Company: VLDXW
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-047760
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Company: Velo3D, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 are lighter, stronger, and more reliable than those manufactured with traditional technologies. Our customers also expect AM solutions to drive lower costs for low-volume parts and substantially shorter lead times. However, many of our customers have found that legacy AM technologies failed to produce the required designs for the high-value metal parts and assemblies that our customers wanted to produce with AM. As a result, other AM solutions often require that parts be redesigned so that they can be produced and frequently incur performance losses for high-value applications.

In contrast, our technology can deliver complex high value metal parts with the design advantages, lower costs and faster lead times associated with AM, and generally avoids the need to redesign the parts. As a result, our customers have increasingly adopted our technology into their design and production processes. We believe our value is reflected in our sales patterns, as most customers purchase a single machine to validate our technology and purchase additional systems over time as they embed our technology in their product roadmap and manufacturing infrastructure. We consider this approach a “land and expand” strategy, oriented around a demonstration of our value proposition followed by increasing penetration with key customers.

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Recent Developments 

Recent Debt and Equity Transactions and Change in Majority Ownership

Notwithstanding the recent debt and equity transactions, as described in “—Liquidity and Capital Resources” and in Note 1 Description of Business and Basis of Presentation—Going Concern, Financial Condition and Liquidity and Capital Resources in the notes to the audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report, there continues to be a substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. We do not have sufficient liquidity to meet our operating needs and satisfy our obligations for at least the next 12 months.

In December 2023, our Board of Directors commenced a strategic business review process to explore alternatives in order to maximize stockholder value. The potential strategic alternatives explored or evaluated by our Board of Directors included a potential merger, business combination or sale. The Company's strategic review was concluded on December 24, 2024 at the close of the debt for equity exchange transaction described below

On December 9, 2024, Arrayed Notes Acquisition Corp. ("Arrayed"), a subsidiary of Arrayed Additive, Inc. purchased the Senior Secured Notes due 2026 from High Trail Investments ON LLC and HB SPV I Master Sub LLC, the Note Holders. Furthermore, on December 9, 2024, the Company and the Note Holders entered into a forbearance agreement where the Note Holders forbore