Note 1 - Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2025

Notes to Financial Statements

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure and Significant Accounting Policies [Text Block]

1. ORGANIZATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

AEye, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (the “Company” or “AEye”) is a provider of high-performance, active lidar systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver-assistance systems, or ADAS, and robotic vision applications. AEye’s Intelligent Sensing Platform includes a solid-state software definable active lidar sensor, an adaptive sensing SmartScan architecture to scan dynamic scenes/targets, and sophisticated signal processing capability that provides precise measurements and imaging for various safety-critical applications. The Intelligent Sensing Platform captures more information with less data, facilitating faster, more accurate, and more reliable perception of the environment.

AEye, formerly known as CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III, (“CF III”), was originally incorporated in Delaware on March 15, 2016 under the name CF SPAC Re Inc. On February 17, 2021, AEye Technologies, Inc., then known as AEye, Inc., entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with CF III. Based on CF III’s business activities, it was a “shell company” as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. On August 16, 2021, the business combination contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger was closed and CF III changed its name to AEye, Inc.

The Company’s common stock and public warrants are listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) under the symbols “LIDR” and “LIDRW”, respectively. Unless otherwise specified, “we,” “us,” “our,” “AEye,” and the “Company” refers to AEye, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries.

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial statements and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for fair presentation have been included. The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2024 included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include lease termination liability, write-downs of inventory to the lower of cost or net realizable value, investments, embedded derivative and warrant liabilities, stock-based compensation, and convertible notes.

Principle of Consolidation and Liquidity

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of AEye, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Management is required to assess its ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date the financial statements are issued in accordance with ASC 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern. In each reporting period, including interim periods, an entity is required to assess conditions known and reasonably knowable as of the financial statement issuance date to determine whether it is probable an entity will not meet its financial obligations within one year from the financial statement issuance date. These condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

As is common in early-stage companies with limited operating histories, the Company is subject to risks and uncertainties such as its ability to develop and commercialize its products; produce and deliver lidar and software products meeting acceptable performance metrics; attract new and retain existing customers; develop, obtain, or progress strategic partnerships; secure an automotive OEM design win; secure additional capital to support the business plan; and other risks and uncertainties.

Since its inception, the Company has incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operations. As of June 30, 2025, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $390,381. As the Company is still in its early stages, management expects to incur additional operating losses and negative operating cash flows as management continues to focus on achieving commercialization of its lidar solutions and execute on its strategic initiatives. As the Company incurs additional losses in the future, management may need to raise additional capital through issuances of equity and debt.

The Company has funded its operations primarily through the business combination and issuances of stock. As of June 30, 2025, the Company's existing sources of liquidity included cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities of $19,210. Subsequent to June 30, 2025, the Company successfully raised additional capital of $68,844 through its common stock purchase agreements and an exercise of warrants (see Note 18). As such, management believes that with total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at June 30, 2025, together with the additional net proceeds raised subsequent to quarter-end, the Company currently has sufficient financial resources to fund operations and meet its capital requirements and anticipated obligations as they come due in the next twelve months from the date of issuance of these condensed consolidated financial statements. 

As such, management has concluded that the conditions and events that previously raised substantial doubt no longer exist.

Emerging Growth Company

The Company is an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), and it may take advantage of certain 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 independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

Further, Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standards. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. The Company has elected to take advantage of the benefits of the extended transition period for new or revised financial accounting standards. This may make it difficult or impossible to compare the Company’s financial results with the financial results of another public company that is either not an emerging growth company or is an emerging growth company that has chosen not to take advantage of the extended transition period exemptions because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities, and accounts receivable. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents with major financial institutions, which management assesses to be of high credit quality, to limit the exposure of each investment. The Company’s marketable securities have investment grade ratings when purchased which mitigates risk.

The Company’s accounts receivable are derived from customers located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. The Company mitigates its credit risks by performing ongoing credit evaluations of its customers’ financial conditions. The Company generally does not require collateral.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740) - Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, to increase the transparency and usefulness of income tax information through improvements to the income tax disclosures primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. The Company is currently assessing the effect that the updated standard will have on its financial statement disclosures. 

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which requires annual and interim disclosure of disaggregated disclosures of certain costs and expenses on the income statement. The standard is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. Amendments are applied on a prospective basis with retrospective application permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.