, or other nominee.

By order of the Board of Directors,

/s/ Andrew S. Hughes

Andrew S. Hughes

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

[•], 2025

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| GENERAL INFORMATION                                                                                                       |     |   1 |
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS                                                                                                        |     |   8 |
| CORPORATE GOVERNANCE                                                                                                      |     |  16 |
| PROPOSAL 1: TO ELECT TWO CLASS I DIRECTORS                                                                                |     |  19 |
| PROPOSAL 2: RATIFICATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF KPMG LLP AS OUR INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM              |     |  20 |
| PROPOSAL 3: APPROVAL OF AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UNDER OUR 2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN |     |  22 |
| AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT                                                                                                    |     |  30 |
| EXECUTIVE OFFICERS                                                                                                        |     |  31 |
| EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION                                                                                                    |     |  32 |
| CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS                                                                      |     |  35 |
| SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT                                                            |     |  36 |
| STOCKHOLDER PROPOSALS FOR