Company: WLACW
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001493152-25-013808
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Company: Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-09-17
Form: 425
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Filed by Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.

pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933

and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12

under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Subject Company: Willow Lane Acquisition Corp.

Commission File No. 001-42400

Boost Run Holdings, LLC

Date: September 16, 2025

As previously disclosed, on September 15, 2025, Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Willow Lane”), entered into a Business Combination Agreement (the “Business Combination Agreement”) with (i) Boost Run Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Pubco”), (ii) Benchmark Merger Sub I Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco, (iii) Benchmark Merger Sub II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pubco, (iv) Boost Run Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Boost Run”), (v) George Peng, solely in the capacity as the representative from and after the Effective Time (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) for Willow Lane shareholders as of immediately prior to the Effective Time and their successors and assigns (other than the holders of Boost Run’s issued and outstanding membership interests (the “Sellers”)) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Business Combination Agreement, and (vi) Andrew Karos, solely in the capacity as the representative from and after the Effective Time for the Sellers as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (and their successors and assigns) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Business Combination Agreement for a proposed business combination (the “Business Combination”).

The following article was published by Silicon Angle on September 16, 2025, and features a statement by the Chief Executive Officer of Boost Run, Andrew Karos.

GPU cloud startup Boost Run to go public via de-SPAC merger

Mike Wheatley, Silicon ANGLE
September 16

Artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure startup Boost Run LLC said today it’s planning to go public through a de-SPAC merger with the publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., with its shares set to list on the Nasdaq exchange later this month.

The de-SPAC listing process is an alternative to a traditional SPAC merger, which is where investors create a so-called special-purpose acquisition company, raise money from investors through an initial public offering, then use it to acquire a privately held startup. After the acquisition, the two