Company: LIDRW
Filing Date: 2025-01-16
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0000947871-25-000056
Chunk: 5

Company: AEye, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-16
Form: S-1
Chunk 5
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On February 17, 2021, AEye Technologies,
Inc., then known as AEye, Inc. (“AEye Technologies”), entered into the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”)
with CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III, a Delaware corporation (“CF III”), now known as AEye, Inc., and Meliora Merger Sub,
Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of CF III (“Merger Sub”). Based on CF III’s business activities,
it was a “shell company” as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
On August 16, 2021 (the “Closing Date”), CF III closed the business combination (the “Merger,” and together
with the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the “Transactions”) pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and
Merger Sub was merged with and into AEye Technologies with AEye Technologies surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of CF III.
On the Closing Date, and in connection with the closing of the Transactions (the “Closing”), CF III changed its name to AE