Velodyne Lidar, Inc.

Graf Industrial Corp. (ticker: GRAF), sponsored by Graf Industrial LLC under the leadership of James Graf, was a blank-check company that completed its initial public offering in 2018 with a focus on the industrial technology sector. The SPAC entered into a definitive merger agreement with Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a leading developer of lidar sensor technology for autonomous vehicles and robotics applications. The 8-K filed on July 6, 2020 relates to a material corporate event in the business combination process, which ultimately closed in September 2020, taking Velodyne Lidar public as a combined entity on Nasdaq. Sign up at SpacDesk for full filing history, deal timelines, and sponsor analytics on this and hundreds of other SPAC transactions.