EX-10.1





 Exhibit 10.1 

January 11, 2021 
 Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp. 

1345 Avenue of the Americas, 33rd Floor 

New York, NY 10105 
 EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. 

366 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor 

New York, New York 10017 
 Re: Initial Public
Offering 
 Gentlemen: 
 This letter
agreement is being delivered to you in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) entered into by and between Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), and EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. as representative (the “Representative”) of the underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the “Underwriters”), relating to an
underwritten initial public offering (the “IPO”) of the Company’s units (the “Units”), each comprised of one share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the
“Common Stock”), and one-half of one warrant, each whole warrant exercisable for one (1) share of Common Stock (each, a “Warrant”). Certain capitalized
terms used herein are defined in Section 12 hereof. 
 In order to induce the Company and the Underwriters to
enter into the Underwriting Agreement and to proceed with the IPO, and in recognition of the benefit that such IPO will confer upon the undersigned, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the undersigned hereby agrees with the Company as follows: 
 1. If the Company solicits approval of its stockholders of a
Business Combination, the undersigned will vote all shares of Common Stock (including (a) the Founders’ Common Stock and (b) the Private Shares) beneficially owned by him/her/it, whether acquired before, in or after the IPO, in favor
of such Business Combination. 
 2. In the event that the Company fails to consummate a Business Combination within the time period set forth
in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), the undersigned will, as promptly as possible, cause the Company to
(a) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up, (b) as promptly as reasonably possible, but not more than ten (10) business days thereafter, redeem the IPO Shares, at a per-share
price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the Trust Account, including interest earned on the Trust Account net of interest released to the Company as permitted pursuant to the Trust Agreement (less any income or other
taxes payable and less up to $100,000 of interest to pay dissolution expenses), divided by the number of then outstanding IPO Shares, which redemption will completely extinguish public 












 
stockholders’ rights as stockholders (including the right to receive further liquidation distributions, if any), subject to applicable law, and (c) as promptly as reasonably possible
following such redemption, subject to the approval of the Company’s remaining stockholders and the Company’s board of directors, dissolve and liquidate, subject in the cases of clauses (b) and (c) to the Company’s obligations
under Delaware law to provide for claims of creditors and other requirements of applicable law. The undersigned hereby waives any and all right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any distribution of the Trust Account
(“Claim”) with respect to the shares of Founders’ Common Stock and Private Shares owned by the undersigned and hereby waives any Claim the undersigned may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any
contracts or agreements with the Company and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever. In the event of the liquidation of the Trust Account, Adit EdTech Sponsor, LLC (the “Sponsor”) agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless the Company for any debts and obligations to target businesses or vendors or other entities that are owed money by the Company for services rendered or contracted for or products sold to the Company, but only to the
extent necessary to ensure that such debt or obligation does not reduce the amount of funds in the Trust Account below $10.00 per share; provided that such indemnity shall not apply (i) if such vendor or prospective target business
executed an agreement waiving any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they may have in or to any monies held in the Trust Account, or (ii) as to any claims under the Company’s obligation to indemnify the Underwriters against
certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that there will be no distribution from the Trust Account with respect to
any Warrants, all rights of which will terminate on the Company’s liquidation. 
 3. The undersigned acknowledges and agrees that prior
to entering into a Business Combination with a target business that is affiliated with any Insiders of the Company or their affiliates, such transaction must be approved by a majority of the Company’s disinterested and independent directors and
the Company must obtain an opinion from an independent investment banking firm, or another independent entity that commonly renders valuation opinions, that such Business Combination is fair to the Company (or its stockholders) from a financial
point of view. 
 4. Neither the undersigned nor any affiliate of the undersigned will be entitled to receive and will not accept any
compensation or other cash payment, including any finder fee, prior to, or for services rendered in order to effectuate, the consummation of the Business Combination; provided that the Company shall be allowed to make the payments set forth in the
Prospectus under the caption “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions”. 
 5. 

(a) To the extent that the Underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 3,600,000 Units in full
within forty-five (45) days from the date of the Prospectus (and as further described in the Prospectus), the Sponsor agrees to forfeit, at no cost, a number of shares of Founder Common Stock in the aggregate equal to 900,000 multiplied by a
fraction, (i) the numerator of which is 3,600,000 minus the number of Units purchased by the Underwriters upon the exercise of their over-allotment option, and (ii) the denominator of which is 3,600,000. The Sponsor will be required to
forfeit only that number of shares of Founder Common Stock as is necessary so that the Insiders will own an aggregate of 20.0% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of capital stock after the IPO (not including the Private Shares).


  
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 (b) The undersigned agrees that the shares of Founders’ Common Stock may not be
transferred, assigned or sold (except to certain permitted transferees as described in the Registration Statement) until the earlier to occur of: (i) one (1) year after the consummation of an initial Business Combination, and (ii) the
date following the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination on which the Company completes a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction that results in all of its public stockholders having the right to
exchange their shares of Common Stock for cash, securities or other property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the closing price of the Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations,
recapitalizations and the like) for any twenty (20) trading days within any thirty (30) trading day period commencing at least one hundred fifty (150) days after the Company’s initial Business Combination, the shares of
Founders’ Common Stock will be released from the lockup. 
 (c) The undersigned will not, without the prior written consent of the
Representative pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, hedge or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction that is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by
actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned or any person in privity with the undersigned or any affiliate of the undersigned), directly or
indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent
position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder with respect to, any other Units, Common Stock,
Warrants of the Company or any securities convertible into, or exercisable, or exchangeable for, Common Stock or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date of
the Underwriting Agreement. 
 (d) The undersigned agrees that until the Company consummates a Business Combination, the undersigned’s
Private Securities will be subject to the transfer restrictions described in the agreement relating to the undersigned’s purchase of Private Securities. 

6. The undersigned’s FINRA Questionnaire previously furnished to the Company and the Representative are true and accurate in all respects.
The undersigned represents and warrants that: 
 (a) he/she/it has never had a petition under the federal bankruptcy laws or any state
insolvency law been filed by or against (i) him/her/it or any partnership in which he/she/it was a general partner at or within two years before the time of filing; or (ii) any corporation or business association of which he/she was an
executive officer at or within two years before the time of such filing; 
 (b) he/she/it has never had a receiver, fiscal agent or similar
officer been appointed by a court for his/her/its business or property, or any such partnership; 

  
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 (c) he/she/it has never been convicted of fraud in a civil or criminal proceeding; 

(d) he/she/it has never been convicted in a criminal proceeding or named the subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic
violations and minor offenses); 
 (e) he/she/it has never been the subject of any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed,
suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining or otherwise limiting him/her/it from (i) acting as a futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool
operator, floor broker, leverage transaction merchant, any other person regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) or an associated person of any of the foregoing, or as an investment adviser, underwriter,
broker or dealer in securities, or as an affiliated person, director or employee of any investment company, bank, savings and loan association or insurance company, or from engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice in connection with any
such activity; or (ii) engaging in any type of business practice, or (iii) engaging in any activity in connection with the purchase or sale of any security or commodity or in connection with any violation of federal or state securities or
federal commodities laws; 
 (f) he/she/it has never been the subject of any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended
or vacated, of any federal or state authority barring, suspending or otherwise limiting for more than sixty (60) days his/her/its right to engage in any activity described in Section 6(e)(i) above, or to be associated
with persons engaged in any such activity; 
 (g) he/she/it has never been found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by
the SEC to have violated any federal or state securities law, where the judgment in such civil action or finding by the SEC has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated; 

(h) he/she/it has never been found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the CFTC to have violated any federal
commodities law, where the judgment in such civil action or finding by the CFTC has not been subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated; 

(i) he/she/it has never been the subject of, or a party to, any Federal or State judicial or administrative order, judgment, decree or finding,
not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, relating to an alleged violation of (i) any Federal or State securities or commodities law or regulation, (ii) any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies
including, but not limited to, a temporary or permanent injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent cease-and desist order, or removal or prohibition order
or (iii) any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; 
 (j) he/she/it has
never been the subject of, or party to, any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, or any self-regulatory organization, any registered entity, or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has
disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member; 

  
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 (k) he/she/it has never been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor: (i) in connection
with the purchase or sale of any security, (ii) involving the making of any false filing with the SEC, or (iii) arising out of the conduct of the business of an underwriter, broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, investment advisor
or paid solicitor of purchasers of securities; 
 (l) he/she/it was never subject to a final order of a state securities commission (or an
agency of officer of a state performing like functions); a state authority that supervises or examines banks, savings associations, or credit unions; a state insurance commission (or an agency or officer of a state performing like functions); an
appropriate federal banking agency; the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; or the National Credit Union Administration that is based on a violation of any law or regulation that prohibits fraudulent, manipulative, or deceptive conduct; 

(m) he/she/it has never been subject to any order, judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, that, at the time of such sale,
restrained or enjoined him/her/it from engaging or continuing to engage in any conduct or practice: (i) in connection with the purchase or sale of any security, (ii) involving the making of any false filing with the SEC, or
(iii) arising out of the conduct of the business of an underwriter, broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer, investment adviser or paid solicitor of purchasers of securities; 

(n) he/she/it has never been subject to any order of the SEC that orders it to cease and desist from committing or causing a future violation
of: (i) any scienter-based anti-fraud provision of the federal securities laws, including, but not limited to, Section 17(a)(1) of the Securities Act, Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule
10b-5 thereunder, and Section 206(1) of the Advisers Act or any other rule or regulation thereunder, or (ii) Section 5 of the Securities Act; 

(o) he/she/it has never been named as an underwriter in any registration statement or Regulation A offering statement filed with the SEC that
was the subject of a refusal order, stop order, or order suspending the Regulation A exemption, or is, currently, the subject of an investigation or proceeding to determine whether a stop order or suspension order should be issued; 

(p) he/she/it has never been subject to a United States Postal Service false representation order, or is currently subject to a temporary
restraining order or preliminary injunction with respect to conduct alleged by the United States Postal Service to constitute a scheme or device for obtaining money or property through the mail by means of false representations; 

(q) he/she/it is not subject to a final order of a state securities commission (or an agency of officer of a state performing like functions);
a state authority that supervises or examines banks, savings associations, or credit unions; a state insurance commission (or an agency or officer of a state performing like functions); an appropriate federal banking agency; the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission; or the National Credit Union Administration that bars the undersigned from: (i) association with an entity regulated by such commission, authority, agency or officer, (ii) engaging in the business of securities,
insurance or banking, or (iii) engaging in savings association or credit union activities; 

  
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 (r) he/she/it is not subject to an order of the SEC entered pursuant to section 15(b) or
15B(c) of the Exchange Act or section 203(e) or 203(f) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 that: (i) suspends or revokes the undersigned’s registration as a broker, dealer, municipal securities dealer or investment adviser,
(ii) places limitations on the activities, functions or operations of, or imposes civil money penalties on, such person, or (iii) bars the undersigned from being associated with any entity or from participating in the offering of any penny
stock; and 
 (s) he/she/it has never been suspended or expelled from membership in, or suspended or barred from association with a member
of, a securities self-regulatory organization (e.g., a registered national securities exchange or a registered national or affiliated securities association) for any act or omission to act constituting conduct inconsistent with just and equitable
principles of trade. 
 7. The undersigned has full right and power, without violating any agreement by which he/she/it is bound, to enter
into this letter agreement. 
 8. The undersigned hereby waives any right to exercise redemption rights with respect to any shares of the
Company’s common stock owned or to be owned by the undersigned, directly or indirectly (or to sell such shares to the Company in a tender offer), whether such shares be part of the Founders’ Common Stock, Private Shares or shares purchased
by the undersigned in the IPO or in the aftermarket, and agrees not to seek redemption with respect to such shares in connection with any vote to approve a Business Combination (or sell such shares to the Company in a tender offer in connection with
such a Business Combination). 
 9. The undersigned hereby agrees to not propose, or vote in favor of, an amendment to the Company’s
Certificate of Incorporation that would affect the ability of holders of IPO Shares to redeem or sell their shares to the Company in connection with a Business Combination or affect the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to redeem
100% of the IPO Shares if the Company does not complete a Business Combination within the time period required by the Certificate of Incorporation unless the Company provides public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem their IPO Shares upon
such approval in accordance with the Certificate of Incorporation. 
 10. Each of the undersigned who is an officer of the Company hereby
agrees not to become an officer or director of any other special purpose acquisition company which has publicly filed a registration statement with the SEC until (a) the Company has entered into a definitive agreement regarding the
Company’s initial Business Combination, or (b) the Company has failed to consummate an initial Business Combination within 24 months after the consummation of the IPO. 

11. This letter agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The undersigned hereby (i) agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against him/her/it arising out of or relating in
any way to this letter agreement (a “Proceeding”) shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submits to such
jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive, and (ii) waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction or that such courts represent an inconvenient forum. 

  
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 12. As used herein, (a) “Business Combination” means a merger,
share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities; (b) “Insiders” means all officers, directors, industry
advisors, and the Sponsor immediately prior to the IPO; (c) “Founders’ Common Stock” means all of the shares of Common Stock of the Company acquired by an Insider prior to the IPO;
(d) “IPO Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issued in the IPO; (e) “Private Units” means the units and underlying shares of Common Stock (“Private Shares”) and
warrants (“Private Unit Warrants”) that are being sold privately by the Company simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO, if any; (f) “Private Warrants” means the warrants that are being
sold privately by the Company simultaneously with the consummation of the IPO; (g) “Private Securities” means the Private Units and Private Warrants; (h) “Trust Account” means the trust
account into which a portion of the net proceeds of the IPO will be deposited; (i) “Registration Statement” means the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1 (SEC File No. 333- 251641) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and (j) “Prospectus” means the final prospectus of the Company dated January 11, 2021 as filed with the
Securities Exchange Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act. 
 13. This letter agreement constitutes the entire
agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior understandings, agreements, or representations by or among the parties hereto, written or oral, to the extent they relate in any way
to the subject matter hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby. This letter agreement may not be changed, amended, modified or waived (other than to correct a typographical error) as to any particular provision, except by a written instrument
executed by all parties hereto. 
 14. The undersigned acknowledges and understands that the Underwriters and the Company will rely upon the
agreements, representations and warranties set forth herein in proceeding with the IPO. The Company and the undersigned hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters is a third party beneficiary of this letter
agreement. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to render the Underwriters a representative of, or a fiduciary with respect to, the Company, its stockholders or any creditor or vendor of the Company with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 15. The undersigned hereby agrees and acknowledges that: (a) the Underwriters and the Company would be irreparably injured in the
event of a breach of the undersigned’s obligations under this letter agreement (b) monetary damages may not be an adequate remedy for such breach and (c) the Underwriters and the Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief, in
addition to any other remedy that such party may have in law or in equity, in the event of such breach. 
 16. This letter agreement shall be
binding on the undersigned and his/her/its successors and assigns. This letter agreement shall terminate on the earlier of (a) the liquidation of the Trust Account and (b) the expiration of the transfer restrictions on the Founders’
Common Stock and Private Securities contained in Section 5 hereof; provided, that such termination shall not relieve the undersigned from liability for any breach of this agreement prior to its termination. 

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	Sincerely,
	
	ADIT EDTECH SPONSOR, LLC
		
	By:	 	 /s/ Eric Munson

	Name: Eric Munson
	Title: Chairman


 
	
	
	 /s/ Sharmila Kassam

	Sharmila Kassam
	
	 /s/ Jacob Cohen

	Jacob Cohen
	
	 /s/ Sheldon Levy

	Sheldon Levy
	
	 /s/ William Bennett

	William Bennett
	
	 /s/ Eva Kaili

	Eva Kaili
	
	 /s/ Vuk Jeremic

	Vuk Jeremic


  

			
	Acknowledged and Agreed:
	
	ADIT EDTECH ACQUISITION CORP.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ David L. Shrier

	Name: David L. Shrier
	Title: Chief Executive Officer

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