This is the initial public offering of VIA optronics AG, a German stock corporation. We are offering American Depositary Shares, or ADSs. Every 5 ADSs will represent 1 ordinary share with a notional value of €1.00 per share. No public market currently exists for our ordinary shares or ADSs. The initial public offering price is $15.00 per ADS.

Our ADSs have been approved for listing on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "VIAO."

Upon the completion of this offering, we may qualify as a "controlled company" under the corporate governance standards of the New York Stock Exchange and may be eligible to rely upon exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements of such rules. See "Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being a Controlled Company." We are both an "emerging growth company" as that term is defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 and a "foreign private issuer" as defined under the U.S. federal securities laws, and as such may elect to comply with certain reduced public company reporting requirements for this and future filings. See "Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company" and "Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being a Foreign Private Issuer."

Investing in the ADSs involves risks. See "Risk Factors" beginning on page 18.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Corning Research & Development Corporation, or Corning, one of our commercial partners, has agreed to purchase ADSs at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $20 million in a separate concurrent private placement, that we expect will be completed shortly after the completion of this offering, at a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering. The sale of ADSs to Corning will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. While the closing of the concurrent private placement is conditioned on the closing of this offering, the closing of this offering is not conditioned upon the closing of such concurrent private placement.

The underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to 937,500 additional ADSs from the selling shareholders identified in this prospectus to cover over-allotments, if any. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of ADSs by the selling shareholders.

Delivery of the ADSs will be made against payment in New York, New York on or about September 29, 2020.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved of anyone's investment in these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus or contained in any free writing prospectus we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. Neither we, the selling shareholders nor the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide you with additional information or information different from that contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectus filed with the SEC. We and the selling shareholders are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, the ADSs only in jurisdictions where offers and sales of these securities are legally permitted. The information contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectus we file is accurate only as of its date, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of the ADSs. Our business, financial condition, results of operation and prospects may have changed since that date.

Until 25 days after the date of this prospectus, federal securities laws may require all dealers that buy, sell, or trade the ADSs, whether or not participating in this offering, to deliver a prospectus. This requirement is in addition to the dealers' obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

For investors outside the United States: neither we, the selling shareholders nor the underwriters have done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction, other than the United States, where action for that purpose is required. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus must inform themselves about, and observe any restrictions relating to, the offering of the ADSs and the distribution of this prospectus outside of the United States.

Prior to June 25, 2019, we conducted our business through VIA optronics GmbH and its consolidated subsidiaries. On June 25, 2019, the shareholders of VIA optronics GmbH contributed the shares they held in VIA optronics GmbH to VIA optronics AG by way of a contribution in kind against issuance of new shares (Sacheinlage gegen Gewährung von neuen Aktien) to the newly established VIA optronics AG. Following this contribution, our financial statements present the results of VIA optronics AG and its consolidated subsidiaries. Unless otherwise indicated or the context implies otherwise:

All references in this prospectus to "U.S. dollars," "USD" or "$" are to the legal currency of the United States and all references to "€" or "euro" are to the currency introduced at the start of the third stage of the European economic and monetary union pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended. Our consolidated financial statements are presented in euros. Throughout this prospectus and solely for convenience, we have converted euros to U.S. dollars at the noon buying rate of €1.00=US$1.1198, as certified by the European Central Bank at June 30, 2020, unless otherwise indicated.

Unless otherwise indicated, the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in this prospectus have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standards and also comply with International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS, and interpretations issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, or IASB, which differ in certain significant respects from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP. Financial information in thousands or millions, and percentage figures in this prospectus have been rounded. Rounded total and sub-total figures in tables in this prospectus may differ marginally from unrounded figures indicated elsewhere in this prospectus or in the consolidated financial statements. Moreover, rounded individual figures and percentages may not produce the exact arithmetic totals and sub-totals indicated elsewhere in this prospectus.

Max VU is a trademark of ours that we use in this prospectus. This prospectus also includes trademarks, tradenames and service marks that are the property of other organizations. Solely for convenience, our trademarks and tradenames referred to in this prospectus appear without the ® and ™ symbols, but those references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we will not assert our rights, or the rights of the applicable licensor to our trademark and tradenames to the fullest extent under applicable law.

This prospectus contains estimates and other statistical data prepared by independent parties and by us relating to market size and growth and other data about our industry. We obtained the industry and market data in this prospectus from our own research as well as from industry and general publications, surveys and studies conducted by third parties, some of which may not be publicly available.

Industry publications, research, surveys, studies and forecasts generally state that the information they contain has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, but that the accuracy and

completeness of such information is not guaranteed. To our knowledge, certain third-party industry data referenced herein includes estimates and projections regarding, among other figures, our total addressable market, that take into account early and preliminary information about the known and potential future effects of the worldwide coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the impact of which are continuing and evolving over time. Accordingly, those third-party projections may be overstated and should not be given undue weight. Forecasts and other forward-looking information obtained from these sources are subject to the same qualifications and uncertainties as the other forward-looking statements in this prospectus. These forecasts and forward-looking information are subject to uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described under "Risk Factors." These and other factors could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in our forecasts or estimates or those of independent third parties.

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information that you should consider in making your investment decision. Before investing in the ADSs, you should read this entire prospectus carefully, including the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our consolidated financial statements and related notes, for a more complete understanding of our business and this offering.

Our Company

We are a leading provider of enhanced display solutions for multiple end-markets in which superior functionality or durability is a critical differentiating factor. Our customizable technology is well-suited for our target end-markets, in particular customers operating in high-end markets that have unique specifications, and in demanding environments that pose technical and optical challenges for displays, such as bright ambient light, vibration and shock, extreme temperatures and condensation. Our solutions combine our expertise in interactive display head assembly, comprising a display, cover lens and potentially touch sensors, and proprietary bonding technologies. We also develop, manufacture and sell customized and application-specific metal mesh touch sensors and electrode base film materials for use in touch modules or other touch products. Recently, we have introduced integrated, camera-enhanced and interactive displays, or interactive display solutions, that leverage our expertise in display solutions and touch sensor technology, as well as camera module design and related software capabilities. We believe that interactive display solutions will be critical to support the evolution of everyday life digital applications, such as touch- and camera-enabled consumer electronics, and the development of complex applications, such as advanced driver assistance systems. Our portfolio of offerings enables thin display assemblies and high optical clarity, which decreases power consumption and increases readability. We provide a wide range of customized display solutions, including curved display panels and solutions integrating multiple display touch assemblies under a single cover lens. In the future, we aspire to become one of the leading technology platforms for interactive display solutions in our target end-markets.

Our differentiated technologies include our proprietary silicone-based bonding material, or VIA bond plus, our patented optical bonding processes, or Max VU™, display enhancement technologies, our metal mesh touch sensor technology and camera module design capabilities. Our optical bonding processes utilize VIA bond plus for display head assemblies, or DHAs, without using potentially damaging mechanical force, to eliminate air gaps and other distorting features common to conventional technologies. Our metal mesh touch sensor technology enables high precision functionality and is based on a metal grid patterned on a transparent electrode base film that can be laminated to virtually any type, size and shape of cover lens material. In addition to our proprietary technologies and processes, we have expertise in working with collaborators to implement specialized production methods, such as cold forming technology, that enable innovation in product development. We custom-design camera modules for contract manufacturing by Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc., or IMI, an affiliate of our majority shareholder and commercial partner, for integration into our solutions or our customers' end-solutions, such as driver monitoring systems. We believe our suite of differentiated technologies and our related intellectual property, engineering expertise and commercial collaborations give us a competitive edge.

Our customers operate in the automotive, consumer electronics and industrial/specialized applications markets.

•: Our automotive solutions can be found in the products of companies such as BMW, Ferrari, General Motors and Rolls Royce. Our automotive applications include displays for navigation, instrument clusters, rear seat entertainment and infotainment systems and, increasingly, interactive display systems.
•: Our consumer electronic solutions can be found in the products of companies such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Mutto and Sharp. Our consumer applications include solutions for notebooks, tablets and all-in-one monitors.

•: Our industrial/specialized application solutions can be found in the offerings of companies such as 3M, Dell, Emirates Airlines, GE, Honeywell, John Deere and Siemens. Our industrial/specialized applications include in-flight entertainment displays, ruggedized laptops, marine navigational systems and fish-finders, agricultural equipment, surround views, digital signage, interactive conference room displays and defense applications.

We currently have over 500 projects in process, either in the acquisition, development or industrialization phase or in production, for a combination of existing and potential new customers. These projects include arrangements we entered into during the course of 2019 and 2020, including with several automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers, or OEMs, that produce luxury and electric vehicles to design prototypes relating to enhanced automotive solutions, including an interactive complete dashboard display cluster assembly using Corning's cold-formed glass technology, an optically bonded display head assembly using a plastic cover lens (which represents a unique material application within the automotive market) and advanced automotive camera module technologies. The advanced automotive camera module technologies we are developing in these prototypes include driver assistance features and autonomous driver support, such as driver monitoring (including facial recognition and other driver recognition technologies and driver alertness features) and surround view, which are technologies that promote enhanced vehicle performance and safety. We expect to complete development of these OEM prototypes during 2020 and 2021. These potential customers are not contractually obligated to purchase a minimum quantity of units until a purchase order is executed. However, we believe this current development pipeline supports our goal of becoming a leading provider of high-end interactive display solutions for OEMs, as well as suppliers that supply parts directly to OEMs, which are referred to as Tier-1 suppliers.

For the year ended December 31, 2019, we generated revenue, net loss and EBITDA of €137.2 million, €13.4 million and €(4.4) million, respectively, and, for the six months ended June 30, 2020, we generated revenue, net loss and EBITDA of €64.9 million, €0.9 million and €3.9 million, respectively, despite production-related delays and other challenges that we and our customers have faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our performance in the first half of 2020 may not be indicative of our full-year performance. We are headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany and had 585 staff working on our sites worldwide as of June 30, 2020, including through secondment and service agreements as well as agreements with professional dispatch firms. We maintain production facilities in Germany, China and Japan and, through our subsidiaries, operate sales offices in Taiwan and the United States. In 2019, we served over 70 customers and in the first six months of 2020, we served over 60 customers around the world.

Our Industry

Digital displays have become pervasive in everyday life. Technological advancements, quality improvements and cost reductions have collectively helped to make displays ubiquitous in nearly every industry. In response to the growing demand for and broadening applications of display technology, optical bonding, touch sensor technologies and interactive system solutions have become critical to achieving the diverse and highly specific requirements of customers in various end-markets. We estimate that we have an addressable market for our display solutions of at least $43.5 billion. Our estimate was derived from the Markets and Markets Research Pvt. Ltd., or MarketsandMarkets, report dated May 2020, which indicated approximately $107.0 billion of global revenue from the sale of displays in 2020. The addressable market derived from the MarketsandMarkets report includes both interactive displays that incorporate enhanced functionality, such as camera module or touch sensors, as well as non-interactive displays. Therefore, the addressable market for our enhanced interactive display solutions is a subset of the total addressable display market. Within the total global display market, MarketsandMarkets attributed an estimated $63.5 billion in 2020 to TVs, smartphones, smart wearables, other display products such as E-readers and medical devices and other display technologies such as E-paper, which we do not address today nor expect to address in the future. According to the MarketsandMarkets report dated May 2020, the global market for industrialized/specialized applications is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate, or CAGR, of 9.1%, from $7.8 billion estimated in 2020 to an estimated $11.0 billion in 2024, and the global market for automotive displays is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.5%, from $4.8 billion estimated in 2020 to an estimated $8.2 billion in 2024. We estimate that the addressable market for our display solutions may grow to approximately $49.5 billion in 2024, based on our estimate of the addressable market in 2020 and the estimations of MarketsandMarkets for global revenues from the sale of displays. In addition, MarketsandMarkets estimates that the display subsectors of (i) business-to-business enterprise, (ii) education, (iii) aerospace and defense, (iv) global retail, hospitality, banking, financial services and insurance, and (v) sports and entertainment will grow at CAGRs of 17%, 13%, 21%, 18%, and 21%, respectively, from 2020 to 2024.

To our knowledge, certain third-party industry data referenced herein includes estimates and projections regarding, among other figures, our total addressable market, that take into account early and preliminary information about the known and potential future effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts of which are continuing and evolving over time. Accordingly, those projections may be overstated and should not be given undue weight.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe the following key strengths will help us to maintain and enhance our competitive position:

Proprietary bonding materials, patented processes and innovative technology. We believe that our proprietary silicone-based bonding material, patented optical bonding processes and metal mesh touch sensor technology as well as camera module design competence and in-house design capabilities are key enablers of our success in our target end-markets. We have a differentiated portfolio of patented optical bonding and metal mesh touch sensor technology and in-house manufacturing capabilities. In combination with VTS-Touchsensor Co., Ltd., or VTS, as of July 31, 2020, we had an aggregate of 111 granted patents and 53 additional pending patent applications relating to our optical bonding processes, metal mesh touch sensor technology and component parts used in our customized production equipment. VIA bond plus is our proprietary silicone-based bonding material utilized for all of our bonding applications. In contrast to organic substances such as acrylates, VIA bond plus is repairable, non-shrinking, non-yellowing, environmentally friendly and stable at extreme temperatures. Max VU is our patented dry-bonding process that enables display head assembly without potentially damaging mechanical force, thereby increasing production yield, reducing potential LCD damage and minimizing

undesired optical side effects. In addition, our copper-based metal mesh touch sensor technology offers significantly higher conductivity that enhance touch performance, including stylus/pen sensitivity and glove functionality. Cutting-edge technology in viewing and sensing applications as well as a combination of those technologies improves interactive display solutions, for example driver monitoring and surround view systems in automobiles. The key technical advantages of our camera modules and sensing applications include custom design, thermal management, durability, and access to IMI's patent-pending 6-axis active alignment technology.

Technological expertise well-suited for complex applications and demanding environments. We are a pioneer in designing and developing customizable display solutions that address the most demanding technological and environmental challenges. These challenges include, but are not limited to, bright ambient light, vibration and shock, extreme temperatures, condensation, dust and other specialized conditions, as well as the need for enhanced touch sensitivity, curved form factors and designs that incorporate multiple interactive displays under a single formed cover lens. Our technological expertise in combination with our deep customer and commercial partner collaborations, including our collaboration with Corning, with respect to cold form glass technology, enables us to meet these challenges and act as a sole source supplier for certain customers, including, for example, select customers in ruggedized applications and the automotive industry. We continue to dedicate significant research and development resources to address these challenges and expand our interactive display solutions capabilities, touch sensor technology, as well as camera module design and related software capabilities. Further, we leverage the experience we have gained in the high-end consumer market, which is generally characterized by early adoption of new technologies and shorter product life cycles, to anticipate industry trends and innovate solutions for our automotive and industrial/specialized applications markets.

Efficient global production with integrated, automated and scalable capacity. With our modern production sites in Germany, China and Japan, we have the ability to meet customers' specific requirements with regards to design, volume and manufacturing location. Our production sites in Germany and China operate on an integrated basis so that a project initiated in one site can be moved to another site without needing to incur costly or time-consuming delays in production site customization, which enables more nimble production capacity. Our flexible production lines can provide solutions for a wide range of display screen sizes. Our bonding facilities are equipped with manual, semi-automated and fully automated production lines capable of handling various production volumes, from specialized small-batch runs to high volume production. We leverage our customized equipment and manufacturing knowledge to quickly clean, re-tool and ramp up our production lines to maximize utilization.

Highly integrated supply chain for our core technology. We design and/or manufacture the majority of the subassemblies (e.g., enhanced displays, touch modules, display touch assemblies and camera modules) used in our interactive display systems and purchase specific components from third parties (e.g., camera sensors or LCD open cells), including IMI, an affiliate of our majority shareholder, as needed. This provides us with flexibility to produce a wide range of metal mesh sensors, which enables us to offer a broad selection of products to our customers to fit their particular needs. In addition, our largely integrated models provide our customers with their own production efficiencies to the extent that they opt to use us as their single source supplier for interactive displays. Our business model also allows us to integrate more of our own metal mesh technology into the interactive display systems that we produce. We believe the level of our supply chain integration differentiates us from our competitors and adds value to our production capabilities.

Early and deep design collaboration with Original Equipment Manufacturers. Due to the increasing integration of display, touch, and/or camera module functionality into novel design assemblies, we often engage with OEMs, either directly or through third-party suppliers, early in their design and

development processes. We utilize our deep engineering and research and development resources and operating expertise to partner with OEMs on product design, qualification, manufacturing and testing and collaborate with them to provide comprehensive and customized solutions that meet their specific requirements. We believe this approach creates a competitive advantage for us, as it has enabled us to form long-term relationships with our OEM customers and it has provided us with an understanding of the OEMs' technology roadmaps, allowing us to develop innovative and advanced solutions to meet their current and future needs. The combination of our technological expertise and our collaborative relationships allows us to develop new applications, such as touch-enabled controls on an automotive center console, and enables us to be a sole source supplier for certain OEMs.

Proven engineering and experienced management team. We have assembled a team of talented technical professionals with significant knowledge and expertise across our technologies. We also have an experienced global management team with extensive expertise in enhanced display solutions, system integration and manufacturing, and a strong track record of management experience at companies including Aptiv, AU Optronics, Dell and Siemens.

Commitment to innovation. We have committed significant resources in recent periods to technological advancements in our product offerings, including acquiring touch sensor technology from VTS in 2018 and enhancing our camera module development capabilities in 2019. Such technological advancements include our interactive display solutions which leverage our expertise in display solutions and touch sensor technology, as well as camera module design and related software capabilities. We believe that interactive display solutions will be critical to support the development of advanced and complex applications, such as advanced driver assistance systems, and we believe that we are well-positioned to meet the next generation of innovation challenges for these technologies.

Our Growth Strategy

Expand our interactive display systems capabilities. We aim to expand our capabilities to serve as an interactive display system provider in the automotive, consumer electronics and industrial/specialized applications markets by combining system design, camera modules, software functionality and other hardware components. We plan to achieve this goal by utilizing our extensive intellectual property portfolio, process know-how, and optical bonding and metal mesh touch sensor and camera module technologies to expand our in-house technological capabilities. We also plan to expand our research and development efforts through increased investment in our engineering and software development activities, including the hiring of additional personnel. We may also seek to augment our solutions by acquiring new technologies and expertise, with an initial focus on embedded systems and software development, including by acquiring other companies or assets, hiring technical teams or entering into strategic alliances.

Leverage our metal mesh technology for touch-enabled displays. We believe our metal mesh touch sensor technology is particularly well-suited for large display sizes and flexible form applications, and we intend to accelerate its broader adoption across our end-markets. Our goal is to expand our touch sensor technology beyond the consumer market by focusing on embedding metal mesh touch displays into the product offerings of new and existing automotive and industrial/specialized customers. To accomplish this, we intend to leverage our ability to produce both the electrode base film and related metal mesh touch sensors, which enables us to offer our customers both component parts as well as complete display solutions. We believe offering this optionality positions us to become a one-stop touch solutions provider. In addition, to increasingly attract higher margin solutions for automotive and

industrial/specialized customers, we also intend to leverage our ability to customize our metal mesh touch sensor technology and integrate customized touch sensors into our interactive display solutions. We expect that an increasing number of these customers will adopt our in-house metal mesh display touch sensor technology as high-precision touch functionality continues to become more desired by end users.

Deepen our existing customer base. We intend to expand our relationships with existing customers across our three markets—automotive, consumer and industrial/specialized—and our aim is to capture an increasing amount of their business across the technologies that we offer, with a special focus on interactive display business. Our objective is to be the supplier of choice and to service all of our customers' needs in this space. To achieve this, we plan to continue leveraging and developing our technological capabilities, engineering talents and sales and marketing proficiency. For example, with respect to our automotive customers, we are increasingly collaborating in the early stages of the OEM design and development process on interactive display systems for car interiors, which have become, and we believe will continue to be, differentiating factors for the driver experience. We are similarly engaged at early stages with our industrial/specialized customers in order to provide them with highly customized solutions for their projects. We expect to convert these close, early-stage collaborations for higher margin solutions into even deeper long-term relationships with customers. With respect to our consumer customers, we see significant potential to increase our share of their business in the areas of display, touch and display head assembly, especially in light of the recent surge in remote working, which has further increased demand for the types of products that house our components.

Continue to expand our customer base. We intend to acquire new customers particularly within our automotive and industrial/specialized markets. We believe we are well-positioned to further penetrate these markets given our technological expertise, our differentiated touch sensor technology, our ability to produce products for use in demanding environments, our collaboration with Corning to utilize cold forming technology, our increasing focus on developing advanced camera modules and related software and our strong reputation within the automotive industry. We believe our technological capabilities, production know-how and research and development expertise will enable us to continue to improve our products' functionality and performance and will facilitate our ability to develop products and enhancements, enable new applications and expand our customer base within our core end-markets.

Concurrent Private Placement

Corning, one of our commercial partners, has agreed to purchase 1,403,505 ADSs, at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $20 million in a separate concurrent private placement, that we expect will be completed shortly after the completion of this offering, at a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering. The sale of ADSs to Corning will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is subject to limited conditions set forth in the investment agreement. While the closing of the concurrent private placement is conditioned on the closing of this offering, the closing of this offering is not conditioned upon the closing of such concurrent private placement.

Company History

Our business is conducted through VIA optronics GmbH, registered in the commercial register of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Nuremberg under HRB 22650, and its subsidiaries. VIA optronics GmbH was established on May 12, 2006 with an initial share capital of €25,000. The company has its registered seat in Schwarzenbruck.

Because a company in the form of a GmbH cannot be used for an initial public offering, the shareholders of VIA optronics GmbH decided to create a new company in the form of a German stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft or AG), VIA optronics AG, to serve as a holding company for the VIA

optronics group and as the vehicle issuing the ADS for the initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. On January 4, 2019, the shareholders of VIA optronics GmbH incorporated VIA optronics AG, which was registered in the commercial register of the local court of Nuremberg under HRB 36200 on March 18, 2019 with an initial share capital of €100,000. The shareholders of VIA optronics GmbH contributed all shares they held in VIA optronics GmbH to VIA optronics AG on June 25, 2019 by way of a contribution in kind against issuance of shares (Sachkapitalerhöhung). As a result of this contribution, VIA optronics AG became the holding company for VIA optronics GmbH and its subsidiaries.

Our website is www.via-optronics.com. This website address is included in this prospectus as an inactive textual reference only. The information and other content appearing on our website are not part of this prospectus. Our agent for service of process in the United States is VIA optronics, LLC, located at 6220 Hazeltine National Dr., Suite 120, Orlando, FL 32822, telephone number (407) 745-5031.

Organizational Chart

The following chart shows the organizational structure of VIA optronics AG and its direct and indirect subsidiaries as of the date hereof. See "Description of Company History and Share Capital—Incorporation of the Company."

Office Location

Our principal executive offices are located at Sieboldstrasse 18, 90411 Nuremberg, Germany, and our telephone number is +49 (0) 911 597 575 0.

Our Risks and Challenges

You should carefully consider all of the information set forth in this prospectus prior to making an investment in the ADSs. Our ability to implement our business strategy is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from our forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, without limitation, risks related to:

•: our ability to meet customers' requirements for quality and performance or their demands as to timing or quantity;
•: our dependence upon sales to certain customers and material fluctuation in purchase volumes period on period;
•: our dependence upon our relationships with our strategic partners;
•: our ability to develop new products and win business, to convert project wins into revenue and to manage our costs during the product development cycle;

•: the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic;
•: our ability to adapt to risks inherent in doing business on a global level and in particular in China, including tariffs, trade wars, pandemics (such as COVID-19), economic and geopolitical instability and changes in regulatory requirements;
•: the length of the product development cycle for our OEM, Tier-1 Supplier and other customers;
•: our dependence upon the commercial success of our customers' products;
•: our dependence upon a limited number of suppliers for a number of our raw materials and equipment, including the silicone material used in VIA bond plus;
•: delays in the production of our direct customers' product offerings, including due to performance issues with, or supply shortages of, component parts unrelated to our solutions;
•: volatility in the prices or availability of certain components and raw materials used in our business;
•: our ability to protect our know how, trade secrets and other intellectual property;
•: our ability to manage the expansion of our operations effectively;
•: our ability to attract and retain key management or other key personnel;
•: our ability to raise additional capital on attractive terms, or at all, if needed; and
•: the other risks described in the "Risk Factors" section of this prospectus and elsewhere in this prospectus.

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

As a company with less than $1.07 billion in revenue for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, we qualify as an "emerging growth company" as defined in Section 2(a) of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. As an emerging growth company, we may take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including, but not limited to:

•: not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the SOX Act;
•: reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation; and
•: not being required to comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB, regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor's report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements.

We may choose to take advantage of some or all of the available exemptions and have taken advantage of some of these exemptions in this prospectus. Accordingly, the information contained herein may be different from the information you receive from other public companies in which you hold shares. We do not know if some investors will find the ADSs less attractive as a result of our use of these or other exemptions. The result may be a less active trading market for the ADSs and increased volatility in the price of the ADSs.

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. In other words, an emerging growth company can

delay the adoption of some accounting standards until the date those standards apply to companies that are not publicly traded. We currently prepare our financial statements in accordance with IFRS, as issued by the IASB, which does not have separate provisions for publicly traded and private companies.

We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (a) the last day of our fiscal year during which we had total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion; (b) the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the date of the first sale of ADSs in this offering; (c) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt; or (d) the date on which we are deemed to be a "large accelerated filer" under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. Once we cease to be an emerging growth company, we will not be entitled to the exemptions provided to emerging growth companies in the JOBS Act.

Implications of Being a Foreign Private Issuer

Upon consummation of this offering, we will report under the Exchange Act as a non-U.S. company with foreign private issuer status. Even after we no longer qualify as an emerging growth company, as long as we qualify as a foreign private issuer under the Exchange Act, we will be exempt from certain provisions of the Exchange Act that are applicable to U.S. domestic public companies, including:

•: the rules under the Exchange Act requiring domestic filers to issue financial statements prepared under U.S. GAAP;
•: the sections of the Exchange Act regulating the solicitation of proxies, consents or authorizations in respect of a security registered under the Exchange Act;
•: the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their stock ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time; and
•: the rules under the Exchange Act requiring the filing with the SEC of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, containing unaudited financial and other specified information, and current reports on Form 8-K, upon the occurrence of specified significant events.

We will file with the SEC, within four months after the end of each fiscal year, or such applicable time as required by the SEC, an annual report on Form 20-F containing financial statements audited by an independent registered public accounting firm.

We may take advantage of these exemptions until such time as we are no longer a foreign private issuer. We would cease to be a foreign private issuer at such time as more than 50% of our outstanding voting securities are held by U.S. residents and any of the following three circumstances applies (i) the majority of our executive officers or directors are U.S. citizens or residents, (ii) more than 50% of our assets are located in the United States or (iii) our business is administered principally in the United States.

Both foreign private issuers and emerging growth companies are also exempt from certain more extensive executive compensation disclosure rules. Thus, even if we no longer qualify as an emerging growth company but remain a foreign private issuer, we will continue to be exempt from the more extensive compensation disclosure requirements for companies that are neither an emerging growth company nor a foreign private issuer and will continue to be permitted to follow our home country practice on such matters.

Implications of Being a Controlled Company

Upon the completion of this offering, in addition to qualifying as a foreign private issuer under the Exchange Act, we may qualify as a "controlled company" under the corporate governance standards of the New York Stock Exchange and may be eligible to rely upon exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements of such rules to the extent we are not otherwise exempt as a foreign private issuer. Under the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance standards, a "controlled company" may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including the requirements that:

•: a majority of its board of directors consist of "independent directors" as defined under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange;
•: its director nominees be selected, or recommended for its board of directors' selection by a nominating/governance committee comprised solely of independent directors; and
•: the compensation of its executive officers be determined, or recommended to the board of directors for determination, by a compensation committee comprised solely of independent directors.

The Offering


ADSs offered by VIA optronics AG		6,250,000 ADSs
ADSs to be sold to Corning in the concurrent private placement		1,403,505 ADSs
ADSs to be outstanding immediately after this offering and the concurrent private placement		7,653,505 ADSs
Ordinary shares to be outstanding immediately after this offering and the concurrent private placement		4,530,701 ordinary shares
Offering price		$15.00 per ADS
Over-allotment option		937,500 ADSs from the selling shareholders.
Selling shareholders		Coöperatief IMI Europe U.A. and Jürgen Eichner
The ADSs		Every 5 ADSs represent 1 ordinary share.
		The depositary, the custodian or any of their respective nominees will hold the ordinary shares and any other rights or property underlying your ADSs. You will have rights as provided in the deposit agreement. You may cancel your ADSs and withdraw the underlying ordinary shares as provided, and pursuant to the limitations set forth in, the deposit agreement. The depositary will charge you fees for, among other acts, any such cancellation. We and the depositary may amend the deposit agreement without your consent. If you continue to hold your ADSs, you agree to be bound by the terms of the deposit agreement then in effect.
		To better understand the terms of the ADSs, you should carefully read the "Description of American Depositary Shares" section of this prospectus. You should also read the deposit agreement, which is an exhibit to the Registration Statement of which this prospectus forms a part.
Depositary		The Bank of New York Mellon
Custodian		The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV, and any other custodian as may be appointed pursuant to the deposit agreement.


Use of proceeds		We expect to receive total net proceeds from this offering of approximately $77.3 million, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, at an initial offering price of $15.00 per ADS. We will also receive net proceeds of approximately $19.6 million from the sale of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement to Corning, after deducting the commissions to Berenberg Capital Markets LLC, or Berenberg, based on a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering. We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering and the concurrent private placement for the following purposes: (i) research and development, including research and development relating to interactive display solutions and other camera-enhanced displays, three dimensional displays, new sensor technologies, software enhancements and embedded computing; (ii) potential acquisitions of targets that could enhance our interactive solutions for the automotive and/or industrial/specialized markets although we do not have agreements or commitments for any material acquisitions at this time; (iii) expansion of our sales, marketing and distribution teams; (iv) improvements in and expansion of our existing production capabilities, including with respect to cold forming production, by improving automation and expanding capacity in our facilities in Germany and Japan and expanding our manufacturing facilities in new geographies; and (v) general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, working capital. See "Use of Proceeds."
		We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of ADSs offered by the selling shareholders, if any, pursuant to the underwriters' exercise of the over-allotment option.
Dividend policy		We have no present intention of declaring or paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. See "Dividend Policy."
Risk factors		You should carefully read the information set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of this prospectus beginning on page 18 and the other information set forth in this prospectus before deciding to invest in the ADSs.


Directed ADS program		At our request, the underwriters have reserved for sale, at the initial public offering price, up to 187,500 ADSs, or 3.0% of the ADSs offered by this prospectus (excluding the ADSs that may be issued upon the underwriters' exercise of their option to purchase additional ADSs), to certain of our directors, officers and employees and persons having relationships with us. The sales will be made by Berenberg, as the directed ADS program administrator, or its affiliates or its selling agents. If purchased by persons who are not officers or directors, the ADSs will not be subject to a lock-up restriction. If purchased by any officer or director, the ADSs will be subject to a 180-day lock-up restriction. We do not currently know the extent to which these related persons will participate in the directed ADS program.
		The number of ADSs available for sale to the general public, referred to as the general public ADSs, will be reduced to the extent that these persons purchase all or a portion of the reserved ADSs. Any reserved ADSs not so purchased will be offered by the underwriters to the general public on the same basis as the other ADSs offered by this prospectus. Likewise, to the extent demand by these persons exceeds the number of ADSs reserved for sale in the program, and there are remaining ADSs available for sale to these persons after the general public ADSs have first been offered for sale to the general public, then such remaining ADSs may be sold to these persons at the discretion of the underwriters.
NYSE trading symbol		Our ADSs have been approved for listing on the NYSE under the symbol "VIAO."

The number of our ordinary shares to be outstanding after this offering and the concurrent private placement is based on 3,000,000 ordinary shares outstanding as of June 30, 2020. Unless otherwise indicated, all information in this prospectus assumes that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option and that there is no purchase of ADSs by our directors, officers, employees or persons having relationships with us through our directed ADS program. Unless otherwise noted, the information in this prospectus assumes the issuance and sale of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement to Corning at $14.25 per ADS, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering.

Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data

The financial data as of and for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus and which have been prepared in accordance with IFRS as issued by the IASB and audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. The summary unaudited interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) data for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and the summary unaudited interim consolidated statement of financial position data as of June 30, 2020 have been derived from our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with our audited consolidated financial statements and in the opinion of management reflect all adjustments, consisting only of normal and recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of such unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

The historical results presented below are not necessarily indicative of the financial results to be expected for any future periods. You should read this information in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," "Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data" and our consolidated financial statements and related notes, each included elsewhere in this prospectus.

	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) Data:	2020				2020			2019			2019				2019			2018 (restated*)				2017
	($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)						($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Revenue		$	72,626		€	64,856		€	70,563			$	153,671		€	137,231			€	171,679		€	131,031
Cost of sales		(61,805		)	(55,193		)	(63,485		)		(142,450		)	(127,210		)		(149,873		)	(113,232		)

Gross profit		10,821			9,663			7,078				11,222			10,021				21,806			17,799
Selling expenses		(2,499		)	(2,232		)	(2,256		)		(4,761		)	(4,252		)		(4,295		)	(3,735		)
General administrative expenses		(7,070		)	(6,314		)	(7,653		)		(14,778		)	(13,197		)		(13,267		)	(7,988		)
Research and development expenses		(1,187		)	(1,060		)	(542		)		(2,788		)	(2,490		)		(1,337		)	(798		)
Other operating income (expenses), net⁽²⁾		408			364			617				(1,183		)	(1,056		)		1,991			33

Operating income/(loss)		471			421			(2,756		)		(12,289		)	(10,974		)		4,898			5,311
Financial result		(797		)	(712		)	(782		)		(1,839		)	(1,642		)		(1,142		)	(696		)

(Loss)/profit before tax		(326		)	(291		)	(3,538		)		(14,127		)	(12,616		)		3,756			4,615
Income tax expense		(645		)	(576		)	1,078				(831		)	(742		)		(378		)	(1,262		)

Net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)		3,378			3,354



Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations		(251		)	(224		)	48				131			117				23			(165		)



Comprehensive (loss) income		(1,222		)	(1,091		)	(2,412		)		(14,827		)	(13,241		)		3,402			3,189



Earning/(loss) per share		(0.34		)	(0.30		)	(0.56		)		(4.40		)	(3.93		)		1.37			1.16

	As of June 30,											As of December 31,

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position Data:	2020 (As Adjusted)⁽³⁾			2020				2020				2019 (Actual)				2019 (Actual)			2018
	(€ in thousands)			($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)				($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Cash and cash equivalents		€	93,690		$	8,027			€	7,168			$	10,453		€	9,335			€	9,943
Working capital		75,383			(12,475		)		(11,140		)		(12,767		)	(11,401		)		1,251
Total assets		163,146			85,804				76,624				91,443			81,660				80,571
Total liabilities		76,633			85,814				76,633				90,231			80,578				66,348
Total equity		86,512			(10		)		(9		)		1,212			1,082				14,223

	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,

Other Data:	2020				2020			2019			2019				2019			2018			2017
	($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)						($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Gross margin⁽⁴⁾		14.9		%	14.9		%	10.0		%		7.3		%	7.3		%	12.7%		^*	13.6		%
EBITDA⁽⁵⁾		$	4,404		€	3,933		€	286			$	(4,969	)	€	(4,437	)	€	8,110		€	5,940
Adjusted EBITDA⁽⁵⁾		4,404			3,933			286				(4,969		)	(4,437		)	9,140			6,436
Adjusted net (loss)/profit⁽⁵⁾		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)	4,081			3,713
Adjusted EBITDA margin⁽⁵⁾		6.1		%	6.1		%	0.4		%		(3.2		)%	(3.2		)%	5.3		%	4.9		%

*

The 2018 consolidated statement of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) has been restated to correct an error. Refer to Note 2.4 of the 2019 consolidated financial statements for additional information.

(1)

Amounts in this column are not audited and have been converted from euros to U.S. dollars solely for the convenience of the reader.

(2)

Amount is shown on a net basis solely for convenience of the reader. Please refer to VIA optronics AG's consolidated financial statements and related notes, each included elsewhere in this prospectus, for a presentation of Other operating income and Other operating expense on a gross basis.

(3)

Gives effect to the sale of 6,250,000 ADSs by us in this offering and the sale of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement to Corning at 95% of the initial public offering price, or $14.25 per ADS. As adjusted cash and cash equivalents, total assets and total equity do not reflect approximately €7.0 million of costs and expenses related to this offering already paid as of June 30, 2020.

(4)

We define gross margin as gross profit stated as a percentage of revenues.

(5)

Our management and supervisory boards utilize both IFRS and non-IFRS measures in a number of ways, including to facilitate the determination of our allocation of resources, to measure our performance against budgeted and forecasted financial plans and to establish and measure a portion of management's compensation.

The non-IFRS measures used by our management and supervisory boards include:

•: EBITDA, which we define as net profit (loss) calculated in accordance with IFRS before financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization; for purposes of our EBITDA calculation, we define "financial result" to include financial result as calculated in accordance with IFRS and foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness;
•: Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as net profit/(loss) calculated in accordance with IFRS before financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization, acquisition-related costs incurred in connection with our acquisition of a 65% interest in VTS, including the effect of any acquisition fair value adjustment to revenue, and costs relating to the relocation of our headquarters to Nuremberg; for purposes of our Adjusted EBITDA calculation, we define "financial result" to include financial result as calculated in accordance with IFRS and foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness;
•: Adjusted EBITDA margin, which we define as Adjusted EBITDA stated as a percentage of revenue; and
•: Adjusted net (loss)/profit, which we define as net (loss)/profit calculated in accordance with IFRS before the after tax impacts of acquisition related costs incurred in connection with our acquisition of a 65% interest in VTS, including the effect of any acquisition fair value adjustment to revenue, and costs relating to the relocation of our headquarters to Nuremberg; for purposes of our calculation of Adjusted Net Profit/(Loss), we calculate the tax impacts assuming an effective tax rate of 31.8% and 27.4% based on the rate of VIA optronics GmbH for fiscal years ended ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, representing, in each case, the German statutory income tax rate, plus any applicable German solidarity surcharges plus any applicable municipal trade taxes.

Our management and supervisory boards believe these non-IFRS measures are helpful tools in understanding certain aspects of our financial performance and are important supplemental measures of operating performance because they eliminate items that may have less bearing on our operating performance and highlight trends that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS financial measures. As an example, our acquisition of VTS in 2018 included acquisition-related costs, such as costs attributable to the consummation of the transaction and integration of VTS as a consolidated subsidiary (composed substantially of professional services fees, including legal, accounting and other consultants) and any transition compensation costs, and were not considered to be related to the continuing operation of VTS's business and are generally not relevant to assessing or estimating the long-term performance of VTS. We also believe that these non-IFRS measures are useful to investors and other users of our financial statements in evaluating our performance because these measures are the same measures used by our management and supervisory boards for these purposes.

While we use non-IFRS measures as a tool to enhance our understanding of certain aspects of our financial performance, we do not believe that these non-IFRS measures are a substitute for, or are superior to, the information provided by IFRS results. As such, the presentation of non-IFRS measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for any measure prepared in accordance with IFRS. The primary limitations associated with the use of non-IFRS measures as compared to IFRS results are that non-IFRS measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies in our industry and that non-IFRS measures may exclude financial information that some investors may consider important in evaluating our performance. Because of these and other limitations, you should consider our non-IFRS measures alongside the directly comparable IFRS-based financial performance measures, including our net profit/(loss), net profit margin and our other IFRS financial results. Management addresses the inherent limitations associated with using non-IFRS measures through disclosure of such limitations, presentation of our financial statements in accordance with IFRS and reconciliation of EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin and Adjusted net profit/(loss) to the most directly comparable IFRS measure, net profit/(loss). Further,

management also reviews IFRS measures and measures such as our level of capital expenditures, research and development expenditures, and interest expense, among other items.

Set forth below are reconciliations of each non-IFRS measure to the most directly comparable financial measure prepared in accordance with IFRS, in order to enable investors to perform their own analysis of our operating results.

	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,

	2020				2020			2019			2019				2019			2018			2017
	($ in thousands)^(A)				(€ in thousands)						($ in thousands)^(A)				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Net (loss)/profit		$	(971	)	€	(867	)	€	(2,460	)		$	(14,958	)	€	(13,358	)	€	3,378		€	3,353
Adjustments:
Financial result		797			712			782				1,839			1,642			1,142			696
Foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness		—			—			—				—			—			—			87
Income tax expense/(benefit)		645			576			(1,079		)		831			742			378			1,262
Depreciation and amortization		3,933			3,512			3,043				7,320			6,537			3,212			542

EBITDA		4,404			3,933			286				(4,969		)	(4,437		)	8,110			5,940
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—				—			—			894			496
Relocation costs		—			—			—				—			—			136			—

Adjusted EBITDA		4,404			3,933			286				(4,969		)	(4,437		)	9,140			6,436
Revenue		72,626			64,856			70,563				153,671			137,231			171,679			131,031

Adjusted EBITDA margin		6.1		%	6.1		%	0.4		%		(3.2		)%	(3.2		)%	5.3		%	4.9		%
Net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		—			—			3,378			3,353
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—				—			—			610			360
Relocation costs		—			—			—				—			—			93			—

Adjusted net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)	4,081			3,713

(A): Amounts in this column are not audited and have been converted from euros to U.S. dollars solely for the convenience of the reader.

Investing in the ADSs involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below, together with all of the other information included in this prospectus, including "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and our financial statements and related notes, before making an investment decision. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed. In that case, the trading price of the ADSs could decline and you might lose all or part of your investment.

Our solutions may not meet our customers' requirements, which could result in a loss of customers or business.

Our products must meet our customers' exacting standards for quality, performance and timely delivery. We design our solutions, usually in conjunction with our customers, on a project-by-project basis to meet specific customer specifications. By way of example, each metal mesh touch sensor must be customized to reflect the sensor pattern specified by our customer and the camera lenses in our camera modules must be aligned at the right angle within the sensor housing to enable proper viewing and functionality. Even for those projects where we have the autonomy to select certain components for integration into a finished display, we must select components that satisfy our customers' technical requirements. We have in the past had, and may in the future have, products that do not meet our customers' requirements due to production deficiencies, inability to produce the requested amount of products on time or other reasons. Any failure to satisfy our customers' requirements in the past have resulted in, and in the future could result in, customers reducing or ceasing their business with us, or could require that we incur additional costs, for example by sourcing alternative components for use in the products that we deliver, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our failure to develop, introduce and produce new products, solutions and technologies or enhancements to existing products, solutions and technologies on a timely basis, at sufficient quality or quantity, or at competitive prices, could harm our ability to attract and retain customers.

We and our customers operate in intensely competitive industries that are characterized by rapidly evolving technology, frequent product introductions and ongoing demands for ever greater performance and functionality. New products and new or improved technologies, such as the three dimensional glass-on frame cold forming technology developed by one of our commercial partners, Corning, or new industry standards in the end-user markets, can render other existing products and services obsolete and unmarketable and motivate our customers to seek our support or the support of others in designing and manufacturing new products and/or to demand reductions in price for existing products and solutions. We therefore must continually identify, design, develop and introduce new and updated solutions for a variety of industries with improved features to remain competitive. To do this, we must:

The process of developing new products and solutions and enhancing existing products and solutions is complex, lengthy, costly and uncertain. In certain instances, we may be dependent on collaborations with commercial partners to develop new products and solutions, such as Corning with respect to cold-formed glass applications or IMI, an affiliate of our majority shareholder, with respect to camera module design and functionality. If we are unable to maximize these or other collaborations or are unable to find future collaboration partners, or if the commercial relationship were to break down, our ability to develop new solutions may be adversely impacted. If we fail to anticipate our customers' changing needs or emerging technological trends, our market share and results of operations could materially suffer. We must make long-term investments in our research and development capabilities, including product development and equipment customization, develop or obtain appropriate know-how and intellectual property and commit significant resources, including to enhance and prepare our production capacity and software design capabilities, before knowing whether our predictions will accurately reflect customer demand for our products and solutions. As we design and develop new technological solutions, including interactive display solutions, we may face challenges and additional costs, in particular in areas like camera module design and software development where we have less experience. Furthermore, we may incur development costs on specific customer projects, and we may not be able to recoup such costs if our customers do not purchase the number of units that we expect. If we are unable to adapt our products to new technological industry standards or customer requirements, including with respect to the incorporation of enhanced features (such as interactive camera module technology or facial recognition) or functionality (such as glove functionality and software interactivity), the market's acceptance of our products and solutions could decline and our results would suffer. Furthermore, even if we are able to develop new products and solutions or enhance our existing products to meet our customers' expectations, if we are unable to achieve such developments on a cost effective basis or at sufficient quality or quantity, our customers may elect not to purchase our products or solutions and we may lose market share.

There are numerous potential alternatives to our display and touch technologies and materials and camera modules.

Optically bonded displays are more expensive than organically bonded (or air-gapped) displays and, as a result, may not be best suited for applications, specifically within the consumer electronics market, in which the highest quality performance characteristics (such as highly responsive touch functionality, sunlight readability and shock and temperature resistance) are not required. A number of companies produce organically bonded displays that do not have these high quality performance characteristics, but can compete with our display offerings in other ways. In addition, our optically bonded displays must compete with displays that are optically bonded using different techniques than the ones we employ, including liquid or dry optical bonding using epoxy or polyurethane. Companies are making substantial investments in, and conducting research to, improve the characteristics of these organically bonded displays and alternative optical bonding techniques that may improve functionality or lower the cost of their optically bonded displays. This could cause our customers to choose such products over our offerings. With respect to the cold forming technology we are developing with our collaborator, Corning, alternatives in the market exist, including "hot formed" products. The hot

forming process is more complicated and more expensive as compared to the cold forming process, which produces flat glass which is then shaped or molded after processing and held in place by a frame. In the hot forming process, glass is heated and shaped and, once formed, processed (for example, coated or colored). The technical complexities of the process of handling a non-flat glass also results in a significantly lower yield, which increases production costs of hot formed glass. The advantage of hot formed glass, however, is that it is not under mechanical tension after forming, unlike cold formed glass which needs to be held in place by a frame after forming.

Our metal mesh touch sensor technology is subject to competition from other producers of metal mesh touch sensors that use copper as the conductive material, silver mesh sensor and nano layer technologies that facilitate touch-enabled display capability, and from the integration of in-cell or on-cell touch sensing functionality into displays. Advances in these technologies may result in increased competition to our metal mesh touch sensor technology, the impact of which may be compounded as enhanced touch-enabled displays replace existing conventional displays. In addition, our camera modules and related solutions are subject to competition from other producers. See "Business—Competition."

We face intense competition within our industry and our competitors may introduce new display or touch sensor and/or camera-enabled solutions and specifications faster than we do, at lower prices or with better performance characteristics, may manage to reduce their costs at a greater rate than we do, or may benefit from support from corporate parents. Our failure to compete effectively with them could materially adversely affect our business, net assets, financial condition and results of operations.

We face global competition in the market for display solutions and competition for our touch sensor and camera-enabled solutions. Some of our current and potential competitors may have a number of advantages over us, including:

Consolidation among our competitors could also result in the formation of larger competitors with greater market share and greater financial and technological resources than we have, further increasing competition in the markets we serve. Furthermore, in some cases, our customers for certain products or services, such as consigned optical bonding services, may also be our competitors with respect to other aspects of our business, such as producing enhanced display solutions, and they could cease purchasing products or services from us.

Despite our planned investments in research and development and engineering, our products and process technologies may fail to keep pace with our competitors' ability to produce new technologies, higher quality display solutions at a lower cost, and our competitors may be able to offer their products

on a more price-competitive basis than we can. If our development fails to keep pace, and as a result of the intense competition in the market for display solutions and competition for touch sensor solutions, we may encounter significant pricing pressure and/or suffer losses in market share. For example, our competitors have in the past and may again in the future lower prices in order to increase their market share, which would ultimately reduce the prices we may realize from our customers. If we are unable to defend our market share by continually developing new products and solutions and/or reducing our own cost base, the pricing pressure exerted by our competitors could cause us to lose important customers or lead to falling average selling prices and declining margins. We may not be able to offset the effects of any price reductions with an increase in the number of products sold, cost reductions or otherwise, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. See "Business—Competition" for more information on competition in our business.

A limited number of customers account for a significant portion of our revenue. These customers can exert a significant amount of negotiating leverage over us, and revenue from them can be volatile. The loss of, or a substantial decline in sales to, one or more of these customers could have a material adverse effect on our revenue and profitability.

For 2019, 2018 and 2017, we derived 73.7%, 82.5% and 89.0%, respectively, of our revenue from our five largest customers, and 30.5%, 28.4% and 40.9%, respectively, of our revenue from our largest customer. For the six months ended June 30, 2020, we derived 80.3% of our revenue from our five largest customers, Dell, Pegatron, Toppan, AU Optronics and TOA, who comprised 40.6%, 17.9%, 14.3%, 4.1% and 3.4% of revenue, respectively. We expect to continue to derive a significant percentage of our revenue from a limited number of customers for the foreseeable future, and our results of operations may fluctuate materially as a result of changes in such customers' buying patterns. For example, during the year ended December 31, 2019, our revenues declined approximately 24.6% in our display solutions segment as compared to the comparable period in 2018, principally due to lower than anticipated sales to three key consumer end-market customers, Dell, AU Optronics and Mutto.

The decline in revenue from Dell during this period resulted from delays in Dell's production cycle that were triggered by a shortage in Intel microprocessor chips, which are central to Dell's product offerings. As a result of these production delays, Dell reduced its purchases with us during this period.

The decline in revenue from Mutto during 2019 resulted from Mutto performing its requisite optical bonding process in-house pursuant to a license they requested from us for our patented optical bonding technology. The revenue that we generated from licensing our technology to Mutto was lower than the revenue we generated from sales to Mutto in 2018; however, we granted Mutto a license to our technology because of the importance of, our relationship with Mutto to our business as a whole.

The decline in revenue from AU Optronics during 2019 resulted from lower sales by AU Optronics to one of their customers that experienced production declines during this period, which led AU Optronics to correspondingly reduce their purchases from us during the relevant period.

While the simultaneous combination of these events was unusual for our business, we are not necessarily able to anticipate or influence external events, such as customer production delays and the availability of component parts, and one or more such events could occur at any time or from time to time which, individually or in combination, could materially and adversely impact our sales, revenues and profitability.

Moreover, our top customers may decide not to continue to purchase products from us at current levels or at all. The loss of any significant customer (or customers that in the aggregate represent a significant portion of our revenue) or a material reduction in the amount of business we undertake with such customers could have a material adverse effect on our revenue and profitability.

In addition, our customers can demand and have in the past demanded reduced prices or other pricing, quality or delivery commitments as a condition to their purchasing from us or increasing their

purchase volume, which can, among other things, result in reduced gross margins in order to maintain or expand our market share. If we are unable to retain and expand our business with our customers on favorable terms, or if we are unable to achieve gross margins that are similar to or more favorable than the gross margins we have historically achieved, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially adversely affected.

Our customers' negotiating leverage can also result in customer arrangements that may contain liability risk to us. For example, some of our customers require that we provide them with indemnification against certain liabilities, including claims of losses by their customers caused by our products. Any increase in our customers' negotiating leverage, including with respect to indemnification, may expose us to increased liability risk, which, if realized, may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Because we do not generally have long-term agreements with our customers and our customers generally are not obligated to purchase a minimum quantity of products or services from us, we could fail to match our production with our customers' demand. Our results may suffer if we are not able to adequately forecast demand for our products.

It is not industry practice to enter into firm, long-term purchase commitments. Sales to our customers and arrangements for prototype development are generally governed by framework agreements that do not include minimum purchase quantity requirements. Although we consult with major customers who typically provide us with forecasts of their product requirements, customers may choose to operate under non-binding arrangements, may not contract for products as forecasted, may cancel orders that they do place or reduce the quantities ordered from us for a number of reasons and with limited or no notice. They may also discontinue their relationship with us at any time, potentially without penalty. The timing of customer orders can have a material impact on our revenue and result in volatility of revenue period-on-period. If we are unable to predict accurately the amount of products needed to meet customer requirements, or if customers were to unexpectedly cancel or reduce a large number of orders simultaneously, as we experienced in 2019, our production could significantly exceed our customers' demand and, due to the bespoke nature of many of our products, it would be difficult to find alternative customers for the unsold product and we would be unable to quickly transition production to alternative projects. This could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, in the automotive end-market we may be required to deliver products over a long period of time without having any commitments from our customers to purchase minimum volumes of such products throughout that period and/or maintain replacement inventory and spare parts to support post-sale maintenance obligations. This means that our production facilities need to maintain the capability to produce such products over a long period of time, potentially on short notice, including through reserving or re-tooling machines which could be used for other projects, in order to meet demands for our products over time. As a result, we also need to maintain spare inventory in good working condition for extended periods which can be difficult and involve significant expense. In addition, until we are awarded a project and the relevant operating procedures are determined, changes in design, product specification, quantities and materials may occur which could make it difficult for us to meet the customer's demand on the schedule the customer requires. Failure to meet the demands of our customers in the automotive end-market could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations, as well as harm our reputation and relationships with our automotive customers.

We are highly dependent on the success of our customers and their sales to certain end-markets.

Our customers are not the end users of our product offerings, but rather they use our products and solutions as a part of their products, which are ultimately sold to an end user. In the case of metal

mesh touch sensors, we usually function as a component supplier selling touch sensors to third parties for incorporation into their own finished products, which are subsequently sold to OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers and other suppliers for inclusion in end-user products. Our success depends in large part on the ability of our customers to market and sell their end products that incorporate our products. If any of our customers' end product marketing efforts are unsuccessful or if our customers experience a decrease in demand for such products such as with AU Optonics in 2019, our sales and/or profitability will be reduced. Some of the end-markets in which our customers operate are characterized by intense competition, rapid technological change and economic uncertainty, and as such we may be unable to replace the revenue associated with the loss of any one key customer with new business relationships. If we are unable to collaborate with and secure design wins with successful OEMs, we may not create meaningful demand for our products. Moreover, if any of our customers choose to focus their efforts on programs and end products that do not incorporate our products and solutions, we may experience decreased demand for our products. Any of these circumstances may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our business and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected by the ongoing novel COVID-19 pandemic.

A significant outbreak of contagious diseases in the human population that causes a widespread health crisis could adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries, resulting in an economic downturn that could affect our operating results. In particular, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including widespread illness, market downturns, restrictions on business and individual activities, changes in consumer behavior, and uncertainty regarding the future course of the pandemic, has created significant volatility in the global economy and led to a steep drop in economic activity and a sharp reduction in demand for certain of the end products in which our products are installed, including automobiles. We have taken numerous steps to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on our cost base and results of operations, including implementing a work-from-home policy for non-manufacturing employees and alternative production shifts for our manufacturing operations. Furthermore, we engaged in cost reduction activities such as ceasing the recruitment of personnel. However, the impact of the pandemic on our revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2020 was material, and has adversely affected our supply chains, logistics, and the availability of our workforce, and there can be no assurance that our cost saving initiatives will be successful or that COVID-19 will not continue to have an adverse impact on our revenue.

We derive a significant portion of our revenue from China and have manufacturing facilities in China and Japan. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, our operations have experienced certain delays and disruptions, including temporary suspension of operations. In March 2020, the Chinese government imposed temporary closures of all factories, including our production facilities located in Suzhou, China for a period of one week. In addition, due to travel restrictions within China as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it took several weeks after re-opening for our facilities to return to 100% production capacity. In Japan, VTS temporarily halted production for two weeks in March 2020 due to decreased order volume, but has since resumed normal production capacity. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted, and may continue to disrupt, the industries in which our customers and suppliers do business, including in particular the automotive industry. Such disruptions include the manufacturing, delivery, overall supply chain of our customers and suppliers and a reduction in automobile sales globally. As a result, we may experience declines in the production and distribution of our products, and the loss of sales and production volumes may be volatile.

If the global economic effects caused by the pandemic continue or increase, overall customer demand in certain markets may continue to decline which would have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

A prolonged downturn in regional and global economic conditions would likely result in us experiencing a significantly negative cash flow.

In addition, if the COVID-19 pandemic continues or worsens and a significant portion of our workforce, our suppliers' workforce, or our customers' workforce are affected, either directly or due to new or extended government closures, associated work stoppages, facility closures or other similar occurrences could halt or further delay production.

The full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our financial condition and results of operations will depend on future developments, such as the ultimate duration and scope of the outbreak, its impact on our customers and suppliers, how quickly, and to what extent normal economic and operating conditions, and the demand for our products across our end-markets can resume and whether the pandemic leads to recessionary conditions in any of our key markets that may continue to impact customer demand and the financial instability or operating viability of our suppliers and customers. While we have not experienced prolonged supply chain interruptions or material cancellations of orders, the rapid development and fluidity of the situation presents uncertainty and risk with respect to our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are dependent upon our relationship with Toppan, the minority owner of VTS, with respect to the production and sale of our metal mesh touch sensor technology.

We produce and sell our metal mesh touch sensors and films through VTS, our subsidiary in which Toppan is the minority investor. In 2019, 17.4% of our revenue was generated by VTS. VTS's business operations were established through a series of commercial agreements between us (or VTS) and Toppan. These agreements include: a shareholder agreement, an intellectual property transfer agreement, an intellectual property license agreement, facility lease agreements, employee secondment agreements a business assistance agreement and an R&D and consignment agreement. Pursuant to these agreements, Toppan transferred patents and patent applications relating to its sensor technologies to VTS. Additionally, Toppan agreed to lease to VTS plant buildings for two manufacturing sites in Japan to produce VTS's products, and to provide the majority of plant employees. VTS's research and development activities are delegated to Toppan under an R&D and consignment agreement. The shareholders agreement also includes certain non-competition, lock-up and deadlock put/call provisions that govern certain of our and Toppan's rights and obligations with respect to VTS. The deadlock put/call provisions additionally provide that in the event of a deadlock between us and Toppan, we could be entitled to or become obligated to acquire all of Toppan's interest in VTS at certain pre-negotiated price thresholds. Under the commercial agreements with Toppan, if Toppan ceases to own an equity interest in VTS, Toppan is permitted to terminate these commercial agreements without our consent.

Accordingly, the continuation and success of our metal mesh business is highly dependent on Toppan and on our agreements with Toppan. There can be no assurance that we will be able to complete the registration process for any patent applications transferred by Toppan to VTS to perfect VTS's rights in such intellectual property or that VTS will have access to the most qualified Toppan personnel for purposes of carrying out its operations. If any of the commercial agreements with Toppan were to terminate, our relationship with Toppan were to deteriorate or if Toppan elected to prioritize its wholly-owned business over that of VTS, VTS' business operations would be materially and adversely impacted and it would have a material adverse effect on our ability to produce and sell metal mesh touch sensors and recognize the related revenue. In addition, if we were were obligated pursuant to the put/call provisions in the shareholders agreement to acquire all of Toppan's interest in VTS our cash flow in the relevant period would be materially and adversely affected. The occurence of these or related events would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operation and financial condition.

We may not be able to maximize the benefits of our strategic partnership with Toppan or effectively collaborate with them in the future.

On March 29, 2018, we acquired a 65% interest in VTS from Toppan. We have only jointly operated VTS with Toppan for a limited period of time and continue to develop our strategic relationship. We may not be able to maximize the benefits of our strategic partnership with Toppan in the future or may not collaborate with them effectively, and our failure to do so successfully may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including, among other things, through disruption of operations at facilities we lease from Toppan, loss of Toppan employees providing services to VTS, failure to successfully execute on and maximize the benefits to us under ongoing agreements with Toppan, potential infringement of third-party intellectual property rights by products manufactured by VTS based on intellectual property rights licensed/obtained from Toppan or those developed by VTS with the assistance of Toppan and issues relating to regulatory compliance in production processes operated by Toppan employees.

Winning business is often subject to a competitive selection process that can be lengthy and requires us to incur significant expense, and we may not be selected.

In many cases, we must win competitive selection processes, resulting in so-called "design wins," before we can supply customers with our products and solutions. These selection processes can range from approximately six months to 30 months, depending on the end-markets and the customers and can require us to incur significant design and development expenditures. We may not win the competitive selection process and may never generate any revenue despite incurring significant design and development expenditures, including prototype development and tooling costs. The new product selection processes we seek to enter are determined by our sales team based on their judgment and experience. Even if we are successful in obtaining design wins, there is no guarantee that our sales team will have identified and pursued the most lucrative selection processes or those that will generate revenue. Because we typically focus on only a few customers in a given product area, the loss of a design win may result in our failure to have our technologies added to new generation products in that area. This can result in lost sales and could hurt our position in future competitive selection processes to the extent we are not perceived as being a technology leader.

After winning a product design for one of our customers, we may still experience delays ranging from one quarter to eight quarters (depending on the end-market and the specific life cycle of each product) in generating revenue as a result of lengthy customer development and design cycles or we may be unable to ramp up production for customers, in particular new customers, on a timely basis. In addition, a change, delay or cancellation of a customer's plans could significantly adversely affect our financial results, as we may have incurred significant expense and generated no revenue or materially less revenue than we expected. Finally, even if a design is introduced, if our customers fail to successfully market and sell their products, it could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

We may not realize our strategies, including our goal of becoming a leading provider of interactive display solutions, in particular to OEMs and their Tier-1 suppliers.

Our goal is to become a leading provider of interactive display solutions, in particular to OEMs and their Tier-1 suppliers, specifically within the automotive and industrial/specialized markets, and to continue to deliver innovative products for our customers in the consumer end-market. However, we may be unsuccessful in achieving this goal. We believe our primary risk to achieving this goal is related to maintaining and developing required design resources in timely manner. In addition, overall demand and market conditions may impact our ability to achieve this goal.

Furthermore, even if we are able to collaborate with key OEMs as a design partner to incorporate our products and solutions into their end products and produce attractive interactive display solutions,

there are always unforeseeable risks such as technical problems, which could result in OEMs reducing their use of our products and solutions or ceasing their collaborations with us entirely.

Our OEM, Tier-1 supplier and other customers' product offerings can be subject to lengthy development periods, making it difficult to predict when and whether we will receive revenue for our products that are incorporated into their offerings.

The product development process for our OEM, Tier-1 supplier and other customers can be lengthy, and in some instances may last for longer than two years, in particular when we are developing prototypes for evaluation and use by new customers. We may not earn revenue from our solutions unless and until products featuring our technologies are shipped to our customers, and prior to such time we may incur unreimbursed costs, which at times may be significant, for product development. Throughout the product development process, we face the risk that a manufacturer or supplier may delay the incorporation of, or choose not to incorporate, our technologies into its products, making it difficult for us to predict the revenue we may receive, if any. Furthermore, the expectations set out by our OEM and supplier customers in our framework agreements with respect to the timing for shipment of end-user products and realization of related revenue and ongoing sales forecasts may be inaccurate in whole or in part. After a product launches, our revenue still depends on market acceptance of the end-user product and the option packages if our technology is an option (for example, a navigation or entertainment unit), which are likely to be determined by many factors beyond our control.

Our solutions are one of many components incorporated into our customers' product offerings and our business may be harmed, potentially significantly, if our direct customers experience delays in the production of their product offerings, including due to performance issues with, or supply shortages of, component parts unrelated to our solutions.

Our customers generally use our products and solutions as a component or portion of their offerings to their own customers, who in turn sell these offerings to end users. Accordingly, our success depends in large part on the ability of our customers to market and sell their offerings that incorporate our products and solutions. Our customers' product offerings are usually complex and may involve many different systems and components, and their ability to sell their products depends on many factors, including the availability of component parts, raw materials and other necessary services; the proper functioning of each of these components and the timeliness and effectiveness of their own processes. Supply delays, raw material shortages or the failure or under-performance of components unrelated to our products and solutions may impact our business even when we are able to deliver our products and services timely and defect-free. These factors may cause delays in our customers' production cycles, may cause our customers to cut back or delay their purchases of our products and solutions or may lead them to cease purchases from us entirely for periods of time while they address their production issues. Because our customer agreements typically do not specify minimum order requirements by our customers, our customers usually have no obligation to purchase our solutions if they experience supply issues unrelated to our solutions, or to make any prepayments to us. For example, during the year ended December 31, 2019, our revenues declined approximately 24.6% in our display solutions segment as compared to the comparable period in 2018, principally due to lower than anticipated sales to three key consumer end-market customers, Dell, AU Optronics and Mutto.

During any period in which one or more key customers materially reduces or suspends purchasing our products or solutions we may incur stranded costs or accumulate inventories that are not readily saleable to other customers or at all and we may be unable to shift our production capacity to other projects that have equivalent or more favorable cost structures. Production issues or delays like these may occur in the future, often with little or no advance notice. As a result, any issues with respect to the manufacture or production of our customers' products could materially and adversely affect our ability to sell our solutions and may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We depend on a limited number of suppliers, some of which are sole sources, and our business could be disrupted if they are unable to meet our needs.

We depend on a limited number of suppliers of our key materials, including bonding materials and custom equipment used to manufacture and test our products, and key design tools used in the design, testing and manufacturing of our products. We currently source all of our requirements for the silicone base materials used in our VIA bond plus from a sole supplier, Wacker Chemie AG, or Wacker. With suppliers other than Wacker, we do not have long-term agreements and instead purchase materials and equipment through a purchase order process. As a result, these suppliers may stop supplying us materials and equipment, limit the allocation of supply and equipment to us due to increased industry demand or significantly increase their prices at any time and with little or no advance notice. From time to time, our suppliers have limited supply or change their pricing terms with little or no advance notice, and our agreements with them generally do not provide remedies for such events. The impact to us of such adverse actions by our suppliers in the future could be heightened because of our reliance on sole source suppliers or a limited number of suppliers and could result in delivery problems, reduced control over product pricing and quality, including because our sole source suppliers could prioritize other customers' business over ours. These suppliers could also exert a significant amount of negotiating leverage over us, which may require us to accept higher prices or other obligations in order to maintain or expand our relationship. Some of our suppliers may experience financial difficulties that could prevent them from supplying us materials, or equipment used in the design and manufacture of our products. In addition, our suppliers, including our sole source suppliers, may experience manufacturing delays or shut downs due to circumstances beyond their control such as labor issues, political unrest or natural disasters. Our suppliers, including our sole source suppliers, could also determine to discontinue the manufacture of materials, components, equipment or tools that may be difficult for us to obtain from alternative sources. In addition, the suppliers of design tools that we rely on may not maintain or advance the capabilities of their tools in a manner sufficient to meet the technological requirements for us to design advanced products or provide such tools to us at reasonable prices.

Further, the industry in which our suppliers operate is subject to a trend of consolidation. To the extent this trend continues, we may become dependent on even fewer suppliers to meet our material and equipment needs. In the event we need to establish relationships with additional suppliers, doing so may be a time-consuming process and would require significant training and education of such suppliers, and there are no assurances that we would be able to enter into necessary arrangements with these additional suppliers in time to avoid supply constraints in sole sourced components or that such suppliers would be able to immediately perform at levels required to meet our requirements and/or specifications.

We are dependent upon Wacker as the sole source of the base silicone material used in our VIA bond plus adhesive. Should Wacker become unable to supply us with sufficient quantities of these materials, we may be unable to replace these supplies with alternative materials quickly, on reasonable terms or at all.

Wacker is the sole supplier to us of the base silicone material we use to prepare our VIA bond plus adhesive, a critical element in our optical bonding process. We are party to a Framework Cooperation Agreement with Wacker, dated April 8, 2019, that replaced an earlier agreement between Wacker and us originally signed in 2013. Wacker currently produces silicone materials in accordance with specifications we have provided, and in the context of our commercial relationship with Wacker, those specifications have been refined and developed over a period of years under the prior agreement.

With respect to the continued supply of silicone materials, the new Framework Cooperation Agreement provides as follows: (i) Wacker is required to exclusively provide us with the base silicone material used in our VIA bond plus adhesive per the specifications set forth in such agreement so long as we satisfy a minimum delivery amount per calendar year, (ii) we are required to purchase all of our requirements of our silicone materials from Wacker, if the silicone material is suitable for the project and approved by our customer and except to the extent that Wacker is unable to meet our requirements (which Wacker is required to confirm in writing within one week of our request for material) in which event we are permitted to obtain a suitable different material, (iii) the price of such material shall be mutually negotiated each year during the fourth quarter, with the contract being terminable if the parties are not able to agree on terms and (iv) Wacker's liability is limited as it solely warrants that the silicone material will meet the specifications provided in the agreement. The Framework Cooperation Agreement has an initial term ending December 31, 2021 and thereafter automatically renews for successive one year terms unless it is earlier terminated on six months' advance notice.

The new Framework Cooperation Agreement also establishes Wacker and us as development partners for materials in the area of optical bonding. The agreement further provides that it is not intended to affect any pre-existing intellectual property rights of the parties or to effect any cross-licensing of intellectual property.

We have qualified an alternative supplier for a different silicone material to use in the preparation of the bonding adhesive employed in our optical bonding process if Wacker is at any time unable to fulfill our requirements. However, we may be unsuccessful in obtaining alternative sources of supply if such supplier, or any alternative suppliers, are unable to deliver silicone materials of the same quality or quantity, on similar commercial terms or in as timely a manner as Wacker has delivered silicone materials in the past. We must also ensure that we do not infringe any intellectual property rights of others, including Wacker, in our sourcing from alternative suppliers. Further, Wacker could insist on price increases that will not be acceptable to us, including price increases effective in 2021, and therefore result either in the termination of the agreement, which could cause uncertainties in the sourcing of the base silicone material, or, if we have no reasonable alternative to accepting the higher prices, could cause our margins to decrease. If we are not able to secure an alternate source of supply for our bonding material, on commercially reasonable terms, our ability to fulfill customer orders could be materially and adversely impacted and we could experience a material and adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

We have a limited number of suppliers and our business may be harmed if they were to interrupt supply or increase prices.

Any supply deficiencies in the industry relating to the quantities of materials, equipment or tools we use to design and manufacture our products, or a reduction in the quality of such materials, equipment or tools, could materially and adversely affect our ability to fulfill customer orders and, as a result, our results of operations. Our manufacturing operations depend upon obtaining deliveries of base equipment at reasonable prices and on a timely basis to enable our customization and utilization

of such equipment in our manufacturing process. Our proprietary equipment is sophisticated and complex and it may be difficult for us to rapidly substitute one supplier for another or one piece of equipment for another. We aim to have multiple suppliers for all equipment needed in our production processes including camera modules, but given that we operate in a highly technologically driven market, there may be a limited number of suppliers available for certain customized production equipment.

In addition, lead times for the purchase of certain materials, equipment and tools from suppliers have increased and in some instances have exceeded the lead times provided to us by our customers. In some cases, these lead time increases have limited our ability to respond to or meet customer demand. We have in the past, and may in the future, experience delays or reductions in supply shipments, which could reduce our revenue and profitability. In addition, potential regulatory changes, including tariffs or other restrictions imposed by the United States or others, could in the future prohibit, or increase our costs relating to, the use of suppliers in certain regions, including China. If key components or materials are unavailable or limited in availability, our costs would increase and our revenue would decline.

The expansion of production facilities by us or malfunction of our current equipment may put additional pressure on our supply chain. If we are unable to obtain any equipment necessary to expand our production capacity in a timely manner, we may be unable to ramp up production according to our plan or fulfill our customer orders, which could negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In the ordinary course of business and consistent with industry practice, we operate without contracts with some of our suppliers, particularly in Asia. These suppliers currently include suppliers of off-the-shelf displays that we incorporate into certain product offerings when required by our customers or when it is cost effective to do so because our enhanced display capabilities are not needed. In the event that we encounter any disruptions or disagreements with these suppliers, we may face difficulty in seeking remedies and enforcing judgments in the absence of a contract governing our commercial relationship with these suppliers. In addition, some agreements with our suppliers have expired and have not been re-negotiated. Any inability to enter into new agreements with these suppliers in a timely manner could result in us having to agree to less favorable terms, could disrupt our supply of materials and could increase our risk of litigation in the event that these suppliers cease performing under the prior contracts during the course of our negotiations with them.

We may face volatility in the prices or availability of certain components and raw materials used in our business, which could adversely impact the competitive position of our products or may result in a decrease of margins and profits.

We use various components, including silicones, cover lenses, backlights, display housings, and raw materials, such as copper, in our products. The costs of components and raw materials depend to a large extent on the world market prices, which may be subject to significant fluctuations beyond our control.

If the prices for raw materials and purchased components were to rise, our manufacturing costs could increase. If our manufacturing costs increase, we could be forced to cover our need for these raw materials and purchased components with higher prices of our products, which could result in lower sales, or if we are not able to increase prices due to fixed price contracts, competitive pressure or otherwise, to lower margins and profitability. We do not hedge raw material prices. Furthermore, to the extent that we rely on components that are pre-assembled or manufactured for others, a shortage in such components would require us to find alternative manufacturers of these components or to manufacture these components ourselves, which may be time consuming, costly or not possible.

Shortages of necessary raw materials or component parts may also cause a sharp rise in their prices. In the event of any disruption or delay in supply, it may be difficult to locate alternative sources of components from one or several suppliers and doing so may require a significant amount of time and resources. A delay in the delivery of necessary raw materials or component parts could result in delays in projects or delivery of products, which could ultimately delay deliveries of our products to our customers. If we were permanently to lose a supplier of or access to important raw materials or component parts, we also might be forced to alter the design of certain of our products in order to use raw materials or component parts from other suppliers. In extreme cases, this could mean that we would be at least temporarily unable to produce, supply or service certain of our products. Such inability could impair our relationship with our customers and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We utilize floating and fixed pricing arrangements with our customers. Unless specifically agreed with customers, if a contract with a customer provides for fixed prices, it is generally difficult for us to pass on increased prices for raw materials and purchased components. Sustained increases in prices for raw materials and purchased components that cannot be passed onto our customers would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We are subject to a number of trade risks including long accounts receivable payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable in certain countries. For example, our accounts receivable are generally subject to 60 to 90 day payment cycles. We may be unable to successfully manage all of these risks, many of which are outside our control, which could lead to payment default by a customer.

We currently have no insurance coverage for such payment defaults. Delays in the implementation of, or in payments related to, significant orders and projects may also have a negative effect on the timing of our revenue, which may adversely impact our operating results and our ability to make capital expenditures or investment in research and development. Any interruption in the realization of our revenues could require us to engage in short term borrowings under our existing working capital financing facilities, or require us to seek additional sources of financing, in order to meet our working capital requirements, which would result in increased borrowing costs. These would impact our profitability, assuming we are able to source such borrowings; if we are unable to finance our capital expenditures or research and development activities in full or in part, it could materially affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

We may misallocate our research and development resources or have insufficient resources to conduct the necessary level of research and development to remain competitive.

As interactive display technology becomes more advanced, and as we implement our strategies, we expect our research and development costs to grow, including as a percentage of our revenues, and we may be unable to keep increases in these costs from adversely affecting our profitability. We may also devote significant research and development resources to technologies or products that turn out to be unsuccessful or to secure new customers that ultimately do not purchase products. Commitments to developing any new product must be made well in advance of sales, and customer demands and technology may change while we are in development, rendering our products and solutions outdated or uncompetitive before their introduction and therefore difficult to sell profitably or at all. We must therefore anticipate both future demand and the technology features that will be required to supply such demand. If we suffer from reduced revenues or cash flows or incur losses as a result of a market downturn or otherwise, we may not be able to devote sufficient resources to the research and development needed to remain competitive in a timely manner or at all. Our failure to properly allocate research and development resources could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If there is a decline in the average selling prices of display or touch sensor solutions we sell, or if prices decrease faster than we are able to reduce our costs, our margins may be adversely affected.

The average selling prices of our display solutions, including optical bonding, camera module and metal mesh technology, may decline as a result of, among other factors, technological advancements leading to cost reductions and increased competition. In general, the prices of new products in our target markets generally decline over time. Although we seek to focus our efforts on technologically advanced solutions that we believe to be less susceptible to these downward pressures on selling prices, we may not succeed in prioritizing these higher margin products in our product mix, or prices of these products may also fluctuate or decline, albeit at a slower rate. The average selling price for the display solutions we produce may decrease faster than we anticipate and are able to reduce our manufacturing costs. We may also be unable to keep pace with technological advancements in our end-marks, enabling our competitors to produce more competitive technologies for which our customers are willing to pay higher prices. The potential loss of customers, competitive lead, and market share would adversely affect our gross margins would decrease and our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

Products that contain, or are perceived to contain, defects or errors or that are otherwise incompatible with their intended end use may not be readily marketable or could impose significant costs on us.

The design and production processes for our display solutions are highly complex. It is possible that we may produce products that contain or are perceived to contain defects or errors, or are otherwise incompatible with their intended uses. We may incur substantial costs in remedying such defects or errors, which could include material inventory write-downs. Moreover, if actual or perceived problems with nonconforming, defective or incompatible products occur after we have shipped the products, we might not only bear direct liability for providing replacements or otherwise compensating customers but could also suffer from long-term damage to our relationship with important customers or to our reputation in the industry generally.

Our product offerings are complex and may contain undetected defects, which could lead to product reworks or recalls and harm our reputation and future sales.

Our enhanced display head assemblies and subassemblies involve the production and combination of several highly technical components, many of which involve fragile materials. Our metal mesh touch sensors and camera modules are customized to meet customer specifications and involve a multi-stage process to generate a metal mesh film, imprint the touch sensor panel and blacken the conductive copper material. A defect or error could occur in any step of our production process, including defects that would not be readily apparent upon completion of production. Any failure to provide high quality and reliable products, whether caused by our own failure or failures of our suppliers or OEM customers, could damage our reputation and reduce demand for our products and services. Our products have in the past contained, and may in the future contain, defects, some of which may go undetected for some time. For example, certain displays made for one of our customer experienced peeling issues in the past. Some deficiencies in our products may only be discovered after a customer's product incorporating our solution has been delivered to end users or may only be detected in use under certain operating conditions. Given the technical sophistication of most of our products, we may encounter problems or delays with our products, despite the technical validation processes and testing we implement. In addition, some of our product offerings may be used in connection with safety features, such as advanced driver assistance systems in cars, which may expose us to particularly heightened risks if our products are defective. Any defects discovered in our products after delivery could result in reworking of returned products or product recalls, including recalls of our customers' products to the extent a defect is only discovered after commercial release of our customers' products. Any defects, reworks or product recalls could result in loss of revenue, loss of customers, and increased

service and product liability and/or warranty costs, any of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We have substantial sales and operations in China, which exposes us to risks inherent in doing business there.

Our business operations in China and our sales to Chinese customers are critical to our success. As of June 30, 2020, we had approximately 364 employees, including contractors, at our production facility in Suzhou. Moreover, in 2019, 41.9% of our revenues were derived from China. As a result, downturns in the Chinese economy could materially adversely affect our results of operations. For example, our revenues declined 20.1% in 2019 in part due to an economic slowdown in China and China's overall economy has been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the six months ended June 30, 2020. The Chinese economy differs from the economies of other developed countries in many respects, including the level of government involvement, level of development, growth rate and control of foreign exchange and allocation of resources. The Chinese economy to some extent has been in a long-term transition from a planned economy to a more market-oriented economy. Despite some reforms of this nature, the government continues to exercise significant control over China's economy by way of the allocation of resources, control over foreign currency-denominated obligations and monetary policy and provision of preferential treatment to particular industries or companies. We cannot predict the future economic policies of the Chinese government or their effect on the regional or global economy, or on us or our business and industry, and we cannot predict other governments' economic policies toward China.

The imposition of tariffs and trade restrictions as a result of international trade disputes, trade wars, or changes in trade policies may adversely affect our sales and profitability. For example, in recent years the U.S. government imposed and proposed, among other actions, new or higher tariffs on specified imported products originating from China in response to what it characterizes as unfair trade practices, and China has responded by imposing and proposing new or higher tariffs on specified products including some semiconductors fabricated in the United States. There can be no assurance that these trade tensions will improve or that a broader trade agreement will be successfully negotiated between the United States and China to reduce or eliminate these tariffs or that trade tensions will not expand to other markets, including the European Union. These tariffs, and the related geopolitical uncertainty between the United States and China, and potentially other countries, may cause decreased end-market demand for our products from distributors and other customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. For example, certain of our future foreign customers may respond to the imposition of tariffs or threat of tariffs on products we produce in China by delaying purchase orders, purchasing products from our competitors or developing their own products. While we have been able to adapt to these risks through maintaining integrated manufacturing capabilities outside China, we may need to further expand our manufacturing operations in countries other than China, such as the Philippines, or move our operations out of China in order to meet customer demands, which would be expensive and could consume significant management resources. Ongoing international trade disputes and changes in trade policies and the political and economic environment could also impact economic activity and lead to a general contraction of customer demand. Future actions or escalations by either the United States or China, or other countries, that affect trade relations may also impact our business, or that of our suppliers or customers, and we cannot provide any assurances as to whether such actions will occur or the form that they may take.

Our ability to operate in China may also be materially adversely affected by changes in Chinese laws and regulations such as those related to, among other things, taxation, environmental regulations, land use rights, intellectual property, currency controls, network security, employee benefits and overtime policies and other matters. Our operations in China are subject to numerous laws, regulations, rules and specifications relating to human health and safety and the environment. Applicable laws, rules and regulations often lack clarity and it is difficult to predict how any of these laws, rules and

regulations will be enforced. If we or our employees or agents violate, or are alleged to have violated, any of these laws, rules and regulations, we or our employees could be subject to civil or criminal penalties, damages or fines, or our employees or agents could be detained, imprisoned or prevented from entering China, any of which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may be subject to product liability suits and losses in sales, which could adversely affect our business.

Products or systems we develop or inputs third parties produce for inclusion in our product offerings may have quality defects or fail to meet specifications and requirements. If such a defect were to arise, it could result in a product recall or a product liability claim against us and we have been subject to immaterial product liability claims from time to time. Some of our customers also require that we provide them with indemnification against certain liabilities, including claims of losses by their customers caused by our products. In addition, some of our product offerings may be used in connection with safety features, such as advanced driver assistance systems in cars, which may expose us to particularly heightened risks if our products are defective. Any such recalls or product liability claims could be costly, could harm our reputation, could lead to customer losses or affect our ability to sell our products and could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition or cause our products to be less attractive to customers than those of our competitors.

We grant comprehensive contractual warranties to our customers on the products we develop and sell, which typically last for 12 months and in some cases up to 36 months and in some rare cases longer. This includes, to some extent, guarantees on the performance of our products and services for contractually determined periods of time. In addition, statutory warranties also apply to our products. In the future we could be subject to substantial claims under warranties, especially in the case of an unexpectedly large volume of product failures.

We may not be able to protect our trade secrets and other confidential information.

While some of our technology is covered by patents that we own or have applied for, or is licensed under patents belonging to others, such as Corning with respect to their cold forming technology, Toppan with respect to our metal mesh touch sensor technology and IMI with respect to their patent-pending 6-axis active alignment technology, much of our key technology is not protected by patents. We have devoted substantial resources to the development of our technology, trade secrets, know-how and other unregistered intellectual property rights. In order to protect our trade secrets, know-how and proprietary information, we rely in significant part on confidentiality arrangements and invention assignment agreements with our employees, licensees, independent contractors, advisers, resellers and customers. We have not have entered into confidentiality arrangements or invention assignment agreements with all of our past and present employees, licensees, independent contractors, advisers, resellers and customers. This exposes us to the risk that these persons could claim that we use or infringe on their intellectual property rights. Even when we have entered into such an agreement, these arrangements may be difficult and costly to enforce and may not be effective to convey ownership of inventions, may not be effective to prevent willful or unintentional disclosure of confidential information, including trade secrets or may not provide an adequate remedy in the event of unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Also, effective trade secret and know-how protection may not be or, due to changes in trade secret or employment law, may no longer be available in every country in which our services are available or where we have employees or independent contractors. In addition, if others independently discover trade secrets and proprietary information we would not be able to assert trade secret rights against such parties.

Because we cannot legally prevent one or more other companies from developing similar or identical technology to our unpatented technology, it is likely that, over time, one or more other companies will be able to replicate our technology, thereby reducing the technological advantages we believe we possess today. Our customers, including certain licensees who are also our competitors, could misappropriate our intellectual property. If we do not adequately protect our technology or are legally unable to do so, or are unable to develop new technology that can be protected by patents or as trade secrets, we may face increased competition from other companies using technology similar to ours, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we are unable to obtain patent protection for or otherwise protect our intellectual property rights, our business could suffer.

We rely on a combination of patents, trademarks, trade secrets and confidentiality agreements and other contractual arrangements with our employees, customers and others to protect the intellectual property that is important to our competitive position. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to obtain patent protection for or maintain as trade secrets our proprietary products, technologies and inventions and to maintain the confidentiality of our trade secrets and know-how, operate without infringing upon the proprietary rights of others and prevent others from infringing upon our business proprietary rights.

Any of our existing or future patents or other intellectual property rights may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, or may otherwise fail to provide us with meaningful protection or any competitive advantage. In addition, our pending patent applications may not be granted, and we may not be able to obtain foreign patents or may choose not to file applications for patents corresponding to our U.S. and European patents in other jurisdictions. The laws of certain countries outside the United States and Europe may not provide the same level of patent protection as in the United States and Europe, so even if we assert our patents or obtain additional patents in countries outside of the United States and Europe, effective enforcement of such patents may not be available.

For example, the legal regime of intellectual property protection in China is still evolving. The level of protection available for intellectual property in China differs in significant respects from that of other jurisdictions and may be viewed as insufficient under certain circumstances due to local judicial protectionism, challenges in obtaining evidence and comparatively small damage awards. It is often difficult to register, maintain and enforce intellectual property rights in China. Statutory laws and regulations are subject to judicial interpretation and enforcement and may not be applied consistently due to the lack of clear guidance on statutory interpretation. Protection of intellectual property in China can be costly, and we may be unable to promptly become aware of and police any unauthorized use of our intellectual property in China. If the measures we take to protect our intellectual property under Chinese law are inadequate, we may incur losses arising from infringement of our intellectual property by parties providing services or selling products that employ our technology or are based on it and that are competitive with our services or products. In 2016, we filed a patent dispute claim against a competitor in Chinese court, alleging infringement by the competitor and disputing ownership of four patents relating to our optical bonding process, and we ultimately withdrew the case after determining we had a low likelihood of success. We may face similar scenarios in the future.

Furthermore, patents are jurisdictional in nature and therefore only protect us in certain markets, rather than globally. In addition, patents and some other intellectual property rights are only granted for a limited period of time and our ability to compete may suffer from the expiration of some of these rights.

In addition, competitors may infringe, misappropriate or otherwise misuse our intellectual property. Costly and time consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce our intellectual property against such third-party infringement, and such litigation may be unsuccessful in whole or in part. We may not have sufficient financial or other resources to conduct such actions, which typically last years

before a legal judgment or settlement is obtained. If we are not adequately protected, our competitive position and results of operations could be harmed.

We may be subject to claims that our intellectual property infringes the rights of others. These claims may be expensive and time-consuming to defend, and we may be prevented from manufacturing, licensing or selling products or marketing services that are determined to infringe upon the rights of others.

While we strive to avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties, we may fail to avoid infringement claims being made against us. Our products and technology, including the technology that we obtain from third parties, may infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. Patent applications in the United States and most other countries are confidential for a period of time until they are published, and the publication of discoveries in scientific or patent literature typically lags actual discoveries by several months or more. As a result, the nature of claims contained in unpublished patent filings around the world is unknown to us, and we cannot be certain that we were the first to conceive inventions covered by our patents or patent applications or that we were the first to file patent applications covering such inventions. Furthermore, it is not possible to know in which countries patent holders may choose to extend their filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty or other mechanisms. In addition, patent infringements may also result from our use of processes and products, and our other activities in the ordinary course of business. We may be subject to intellectual property infringement claims from individuals, vendors and other companies, including those that are in the business of asserting patents, but are not commercializing products in our or adjacent business fields.

Any claims that our products or processes infringe the intellectual property rights of others, regardless of the merit or of the final resolution of such claims, could cause us to incur potentially significant costs in responding to, defending and resolving such claims. In connection with the enforcement of our intellectual property rights, opposing third parties from obtaining patent rights or disputes related to the validity or alleged infringement of our or third-party intellectual property rights, including patent rights, we have been and may in the future be subject or party to claims, negotiations or complex, protracted litigation. We may be prevented from using technology that a contracting party may claim was developed jointly with it. We may be required to enter into license agreements, to resolve these claims, obligating us to pay royalty fees, which may be material, to make use of third parties' intellectual property, to develop non-infringing substitute technology (which may be time consuming, costly or ultimately unsuccessful) or to enter into costly settlement agreements on terms that are unfavorable to us, for example by preventing us from manufacturing or licensing certain of our products or technologies with respect to which we currently believe we have unfettered rights. We may also find ourselves required to indemnify our sales agents, our customers or the end users of our products or services against infringement claims made against them based on our products or services. Moreover, customers have previously requested indemnity for infringement claims that we do not believe implicate our technology. Such a refusal of indemnity can lead to a dispute with sales agents, customers and/or end users. We may also be subjected to injunctions restricting our sale of allegedly infringing products and our use of allegedly infringing technology. This could cause severe disruptions to our operations or the markets in which we compete. Furthermore, an adverse decision in any legal action involving intellectual property rights or an unfavorable settlement agreement could limit the scope of our intellectual property rights and the value of the related technology.

Therefore, any infringement by us or our licensors of the intellectual property rights of third parties may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may be subject to claims that our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets and know-how of their former employers.

Certain of our past and present employees, consultants and independent contractors were previously employed at other display solutions companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. Some of these employees, consultants and independent contractors may have executed invention assignment agreements and/or non-disclosure and non-competition agreements in connection with their previous employment. Even in the absence of such agreements, such employees, consultants and independent contractors may be prohibited from sharing proprietary information or know-how of their former employers. Although we try to ensure that our employees, consultants and independent contractors do not use the proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or these persons have used or disclosed intellectual property, including trade secrets or other proprietary information, of their former employers, which may lead to disputes regarding ownership of intellectual property created by such employees, consultants or independent contractors. We are not currently aware of any threatened or pending claims related to these matters, but in the future litigation may be necessary to defend against such claims. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable personnel or intellectual property rights. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management. As we expand our operations into the United States and elsewhere, we may face similar claims with regard to our future employees in these countries.

Certain of our employees and patents are subject to German legal provisions on employee inventors.

Many of our employees work in Germany and are subject to German employment law. Ideas, developments, discoveries and inventions made by such employees and consultants in connection with their work are subject to the provisions of the German Act on Employees' Inventions, which regulates the ownership of, and compensation for inventions made by employees. Under this Act, an employer may generally demand rights to an invention made by an employee and is deemed to have done so if the employer does not "release" the invention within four months after the employee gives notice of the invention. The employer must pay appropriate consideration, generally in the form of a single payment or royalties on the future revenue derived from such invention, and this might have to be revised, if the circumstances on which the calculation of the consideration was based change so significantly that the previous agreement becomes unacceptable for one side. Disputes can occur, and have occurred, between our current or former employees pertaining to alleged violations of the Act on Employees' Inventions. Any such actions may be costly to defend and may take up our management's time and efforts whether or not we ultimately prevail in the dispute. If we are required to pay additional compensation or face other disputes under the Act on Employees' Inventions, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

Obtaining and maintaining our intellectual property protection depends on compliance with various procedural, documentary, payment and other requirements imposed by governmental agencies, and our patent and other intellectual property protections could be reduced or eliminated if we fail to comply with these requirements.

Periodic maintenance fees on any issued patent, trademark and design and utility model are due to be paid to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other intellectual property agencies in countries in which we currently hold patents (such as Japan, Taiwan, China and Germany), in several stages over the lifetime of these rights. The USPTO and various other governmental agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar provisions during the application process. While an inadvertent lapse can in many cases be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules, there are situations in which non-compliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in

partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. Non-compliance events that could result in abandonment or lapse of a patent or patent application include, but are not limited to, failure to respond to official actions within prescribed time limits, non-payment of fees and failure to properly legalize and submit formal documents. If we or our exclusive licensors fail to maintain the patents and patent applications covering our products and processes, our competitive position would be adversely affected.

We may not be able to manufacture our products in the requested time frame or in volumes sufficient to meet customer demands, which could result in delayed or lost revenue and harm to our reputation.

Given the high level of sophisticated functionality embedded in our products, our manufacturing processes are complex. We may need significant time and resources to set up manufacturing lines and tailor their processes to meet specific customers' product requirements. Therefore, it may take us longer than anticipated or cost us more than we had budgeted to set up our production lines.

The complexity of our manufacturing processes may also make it difficult for us to ramp up our production volumes to the levels required to fulfill our customers' orders on time or cause us to be unable to fulfill their orders at all. These difficulties may result in lower manufacturing yields and may make it more difficult for us to scale to higher production volumes in respect of certain products or overall. If we are unable to manufacture our products in the requested time frame or in volumes sufficient to meet demand, our customers could postpone or cancel orders, or seek alternative suppliers for these products. They could also seek to replace the products they had ordered from us with products that are easier to manufacture and that accordingly produce less revenue. Any of these events would harm our reputation and ability to win additional business, adversely affecting our results of operations, including our ability to generate revenues from new customers.

If we are successful in winning additional contracts and increasing our order levels, we may need to add additional facilities in the future to meet customer demand. If we are not able to build or acquire and open such facilities in a timely and cost-effective manner, we may not be able to produce our products in volumes or at the times required. Furthermore, even if we are able to open new production facilities, if the operations at those facilities or at our existing facilities are materially disrupted, whether by pandemics, natural disasters, demonstrations, acts of terror, or otherwise, we would be unable to fulfill customer orders for the period of the disruption, we would not be able to recognize revenues on orders, we could suffer damage to our reputation, we could also suffer lost orders or cancellations, and we might need to modify our standard sales terms to secure the commitment of new customers during the period of the disruption and perhaps longer. These risks could be amplified as we seek to design and manufacture increasingly technically sophisticated products and solutions, including interactive display solutions. Depending on the cause of the disruption, we could incur significant costs to remedy the disruption and resume product shipments. Such a disruption could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may not be able to manage the expansion of our operations effectively in order to achieve projected levels of growth.

We have expanded our operating capacity significantly in recent years, including relocating our headquarters and one of our manufacturing facilities to Nuremberg, Germany in April 2018. Our current business plan calls for further expansion and operating improvements over the next several years, including cold forming production, improvement in automation in our facilities in Germany and Japan and expanding our geographical operations including, for example the Philippines. If we do not make these expansions, we may be unable to grow our business as quickly as we aim to and may be unable to get design wins for certain customer projects, such as the manufacturing of large displays in

capacities that exceed what we are currently capable of producing. If we are unable to improve and increase automation of production, we may be unable to improve the scaling of our margin. We anticipate that further development of our infrastructure and an increase in the number of our employees will be required to achieve the planned broadening of our product offerings and client base and our ongoing international growth. Failing to adequately upgrade our production infrastructure, including increasing automation of our manufacturing process, or to maximize our production capacity, could have a negative impact on our ability to satisfy our customers' orders and could adversely affect our results of operations. In addition, we must increase our engineering, marketing and services staff in multiple geographies in order to support new development, marketing and service activities to meet the needs of both new and existing customers. Our ability to successfully increase our development, marketing, organizational capabilities and service efforts is not guaranteed, and if we are not able to successfully increase such efforts, our ability to grow our business as intended may be hindered, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may be unable to recoup our investments if we bring new production facilities online in times of overcapacity.

It is difficult to predict future supply and demand in the market for our display solutions. It takes up to two years to plan, finance, construct and equip a new facility. Therefore, we must make any decision to build a new facility, or to re-equip or re-organize an existing facility, with a forecast of what the supply and demand ratio is likely to be when the facility comes online. We must also consider that the supply and demand ratio may be subject to change due to changes in market conditions. In addition, our investments in new facilities may not generate a return due to there being no addressable market, or the former addressable market shifting between the time planning on the facility commences and the time the facility comes online. The capital expenditures required to construct and equip a new facility would be significant, partially as a result of our need to ensure that any new facility complies with environmental, health and safety and other regulatory requirements. For more information, see "Business—Government Regulation."

If prices decline during the time when we are ramping up production at new facilities, or if we fail to receive the necessary amount of customer orders, this could force us to decide to suspend manufacturing at these facilities. This would also prevent us from recouping our investments as planned or at all, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may not be able to effectively manage the expansion of our workforce in order to support our projected levels of growth.

Because our products are often designed in close collaboration with our customers, our manufacturing and production teams, along with our sales and research and development personnel, are often actively involved in multiple stages of our customers' product design, development and production processes. As our business continues to grow, we intend to expand our operations within these groups over the next several years, including cold forming production and improvement in automation in our facilities in Germany and Japan. To support these upgrades and enhancements, we intend to increase our engineering, marketing and services staff in multiple geographies in order to support new development, marketing and service activities to meet the needs of both new and existing customers. We may not be able to successfully manage this expansion. We may not be able to hire, retain, or accurately predict the size, skills or experience of the workforce needed to increase and support such efforts. If we fail to successfully increase our development, marketing, organizational capabilities and service efforts, we may not be able to grow our business as intended, which could adversely affect our results of operations.

Our operations could suffer if we are unable to attract and retain key management or other key scientific or other personnel.

Our success depends on the continued service and performance of our senior management and other key personnel, including personnel provided by Toppan in connection with our subsidiary VTS. Our senior management team particularly Jürgen Eichner, our Chief Executive Officer, is critical to the global management of our business and operations, as well as to the development of our strategy and our technology. The loss of any members of our senior management team, particularly Mr. Eichner, could delay or prevent the successful implementation of our growth strategy or could otherwise adversely affect our ability to manage our company effectively and carry out our business plan. Members of our senior management team may resign at any time, even though they have service agreements with us. High demand exists for experienced senior management and other key personnel in our industry, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to retain such senior management or key personnel. We do not carry key-man insurance on any member of our senior management team.

Our growth and success will also depend on our ability to attract and retain additional highly-qualified scientific, technical, sales and managerial personnel as well as accounting and finance personnel with appropriate public company experience. We have experienced and expect to continue to experience intense competition for qualified personnel. While we intend to continue to provide competitive compensation packages to attract and retain key personnel, some of our competitors for these employees have greater resources and more experience than us, making it difficult for us to compete successfully for key personnel. If we cannot attract and retain sufficiently qualified technical personnel, we may be unable to develop and commercialize new products or new applications for existing products. Furthermore, possible shortages of key personnel (including any limitation on the performance of their duties or short term or long term absences as a result of COVID-19), including engineers, in the regions surrounding our facilities could require us to pay more to hire and retain key personnel, thereby increasing our costs and affecting our profitability.

We have never operated as a public company. Our entire management team, as well as other company personnel, will need to devote substantial time to compliance, and may not effectively or efficiently manage our transition into a public company. We will need to develop the expertise necessary to comply with the numerous regulatory and other requirements applicable to publicly listed companies, including requirements relating to corporate governance, listing standards, notification requirements and securities and investor relations issues, which will divert management attention and may prove costly. As a public company, we will need to add new functions, such as investor relations, and will need to devote attention to compliance and to the controls required of public companies and related training of personnel. We will incur additional costs and expenses in connection with those functions. For instance, we may need to hire additional employees to satisfy those functions or may need to rely on consultants for certain purposes. If we utilize the assistance of consultants to aid with compliance as we transition to being a public company, we may incur increased consultancy fees. If we are unable to effectively comply with the regulations applicable to public companies or if we are unable to produce accurate and timely financial statements, which may result in material misstatements in our financial statements or possible restatement of financial results, our stock price may be materially adversely affected, and we may be unable to maintain compliance with the listing requirements of The New York Stock Exchange. Any such failures could also result in litigation or regulatory actions by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, loss of investor confidence, delisting of our securities, harm to our reputation and diversion of financial and management resources from the operation of our business, any of which could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects.

We have identified a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting and may identify additional material weaknesses in the future that may cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations or result in material misstatements in our financial statements. If we fail to remediate our material weakness, we may not be able to report our financial results accurately or to prevent fraud.

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal controls over financial reporting, disclosure controls, and complying with the other requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules promulgated by the SEC thereunder. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with international financial reporting standards. A material weakness is defined as a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of a company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected by the company's internal controls on a timely basis.

Prior to this offering, we have been operating as a private company that was not required to comply with the obligations of a public company with respect to internal controls over financial reporting. We have historically operated with limited accounting personnel and other resources with which to address our internal controls over financial reporting.

In connection with the audit of our 2019, 2018 and 2017 financial statements in preparation for this offering, our auditors identified a material weakness, primarily related to the lack of sufficient accounting and supervisory personnel who have the appropriate level of technical accounting experience and training and a lack of consistent application of accounting processes and procedures by our accounting personnel. These deficiencies constitute a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting in both design and operation. As a result of the material weakness, a material error was discovered that required restatement of the 2018 consolidated financial statements for accurate presentation in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. Additionally, management failed to identify audit adjustments in various areas including but not limited to income taxes and lease accounting. The material weakness remained unremediated as of December 31, 2019. For more information about this restatement, refer to Note 2.4, Restatement of Prior Year, in our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

We have commenced a plan to remediate this material weakness; however, our overall control environment is still immature and may expose us to errors, losses or fraud. Our remediation plan includes the hiring of additional staff that have begun to address this weakness. Additionally, we intend to document and implement consistent accounting policies and procedures and provide additional training to our accounting and finance staff as well as hire a financial consultant. We currently expect that we will have completed our plan to remediate this weakness within the next twelve months, assuming that we do not identify any additional deficiencies and that implementation of our plan progresses in accordance with present expectations. However, we cannot at this time, provide an estimate of the costs we expect to incur in connection with implementing our plan to remediate this material weakness. These remediation measures may be time consuming, costly, and might place significant demands on our financial and operational resources. If we are unable to successfully remediate this material weakness or successfully rely on outside advisors with expertise in these matters to assist us in the preparation of our financial statements, our financial statements could contain material misstatements that, when discovered in the future, could cause us to fail to meet our future reporting obligations and cause the price of our ADSs to decline.

In addition, we assessed the presentation of our consolidated statement of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) and concluded that it was necessary to restate our previously issued financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018 in order to correct an error in presentation. We restated certain production-related costs from general administrative expenses to cost of sales

within our Sensor Technologies segment. For more information about this restatement, refer to Note 2.4, Restatement of Prior Year, in our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

As a consequence of becoming a public company, we will be subject to additional regulatory compliance, including Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Any failure to comply could have a significant and adverse effect on our business and reputation.

As a public company and for as long as we are an "emerging growth company" under the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to make a formal assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Beginning with our Form 20-F for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021 we will be required to comply with the SEC's rules implementing Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which require our senior officers to certify financial and other information in our annual reports and attest to the effectiveness of control over financial reporting.

Furthermore, once we cease to be an emerging growth company, our independent registered public accounting firm will only be required to attest to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting depending on our market capitalization. As a result, for so long as we are entitled to avail ourselves of such relief or exemptions we will not obtain an independent assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls which could detect problems that our management's assessment might not and our management cannot guarantee that our internal controls and disclosure controls will prevent all possible errors or all instances of fraud.

If we are not able to establish and maintain an effective system of internal controls and otherwise implement the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or with adequate compliance, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue an adverse opinion due to ineffective internal controls over financial reporting and we may be subject to sanctions or investigation by regulatory authorities, such as the SEC. As a result of misstatements or restatements in our financial statements or an adverse assessment by management or auditors about the effectiveness of our internal controls, there could be a negative reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements. In addition, we may be required to incur costs to improve our internal controls system and to hire additional qualified personnel. Any such action could negatively affect our business and reputation.

To achieve compliance with Section 404 within the prescribed period, we will be engaged in documenting and evaluating our internal control over financial reporting, which is both costly and challenging. In this regard, we will need to continue to dedicate internal resources, potentially engage outside consultants and adopt a detailed work plan to assess and document the adequacy of internal control over financial reporting, continue steps to improve control processes as appropriate, validate through testing that controls are functioning as documented and implement a continuous reporting and improvement process for internal control over financial reporting. Hence, there is a risk that we will not be able to conclude, within the prescribed timeframe or at all, that our internal control over financial reporting is effective as required by Section 404, which could result in an adverse reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements. As a result, the market price of the ADSs could be negatively affected, and we could become subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which the ADSs are listed, the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources, and have a significant and adverse effect on our business and reputation.

If we fail to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting in the future, we may not be able to accurately report our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us.

Prior to this offering we were not required to maintain internal controls over financial reporting that complied with the obligations of a public company and there is no guarantee that we will be able to implement adequate procedures in a timely manner, or at all. Consequently, we may be unable to detect and react to risks arising in the course of our business. In addition, any failure to establish or maintain an effective system of internal controls over financial reporting could limit our ability to report our financial results accurately and in a timely manner or to detect and prevent fraud.

An inability to adapt our internal controls as well as our reporting and risk management procedures to the requirements of a public company could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

We will incur increased costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be required to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives and corporate governance practices. As a public company, and particularly if we were to lose our status as an emerging growth company in the future, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the listing requirements of The New York Stock Exchange and other applicable securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies, including establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect that these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance.

We are evaluating these rules and regulations, and cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs. These rules and regulations are often subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices.

We may undertake mergers, acquisitions or investments to diversify or expand our business, which may pose risks to our business and dilute the ownership of our existing shareholders, and we may not realize the anticipated benefits of these mergers, acquisitions or investments.

As part of our growth and product diversification strategy, we intend to continue to evaluate opportunities to acquire or invest in other businesses or existing businesses, intellectual property or technologies. We also intend to expand the breadth of markets we can address or enhance our technical capabilities by adding capabilities or technology that we do not have in-house, including by expanding our in-house software capabilities. We aim to become an interactive display system provider in all of our markets by combining system design, interactive displays, other hardware components and software functionality to create fully interactive display systems. We may seek to complement our organic growth by acquiring new technologies or personnel, including by acquiring other companies or assets adding value to our service offerings, particularly by enhancing our interactive solutions for automotive and/or industrial/specialized markets and software competencies relating to sensor technologies which may in the future include voice and facial recognition and other sensor technologies such as gesture, proximity and hovering.

Mergers, acquisitions or investments that we have entered into and may enter into in the future entail a number of risks that could materially and adversely affect our business, operating and financial results, including, among others:

Any acquisition that we do make would pose risks related to the integration of the acquired business or technology with our business. We cannot be certain that we will be able to achieve the benefits we expect from any particular acquisition or investment. Our failure to address these risks successfully may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Any such acquisition or investment will likely require a significant amount of capital investment, which would decrease the amount of cash available for working capital or capital expenditures. In addition, if we use our equity securities to pay for acquisitions, the value of your ADSs and the underlying ordinary shares may be diluted. If we borrow funds to finance acquisitions, such debt instruments may contain restrictive covenants that can, among other things, restrict us from distributing dividends.

We may need to raise additional capital from time to time to meet our growth goals and may be unable to do so on attractive terms, or at all.

We intend to continue to make investments to support the growth of our business and may require additional funds to respond to business challenges, including the need to complement our growth strategy, increase market share in our current markets or expand into other markets, or broaden our technology, intellectual property or service capabilities. Accordingly, we may require additional investments of capital from time to time, and our existing sources of cash and any funds generated from operations may not provide us with sufficient capital. For various reasons, including any non-compliance with existing or future lending arrangements, additional financing may not be available when needed, or may not be available on terms favorable to us. If we fail to obtain adequate capital on a timely basis or if capital cannot be obtained on terms satisfactory to us or in an amount or manner permitted by any restrictive covenants contained in lending or other arrangements in place as of such time, we may not be able to achieve our planned rate of growth, which will adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The manufacture, supply and shipment of our products and related product costs are dependent upon effective logistics management of our global supply chain and any failure to manage these logistics could increase our costs, negatively impact our relationships with our customers and have a material adverse effect on our revenues and profitability.

The manufacture, supply and shipment of our product offerings involve multiple parties within a global supply chain, including raw material providers and component and module manufacturers who provide inputs such as cover lenses, display housing, backlights and related components. Managing the costs of logistics related to our supply chain is critical to our ability to sell our products at competitive prices. For example, fluctuations in the cost or time required to route bonding materials and touch sensors among our production facilities in Germany, China and Japan could have a material impact on the end costs of our products. We may be unable to manage the logistics of our global supply chain effectively, which may hinder us from meeting customer demands or could cause our logistics costs to increase. Any of these developments could have a material adverse effect on our revenues and profitability.

We utilize distributors to market certain of our products and solutions, and they may not be successful in doing so.

We maintain strategic relationships with distributors to market certain of our products and solutions and support certain functionality. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our strategic relationships with these distributors or if our distributors are unable to successfully market our products, our ability to compete in the marketplace, to reach new customers and geographies or to grow our revenue could be impaired and our operating results could suffer. Although we believe we could develop relationships with new or replacement distributors if necessary, we may be unable to sufficiently educate those distributors on our product portfolio or may be unable to sufficiently incentivize their sales and distribution efforts on our behalf.

We rely on our information technology systems to manage numerous aspects of our business and customer and supplier relationships, and a disruption of these systems could adversely affect our results of operations.

We rely on our information technology, or IT, systems to manage numerous aspects of our business and provide analytical information to management. Our IT systems allow us to efficiently manage development projects, purchase products from our suppliers, provide procurement and logistic services, ship products to our customers on a timely basis, maintain cost-effective operations, provide historical and projected financial reports, comply with fiscal and regulatory requirements, and provide services to our customers. Our IT systems are an essential component of our business and growth strategies, and a disruption to our IT systems could significantly limit our ability to manage and operate our business efficiently. Although we take steps to secure our IT systems, including our computer systems, intranet and internet sites, email and other telecommunications and data networks, the security measures we have implemented may not be effective and our systems may be vulnerable to, among other things, damage and interruption from power loss, including as a result of natural disasters, computer system and network failures, loss of telecommunication services, operator negligence, loss of data, security breaches, computer viruses and other disruptive events. Any such disruption could adversely affect our reputation, brand and financial condition.

Some of our employees are employed subject to local laws that are less favorable to employers than the laws of the United States.

A large portion of our employees are employed in countries in which employment laws provide greater bargaining or other rights to employees than the laws of the United States. Such favorable employment rights require us to expend greater time and expense in making changes to employees' terms of employment or making staff reductions, and to work collaboratively with the legal representatives of the employees to effect any changes to labor arrangements.

As of June 30, 2020, we had approximately 585 persons working for us under employment and secondment agreements, and agreements with external dispatch firms, including 68 employees from Toppan providing services to VTS pursuant to secondment agreements and the Business Assistance Agreement and 45 workers dispatched to VTS from professional dispatch firms. None of our employees are currently unionized or have established a works council as employees' representative body. However, we cannot rule out that our employees become members of unions or decide to establish works councils in the future in which cases we would be subject to information, consultation and cooperation obligations towards such works councils or unions as determined by the relevant applicable laws. For example, if a works council would be established in Germany, any proposed changes in the collective working conditions, staff changes and restructuring efforts would be subject to consultation with, and eventual approval by the works council.

The limits of the local laws to which we are subject, including whether our employees decide to become members of unions or establish a works council, may limit management's flexibility in making changes to elements of our business that concern our workforce. Further, any significant dispute with our employees could result in a significant disruption of our operations or higher ongoing labor costs.

Labor disruptions could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Although we believe that we have a good working relationship with our employees, a strike, work stoppage, slowdown or significant dispute with our employees could result in a significant disruption of our operations or higher ongoing labor costs. While we have not experienced any material work stoppages at any of our facilities, any stoppage or slowdown could cause material interruptions in manufacturing, and we cannot assure you that alternate qualified capacity would be available on a timely basis, or at all. As a result, labor disruptions at any of our facilities could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Workplace accidents could result in substantial remedial obligations and damage our reputation.

We have had and may in the future experience, workplace accidents or incidents. Accidents or other incidents that occur at our facilities or involve our personnel or operations, could result in claims for damages or governmental remedial action against us. The amount of any costs, including fines or damages payments that we might incur under such circumstances could substantially exceed any insurance we have to cover such losses. Any of these events, alone or in combination, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could adversely affect our reputation.

Natural disasters and other unforeseeable events could result in delays in or cancellations of shipments of products and lead to a loss of production facilities and thereby negatively affect our business activities.

We have production sites and other operations in locations subject to natural occurrences such as severe weather and geological events that could disrupt operations. A natural disaster that results in a prolonged disruption to our operations may adversely affect our results and financial condition including preventing us from fulfilling orders and the loss of customer qualification of certain production facilities may cause us to suffer damage to our reputation.

We may become involved in litigation and regulatory proceedings, including relating to intellectual property infringement, which could require significant attention from our management and result in significant expense to us and disruptions in our business.

We have been and may become involved in lawsuits and/or regulatory actions relating to our business, such as commercial contract claims, employment claims or other examinations and investigations. Some of these proceedings may claim significant damages or cause reputational harm. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation and regulatory proceedings, we cannot accurately predict

the ultimate outcome of any proceeding. An unfavorable outcome could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations or limit our ability to engage in certain of our business activities. In addition, regardless of the outcome of any litigation or regulatory proceeding, any proceedings are often expensive, time-consuming, disruptive to normal business operations and require significant attention from our management.

We may be at risk for non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including the risk of extortion and violation of anticorruption laws.

Operating a global business, including in certain countries where corruption is considered to be widespread, requires us to comply with the laws and regulations of various jurisdictions. In particular, our operations are subject to anticorruption laws and regulations, which include the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, or the FCPA, the UK Bribery Act of 2010, and anti-bribery laws and regulations in other countries, including those having implemented the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. Anticorruption laws prohibit corporations and individuals from paying, offering to pay, or authorizing the payment of anything of value to another person, including but not limited to a government official, government staff member, political party, or political candidate in an attempt to obtain or retain business or to otherwise improperly influence a person; the laws are broad and many apply to private as well as public bribery and also penalize the receipt as well as the giving of bribes. In the course of establishing and expanding our commercial operations and seeking regulatory approvals in the EU, the United States, and internationally, we will need to establish and expand business relationships with various third parties and will interact more frequently with various officials, including regulatory authorities who may be deemed to be "foreign officials" under the FCPA or similar laws, or who may otherwise be candidates for illicit payments in exchange for improper benefits. We are subject to the risk that our employees and others over whom we have less control, such as Toppan employees who are seconded to VTS, distributors and other agents, may fail to comply with such laws and regulations. It is not always possible to identify and deter misconduct by our employees, distributors and other third parties, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent prohibited activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to comply with these laws or regulations.

Our operations may also be subject to applicable laws and regulations on economic sanctions and export controls, including those administered by the United States and the EU, which are complex and may be violated inadvertently. Such laws may restrict or prohibit the export or sale of our products to certain countries or persons altogether. Changes to export and economic sanctions laws and regulations, or changes in the countries, governments, persons, or technologies targeted by such laws and regulations could result in our decreased ability to sell or export our products, and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

If we violate any of the anti-bribery, economic sanctions, export control and abuse laws, we could be subject to fines, confiscation of profits or legal sanctions, such as termination of authorizations, licenses, concessions and financing agreements, suspension of our operations or prohibitions on contracting with public authorities. Any such violation could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, business, prospects and results of operations. In addition, any alleged violations of these laws could damage our reputation and ability to do business.

We may not have adequate insurance for potential liabilities, including liabilities arising from product warranty claims and litigation.

In the ordinary course of business, we have been, and in the future may be, subject to various product and non-product related claims, lawsuits and administrative proceedings seeking damages or other remedies arising out of our commercial operations, including litigation related to defects in our products. We maintain insurance to cover potential exposures; however, our insurance coverage is

subject to various exclusions, self-retentions and deductibles, may be inadequate or unavailable to protect us fully, and may be cancelled or otherwise terminated by the insurer. Furthermore, we face the following additional risks under our insurance coverage:

Even a partially uninsured claim of significant size, if successful, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity. Moreover, even if we successfully defend ourselves against any such claim, we could be forced to spend a substantial amount of money on litigation expenses, our management could be required to spend valuable time in the defense against these claims and our reputation could suffer, any of which could adversely affect our results of operations.

A large or a number of smaller product liability judgments against us could exceed our insurance coverage and might result in a material loss to us. In addition, publicity resulting from an actual or perceived problem with one of our products could harm our reputation and reduce demand for our product offerings. Actual or threatened product liability suits may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Changes in data privacy and data protection laws and regulations, or any failure to comply with such laws and regulations, could adversely impact our business.

Our business is subject to a wide variety of laws and regulations in the United States and internationally designed to protect the privacy of clients, customers, employees and other third parties. The interpretation and application of such laws and regulations is uncertain and evolving and it is possible that changes in the interpretation of these laws could require us to change our practices. For example, the EU General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, which went into effect in May 2018, imposes a range of new compliance obligations and increases financial penalties for non-compliance and extends the scope of the EU data protection law to all companies processing data of EU residents, regardless of the company's location. We are currently in compliance with the data protection and privacy regulations under the GDPR and have engaged a professional adviser to serve as our external compliance officer as permitted by the GDPR. Complying with the GDPR and other privacy and data protection laws could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices in a manner adverse to our business. In addition, if we fail to comply with these laws or regulations, we could be subject to significant litigation, monetary damages, regulatory enforcement actions or fines in one or more jurisdictions.

Our business and operations could suffer in the event of cybersecurity breaches or disruptions to our information technology environment.

As with all enterprise information systems, our systems, which contain critical information about our business (including intellectual property and confidential information of our customers, vendors and employees), could be penetrated by outside parties intent on extracting information, corrupting information, or disrupting business processes.

Despite our efforts to protect sensitive information and confidential and personal data and to comply with and implement data security measures, our facilities and systems may be vulnerable to security breaches and other data loss, including cyber-attacks. It is not possible to predict the impact on our business of the future loss, alteration or misappropriation of information in our possession related to us, our employees, former employees, customers or suppliers. Depending on their nature and scope, these threats could potentially lead to improper use of our systems and networks, manipulation and destruction of proprietary or key data or product non-compliance. Unauthorized access and breaches of our security measures could disrupt our business operations and could result in failures or interruptions in our computer systems and in the loss of assets (including our intellectual property and confidential business information). Such breaches could also result in inadvertent disclosure, or unapproved dissemination of proprietary, sensitive or confidential information about the company, our employees, our vendors, or our customers and could result in litigation, violations of various data privacy regulations in some jurisdictions, and also potentially result in liability to us. This could damage our reputation, or otherwise harm our business, financial condition, or results of operations. Additionally, the devotion of additional resources to the security of our information technology systems in the future could significantly increase the cost of doing business.

We are subject to environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, which could subject us to liabilities, increase our costs or restrict our business or operations in the future.

Our manufacturing operations and our products are subject to a variety of environmental, health and safety laws and regulations in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate or sell our products. These laws and regulations govern, among other things, the handling and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes (such as the cleaning chemicals used in our production facilities and the chemicals used in the copper etching process for our metal mesh touch sensors) employee health and safety and the use of hazardous materials in, and the recycling of, our products. Failure to comply with present and future environmental, health and safety requirements, or the identification of contamination, could cause us to incur substantial costs, monetary fines, civil or criminal penalties and curtailment of operations.

The identification of environmental issues, including instances of non-compliance and/or accidents, could subject us to substantial remedial obligations or liabilities, increase our costs, or restrict our business or operations in the future.

We are subject to a number of environmental and health and safety laws and regulations that have become more stringent over time. More vigorous enforcement of current environmental, health and safety requirements by regulatory agencies, the enactment of more stringent laws and regulations or other unanticipated events may result in the identification of presently unidentified environmental conditions, or liabilities of which we are currently unaware. The results of these environmental conditions or liabilities could restrict our ability to use or expand our facilities, require us to incur additional expenses or require us to modify our manufacturing processes or the contents of our products. This could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.

A further or continued slowdown in the global economy could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

A further or continued slowdown in the global economy could adversely affect demand in our markets and negatively impact the electronic products sales from which we generate our income. A further or continued global economic downturn could also lead to a prolonged slowdown in our business, with side effects including significant decreases in orders from our customers, insolvency of key suppliers resulting in raw material constraints and product delays, inability of customers to obtain

credit to finance purchases of our products and/or customer insolvencies and counterparty failures negatively impacting our operations. In addition, a further or continued downturn in the economy could slow down the adoption of new technologies by our customers or cause our customers to shift their purchases to lower cost, less demanding technologies as opposed to more expensive, newer technologies we may develop. Because of such factors, we believe the level of demand for our products and projections of future revenue and operating results will be difficult to predict. If any economic downturn occurs in the future or the current downturn worsens or is prolonged, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be affected materially and adversely.

Political events, trade sanctions, war, terrorism, public health issues, natural disasters and other circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and operating results.

War, terrorism, geopolitical uncertainties, public health issues (including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic), trade sanctions and other business interruptions have caused and could cause damage or disruption to international commerce and the global economy, and thus could have a strong negative effect on our business and our suppliers, logistics providers, contract manufacturers and customers. Our business operations are subject to interruption by natural disasters, fire, power shortages, nuclear power plant accidents, terrorist attacks, and other hostile acts, labor disputes, public health issues, and other events beyond our control. For example, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, the Chinese government imposed temporary closures of all factories, including our production facilities located in Suzhou, China for a period of one week. In addition, due to travel restrictions within China as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it took several weeks after re-opening for our facilities to return to 100% production capacity. In Japan, VTS temporarily halted production for two weeks in March 2020 due to decreased order volume, but has since resumed normal production capacity. Such events could also decrease demand for our products, make it difficult or impossible for us or our contract manufacturers to make and deliver products to our customers or receive components from our suppliers, and create delays and inefficiencies in our supply chain. Major public health issues, including pandemics, can cause, and in the case of COVID-19, have caused, our business to be negatively affected by, for example, more stringent employee travel restrictions, additional limitations in freight services, governmental actions limiting the movement of products between regions, delays in production ramps of new products, and disruption in the operations of our contract manufacturers and suppliers. Certain critical business operations, including certain of our suppliers and contract manufacturers, are in locations that could be affected by natural disasters. In the event of a natural disaster, losses, significant recovery time and substantial expenditures could be required to resume operations and our financial condition and operating results could be materially adversely affected.

Our business activities and international expansion activities outside of Germany and the European Union subject us to various risks and our failure to manage these risks could adversely affect our results of operations.

Our business is subject to a wide range of risks associated with doing business globally. Our sales outside of the European Union represented 96.6% and 97.5% of our total revenue in 2019 and 2018, respectively. One element of our growth strategy is to pursue opportunities for our business in several areas of the world, any or all of which could be adversely affected by the risks set forth below, or the risks of which we are currently unaware. Accordingly, we face significant operational risks as a result of doing business internationally, such as:

Our failure to manage the market and operational risks associated with our international operations effectively could limit the future growth of our business and adversely affect our results of operations.

Our international operations pose currency risks, which may adversely affect our operating results and net income.

Our operating results may be affected by fluctuations in currency exchange rates and our ability to effectively manage our currency transaction and translation risks. Our business in terms of purchases and sales is mainly processed in the local currencies of our group entities, which are their functional currencies (euro, Chinese renminbi, U.S. dollar, Japanese yen). We use euro as a group presentational currency. As we realize our strategy to further expand internationally, our exposure to currency risks will increase. In addition, there is a possibility that currency exchange rates will experience greater fluctuation if a country currently using the euro as its currency ceases to do so. We do not manage our foreign currency exposure in a manner that would eliminate the effects of changes in foreign exchange rates. Therefore, changes in exchange rates between these foreign currencies and the euro will affect our revenue, cost of goods sold and operating expenses and margins, and could result in exchange losses in any given reporting period.

We incur currency transaction risks whenever we enter into either a purchase or a sale transaction using a different currency from the currency in which we receive revenue. In such cases we may suffer an exchange loss because we do not currently engage in currency forward contracts, options, swaps or other instruments to address this risk.

The volatility of exchange rates could hinder our ability to effectively manage or hedge our currency transaction risks and any volatility in currency exchange rates could have an adverse effect on our revenue or results of operations.

We are subject to international tax laws, tariffs and potential tax audits that could affect our financial results.

We are subject to international tax laws, tariffs and potential tax audits. The application of these laws and their interpretation in different jurisdictions affect our international operations in complex

ways and are subject to change, and some changes may be retroactively applied. Our tax liabilities in the different countries where we operate depend, in part, on transfer pricing and administrative charges among us and our subsidiaries.

These arrangements require us to make judgments with which tax authorities may disagree, potentially resulting in the assessment of material additional taxes, penalties, interest or other charges to resolve these issues.

We also could be materially affected by the resolution of issues arising from tax audits or examinations. Tax authorities could impose additional tariffs, duties, taxes, penalties and interest on us, for example if tax audits find that permanent establishments for tax purposes exist, if net operating losses are found not to be available to offset taxable income, if the deduction of business expenses or interest expenses is denied for tax purposes, if payments are held to be subject to withholding taxes, or if taxable services are deemed to have been rendered.

German corporate income tax, trade tax and VAT tax audits have not yet been conducted for 2015 and onwards for VIA optronics GmbH. Formal Chinese tax audits have not been conducted for 2017 and onwards. None of the group companies has been subject to tax audits in the U.S., Japan or in Taiwan.

Transactions that we have structured in light of current tax rules could have material and adverse consequences for us if tax rules change. Tax audits, changes in tax laws, their application and interpretation or imposition of any new or increased tariffs, duties and taxes could increase our tax burden and materially and adversely affect our sales, profits and financial condition and could have an adverse effect on our business, net assets, or results of operations. Such factors could also cause us to expend significant time and resources and/or cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information.

The closing of this offering is not conditioned upon the closing of the private placement of shares to Corning. Corning may elect not to consummate the concurrent private placement if the initial public offering has not closed by a specified date, if there is an uncured material breach of the commercial agreements we entered into concurrently with our execution of the investment agreement, or if certain of the representations and warranties we made in the investment agreement are not accurate. Should Corning elect not to consummate the private placement, this may adversely affect our business, harm our reputation, or cause our share price to decline.

Corning, one of our commercial partners, has agreed to purchase 1,403,505 ADSs at an aggregate purchase price of approximately $20 million in a separate concurrent private placement, that we expect will be completed shortly after the completion of this offering, at a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering. The sale of ADSs to Corning will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. We provided Corning with customary representations, warranties and indemnities in the investment agreement and we have agreed to allow Corning to include its ADSs in certain registrations we may file after this offering until the second anniversary of the closing of this offering and thereafter to the extent Corning's securities are not then freely tradeable under Rule 144 of the Securities Act. Corning is required to pay the purchase price for its ADSs within three business days of the receipt of the excerpt from the commercial register relating to the corresponding increase in our registered share capital. The closing of this offering is not conditioned upon the closing of the private placement.

Corning may elect not to consummate the concurrent private placement if the initial public offering has not closed by a specified date, if there is an uncured material breach of the commercial agreements we entered into with Corning concurrently with our execution of the investment agreement, or if certain of the representations and warranties we made in the investment agreement are not accurate.

If the closing of the private placement is delayed for any reason, including due to a delay in registration of the corresponding increase in our registered share capital, or were a dispute to arise with Corning over our commercial agreements with them or that a representation or warranty is inaccurate, or if Corning does not for any reason consummate the private placement at all, this may adversely affect our business, harm our reputation, or cause our share price to decline.

There is no established trading market for the ADSs or our ordinary shares.

This offering constitutes our initial public offering of ADSs, and no public market for the ADSs or our ordinary shares currently exists. Our ADSs have been approved for listing on The New York Stock Exchange, or the NYSE, subject to completion of customary procedures in the United States. Any delay in the commencement of trading of the ADSs on the NYSE would impair the liquidity of the market for the ADSs and make it more difficult for holders to sell the ADSs. We do not intend to list our ordinary shares on a trading market and therefore do not expect that a trading market will develop for our ordinary shares not represented by the ADSs.

Even if the ADSs are listed on the NYSE, an active trading market for the ADSs may fail to develop or be sustained after this offering is completed. The initial offering price will be determined by negotiations among the lead underwriters and us. Among the factors considered in determining the initial offering price will be our results of operations, our current financial condition, our future prospects, our management and the economic conditions in and future prospects for our industry. However, following this offering, the ADSs may trade at a price lower than the offering price.

In addition, the stock market has generally experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of listed companies. Broad market and industry factors may negatively affect the market price of the ADSs, regardless of our actual operating performance. The market price and liquidity of the market for the ADSs that will prevail in the market after this offering may be higher or lower than the price you pay and may be significantly affected by numerous factors, some of which are beyond our control. These factors include:

You will incur immediate and substantial dilution as a result of this offering.

If you purchase ADSs in this offering, you will incur immediate and substantial dilution of €9.80 ($10.98) per ADS, after giving effect to the sale by us of the 6,250,000 ADSs (representing 1,250,000 ordinary shares) offered by us in the offering and the sale by us of 1,403,505 ADSs (representing 280,701 ordinary shares) to Corning in the concurrent private placement, at a price per ADS of $14.25, or 95% of the public offering price in this offering, with an ordinary share to ADS ratio of 1 to 5, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Dilution for this purpose represents the difference between the price per ADS paid by new investors and net tangible book value per ADS immediately after the completion of the offering. As a result of the dilution to investors purchasing ADSs in this offering, investors may receive significantly less than the purchase price paid in this offering, if anything, in the event of our liquidation.

We have broad discretion to determine how to use the funds raised in this offering and may use them in ways that may not enhance our operating results or the price of the ADSs.

Our management will have considerable discretion in the application of the portion of the net proceeds from this offering and the concurrent private placement that we will receive, and could spend the proceeds from this offering in ways that do not improve our results of operation or enhance the value of the ADSs. Shareholders may not be able to assess whether the proceeds are being used appropriately. We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering for the purposes described in the "Use of Proceeds" section of this prospectus. The failure of management to apply these funds effectively could result in financial losses that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, which could cause the price of the ADSs to decline.

We have no present intention to pay dividends on our ordinary shares in the foreseeable future and, consequently, your only opportunity to achieve a return on your investment during that time is if the price of the ADSs appreciates.

We have no present intention to pay dividends on our ordinary shares in the foreseeable future. Any recommendation by our management and supervisory boards to pay dividends will depend on many factors, including our financial condition, results of operations, legal requirements and other factors. Accordingly, if the price of the ADSs declines in the foreseeable future, you will incur a loss on your investment, without the likelihood that this loss will be offset in part or at all by potential future cash dividends.

You may not receive distributions on our ordinary shares represented by the ADSs or any value for them.

Under the terms of the deposit agreement, the depositary for the ADSs has agreed to pay to you the cash dividends or other distributions it or the custodian receives on our ordinary shares or other deposited securities after deducting its fees and expenses. You will receive these distributions in proportion to the number of our ordinary shares your ADSs represent. However, in accordance with the limitations set forth in the deposit agreement, it may be unlawful or impractical to make a distribution available to holders of ADSs. In addition, distributions of rights to subscribe for additional ordinary shares or ADSs, distributions payable in cash or additional ordinary shares or ADSs at the election of the recipient or distributions of property other than cash, ordinary shares or rights to subscribe for additional ordinary shares or ADSs will only be made to holders of ADSs if we request such rights be made available to holders of ADSs. We have no obligation to take any other action to permit the distribution of the ADSs, ordinary shares, rights or anything else to holders of ADSs. This means that you may not receive the distributions we make on our ordinary shares or any value from them if it is unlawful or impractical for us to make them available for you. These restrictions may have a material adverse effect on the value of your ADSs.

If securities or industry analysts cease publishing research, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our ADS price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for the ADSs will depend in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our shares or ADSs or publishes inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our share and ADS price may decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of our company or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our shares and ADSs could decrease, which might cause our share and ADS price and trading volume to decline.

By participating in this offering you will become a holder of ADSs with underlying shares in a German public company. Holders of ADSs are not treated as our shareholders, unless they withdraw the shares underlying the ADSs from the depositary. The depositary is the holder of the shares underlying the ADSs. Holders of ADSs therefore do not have any rights as shareholders of our company, other than the rights that they have pursuant to the deposit agreement.

You may not be able to exercise your right to vote the shares underlying your ADSs.

Holders of ADSs may exercise voting rights with respect to the shares represented by the ADSs only in accordance with the provisions of the deposit agreement. You may instruct the depositary to vote the number of whole deposited shares your ADSs represent. The depositary will notify you of shareholders' meetings or other solicitations of consents and arrange to deliver our voting materials to you if we ask it to. Those materials will describe the matters to be voted on and explain how you may instruct the depositary how to vote. For instructions to be valid, they must reach the depositary by a date set by the depositary.

You may instruct the depositary to vote the shares underlying your ADSs. Otherwise, you will not be able to exercise your right to vote, unless you withdraw the shares underlying the ADSs you hold. We cannot assure you that you will receive the voting materials in time to ensure that you can instruct the depositary to vote your shares. In addition, the depositary and its agents are not responsible for failing to carry out voting instructions or for the manner of carrying out voting instructions provided that any such failure is in good faith. This means that you may not be able to exercise your right to vote and there may be no remedies available to you if the shares underlying your ADSs are not voted as you requested. If we do not instruct the depositary to obtain your voting instructions, you can still instruct the depositary how to vote, and the depositary may vote as you instruct, but it is not required to do so.

Our principal shareholder owns a significant percentage of our ordinary shares and will be able to exert significant influence over matters subject to shareholder approval.

Prior to this offering, two shareholders beneficially owned 100% of our ordinary shares. Upon consummation of this offering and the concurrent private placement, that same group will hold approximately 66% of our outstanding ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by ADSs) and our largest shareholder, Coöperatief IMI Europe U.A., will hold approximately 50% of our ordinary shares (including ordinary shares represented by ADSs), in each case assuming the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional ADSs. Coöperatief IMI Europe U.A. will retain effective control over the outcome of all matters requiring shareholder approval, including elections of members of our supervisory board, amendments to our organizational documents and the approval of any merger, spin-off, sale of assets or other major corporate transaction following the consummation of the offering. If, at the consummation of the offering or in the future, Coöperatief IMI Europe U.A. controls a majority of the voting power of all classes of our shares entitled to vote

generally in the election of directors, we would be eligible to be treated as a "controlled company" within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the New York Stock Exchange. Under these corporate governance standards, a "controlled company" may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including the requirements that:

Even if we qualify as a "controlled company" upon the consummation of the offering, we do not expect to take advantage of any of the applicable exemptions under the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance standards except to the extent we are exempt from such standards as a foreign private issuer under the Exchange Act; however, there can be no assurance that we will not elect to do so in the future if we are eligible. Coöperatief IMI Europe U.A.'s ownership position and/or our future election to utilize exemptions available to a "controlled company" may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our ordinary shares or ADSs that you may feel are in your best interest as one of our shareholders. The interests of these shareholders may not always coincide with your interests or the interests of other shareholders and they may act in a manner that advances their best interests and not necessarily those of other shareholders, including seeking a premium value for their ordinary shares, which might affect the prevailing market price for the ADSs.

Future sales, or the perception of future sales, of a substantial number of our shares or ADSs could adversely affect the price of the ADSs, and actual sales of our equity will dilute shareholders and ADS holders.

All of our shares that were issued and outstanding before this offering, as well as the shares underlying the ADSs to be sold to Corning in the concurrent private placement, are subject to a 180-day contractual lock-up in connection with this offering. Berenberg may permit our current shareholders and Corning to sell ordinary shares prior to the expiration of the lock-up agreements. The members of our management board and our supervisory board have not signed lockup agreements because they do not hold any equity securities in our company as of the date of this prospectus. See "Underwriting." If our existing shareholders sell, or indicate an intent to sell, substantial amounts of ADSs in the public market after the 180-day contractual lock-up and the other legal restrictions on resale discussed in this prospectus lapse, or if we indicate an intent to sell substantial amounts of our ordinary shares or ADSs to raise additional capital, the trading price of the ADSs could decline significantly and could decline below the initial public offering price.

After the lock-up agreements pertaining to this offering expire, and based on the number of ordinary shares outstanding upon completion of this offering and the concurrent private placement, approximately 16,403,505 additional ADSs (equivalent to 3,280,701 ordinary shares) will be eligible for sale in the public market, subject to any applicable volume limitations under Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

See "Shares and ADSs Eligible for Future Sale" for a more detailed description of sales that may occur in the future. If these additional ordinary shares are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold in the public market, the trading price of the ADSs could decline substantially.

Your right as a holder of ADSs to participate in any future preemptive subscription rights issues or to elect to receive dividends in shares may be limited, which may cause dilution to your holdings.

Under German law, the existing shareholders have a preemptive right to subscribe for shares offered in proportion to the amount of shares they hold in connection with any offering of shares. However, a shareholders' meeting may vote, by a majority that represents at least three quarters of the share capital represented at the meeting, to waive this preemptive right for all shareholders provided that, from the company's perspective, there exists good and objective cause for such waiver.

Certain non-German shareholders may not be able to exercise their preemptive subscription rights in our future offerings due to the legislation and regulations of their home country. For example, ADS holders in the United States will not be entitled to exercise or sell such rights unless we register the rights and the securities to which the rights relate under the Securities Act or an exemption from the registration requirement is available. In addition, the deposit agreement provides that the depositary need not make rights available to you unless the distribution to ADS holders of both the rights and any related securities are either registered under the Securities Act or exempted from registration under the Securities Act. We are under no obligation to file a registration statement with respect to any such rights or securities or to endeavor to cause such a registration statement to be declared effective. Moreover, we may not be able to establish an exemption from registration under the Securities Act. Accordingly, ADS holders may be unable to participate in our rights offerings and may experience dilution in their holdings. In addition, if the depositary is unable to sell rights that are not exercised or not distributed or if the sale is not lawful or reasonably practicable, it will allow the rights to lapse, in which case you will receive no value for these rights.

As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from a number of rules under the U.S. securities laws and are permitted to file less information with the SEC than U.S. companies. This may limit the information available to holders of ADSs.

We are a "foreign private issuer," as defined in the SEC rules and regulations, and, consequently, we are not subject to all of the disclosure requirements applicable to companies organized within the United States. For example, we are exempt from certain rules under the Exchange Act that regulate disclosure obligations and procedural requirements related to the solicitation of proxies, consents or authorizations applicable to a security registered under the Exchange Act. In addition, members of our management board and supervisory board and our principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and "short-swing" profit recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and related rules with respect to their purchases and sales of our securities. Moreover, we are not required to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as U.S. public companies. Accordingly, there may be less publicly-available information concerning our company than there is for U.S. public companies.

As a foreign private issuer, we file an annual report on Form 20-F within four months of the close of each year ended December 31 and furnish reports on Form 6-K relating to certain material events promptly after we publicly announce these events. However, although we intend to issue quarterly financial information, because of the above exemptions for foreign private issuers, we are not required to do so, and, therefore, holders of ADSs will not be afforded the same protections or information generally available to investors holding shares in public companies organized in the United States.

As a foreign private issuer, we are not subject to certain New York Stock Exchange corporate governance rules applicable to U.S. listed companies.

We rely on provisions in the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual that permit us to follow our home country corporate governance practices with regard to certain aspects of corporate governance. This allows us to follow German corporate law and the German Corporate Governance

Code, which differ in significant respects from the corporate governance requirements applicable to U.S. companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

In accordance with our New York Stock Exchange listing, our Audit Committee is required to comply with or satisfy an exemption from the provisions of Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act, both of which are also applicable to listed U.S. companies. Because we are a foreign private issuer, however, we generally are permitted to follow home country practice in lieu of the corporate governance standards provided in the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual. In particular, we are not required to comply with the requirements that the members of our Audit Committee satisfy financial literacy standards, that a majority of the members of our supervisory board must be independent, that our Audit Committee and Compensation and Nomination Committee adopt written charters and that we adopt and disclose corporate governance guidelines. If some investors find the ADSs less attractive as a result of these differences, there may be a less active trading market for the ADSs and the price of the ADSs may be more volatile. See "Management—Differences between Our Corporate Governance Practices and Those Set Forth in the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual."

U.S. holders of ADSs may suffer adverse tax consequences if we are characterized as a passive foreign investment company.

A non-U.S. corporation will be classified as a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes for any taxable year, if either (i) 75% or more of its gross income for such year consists of certain types of "passive" income or (ii) 50% or more of the value of its assets (determined on the basis of a quarterly average) during such year produce or are held for the production of passive income. Passive income generally includes dividends, interest, royalties, rents, annuities, net gains from the sale or exchange of property producing such income and net foreign currency gains. In addition, a non-U.S. corporation will be treated as owning its proportionate share of the assets and earning its proportionate share of the income of any other corporation in which it owns, directly or indirectly, more than 25% (by value) of the stock.

In the event we were treated as a PFIC, U.S. holders (as defined in "Taxation—U.S. Taxation") of the ADSs could be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences. These consequences include the following: (i) if the ADSs are "marketable stock" for purposes of the PFIC rules and a U.S. holder makes a mark-to-market election with respect to its ADSs, the U.S. holder will be required to include annually in its U.S. federal taxable income an amount reflecting any year end increase in the value of its ADSs, (ii) if a U.S. holder does not make a mark-to-market election, it may incur significant additional U.S. federal income taxes on income resulting from certain distributions on, or any gain from the disposition of, the ADSs, as such income generally would be allocated over the U.S. holder's holding period for its ADSs and subject to tax at the highest rates of U.S. federal income taxation in effect for such years, with an interest charge then imposed on the resulting taxes in respect of such income, and (iii) dividends paid by us would not be eligible for reduced individual rates of U.S. federal income tax. In addition, U.S. holders that own an interest in a PFIC are required to file additional U.S. federal tax information returns. Because PFIC status is based on our income, assets and activities for the entire taxable year, which we expect may vary substantially over time, it is not possible to determine whether we will be characterized as a PFIC for any taxable year until after the close of the taxable year. Moreover, we must determine our PFIC status annually based on tests that are factual in nature, and our status in future years will depend on our income, assets and activities in each of those years. There can be no assurance that we will not be considered a PFIC for any taxable year.

A U.S. holder may in certain circumstances mitigate the adverse tax consequences of the PFIC rules by either electing to mark their ADSs to market, provided the ADSs are considered "marketable" for the purposes of the PFIC rules, or by filing an election to treat the PFIC as a qualified electing fund, or a QEF. In the event that we are or become a PFIC, we do not intend to comply with the

reporting requirements necessary to permit U.S. holders to elect to treat us as a QEF. See "Taxation—U.S. Taxation—Additional United States Federal Income Tax Consequences—PFIC Rules."

We may lose our foreign private issuer status in the future, which could result in significant additional costs and expenses.

While we currently qualify as a foreign private issuer, the determination of foreign private issuer status is made annually on the last business day of an issuer's most recently completed second fiscal quarter.

In the future, we would lose our foreign private issuer status if we fail to meet the requirements necessary to maintain our foreign private issuer status as of the relevant determination date. Our foreign private issuer status will be tested on June 30 of each year. We are currently testing our foreign private issuer status as of June 30, 2020, and we expect that we retained our status as of such date. However, in the future we may lose that status. This could occur if, for instance, a majority of our shareholders of record were U.S. citizens or residents and a majority of our executive officers or directors were U.S. citizens or residents or if a majority of our assets were located in the United States.

The regulatory and compliance costs to us under U.S. securities laws as a U.S. domestic issuer may be significantly more than the costs we incur as a foreign private issuer. If we cease to be a foreign private issuer, we could be required to file periodic reports and registration statements on U.S. domestic issuer forms with the SEC, which are more detailed and extensive in certain respects than the forms available to a foreign private issuer. We would be required under current SEC rules to prepare our financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP rather than IFRS. Such conversion of our financial statements to U.S. GAAP would involve significant time and cost, and we would still be required to prepare financial statements in accordance with IFRS. In addition, we may lose our ability to rely upon exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements on United States stock exchanges that are available to foreign private issuers such as the ones described above and exemptions from procedural requirements related to the solicitation of proxies.

We are eligible to be treated as an "emerging growth company", as defined in the JOBS Act, and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make the ADSs less attractive to investors.

We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act. For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may take advantage of exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies, including (1) the ability to include only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations disclosure; (2) an exemption from the auditor attestation requirement in the assessment of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; (3) to the extent that we no longer qualify as a foreign private issuer, (a) reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements; and (b) exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation, including golden parachute compensation; and (4) an exemption from compliance with the requirement that the PCAOB has adopted regarding a supplement to the auditor's report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements.

We may take advantage of these provisions for up to five years or such earlier time that we are no longer an emerging growth company. We would cease to be an emerging growth company if we have more than $1.07 billion in annual revenue, have more than $700 million in market value of our shares held by non-affiliates, or issue more than $1.0 billion of nonconvertible debt over a three-year period. We may choose to take advantage of some but not all of these reduced burdens. For example,

Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company that uses U.S. GAAP for financial reporting can use the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. Given that we currently report and expect to continue to report under IFRS we have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this extended transition period and, as a result, we will adopt new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required by the IASB. We have taken advantage of reduced reporting requirements in this prospectus. Accordingly, the information contained herein may be different than the information you receive from other public companies in which you hold equity securities.

U.S. investors may have difficulty enforcing civil liabilities against our company and members of our supervisory board and management board and the experts named in this prospectus.

Certain members of our supervisory board and management board and the experts named in this prospectus are non-residents of the United States, and all or a substantial portion of the assets of such persons are located outside the United States. As a result, it may not be possible, or may be very difficult, to serve process on such persons or us in the United States or to enforce judgments obtained in U.S. courts against them or us based on civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States. In addition, awards of punitive damages in actions brought in the United States or elsewhere may be unenforceable in Germany. An award for monetary damages under the U.S. securities laws would be considered punitive if it does not seek to compensate the claimant for loss or damage suffered and is intended to punish the defendant. The enforceability of any judgment in Germany will depend on the particular facts of the case as well as the laws and treaties in effect at the time. Litigation in Germany is also subject to rules of procedure that differ from the U.S. rules, including with respect to the taking and admissibility of evidence, the conduct of the proceedings and the allocation of costs. With very narrow exceptions, proceedings in Germany would have to be conducted in the German language, and all documents submitted to the court would, in principle, have to be translated into German. For these reasons, it may be difficult for a U.S. investor to bring an original action based upon the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us, certain members of our supervisory board and management board and the experts named in this prospectus in a German court. The United States and Germany do not currently have a treaty providing for recognition and enforcement of judgments (other than arbitration awards) in civil and commercial matters, though recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Germany is possible in accordance with applicable German laws.

Your ADSs are transferable on the books of the depositary. However, the depositary may close its transfer books at any time or from time to time when it deems expedient in connection with the performance of its duties. In addition, the depositary may refuse to deliver, transfer or register transfers of ADSs generally when our books or the books of the depositary are closed, or at any time if we or the depositary deems it advisable to do so because of any requirement of law or of any government or governmental body, or under any provision of the deposit agreement, or for any other reason.

We will incur significant increased costs as a result of operating as a company that is subject to reporting obligations in the United States, and our management will be required to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives.

As a company that is subject to reporting obligations in the United States, we will incur significant legal, accounting, insurance and other expenses that we did not previously incur. In addition, the SOX Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related rules implemented by the SEC and the NYSE have imposed various requirements on public companies, including

requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls. These costs will increase at the time when we are no longer an emerging growth company eligible to rely on exemptions under the JOBS Act from certain disclosure and governance requirements if we cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect these rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to incur substantial costs to maintain the same or similar coverage. These laws and regulations could also make it more difficult and expensive for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our supervisory board or its committees or on our management board. Furthermore, if we are unable to satisfy our obligations as a public company, we could be subject to delisting of the ADSs, fines, sanctions and other regulatory action and potentially civil litigation.

Your rights as a shareholder in a German corporation may differ from your rights as a shareholder in a U.S. corporation.

We are organized as a stock corporation (Aktiengesellschaft or AG) under the laws of Germany, and by participating in this offering you will become a holder of ADSs of a German stock corporation. You should be aware that the rights of shareholders of a German stock corporation under German law differ in important respects from those of shareholders of a U.S. corporation. These differences include, in particular:

For more information, we have provided summaries of relevant German corporate law and of our articles of association under "Management" and "Description of Company History and Share Capital."

Exchange rate fluctuations may reduce the amount of U.S. dollars you receive in respect of any dividends or other distributions we may pay in the future in connection with your ADSs.

We do not currently intend to declare or pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. Under German law, the determination of whether we have made sufficient profits to pay dividends is made on the basis of our unconsolidated annual financial statements prepared in accordance with German generally accepted accounting principles as set forth in the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch). Exchange rate fluctuations may affect the amount in U.S. dollars that our shareholders receive when we declare and pay in euros cash dividends or other cash distributions, if any. Such fluctuations could adversely affect the value of the ADSs and, in turn, the U.S. dollar proceeds that holders receive from the sale of the ADSs.

We are limited in our ability to increase our share capital under German law, which may make it difficult for us to raise additional capital to fund our operations in a timely manner.

Under German law and according to our articles of association, an increase of our share capital requires a resolution passed at our shareholders' meeting with both a simple majority of the share capital represented at the meeting, unless a capital increase can be executed using the authorized capital of the Company. A capital increase from authorized capital requires a resolution of the management board to such effect and the approval of the supervisory board. The aggregate nominal amount of the authorized capital created by the shareholders may not exceed one-half of the share capital existing at the time of registration of the authorized capital with the commercial register and the authorized capital may only be created for a period of up to five years. In addition, every holder of ordinary shares is generally entitled to subscription rights (commonly known as preemptive rights) relating to any new shares issued in connection with a capital increase in proportion to the number of shares he or she holds in the corporation's existing share capital, and a minimum subscription period of two weeks must be provided for the exercise of such subscription rights, although holders of ordinary shares may resolve to exclude subscription rights under certain circumstances. Given these and other restrictions under German law, it may be difficult for us to access capital markets quickly to raise additional capital that may be needed to fund our operations. For additional information, see the summaries of German law under "Description of Company History and Share Capital."

In the event that the ADSs do not qualify as ADRs under the ADR Tax Circular, U.S. treaty beneficiaries and German tax resident holders of ADSs could be subject to adverse consequences.

In the event that the ADSs do not qualify as ADRs under the ADR Tax Circular (both as defined in "Taxation—German Taxation of ADSs—General"), the U.S. and German tax consequences of acquiring, owning and disposing of the ADSs applicable to U.S. treaty beneficiaries (as defined in "Taxation—German Taxation of ADSs—Taxation of Non-German Resident U.S. Holders") and German tax resident holders of ADSs could differ significantly from the U.S. and German tax consequences described in "Taxation." The qualification of the ADSs for German tax purposes in this case is uncertain.

In particular, in the event that the ADSs fail to qualify as ADRs, U.S. treaty beneficiaries and German tax resident holders of ADSs could be subject to adverse U.S. and German tax consequences, respectively, which could include the following: (i) the U.S. treaty beneficiaries will not be entitled to claim a refund of the portion of the otherwise applicable 26.375% German withholding tax on dividends relating to the ADSs that exceeds the applicable Treaty (as defined in "Taxation—German Taxation of ADSs—Taxation of Non-German Resident U.S. Holders") rate and (ii) the German tax resident holders will not be entitled to any tax exemptions in relation to dividends and capital gains relating to the ADSs (see "Taxation—German Taxation of ADSs—Taxation of German Resident Holders").

ADSs holders may not be entitled to a jury trial with respect to claims arising under the deposit agreement, which could result in less favorable outcomes to the plaintiff(s) in any such action.

The deposit agreement governing the ADSs representing our ordinary shares provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, ADS holders waive the right to a jury trial of any claim they may have against us or the depositary arising out of or relating to our shares, the ADSs or the deposit agreement, including any claim under the U.S. federal securities laws.

If we or the depositary opposed a jury trial demand based on the waiver, the court would determine whether the waiver was enforceable based on the facts and circumstances of that case in accordance with the applicable state and federal law. To our knowledge, the enforceability of a contractual pre-dispute jury trial waiver in connection with claims arising under the federal securities laws has not been finally adjudicated by the United States Supreme Court. However, we believe that a contractual pre-dispute jury trial waiver provision is generally enforceable, including under the laws of the State of New York, which govern the deposit agreement, by a federal or state court in the City of New York, which has non-exclusive jurisdiction over matters arising under the deposit agreement. In determining whether to enforce a contractual pre-dispute jury trial waiver provision, courts will generally consider whether a party knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waived the right to a jury trial. We believe that this is the case with respect to the deposit agreement and the ADSs. It is advisable that you consult legal counsel regarding the jury waiver provision before entering into the deposit agreement.

If you or any other holders or beneficial owners of ADSs bring a claim against us or the depositary in connection with matters arising under the deposit agreement or the ADSs, including claims under federal securities laws, you or such other holder or beneficial owner may not be entitled to a jury trial with respect to such claims, which may have the effect of limiting and discouraging lawsuits against us and / or the depositary. If a lawsuit is brought against us and/or the depositary under the deposit agreement, it may be heard only by a judge or justice of the applicable trial court, which would be conducted according to different civil procedures and may result in different outcomes than a trial by jury would have had, including results that could be less favorable to the plaintiff(s) in any such action.

Nevertheless, if this jury trial waiver provision is not permitted by applicable law, an action could proceed under the terms of the deposit agreement with a jury trial. No condition, stipulation or provision of the deposit agreement or ADSs serves as a waiver by any holder or beneficial owner of ADSs or by us or the depositary of compliance with any substantive provision of the U.S. federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements concerning our business, operations and financial performance and condition as well as our plans, objectives and expectations for our business operations and financial performance and condition. Any statements that are not of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements by words such as "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could," "might," "will," "should," "aims" or other similar expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes. Forward-looking statements appear in a number of places throughout this prospectus and include statements regarding our intentions, beliefs, assumptions, projections, outlook, analyses or current expectations concerning, among other things, our intellectual property position, results of operations, cash needs, spending of the proceeds from this offering, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth and strategies, the industry in which we operate and the trends that may affect the industry or us.

By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events, competitive dynamics and industry change, and depend on economic circumstances that may or may not occur in the future or may occur on longer or shorter timelines than anticipated. Although we believe that we have a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained in this prospectus, we caution you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are in some cases beyond our control. All of our forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially from our expectations.

Actual results could differ materially from our forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, without limitation, risks related to:

Any forward-looking statements that we make in this prospectus speak only as of the date of such statement, and we undertake, except as may be required by law, no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this prospectus or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Comparisons of results for current and any prior periods are not intended to express any future trends or indications of future performance, unless expressed as such, and should only be viewed as historical data. You should, however, review the factors and risks we describe in the reports we will file from time to time with the SEC after the date of this prospectus. See "Where You Can Find More Information."

You should also read carefully the risk factors described in the "Risk Factors" section of this prospectus and elsewhere in this prospectus to better understand the risks and uncertainties inherent in our business and underlying any forward-looking statements. As a result of these factors, we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements in this prospectus will prove to be accurate. Furthermore, if our forward-looking statements prove to be inaccurate, the inaccuracy may be material. In light of the significant uncertainties in these forward-looking statements, you should not regard these statements as a representation or warranty by us or any other person that we will achieve our objectives and plans in any specified timeframe, or at all.

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from this offering, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, will be approximately $77.3 million, at an initial offering price of $15.00 per ADS. We will also receive net proceeds of approximately $19.6 million from the sale of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement to Corning at a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering, after deducting the commissions to Berenberg. The closing of this offering is not contingent upon the closing of the concurrent private placement with Corning.

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of ADSs by the selling shareholders. See "Principal and Selling Shareholders" and "Underwriting."

We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering and the concurrent private placement for the following purposes:

The foregoing represents our current intentions with respect to the use and allocation of the net proceeds of this offering and the concurrent private placement based upon our present plans and business conditions, but our management will have significant flexibility and discretion in applying the net proceeds. The occurrence of unforeseen events or changed market and business conditions could result in the application of the net proceeds of this offering or the concurrent private placement in a manner other than as described above. Pending our use of the net proceeds as described above, we may invest the net proceeds in short-term bank deposits or invest them in interest-bearing, investment grade securities.

We have no present intention of declaring or paying any dividends in the foreseeable future. Any recommendation by our management board and supervisory board to pay dividends will depend on many factors, including our financial condition, results of operations, legal requirements, capital requirements, business prospects and other factors.

All of the shares represented by the ADSs offered by this prospectus will generally have the same dividend rights as all of our other outstanding shares. However, the depositary may limit distributions based on practical considerations and legal limitations. See "Description of American Depositary Shares—Dividends and Distributions." Any distribution of dividends proposed by our management board and supervisory board requires the approval of our shareholders in a shareholders' meeting. See "Description of Company History and Share Capital—Dividend Rights," which explains in more detail the procedures we must follow and the German law provisions that determine whether we are entitled to declare a dividend.

For information regarding the German withholding tax applicable to dividends and related United States refund procedures, see "Taxation—German Taxation of ADSs."

Because the consummation of this offering is a condition precedent to the consummation of the concurrent private placement, we will not receive any proceeds from, or issue any ADS in, the concurrent private placement without the concurrent consummation of this offering.

You should read this together with "Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the audited consolidated financial statements of VIA optronics AG and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

If you invest in the ADSs in this offering, your interest will be diluted immediately to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per ADS and the pro forma net tangible book value per ADS after this offering. Dilution results from the fact that the initial public offering price per ADS is substantially in excess of the net tangible book value per ADS attributable to our existing shareholders for our ordinary shares that will be outstanding immediately prior to the closing of this offering. We calculate net tangible book value per ordinary share by dividing the net tangible book value (total assets less intangible assets and total liabilities) by the number of outstanding ordinary shares. For purposes of illustration, the following discussion assumes that all of our outstanding shares both before and after this offering are in the form of ADSs, every 5 ADSs representing 1 ordinary share. Dilution is determined by subtracting net tangible book value per ADS from the initial public offering price per ADS.

Our net tangible book value as of June 30, 2020 was €(5.2) million ($(5.8) million), or €(1.72) ($(1.93)) per ordinary share and $(0.39) per ADS. After giving effect to the sale by us of the ADSs in this offering at an initial public offering price of $15.00 per ADS, and after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and the sale by us of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement, at a price per ADS equal to $14.25, or 95% of the initial public offering price, and after deducting the commissions to Berenberg, our pro forma net tangible book value as of June 30, 2020 would have been approximately €81.4 million ($91.1 million), or €17.96 ($20.11) per ordinary share and $4.02 per ADS. This amount represents an immediate increase in our pro forma net tangible book value of €19.68 ($22.04) per ordinary share, or $4.41 per ADS, to our existing shareholders and an immediate dilution of €49.02 ($54.89) per ordinary share, or $10.98 per ADS, to investors purchasing the ADSs in this offering at the initial public offering price.

The following table summarizes on a pro forma basis, as of June 30, 2020, the differences between the shareholders as of June 30, 2020 and the new investors with respect to the number of ordinary shares represented by ADSs purchased from us, the total consideration paid and the average price per ordinary share paid by existing shareholders, Corning and by investors participating in this offering at

an initial public offering price of $15.00 per ADS, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us:

If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional ADSs from the selling shareholders in full, our existing shareholders would own 2,812,500 ordinary shares or, 62%, in the aggregate, Corning would own 280,701 ordinary shares underlying ADSs or 6% of our ordinary shares, and our new investors would own 1,437,500 ordinary shares underlying ADSs in the aggregate, representing 32% of our ordinary shares.

The number of our ordinary shares to be outstanding after this offering and the concurrent private placement is based on 3,000,000 ordinary shares outstanding as of June 30, 2020.

To the extent we grant options or other equity awards to our employees or members of our management board in the future, and those options or other equity awards are exercised in the future or other issuances of our ordinary shares are made, there will be further dilution to new investors.

We present below selected consolidated historical financial and other data for VIA optronics AG. The financial data as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 and for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus and which have been prepared in accordance with IFRS as issued by the IASB and audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. The summary unaudited interim consolidated statements of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) data for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 and the summary consolidated statement of financial position data as of June 30, 2020 have been derived from our unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and the related notes, which are included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with our audited consolidated financial statements and in the opinion of management reflect all adjustments, consisting only of normal and recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of such unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

VIA optronics AG's historical results are not necessarily indicative of the financial results to be expected in any future periods. You should read this information in conjunction with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," "Capitalization" and VIA optronics AG's audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, each included elsewhere in this prospectus. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of results for future periods.

	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss):	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,
	2020				2020			2019			2019				2019			2018 (restated*)				2017
	($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)						($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands, except per share data)
	(unaudited)
Revenue		$	72,626		€	64,856		€	70,563			$	153,671		€	137,231			€	171,679		€	131,031
Cost of sales		(61,805		)	(55,193		)	(63,485		)		(142,450		)	(127,210		)		(149,873		)	(113,232		)

Gross profit		10,821			9,663			7,078				11,222			10,021				21,806			17,799
Selling expenses		(2,499		)	(2,232		)	(2,256		)		(4,761		)	(4,252		)		(4,295		)	(3,735		)
General administrative expenses		(7,070		)	(6,314		)	(7,653		)		(14,778		)	(13,197		)		(13,267		)	(7,988		)
Research and development expenses		(1,187		)	(1,060		)	(542		)		(2,788		)	(2,490		)		(1,337		)	(798		)
Other operating income (expenses), net(2)		408			364			617				(1,183		)	(1,056		)		1,991			33

Operating income/(loss)		471			421			(2,756		)		(12,289		)	(10,974		)		4,898			5,311
Financial result		(797		)	(712		)	(782		)		(1,839		)	(1,642		)		(1,142		)	(696		)

(Loss)/(profit) before tax		(326		)	(291		)	(3,538		)		(14,127		)	(12,616		)		3,756			4,615
Income tax expense		(645		)	(576		)	1,078				(831		)	(742		)		(378		)	(1,262		)

Net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)		3,378			3,354



Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations		(251		)	(224		)	48				131			117				23			(165		)



Comprehensive (loss)/income		(1,222		)	(1,091		)	(2,412		)		(14,827		)	(13,241		)		3,402			3,189



Earning/(loss) per share		(0.34		)	(0.30		)	(0.56		)		(4.40		)	(3.93		)		1.37			1.16

*

(1)

Amounts in this column are not audited and have been converted from euros to U.S. dollars solely for the convenience of the reader.

(2)

(3)

Gives effect to the sale of 6,250,000 ADSs by us in this offering and the sale of 1,403,505 ADSs in the concurrent private placement to Corning at 95% of the initial public offering price in this offering, or $14.25 per ADS. As adjusted cash and cash equivalents, total assets and total equity do not reflect approximately €7.0 million of costs and expenses related to this offering already paid as of June 30, 2020.

(4)

We define gross margin as gross profit stated as a percentage of revenues.

(5)

The non-IFRS measures used by our management and supervisory boards include:

•: EBITDA, which we define as net profit/(loss) calculated in accordance with IFRS before financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization; for purposes of our EBITDA calculation, we define "financial result" to include financial result as calculated in accordance with IFRS and foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness;
•: Adjusted EBITDA, which we define as net profit/(loss) calculated in accordance with IFRS before financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization, acquisition-related costs incurred in connection with our acquisition of a 65% interest in VTS, including the effect of any acquisition fair value adjustment to revenue, and costs relating to the relocation of our headquarters to Nuremberg; for purposes of our Adjusted EBITDA calculation, we define "financial result" to include financial result as calculated in accordance with IFRS and foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness;
•: Adjusted EBITDA margin, which we define as Adjusted EBITDA stated as a percentage of revenue; and
•: Adjusted net (loss)/profit, which we define as net (loss)/profit calculated in accordance with IFRS before the after tax impacts of acquisition related costs incurred in connection with our acquisition of a 65% interest in VTS, including the effect of any acquisition fair value adjustment to revenue, and costs relating to the relocation of our headquarters to Nuremberg; for purposes of our calculation of Adjusted Net Profit/(Loss), we calculate the tax impacts assuming an effective tax rate of 31.8% and 27.4% based on the rate of VIA optronics GmbH for fiscal years ended ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, representing, in each case, the German statutory income tax rate, plus any applicable German solidarity surcharges plus any applicable municipal trade taxes.

	Six Months Ended June 30,										Year Ended December 31,

	2020				2020			2019			2019				2019			2018			2017
	($ in thousands)^(A)				(€ in thousands)						($ in thousands)^(A)				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)										($ in thousands)^(A)
Net (loss)/profit		$	(971	)	€	(867	)	€	(2,460	)		$	(14,958	)	€	(13,358	)	€	3,378		€	3,353
Adjustments:
Financial result		797			712			782				1,839			1,642			1,142			(696		)
Foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness		—			—			—				—			—			—			87
Income tax expense (benefit)		645			576			(1,079		)		831			742			378			1,262
Depreciation and amortization		3,933			3,512			3,043				7,320			6,537			3,212			542

EBITDA		4,404			3,933			286				(4,969		)	(4,437		)	8,110			5,940
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—				—			—			894			496
Offering costs		—			—			—				—			—			136			—

Adjusted EBITDA		4,404			3,933			286				(4,969		)	(4,437		)	9,140			6,436
Revenue		72,626			64,856			70,563				153,671			137,231			171,679			131,031

Adjusted EBITDA margin		6.1		%	6.1		%	0.4		%		(3.2		)%	(3.2		)%	5.3		%	4.9		%
Net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)	3,378			3,353
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—				—			—			610			360
Offering costs		—			—			—				—			—			93			—

Adjusted net (loss)/profit		(971		)	(867		)	(2,460		)		(14,958		)	(13,358		)	4,081			3,713

MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the section entitled "Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data" and VIA optronics AG's consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements that reflect our plans, estimates and opinions. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences or cause our actual results or the timing of selected events to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements include those set forth under "Risk Factors," "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and elsewhere in this prospectus.

A history of our product development, manufacturing and sales and marketing efforts is summarized as follows:

Since 2012, we have shipped more than 6.3 million displays worldwide and we have a proven track record of developing and delivering enhanced display solutions that meet our customers' quality and performance standards.

As a result of the VTS acquisition in fiscal year 2018, our business was divided into two segments: a display solutions segment and a sensor technologies segment.

In our display solutions segment, we focus on the development, production and sale of interactive display solutions using our optical bonding technology. We provide optical bonding on either a consignment basis (meaning our customer directly sources all of the necessary product components and we apply our patented Max VU bonding process to assemble such components) or a full service basis (meaning we source the necessary product components and perform the related optical bonding). In limited cases, we also offer licenses for our Max VU optical bonding processes and sell related bonding equipment to select customers. Additionally, beginning in 2019, we began providing certain customers with automotive camera module technology and research and development engineering services. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, we generated €113.4 million, €150.3 million and €131.0 million, respectively, in revenue, and €(4.6) million, €4.2 million and €5.3 million, respectively, in operating income (loss), from our display solutions segment. As a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, business interruptions caused a decrease in customer orders during the six months ended June 30, 2020, in particular during the first quarter. Additionally, during this period, the Chinese government imposed production-limiting measures, which led to reduced output of our production facilities located in China. Consequently, for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, we generated €53.3 million and €58.3 million, respectively, in revenue, and €0.2 million and €0.5 million, respectively, in operating income, from our display solutions segment.

In our sensor technologies segment, we focus on the development, production and sale of metal mesh touch sensors, both for use in our own enhanced display solutions and as component parts to third-party customers, and the development of other sensor components and technologies that can be incorporated into our interactive display solutions. We did not generate revenue from our sensor

technologies segment prior to our 2018 acquisition of a majority interest in VTS. For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we generated €26.0 million, €21.4 million, respectively, in revenue and €(6.3) million and €(2.4) million, respectively, in operating income (loss), from our sensor technologies segment. Business interruptions and reductions in end-customer demand due to the COVID-19 global pandemic caused a decrease in customer orders. In Japan, our production was temporarily halted for two weeks in March 2020. Consequently, for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, we generated €13.1 million and €13.0 million, respectively, in revenue and €0.2 million and €(3.3) million, respectively, in operating income (loss), from our sensor technologies segment.

Our customers operate in the automotive, consumer electronics and industrial/specialized applications markets. Our offerings are foundational to our customers' products and our customers rely upon us to meet their demanding production and quality specifications, as well as their inventory and quantity requirements. Our sales process is principally geared towards interactive display solutions using our optical bonding technology, customized metal mesh touch sensors and camera modules. Following our acquisition of a majority interest in VTS, we have further integrated the utilization of metal mesh touch sensors in the production of our touch-enabled enhanced display solutions to the extent that these sensors are compatible with our customers' specifications. We also offer metal mesh touch sensors as a stand-alone product to third parties for integration in their products. We are increasingly focused on producing interactive display solutions, integrating our display and metal mesh touch sensor technology and expertise with advance camera modules.

Our customers and design partners include many of the world's largest display and system manufacturers in the automotive, consumer electronics and industrial/specialized applications markets. We principally sell our products to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. Our technological expertise in combination with our deep customer and commercial partner collaborations, including our collaboration with Corning with respect to cold form glass technology, enables us to meet challenges and act as a sole source supplier for certain customers, including, for example, select customers in ruggedized applications and the automotive industry. We market and sell our products and solutions primarily through our internal direct sales force, supported by outside sales representatives and distributors, including Toppan.

We often have significant engagement with and act as a design partner to the OEMs, who may be our direct customers or our indirect customers through their Tier-1 suppliers. We believe that engaging with OEM customers in their design activities provides us with an advantage over competitors who are not engaged in OEM design activities and provides us with early visibility into our customers' technology and product roadmaps. This early access allows us to develop solutions that meet their long-term needs and best position ourselves for engagement on future business opportunities. We believe our track record of technological and product performance, high quality, cost effectiveness, and on-time deliveries have resulted in our position as a leading provider of optical bonding solutions and metal mesh touch sensors. We believe our strong relationship with our OEM and Tier-1 supplier customers, many of which are currently developing new products and applications that can incorporate our solutions, will also continue to position us as a source of supply for their future product offerings.

Our customers' product life cycles vary significantly depending on their end-market, with consumer electronics being approximately 1-1.5 years, automotive being approximately 3-7 years and industrial/specialized applications being approximately 3-10+ years. The length of our product development and sales cycle in both of our segments, generally varies from nine months to three years during which time we often incur research and development, production and other costs, much of which may not be reimbursed. Accordingly, revenues may be recognized significantly later than when a product is initially introduced for sale and we may not see a positive margin impact from a new customer contract for several years, if at all. Therefore, revenue from our current products, projects or customer portfolio is not necessarily an indicator of our future sales or profitability, because our future sales are likely to be comprised of a different mix of products which have different margin profiles.

In anticipation of this offering, on June 25, 2019 we completed a corporate reorganization, pursuant to which VIA optronics AG became the holding company for VIA optronics GmbH and its subsidiaries, see "Description of Company History and Share Capital" for more information.

We monitor certain key operating metrics to help us evaluate trends, establish budgets, measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our operations and gauge our cash generation, including:

These metrics include both IFRS and non-IFRS measures. Our management and supervisory boards utilize both IFRS and non-IFRS measures in a number of ways, including to facilitate the determination of our allocation of resources, to measure our performance against budgeted and forecasted financial plans and to establish and measure a portion of management's compensation. Our management and supervisory boards believe these non-IFRS measures are helpful tools in understanding certain aspects of our financial performance and are important supplemental measures of operating performance because they eliminate items that may have less bearing on our operating performance and highlight trends that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS financial measures. As an example, our acquisition of VTS in 2018 included acquisition-related costs, such as costs attributable to the consummation of the transaction and integration of VTS as a consolidated subsidiary (composed substantially of professional services fees, including legal, accounting and other consultants) and any transition compensation costs, and were not considered to be related to the continuing operation of VTS's business and are generally not relevant to assessing or estimating the long-term performance of VTS. We also believe that these non-IFRS measures are useful to investors and other users of our financial statements in evaluating our performance because these measures are the same measures used by our management and supervisory boards for these purposes.

While we use non-IFRS measures as a tool to enhance our understanding of certain aspects of our financial performance, we do not believe that these non-IFRS measures are a substitute for, or are

superior to, the information provided by IFRS results. As such, the presentation of non-IFRS measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for any measure prepared in accordance with IFRS. The primary limitations associated with the use of non-IFRS measures as compared to IFRS results are that non-IFRS measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies in our industry and that non-IFRS measures may exclude financial information that some investors may consider important in evaluating our performance. Because of these and other limitations, you should consider our non-IFRS measures alongside the directly comparable IFRS-based financial performance measures, including our net profit/(loss), net profit margin and our other IFRS financial results. Management addresses the inherent limitations associated with using non-IFRS measures through disclosure of such limitations, presentation of our financial statements in accordance with IFRS and reconciliation of EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA Margin and Adjusted Net Profit/(Loss) to the most directly comparable IFRS measure, net profit/(loss). Further, management also reviews IFRS measures and measures such as our level of capital expenditures, research and development expenditures, and interest expense, among other items.

	Six Months Ended June 30,						Year Ended December 31,

	2020			2019			2019			2018			2017
	(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Net (loss)/profit		€(867	)		€(2,460	)		€(13,358	)		€3,378			€3,353
Adjustments:
Financial result		712			782			1,642			1,142			696
Foreign exchange gains (losses) on intercompany indebtedness		—			—			—			—			87
Income tax expense (benefit)		576			(1,079	)		742			378			1,262
Depreciation and amortization		3,512			3,043			6,537			3,212			542

EBITDA		3,933			286			(4,437	)		8,110			5,940
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—			894			496
Relocation costs		—			—			—			136			—

Adjusted EBITDA		3,933			286			(4,437	)		9,140			6,436
Revenue		64,855			70,563			137,231			171,679			131,031

Adjusted EBITDA margin		6.1	%		0.4	%		(3.2	)%		5.3	%		4.9	%
Net (loss)/profit		(867	)		(2,460	)		(13,358	)		3,378			3,353
Adjustments:
Acquisition-related costs		—			—			—			610			360
Relocation costs		—			—			—			93			—

Adjusted net (loss)/profit		(867	)		(2,460	)		(13,358	)		4,081			3,713

Our business and historical financial condition and results of operations have been affected by a number of important factors that we believe will continue to affect our financial condition and results of operations in the future. Our results are primarily affected by the following factors:

Success of Design Wins with Potential and Existing Customers. We believe our enhanced display solutions offer high-quality and advanced functionality, which combined with our ability to meet our

customers' production volume requirements makes us an attractive choice to existing and potential customers. In order to get our solutions designed into OEMs' products, we work with our current and potential OEMs and/or their Tier-1 or other suppliers to understand their product roadmaps and strategies. We incur costs, including research and development costs relating to design engineering and prototype manufacturing, such as with our current automotive project pipeline, as well as tooling costs in connection with our pursuit of new design wins, that may not be accompanied by or lead to revenues, including with respect to projects for which our customers may not purchase our solutions even after we have obtained a design win due to factors unrelated to the quality or availability of our solutions. These costs can be significant and may not be reimbursed. With respect to our automotive customers, we are increasingly collaborating in the early stages of the OEM design and development process on interactive display systems for car interiors, which have become, and we believe will continue to be, differentiating factors for the driver experience. We consider design wins to be critical to our future success. We define a design win as the successful completion of the evaluation stage, where an OEM has tested our product, verified that our product meets its requirements, qualified our interactive display solutions for their products and delivered a letter to us indicating that we have been awarded the project. The revenue that we generate, if any, from each design win, and the cost incurred to achieve each design win and prepare for production of the products, can be material and can vary significantly. The product development process for our OEM, Tier-1 supplier and other customers can be lengthy, and in some instances may last for longer than two years. We may not earn revenue from our solutions unless and until products featuring our technologies are shipped to our customers, and prior to such time we may incur unreimbursed costs, which at times may be significant, for product development. Our sales expectations are based on forecasts from our existing customers, internal estimates of existing and potential customer demands and internal estimates of overall market trends. We anticipate that our costs in connection with new design wins will increase as we pursue additional opportunities with new and existing customers, including in furtherance of our strategy of becoming an interactive display system provider.

Investment in Growth. We have invested, and intend to continue making investments, to expand our operations, increase our headcount, develop our products and differentiated technologies to support our growth and expand our infrastructure. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, we incurred capital expenditures of €1,819,240, €2,374,230 and €1,055,326, respectively, and for the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, we incurred capital expenditures of €520,184 and €807,983, respectively, in connection with continued investments in technical equipment, machines and other equipment in furtherance of our goal of becoming an interactive display system provider. We expect our total operating expenses to increase, potentially significantly, in the foreseeable future to meet our growth objectives. We plan to continue to invest in our sales and support operations to further broaden our support and coverage of our existing customer base, in addition to developing new customer relationships and generating design wins. We also intend to continue to invest additional resources in research and development to support the development of our products and differentiated technologies. For the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, our research and development expenses were €2,490,259, €1,336,840, and €797,999, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2020 and 2019, our research and development expenses were €1,060,315 and €542,298, respectively, and are principally related to increased research and development costs associated with camera module technology. This includes amounts to support research and development efforts initiated in prior periods and therefore not related to new client acquisitions or future product development. We expect that our research and development expenses, including prototype development costs related to future automotive projects, will increase, potentially significantly, in the future as we pursue additional opportunities and in furtherance of our strategies. Any investments we make in our sales and marketing operations or research and development will occur in advance of experiencing any benefits from such investments, and the return on these investments may be lower than we expect or nonexistent.

Pricing and Product Cost. Our gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors, including the timing of changes in pricing, changes in our product mix, shipment volumes, market prices for our customers' products, changes in the purchase price of our raw materials and changes in the purchase price of third-party components integrated into our enhanced display solutions and direct labor costs. In general, newly introduced products and products with higher performance and functionality, as well as more complex displays used in more challenging and demanding environments (such as industrial/specialized applications), tend to be priced higher than more mature products or products with fewer features (such as in the consumer market). In addition, as we shift production of certain of our products out of China and expand production capacity in other geographies, we expect that our labor costs may increase and we may not be able to pass the increased costs onto our customers. We expect that in certain cases the average selling prices during the life cycle of our project related products can decline as they mature. When selling prices decline, we seek to offset this effect by reducing our costs of raw materials and components as part of our overall manufacturing expenses. If we are unable to maintain overall average selling prices or offset any declines in average selling prices with realized savings on product costs, our gross margin will decline.

The Ability of our Customers to Produce and Sell Their Products. Our customers generally use our products and solutions as a component or a portion of their offerings to their own customers, who in turn sell these offerings to end users. Accordingly, our success depends in large part on the ability of our customers to market and sell their offerings that incorporate our products and solutions. Our customers' product offerings are usually complex and may involve many different systems and components, and their ability to sell their products depends on many factors, including the availability of component parts, raw materials and other necessary services; the proper functioning of each of these components and the timeliness and effectiveness of their own processes. Supply or production delays, raw material shortages or the failure or under-performance of components unrelated to our products and solutions may impact our business even when we are able to deliver our products and services timely and defect-free. These factors may cause delays in our customers' production cycles, may cause our customers to cut back or delay their purchases of our products and solutions or may lead them to cease purchases from us entirely for periods of time while they address their production issues. Because our customer agreements typically do not specify minimum order requirements by our customers, our customers usually have no obligation to purchase our solutions if they experience supply issues unrelated to our solutions, or to make any prepayments to us. This dynamic materially affected our revenues in 2019, during which a global shortage of Intel microprocessor chips led our largest customer to delay orders from us. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the demand for certain of our customers' products, which had an impact on our revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2020. This dynamic resulted and may in the future result in significant period-on-period volatility in our results of operations.

Our Customer Mix. We operate in two segments and deliver products to customers in three different end-markets: automotive, consumer electronics and industrial/specialized applications. Since 2017, our display solutions segment has experienced a significant change in sales mix by end-markets. In 2017, sales in this segment were predominantly to customers in the consumer end-market and since then, our sales mix has moved toward a more balanced portfolio with the largest concentration being customers in the industrial/specialized applications end-market, followed by consumer and then automotive applications. This rebalancing of our sales mix partially related to our reclassification of ruggedized laptops from consumer applications to industrial/specialized applications in 2018. We sell different types of products into our various customer end-markets such as displays for board computers (automotive), touch displays for consumer appliances (consumer electronics) and highly readable displays for different industrial or medical machines (industrial/specialized applications). We expect customers in industrial/specialized applications end-market to be the largest source of sales and customers in automotive applications and consumer applications to represent slightly lower shares of our sales. This change in sales mix by end-market has generally improved our gross margin and is

expected to continue to improve, as sales to customers in the consumer end-market usually contribute lower gross margin in comparison to those to customers in the industrial/specialized applications and automotive end-markets, as our gross margins generally are higher with more specialized product development. In the first half of 2020 the trends of shifting sales mix continued; however the expected share of the industrial/specialized end-market is expected to be reached in the coming years. An increase in projects with greater margin contributions yielded a higher gross margin in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. In our sensor technology segment most of our product sales are used in consumer-related products; however, we are seeing increased use by customers with products in the industrial/specialized applications and automotive end-market. We expect that this increase will accelerate in the future, but that, at least for the next two years, customers in the consumer end-market will to continue to contribute the largest proportion of sales in our sensor technologies segment.

Based on historical experience, we typically generate increased revenue in the second half of the year compared to the first half of the year driven by holiday season demand for consumer products, increased spending by our customers to meet end-of-year budgets, and new product launch cycles in the automotive end market. Conversely revenue in the first quarter is typically the lowest in the year. There can be no assurance, however, that those historical trends will continue for 2020 or in future periods.

Product Development Efforts and Product Lifecycles of our Existing and Potential Customers. Our customers' product life cycles, or the time they wish to purchase and use a particular design, vary significantly depending on their end-market, typically lasting multiple years. Based on our experience, we typically expect life cycles to be approximately 1 to 3 years for consumer electronics, 3 to 7 years in automotive and 3 to 10 or more years in industrial/specialized applications. We estimate our customers' product life cycles on a case-by-case basis, given the close contacts we have with our customers. For consumer electronics products, it typically takes us approximately three months to respond to conceptual requests for information, or RFIs, approximately three months to receive requests for quotes, or RFQs, or business awards, approximately six months to complete development and sampling before we commence commercial shipments, and one to one and a half years to ramp up mass production, and we provide ongoing service for an additional two to three years. For automotive applications, it typically takes us approximately six months to three years to respond to conceptual RFIs, approximately one year to receive RFQs or business awards, two to three years to complete development and sampling before we commence commercial shipments, and three to seven years to ramp up mass production, and we provide ongoing service for an additional eight to ten years. For industrial/specialized applications, it typically takes us approximately one to two years to respond to conceptual RFIs, three to six months to receive RFQs or business awards, one to one and a half years to complete development and sampling before we commence commercial shipments, and three to at least ten years to ramp up mass production, and we provide ongoing service for an additional one to ten years. Consumer electronics products generally have shorter development timelines and automotive and industrialized/specialized products have longer development timelines. As noted above, costs we incur to develop and produce new products can be significant and may not be reimbursed. Commercial shipments of our products can continue for a period exceeding ten years, depending on the end-market or application.

Volatility of Revenues and Operating Cost Levels Due to Currency Exchange Fluctuations. With our multinational presence and our need to source materials from multiple locations to produce our enhanced display solutions, we incur revenues and operating costs in currencies other than the euro. Any currency fluctuation can lead to a corresponding effect on those revenues and operating costs, which in turn can have a material impact on our net income and EBIDTA in certain periods. Additional information on transaction and currency translation risks and our efforts to manage them are contained in "—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk."

Identification, Consummation and Integration of Acquisitions. Part of our strategy is to acquire and consolidate complementary businesses or technologies, including research and development capabilities, where possible and on favorable terms. Any future acquisitions could limit year-to-year comparisons of our results of operations. We may also incur substantial debt, issue additional equity securities or use other funding sources to fund future acquisitions. The efforts in integrating newly-acquired companies may affect our results of operations as well as divert management attention and other resources.

We consider a variety of performance and financial metrics to assess the performance of our business. The following discussion describes the components of our statement of operations and other comprehensive income (loss) and certain key factors affecting our results of operations.

Substantially all of our revenue is derived from the sale of our enhanced display solutions and metal mesh touch sensors. We also derive revenue from the provision of optical bonding services and from licensing of our optical bonding process and related sale of equipment. Additionally, beginning in 2019, our display solutions segment began generating revenues from providing automotive camera module research and development engineering services to certain customers. As a company with a global reach, our revenues are generated from sales to customers located in markets in Asia, Europe and the Americas (North and South America). In the segment footnote to the financial statements, located elsewhere in this prospectus, we also present revenues based on the geographical location of our subsidiary that bills the customer.

Our total cost of sales consists of the costs associated with the manufacturing (including raw materials costs) and distribution of our products, and other costs (e.g., depreciation and amortization, production-related personnel expenses, freight expenses, inventory write downs, repair of production machinery, rework, warehousing and product warranty). Beginning in 2019, we also incurred personnel, seconded personnel and equipment costs in delivering automotive camera module research and development engineering services. Certain of our traditionally fixed costs, such as production related personnel expenses, are capable of transitioning to variable costs by more efficiently applying the automated aspects of our production lines to reduce labor and associated overhead costs.

Our gross profit consists of the difference between our revenue and our cost of sales.

Our selling expenses mainly consist of personnel expenses (including wages, salaries and bonuses, and social security costs) for our sales and marketing staff, marketing and advertising expenses, internal cost allocations, travel and other expenses. Other expenses include rental fees, car fleet expenses, depreciation and amortization, and sales representative and distributor commissions. Our marketing and advertising expenses are comprised of fees for our attendance at industry fairs, advertisements, press services, web-based marketing as well as other marketing expenses, including product samples used to market our solutions. As a result of our international expansion and increasing complexity of our enhanced display solutions, as well as anticipated increases in revenues, we believe that our total selling expenses are likely to increase both in absolute terms and as a percentage of revenues over the next few years.

Our general administrative expenses mainly consist of personnel expenses (including wages, salaries and bonuses, and social security costs) for our administrative staff, rent, building and maintenance expenses as well as other expenses. The other expenses include items such as legal, consulting and audit fees, general maintenance expenses, fees for third party services, depreciation and amortization, travel expenses as well as insurance premiums. As a public company, we expect our general administrative expenses to increase both in absolute terms and as a percentage of revenues as we are required to deploy additional resources to comply with the increased capital markets, financial reporting and regulatory requirements.

We incur research and development expenses in connection with the design and development of our solutions, including to improve the technical capabilities of our product offerings generally and in connection with project-based client-driven specifications and requirements. Our research and development expenses consist of personnel expenses, fees for third-party research and development services, supplies and other expenses. We expect that our research and development expenses could increase as a percentage of revenue to the extent that our development and design costs, specifically within automotive applications, increase and as we focus increasingly on developing products and services directly for automotive customers as well as research and development relating to interactive display solutions and other camera-enhanced displays, three dimensional displays, new sensor technologies, software enhancements and embedded computing.

We incur research and development costs in relation to internal research and development projects. Product development costs under IFRS are generally required to be capitalized if the product being developed is technically and commercially viable, the costs of the development can be measured reliably, there are probable future economic benefits from the development and we have sufficient intent and resources to complete the development and use or sell the resulting asset. Other development expenditures that do not meet these criteria are recognized as incurred. We expense research costs as incurred. We have not capitalized any development costs as of June 30, 2020 or in any prior period.

Our other operating income and expense consists of income from foreign currency transaction gains or losses, losses on disposal of fixed assets, non-income taxes, bad debt provisions, damages/insurance proceeds, indemnities due to inadequate quality of third-party materials received by us, and miscellaneous income or expense. Foreign currency transaction gains or losses arise from transactions denominated in a foreign currency when the transaction date and settlement date differs.

Financial result is financial income less financial expenses. Financial income consists of interest income on our cash and cash equivalents. Interest income is recognized as it accrues, using the effective interest method. Financial expenses include interest expenses related to our financing facilities and the impact of currency exchange fluctuations on the principal balance of our outstanding financing facilities that are denominated in currencies other than euros.

The income tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred income tax. Income taxes are recognized in the income statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognized in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations are primarily driven by fluctuations between the euro and functional currencies of our subsidiaries which include the Japanese yen, Chinese renminbi and US dollar and are recognized in other comprehensive income.

Depreciation and amortization expenses are included in our cost of sales, general administrative and selling expenses. Following our adoption of IFRS 16, effective January 1, 2019, our depreciation expenses are primarily related to our rental and lease costs and the equipment we use in the development and production of our products. Our amortization expenses are primarily related to the amortization of other intangible assets such as patents and software licenses, and beginning in 2018 following the acquisition of VTS, amortization of intangible assets, primarily, customer relationships. The table below sets forth the allocation of our depreciation and amortization expenses among our cost of sales, general administrative and selling expenses:

As of June 30, 2020, we had capitalized €7,086,616 in deferred offering costs, an increase of €617,145 compared to December 31, 2019. These costs are comprised of fees and expenses of professional advisers, as well as travel costs, as of June 30, 2020. The deferred costs will be reclassified to shareholders' equity and offset against IPO proceeds upon completion of the offering. In the event the offering is abandoned or terminated, deferred offering costs will be expensed immediately.

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, since named SARS-CoV-2, causing the disease known as COVID-19, was reported in China. Since then, COVID-19 has spread globally, including throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as the United States. In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a "pandemic," or worldwide spread of a new disease. In response, many countries around the world, including the European Union and the United States, have imposed quarantines and restrictions on travel and mass gatherings to slow the spread of the virus, and have closed non-essential businesses.

We could be materially and adversely affected by the risks, or the public perception of the risks, related to an epidemic, pandemic, outbreak, or other public health crisis, such as the recent outbreak of COVID-19. During one week of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government imposed production-limiting measures, and then travel restrictions within China for several weeks thereafter, which led to reduced output of our production facilities located in China and increased net costs of component parts due to increased labor costs. In Japan, VTS temporarily halted production for two

weeks in March 2020 due to decreased order volume but has since resumed normal production capacity. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our revenues, resulting in part in decreased sales for the six months ended June 30, 2020 of 8.1% as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2019 and a 22.1% decrease in revenue in the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019. We have taken numerous steps to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on our results of operations, including implementing a work-from-home policy for non-manufacturing employees and alternative production shifts for our manufacturing operations. Furthermore, we engaged in cost reduction activities such as ceasing the recruitment of personnel. However, the impact of the pandemic on our revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2020 was material, and has adversely affected our supply chains, logistics, and the availability of our workforce. COVID-19 has continued to impact customer demand in 2020, which we believe has muted revenue growth this year, and there can be no assurance that COVID-19 will not continue to have an adverse impact on our revenue and margins in future periods.

The ultimate extent of the impact of any epidemic, pandemic, outbreak, or other public health crisis on our business, financial condition and results of operations will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information that may emerge concerning the severity of such epidemic, pandemic, outbreak, or other public health crisis and actions taken to contain or prevent the further spread, among others. Accordingly, we cannot predict the extent to which our business, financial condition and results of operations will be affected.

The following table sets forth data from our statement of operations and other comprehensive income/loss both on an actual basis and as a percentage of revenues for the periods indicated:

	Six Months Ended June 30,

	Six Months Ended June 30,												Period Over Period Change (2020 v. 2019)
	2020						2019						Period Over Period Change (2020 v. 2019)
	Amount (€ in thousands)			Percentage of Revenue			Amount (€ in thousands)			Percentage of Revenue			Amount (€ in thousands)			Percentage
	(unaudited)
Revenue		64,856			100	%		70,563			100	%		(5,707	)		(8.1	)%
Cost of sales		(55,193	)		85.1			(63,485	)		90.0			(8,293	)		(13.1	)

Gross profit		9,663			14.9			7,078			10.0			2,585			36.5
Selling expenses		(2,232	)		3.4			(2,256	)		3.2			24			1.1
General administrative expenses		(6,314	)		9.7			(7,653	)		10.8			(1,339	)		(17.5	)
Research and development expenses		(1,060	)		1.6			(542	)		0.8			518			95.6
Other operating income (expenses), net(1)		364			0.6			617			0.9			253			(41.0	)

Operating income(loss)		421			0.6			(2,756	)		3.9			3,177			115.3
Financial result		(712	)		1.1			(782	)		1.1			70			9.0

Profit/(loss) before tax		(291	)		0.5			(3,538	)		5.0			3,247			91.8
Income tax benefit/(expense)		(576	)		0.9			1,079			1.5			(1,655	)		(153.4	)

Net (loss)/profit		(867	)		1.3			(2,460	)		3.5			1,593			64.8
Other comprehensive income
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations		(224	)		0.3			48			0.07			(272	)		(566.7	)

Comprehensive income/(loss)		(1,091	)		1.7			(2,412	)		3.4		<

	Per Share		Per ADS		Total

Public offering price	$	75.00	$	15.00	$	93,750,000
Underwriting discounts and commissions	$	5.25	$	1.05	$	6,562,500
Proceeds to VIA optronics AG (before expenses)	$	69.75	$	13.95	$	87,187,500

	As of June 30, 2020

	Actual			As Adjusted for the Offering			As Adjusted for the Offering and the Concurrent Private Placement
	(in thousands)
Long-term loan liabilities	€	2,181		€	2,181		€	2,181
Short-term loan liabilities		30,983			30,983			30,983
Shareholders' equity:
Share capital		3,000			4,250			4,531
Capital reserve		4,170			71,939			89,160
Accumulated deficit		(7,241	)		(7,241	)		(7,241	)
Currency translation reserve		(265	)		(265	)		(265	)
Non-controlling interests		327			327			327

Total shareholders' equity		(9	)		69,010			86,512

Total capitalization	€	33,155		€	102,174		€	119,676



Initial public offering price			15.00			13.40
Net tangible book value per ADS as of June 30, 2020 before the change attributable to investors purchasing ADSs in this offering and attributable to Corning in the concurrent private placement	(0.39	)		(0.34	)
Increase in net tangible book value attributable to investors purchasing ADSs in this offering	3.75			3.35
Increase in net tangible book value attributable to Corning in the concurrent private placement	0.66			0.59

Pro forma net tangible book value as of June 30, 2020 after giving effect to this offering and the concurrent private placement			4.02			3.59

Dilution to new investors			10.98			9.80

	Ordinary Shares Purchased

							Total Consideration
							Total Consideration					Average Price per Ordinary Share		Average Price per ADS
	Number			Percent			Amount		Percent			Average Price per Ordinary Share		Average Price per ADS
							(in $)					(in $)		(in $)
Existing shareholders		3,000,000			66	%		3,359,400		3	%		1.12		0.22
Corning		280,701	*		6	%		19,999,943		17	%		71.25		14.25
New investors		1,250,000	*		28	%		93,750,000		80	%		75.00		15.00

Total		4,530,701			100	%		117,109,343		100	%

	Six Months Ended June 30,⁽¹⁾									Year Ended December 31,⁽¹⁾

	2020				2019					2019						2018
	Display Solutions		Sensor Technologies		Display Solutions		Sensor Technologies			Display Solutions			Sensor Technologies			Display Solutions		Sensor Technologies
	(€ in thousands)
External revenues		53,334		11,521		58,293		12,270			113,359			23,873			150,315		21,364
Inter-segment revenues				1,599				737			—			2,138			278		—
Total revenues		53,334		13,120		58,293		13,007			113,359			26,010			150,593		21,364
Gross profit (loss)⁽²⁾		7,614		2,147		8,201		(1,123	)		11,976			(1,954	)		20,458		1,123
Operating income (loss)		236		224		549		(3,296	)		(4,641	)		(6,332	)		4,231		(2,413	)
Depreciation and amortization		1,260		2,251		948		2,094			2,055			4,482			757		2,455
EBITDA		1,496		2,476		1,498		(1,202	)		(2,586	)		1,851			4,988		42

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Prospectus Summary			1
Risk Factors			18
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements			63
Use of Proceeds			65
Dividend Policy			66
Capitalization			67
Dilution			68
Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data			70
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations			73
Business			103
Management			139
Related Party Transactions			155
Principal and Selling Shareholders			158
Description of Company History and Share Capital			160
Description of American Depositary Shares			178
Shares and ADSs Eligible for Future Sale			186
Exchange Controls and Limitations Affecting Shareholders			188
Taxation			189
Underwriting			201
Expenses Related to this Offering			209
Legal Matters			209
Experts			209
Service of Process and Enforcement of Civil Liabilities			209
Where You Can Find More Information			210
Index to Financial Statements			F-1

	As of June 30,											As of December 31,

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position Data:	2020 (As Adjusted)⁽³⁾			2020				2020				2019				2019			2018
	(€ in thousands)			($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)				($ in thousands)⁽¹⁾				(€ in thousands)
	(unaudited)
Cash and cash equivalents		€	93,690		$	8,027			€	7,168			$	10,453		€	9,335		€	9,943
Working capital		75,383			(12,475		)		(11,140		)		(12,767		)	(11,401		)	1,251
Total assets		163,146			85,804				76,624				91,443			81,660			80,571
Total liabilities		76,633			85,814				76,633				90,231			80,578			66,348
Total equity		86,512			(10		)		(9		)		1,212			1,082			14,223


PROSPECTUS