UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 7, 2021

 

 

DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-40166   85-4299396

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100

Las Vegas, Nevada 89144

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (702) 781-4313

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Units, each consisting of one share of Class A common stock and one-fifth of one redeemable warrant   DMYQ.U   The New York Stock Exchange
Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share   DMYQ   The New York Stock Exchange
Redeemable warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Class A common stock, each at an exercise price of $11.50 per share   DMYQ WS   The New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01.

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Merger Agreement

On July 7, 2021, dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (“dMY IV,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”), entered into an agreement and plan of merger, by and among dMY IV, Photon Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of dMY IV (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of dMY IV (“Second Merger Sub”), and Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”) (as the same may be amended and/or restated from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”). The Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby were unanimously approved by dMY IV’s board of directors on July 6, 2021. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions set forth in the Merger Agreement as described in more detail below, including the approval of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby by dMY IV’s and Planet’s stockholders, First Merger Sub will merge with and into Planet (the “First Merger”) with Planet (the “Surviving Corporation”) surviving the First Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of dMY IV, and, at Planet’s election, immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the Surviving Corporation may merge with and into Second Merger Sub (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Business Combination”), with Second Merger Sub surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of dMY IV. In addition, in connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, dMY IV will be renamed as reasonably determined by Planet, and is referred to herein as “New Planet” to denote the post Business Combination entity.

Merger Consideration to Planet Stockholders

Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions set forth therein, at the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”), equityholders of Planet (other than holders of unvested Planet equity awards as of the Closing) will receive $2,135,000,000 in aggregate consideration (the “Aggregate Base Consideration”) in the form of newly issued New Planet Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“New Planet Class A common stock”), and newly issued New Planet Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“New Planet Class B common stock”), at a per share price of $10.00.

In addition to the Aggregate Base Consideration, Planet equityholders may receive up to an additional 27 million shares in earnout consideration in the form of New Planet Class A common stock or New Planet Class B common stock, as applicable (the “Contingent Consideration”). The Contingent Consideration may be earned in four equal tranches (x) when the closing price of New Planet Class A common stock equals or exceeds $15.00, $17.00, $19.00 and $21.00, over any 20 trading days within any 30 day trading period prior to the fifth anniversary of the Closing or (y) when New Planet consummates a change of control transaction that entitles its stockholders to receive a per share consideration of at least $15.00, $17.00, $19.00 and $21.00. Any right to Contingent Consideration that remains unvested on the first business day after five years from Closing will be forfeited without any further consideration.

Under the Merger Agreement, at the time the First Merger becomes effective (the “Effective Time”), the equity consideration will be allocated among Planet’s stockholders as follows: (a) each share of Class B common stock of Planet as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (which are currently and will be held by William Marshall and Robert Schingler Jr., founders of Planet) will be converted into the right to receive (i) a portion of the Aggregate Base Consideration in the form of a number of shares of New Planet Class B common stock equal to the quotient of the Aggregate Base Consideration divided by the fully diluted number of vested shares of Planet common stock on an as-converted basis using the treasury stock method for outstanding Planet options (the “Exchange Ratio”) and (ii) a portion of the Contingent Consideration (if any) in the form of a number of shares of New Planet Class B common stock equal to the Exchange Ratio (but, for this purpose, including unvested Planet equity awards in the calculation of the fully diluted number of shares) (the “Per Share Contingent Consideration”) and (b) each share of Planet capital stock (other than Planet Class B common stock) as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than in respect of (x) treasury shares, (y) shares of Planet common stock with respect to which appraisal rights have been perfected in accordance with applicable law, and (z) any shares of Planet capital stock

 

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subject to a Planet option (as defined below) or a Planet restricted stock unit award) will be converted into the right to receive (i) a portion of the Aggregate Base Consideration in the form of a number of shares of New Planet Class A common stock equal to the Exchange Ratio and (ii) the Per Share Contingent Consideration in the form of New Planet Class A common stock.

The shares of New Planet Class B common stock will have the same economic terms as the shares of Class A common stock of New Planet, but the shares of New Planet Class B common stock will have 20 votes per share while the New Planet Class A common stock will have one vote per share. The New Planet Class B common stock, initially held by William Marshall or Robert Schingler Jr., each a Planet founder, will automatically convert to New Planet Class A common on the earliest of the date that is the (a) 10-year anniversary of the Closing and (b) the date that is six months after the date that such Planet founder no longer provides services to New Planet as a director, executive officer, member of the senior leadership team or other full-time employee with an on-going substantial role at New Planet. Shares of New Planet Class B common stock held by a Planet founder shall also automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock immediately (x) following the transfer of such shares of New Planet Class B common stock to someone other than a qualified stockholder of such Planet founder, (y) on the date that such Planet founder is terminated for cause, or (z) upon such Planet founder’s death or mental incapacity.

Treatment of Planet Equity Awards

At the Effective Time, each outstanding option to purchase shares of Class A common stock or Class B common stock of Planet (a “Planet option”) will be assumed by New Planet and will be converted into (i) an option to acquire New Planet Class A common stock with the same terms and conditions as applied to such Planet option immediately prior to the Effective Time, except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative or satisfied by the First Merger. The number of shares underlying such New Planet option will be multiplied by the Exchange Ratio, which product shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number of shares, and the per share exercise price of such New Planet option will be divided by the Exchange Ratio, which quotient shall be rounded up to the nearest full cent and (ii) with respect to each share of Planet common stock subject to such Planet option immediately prior to the Effective Time, the right to receive the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

At the Effective Time, each Planet restricted stock unit award that is outstanding and unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers) will be cancelled and converted into (i) a restricted stock unit award covering a number of shares of New Planet Class A common stock equal to the number of shares of Planet common stock underlying such unvested Planet restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio (rounded to the nearest whole share), with the same terms and conditions as were applicable to the related unvested Planet restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time (including with respect to vesting and termination-related provisions), except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative (or satisfied) by the First Merger and (ii) with respect to each share of Planet common stock subject to such Planet restricted stock unit award immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

At the Effective Time, each Planet restricted stock unit award that is outstanding and vested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers) will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive, with respect to each share of Planet common stock subject to the restricted stock unit award, the same merger consideration as a share of New Planet common stock, including for the avoidance of doubt, a portion of the Aggregate Base Consideration and a portion of the Aggregate Contingent Consideration, if any.

At the Effective Time, each Planet restricted stock award that is outstanding and unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers) will be cancelled and converted into (i) a restricted stock award covering a number of shares of New Planet Class A common stock equal to the number of shares of Planet common stock underlying such unvested Planet restricted stock award immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio (rounded to the nearest whole share), with the same terms and conditions as were applicable to the related unvested Planet restricted stock award immediately prior to the Effective Time (including with respect to vesting and termination-related

 

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provisions), except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative (or satisfied) by the First Merger and (ii) with respect to each share of Planet common stock subject to such Planet restricted stock award immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

Representations and Warranties and Covenants

The parties to the Merger Agreement have made customary representations and warranties for transactions of this type. The representations and warranties made under the Merger Agreement will generally not survive the Closing. In addition, the parties to the Merger Agreement agreed to be bound by certain customary covenants for transactions of this type, including, among others, covenants with respect to the conduct of Planet and dMY IV and their respective subsidiaries during the period between the execution of the Merger Agreement and the Closing, covenants with respect to making the filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 and covenants with respect to the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement on Form S-4 (“Registration Statement”), which will include the proxy statement/prospectus of the Company. The covenants made under the Merger Agreement will not survive the Closing, unless by their terms they are to be performed in whole or in part after the Closing. The Merger Agreement provides that, immediately following the Closing, a nominee proposed by dMY and reasonably acceptable to Planet will be appointed to New Planet’s initial board of directors.

Conditions

The Closing is subject to certain customary conditions, including, among other things: (i) approvals by dMY IV’s stockholders and Planet’s stockholders of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby; (ii) the expiration or termination of the waiting period (or any extension thereof) applicable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino-Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976; (iii) obtainment of the necessary consents from the Federal Communications Commission and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (iv) that dMY IV has not received valid redemption requests (that have not subsequently been withdrawn) that would require it to redeem dMY IV Class A common stock in an amount that would cause dMY IV not to have at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act); (v) effectiveness of the Registration Statement; (vi) the shares of New Planet Class A common stock to be issued in connection with the Business Combination having been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange; (vii) the accuracy of the representations and warranties, covenants and agreements of Planet and dMY IV, respectively; (viii) the absence of any material adverse effect that is continuing with respect to Planet and dMY IV, respectively, between the date of the Merger Agreement and the date of the Closing; (ix) the absence of any governmental order, statute, rule or regulation enjoining or prohibiting the consummation of the Business Combination and (x) solely with respect to Planet, after giving effect to applicable redemptions, dMY IV having a minimum of $250,000,000 in cash available to it at Closing.

Termination

The Merger Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated thereby abandoned: (i) by written consent of Planet and dMY IV; (ii) by Planet or dMY IV if any governmental authority has enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any governmental order of competent jurisdiction which has become final and nonappealable and has the effect of making consummation of the Mergers illegal or otherwise preventing or prohibiting consummation of the Mergers (subject to certain exceptions); (iii) by Planet or dMY IV if the dMY IV stockholder approval has not been obtained; (iv) by Planet or dMY IV if the Closing has not occurred before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 21, 2022; (v) by Planet following a modification in the recommendation of dMY IV’s board of directors or (vi) by Planet or dMY IV if the other party has materially breached the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances. No party will have any liability after the termination of the Merger Agreement, except for actual fraud.

The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement and the Business Combination does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. The Merger Agreement contains

 

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representations, warranties and covenants that the parties to the Merger Agreement made to each other as of the date of the Merger Agreement or other specific dates. The assertions embodied in those representations, warranties and covenants were made for purposes of the contract among the parties and are subject to important qualifications and limitations agreed to by the parties in connection with negotiating the Merger Agreement. The Merger Agreement has been attached to provide investors with information regarding its terms and is not intended to provide any other factual information about dMY IV, Planet or any other party to the Merger Agreement. In particular, the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement, which were made only for purposes of the Merger Agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties (including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts) and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors and reports and documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements, or any descriptions thereof, as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of any party to the Merger Agreement. In addition, the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements and other terms of the Merger Agreement may be subject to subsequent waiver or modification. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties and other terms may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.

Subscription Agreements

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company entered into certain subscription agreements, each dated as of July 7, 2021 (the “Subscription Agreements”), with certain investors, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company agreed to issue and sell, in private placements to close immediately prior to the Closing, an aggregate of 20,000,000 shares of Class A common stock of dMY IV (together, the “Subscriptions”) for $10.00 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $200,000,000 (the “PIPE Investment”). The obligations of each party to consummate the Subscriptions are conditioned upon, among other things, customary closing conditions and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

The foregoing description of the Subscription Agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the form of Subscription Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and which is incorporated by reference herein.

Planet Support Agreements

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, dMY IV, Planet and certain Planet stockholders who hold the votes required to approve the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Planet founders, entered into the Planet Holders Support Agreement or the Preferred Planet Holders Support Agreement, whereby such Planet stockholders agreed to, among other things, vote or provide consent in favor of the approval of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein following the Registration Statement becoming effective. Additionally, such Planet stockholders agreed to not transfer any securities of Planet held by such stockholder from the date of execution of the Planet Holders Support Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms, subject to certain exceptions, to not solicit any Acquisition Proposal (as defined in the Merger Agreement) and, solely in connection with the Planet Holders Support Agreement, to vote against any business combination proposal other than the Business Combination.

The foregoing description of the Planet Support Agreement and the Preferred Planet Holders Support Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Planet Holders Support Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto and the Preferred Planet Holders Support Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.3 hereto and, in each case, incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Sponsor Support Agreement

In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, dMY IV, Planet, dMY Sponsor IV, LLC (the “Sponsor”) and dMY IV’s directors and officers entered into the Sponsor Support Agreement, pursuant to which the Sponsor and dMY IV’s directors and officers have agreed to, among other things, vote to adopt and approve the Merger Agreement and all other documents and transactions contemplated thereby, to vote against any business combination proposal other than the Business Combination or other proposals that would impede or frustrate the Business Combination, to comply with the Merger Agreement’s prohibition on dMY IV soliciting any alternative business combination transaction and to not transfer the founder shares and private placement warrants that they own, in each case, subject to the terms and conditions of the Sponsor Support Agreement.

The foregoing description of the Sponsor Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Sponsor Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.4 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.

Registration Rights Agreement

At the Closing, the Company will enter into an amended and restated registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) among the Company, Planet and certain of their respective stockholders. Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, New Planet will (x) be required to register for resale securities held by the stockholders party thereto and (y) grant certain “demand” registration rights and “piggyback” registration rights to certain holders of its Class A common stock. New Planet will bear the expenses incurred in connection with the filing of any registration statements pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Registration Rights Agreement filed as Exhibit 10.5 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

Lockup Agreements

In connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, the Sponsor, dMY IV’s directors and officers, the Planet founders, Planet’s executive officers and directors who shall continue on as executive officers and directors of New Planet and other Planet stockholders who hold at least 5% of Planet capital stock on an as-converted basis immediately prior to the Closing (collectively, the “Lock-Up Stockholders”) will enter into lock-up agreements (the “Lock-Up Agreements”) with New Planet, which place certain restrictions on the transfer of shares received by the Lock-Up Stockholders in connection with the Mergers.

In the case of shares attributable to Niccolo De Masi, Harry L. You, Darla Anderson, Francesca Luthi, Charles E. Wert, William Marshall and Robert Schingler Jr., the lock-up restrictions under the Lock-Up Agreements begin at Closing and end on the date that is 18 months after Closing, subject to potential early release starting at 12 months after Closing (with such early release right being triggered in the case of Niccolo de Masi, Harry L. You, William Marshall and Robert Schingler Jr., if the New Planet share price equals or exceeds $15.00 for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period during the relevant period and, in the case of Darla Anderson, Francesca Luthi and Charles E. Wert, if the New Planet share price equals or exceeds $12.00 for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period during the relevant period).

In the case of shares attributable to all other Lock-Up Stockholders, the lock-up restrictions under the Lock-Up Agreements begin at Closing and end on the date that is 12 months after Closing, subject to early release starting at 6 months after Closing (with such early release right being triggered if the New Planet share price equals or exceeds $12.00 for any 20 trading days within any 30-trading day period during the relevant period).

In the applicable Lock-Up Agreement, the Sponsor will agree that, as of the consummation of the Mergers, 862,500 shares of New Planet Class A common Stock and 2,966,667 of the warrants to purchase New Planet Class A common stock, in each case that are held by the Sponsor immediately following Closing (the “Sponsor Earnout Securities”), will be unvested and will vest in four equal tranches when the closing price of New Planet Class A

 

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common stock equals or exceeds $15.00, $17.00, $19.00 and $21.00, respectively, over any 20 trading days within any 30 day trading period prior to the fifth anniversary of the Closing. The Sponsor Earnout Securities that remain unvested on the first business day after five years from Closing will be cancelled by New Planet and will no longer be issued and outstanding.

The foregoing descriptions of the Lock-Up Agreements do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the Lock-Up Agreements filed as Exhibits 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8, respectively, hereto, each of which is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 3.02.

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The disclosure set forth above in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to the issuance of shares of dMY IV common stock in connection with the PIPE Investment is incorporated by reference herein. The shares of common stock issuable in connection with the Subscriptions will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder.

 

Item 7.01.

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On July 7, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the execution of the Merger Agreement and other matters related to the Business Combination and Planet. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Attached as Exhibit 99.2 hereto and incorporated by reference herein is the investor presentation dated July 2021, which will be used by the Company with respect to the Business Combination.

On July 7, 2021, dMY IV and Planet made a webcast available on their respective websites in which members of their respective managements discussed the Business Combination (the “Webcast”). A copy of the transcript for the Webcast is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.3 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Attached as Exhibit 99.4 is a transcript of a video prepared by Planet regarding its business and presented in connection with the marketing of the PIPE Investment.

Attached as Exhibit 99.5 are audited consolidated financial statements of Planet and its subsidiaries as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 and for each of the two fiscal years in the period ended January 31, 2021. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and not with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”). The financial statements of Planet that will be included in the Registration Statement will be required to conform to the standards of the PCAOB and as a result may be adjusted or may be presented differently than the financial statements attached hereto as Exhibit 99.5.

The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibits 99.1, 99.2, 99.3, 99.4 and 99.5, is furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to liabilities under that section, and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the filings of the Company under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings. This Current Report on Form 8-K will not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibits 99.1, 99.2, 99.3, 99.4 or 99.5.

Important Information About the Proposed Business Combination and Where to Find It

In connection with the proposed Business Combination, the Company intends to file with the SEC a Registration Statement. The Company’s stockholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when available, the Registration Statement and the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus which forms a part of the Registration Statement, as well as any amendments thereto, and the effective Registration Statement and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and documents incorporated by reference therein filed in

 

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connection with the Business Combination, as these materials will contain important information about the parties to the Merger Agreement, the Company and the Business Combination. When available, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the Business Combination will be mailed to stockholders of the Company as of a record date to be established for voting on the Business Combination and other matters as may be described in the Registration Statement. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC that will be incorporated by reference therein, without charge, once available, at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov, at the Company’s website at https://www.dmytechnology.com or by written request to dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV at 1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100, Las Vegas, Nevada 89144.

Participants in the Solicitation

The Company, the Sponsor, Planet and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company’s stockholders with respect to the Business Combination. A list of the names of those directors and executive officers and a description of their interests in the Company will be included in the Registration Statement to be filed by the Company, which will include the proxy statement/prospectus of the Company, for the Business Combination and be available at www.sec.gov. Additional information regarding the interests of such participants will be contained in the proxy statement for the Business Combination when available. You may obtain free copies of these documents as described in the preceding paragraph.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the proposed transaction between the Company and Planet, including statements regarding the anticipated timing, completion and success of the transaction. The Company’s and Planet’s actual results may differ from their expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “strategy,” “opportunity,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company’s and Planet’s expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the Business Combination, the satisfaction of the closing conditions to the Business Combination and the timing of the completion of the Business Combination. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside the Company’s and Planet’s control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement; (2) the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether the proposed transaction is fair to the Company’s stockholders from a financial point of view; (3) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company and Planet following the announcement of the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein; (4) the inability to complete the Business Combination, including due to failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of the Company or Planet, certain governmental or regulatory approvals, the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount following redemption by the Company’s public stockholders, or the satisfaction of other conditions to Closing in the Merger Agreement; (5) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement or could otherwise cause the transaction to fail to close; (6) the impact of COVID-19 on Planet’s business and/or the ability of the parties to complete the Business Combination; (7) the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of New Planet Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange following the Business Combination; (8) the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans, operations, business relationships, performance and business generally as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Business Combination; (9) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, and the ability of New Planet to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers, and retain its management and key employees; (10)

 

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costs related to the Business Combination; (11) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (12) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the proposed transaction, and identify and realize additional opportunities; (13) the possibility that Planet or the Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (14) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the Business Combination, including those under “Risk Factors” therein, and in the Company’s other filings with the SEC. The Company cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, the Registration Statement and proxy statement/prospectus discussed above and other documents filed by the Company from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Nothing in this Current Report on Form 8-K should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

No Offer or Solicitation

This Current Report on Form 8-K is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the Business Combination. This Current Report on Form 8-K shall also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act, or an exemption therefrom.

 

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number   

Description

2.1†    Merger Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, and Planet Labs Inc.
10.1    Form of Subscription Agreement.
10.2    Support Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among certain stockholders of Planet Labs Inc., dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV and Planet Labs Inc.
10.3    Support Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among certain preferred stockholders of Planet Labs Inc., dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV and Planet Labs Inc.
10.4    Support Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV and Planet Labs Inc.
10.5    Form of Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement.
10.6    Form of Lock-Up Agreement, by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, dMY Sponsor IV, LLC and the directors and executive officers of dMY Sponsor IV, LLC.
10.7    Form of Lock-Up Agreement, by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, William Marshall and Robert Schingler Jr.

 

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Exhibit Number   

Description

10.8    Form of Lock-Up Agreement, by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, certain directors and executive officers of Planet Labs Inc. set forth therein and certain stockholders of Planet Labs Inc.
99.1    Press Release, dated July 7, 2021.
99.2    Investor Presentation, dated July 2021.
99.3    Transcript of Webcast.
99.4    Transcript of Video.
99.5    Audited Consolidated Financial Statements of Planet Labs Inc.

 

Certain of the exhibits and schedules to this Exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Regulation S-K Item 601(a)(5). The Registrant agrees to furnish a copy of all omitted exhibits and schedules to the SEC upon its request.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
    By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

    Name:   Niccolo de Masi
    Title:   Chief Executive Officer
Date: July 7, 2021      

Exhibit 2.1

Execution Version

 

 

 

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

by and among

DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV,

PHOTON MERGER SUB, INC.,

PHOTON MERGER SUB TWO, LLC,

and

PLANET LABS INC.

dated as of July 7, 2021

 

 

 


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ARTICLE I

  

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

  

Section 1.1.

  Definitions      4  

Section 1.2.

  Construction      25  

Section 1.3.

  Knowledge      25  

ARTICLE II

  

THE MERGERS; CLOSING

  

Section 2.1.

  The Mergers      26  

Section 2.2.

  Effects of the Mergers      26  

Section 2.3.

  Closing; Effective Times      27  

Section 2.4.

  Closing Deliverables      28  

Section 2.5.

  Governing Documents      29  

Section 2.6.

  Directors and Officers      29  

Section 2.7.

  Tax Free Reorganization Matters      30  

ARTICLE III

  

EFFECTS OF THE MERGERS ON THE COMPANY CAPITAL STOCK AND EQUITY AWARDS

  

Section 3.1.

  Conversion of Securities      31  

Section 3.2.

  Exchange Procedures      32  

Section 3.3.

  Contingent Consideration      33  

Section 3.4.

  Treatment of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and Company Restricted Stock Awards      35  

Section 3.5.

  Withholding      36  

Section 3.6.

  Dissenting Shares      36  

ARTICLE IV

  

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

  

Section 4.1.

  Company Organization      37  

Section 4.2.

  Subsidiaries      37  

Section 4.3.

  Due Authorization      38  

Section 4.4.

  No Conflict      38  

Section 4.5.

  Governmental Authorities; Consents      39  

Section 4.6.

  Capitalization of the Company      39  

Section 4.7.

  Capitalization of Subsidiaries      41  

 

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Section 4.8.

  Financial Statements      42  

Section 4.9.

  Undisclosed Liabilities      43  

Section 4.10.

  Litigation and Proceedings      43  

Section 4.11.

  Legal Compliance      43  

Section 4.12.

  Contracts; No Defaults      43  

Section 4.13.

  Company Benefit Plans      46  

Section 4.14.

  Labor Relations; Employees      48  

Section 4.15.

  Taxes      50  

Section 4.16.

  Brokers’ Fees      52  

Section 4.17.

  Insurance      52  

Section 4.18.

  Licenses      52  

Section 4.19.

  Equipment and Other Tangible Property      53  

Section 4.20.

  Real Property      54  

Section 4.21.

  Intellectual Property      54  

Section 4.22.

  Privacy and Cybersecurity      57  

Section 4.23.

  Environmental Matters      58  

Section 4.24.

  Absence of Changes      58  

Section 4.25.

  Anti-Corruption Compliance; Anti-Money Laundering      58  

Section 4.26.

  Sanctions and International Trade Compliance      59  

Section 4.27.

  Information Supplied      60  

Section 4.28.

  Customers and Suppliers      60  

Section 4.29.

  Government Contracts      60  

Section 4.30.

  Sufficiency of Assets      60  

Section 4.31.

  Related Party Transactions      60  

Section 4.32.

  No Outside Reliance      61  

Section 4.33.

  No Additional Representation or Warranties      61  

ARTICLE V

  

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF ACQUIROR AND MERGER SUBS

  

Section 5.1.

  Company Organization      62  

Section 5.2.

  Due Authorization      62  

Section 5.3.

  No Conflict      63  

Section 5.4.

  Litigation and Proceedings      63  

Section 5.5.

  SEC Filings      64  

Section 5.6.

  Internal Controls; Listing; Financial Statements      64  

Section 5.7.

  Governmental Authorities; Consents      65  

Section 5.8.

  Trust Account      66  

Section 5.9.

  Investment Company Act; JOBS Act      66  

Section 5.10.

  Absence of Changes      66  

Section 5.11.

  No Undisclosed Liabilities      67  

Section 5.12.

  Capitalization of Acquiror      67  

 

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Section 5.13.

  Brokers’ Fees      68  

Section 5.14.

  Indebtedness      69  

Section 5.15.

  Taxes      69  

Section 5.16.

  Business Activities      71  

Section 5.17.

  NYSE Stock Market Quotation      72  

Section 5.18.

  Registration Statement, Proxy Statement and Proxy Statement/Registration Statement      72  

Section 5.19.

  Other Businesses      73  

Section 5.20.

  No Outside Reliance      73  

Section 5.21.

  No Additional Representation or Warranties      73  

ARTICLE VI

  

COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

  

Section 6.1.

  Conduct of Business      74  

Section 6.2.

  Inspection      77  

Section 6.3.

  Preparation and Delivery of Additional Company Financial Statements      78  

Section 6.4.

  Affiliate Agreements      79  

Section 6.5.

  Acquisition Proposals      79  

ARTICLE VII

  

COVENANTS OF ACQUIROR

  

Section 7.1.

  Equity Plans      80  

Section 7.2.

  Trust Account      81  

Section 7.3.

  NYSE Listing      81  

Section 7.4.

  No Solicitation by Acquiror      81  

Section 7.5.

  Acquiror Conduct of Business      81  

Section 7.6.

  Post-Closing Directors and Officers of Acquiror      83  

Section 7.7.

  Indemnification and Insurance      84  

Section 7.8.

  Acquiror Public Filings      85  

Section 7.9.

  PIPE Subscriptions      85  

ARTICLE VIII

  

JOINT COVENANTS

  

Section 8.1.

  HSR Act; Other Filings      86  

Section 8.2.

  Preparation of Registration Statement and Proxy Statement/Registration Statement; Stockholders’ Meeting and Approvals      87  

Section 8.3.

  Support of Transaction          91  

 

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Section 8.4.

  Tax Matters      91  

Section 8.5.

  Section 16 Matters      91  

Section 8.6.

  Cooperation; Consultation      92  

Section 8.7.

  Stockholder Litigation      92  

ARTICLE IX

  

CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATIONS

  

Section 9.1.

  Conditions to Obligations of Acquiror, Merger Subs, and the Company      92  

Section 9.2.

  Conditions to Obligations of Acquiror and Merger Subs      93  

Section 9.3.

  Conditions to the Obligations of the Company      94  

ARTICLE X

  

TERMINATION/EFFECTIVENESS

  

Section 10.1.

  Termination      95  

Section 10.2.

  Effect of Termination      96  

ARTICLE XI

  

MISCELLANEOUS

  

Section 11.1.

  Trust Account Waiver      96  

Section 11.2.

  Waiver      97  

Section 11.3.

  Notices      97  

Section 11.4.

  Assignment      98  

Section 11.5.

  Rights of Third Parties      98  

Section 11.6.

  Expenses      99  

Section 11.7.

  Governing Law      99  

Section 11.8.

  Headings; Counterparts      99  

Section 11.9.

  Company and Acquiror Disclosure Letters      99  

Section 11.10.

  Entire Agreement      99  

Section 11.11.

  Amendments      100  

Section 11.12.

  Publicity      100  

Section 11.13.

  Severability      100  

Section 11.14.

  Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial      101  

Section 11.15.

  Enforcement      101  

Section 11.16.

  Non-Recourse      101  

Section 11.17.

  Non-Survival of Representations, Warranties and Covenants      102  

Section 11.18.

  Conflicts and Privilege      102  

 

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Exhibits:

 

Exhibit A    Form of Post-Closing Certificate of Incorporation of Acquiror
Exhibit B    Form of Post-Closing Bylaws of Acquiror
Exhibit C    Form of Restated Company Certificate
Exhibit D-1    Form of Lock-Up Agreement A
Exhibit D-2    Form of Lock-Up Agreement B
Exhibit D-3    Form of Lock-Up Agreement C
Exhibit E    Form of Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

This Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 7, 2021 (this “Agreement”), is made and entered into by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (“Acquiror”), Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct, wholly-owned Subsidiary of Acquiror (“Second Merger Sub”) and Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, Acquiror is a blank check company incorporated as a Delaware corporation and incorporated for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar Business Combination (as defined below) with one or more businesses;

WHEREAS, First Merger Sub is a newly created, direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror incorporated for the purpose of effecting the First Merger;

WHEREAS, Second Merger Sub is a newly created, direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror formed for the purpose of effecting the Second Merger;

WHEREAS, subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Closing, Acquiror will become a public benefit corporation in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”);

WHEREAS, upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, and in accordance with the DGCL and the Limited Liability Company Act of the State of Delaware (the “DLLCA”): (i) (A) First Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “First Merger”), the separate corporate existence of First Merger Sub will cease and the Company will be the surviving corporation of the First Merger and a wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror (the Company, in its capacity as the surviving corporation of the First Merger, is sometimes referred to as the “Surviving Corporation”); and (B) immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the Surviving Corporation will merge with and into Second Merger Sub (the “Second Merger” and, together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), with Second Merger Sub being the surviving entity of the Second Merger and continuing (immediately following the Second Merger) as a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Acquiror (Second Merger Sub, in its capacity as the surviving entity of the Second Merger, is sometimes referred to as the “Surviving Entity”); and (ii) Acquiror will change its name to a name reasonably determined by the Company, which such name shall include the word “Planet”;

WHEREAS, in connection with the Mergers, Acquiror shall adopt the amended and restated certificate of incorporation in the form set forth on Exhibit A (subject to obtaining the Acquiror Stockholder Approval (as defined below)) and the amended and restated bylaws in the form set forth on Exhibit B to provide, among other things: (i) that Acquiror will be a “public benefit corporation” (within the meaning of the DGCL); (ii) for an increase in the number of authorized shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock and Acquiror Class B Common Stock; and (iii) that Acquiror Class B Common Stock, which will be held by the Company Founders, will have the same rights as Acquiror Class A Common Stock, but will carry twenty (20) votes per share, subject to the terms and conditions in such amended and restated certificate of incorporation of Acquiror;

 

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WHEREAS, immediately prior to the Effective Time, all of the outstanding principal and accrued interest under the Company Notes (as defined below) and the Company Convertible Debt (as defined below) will be converted in accordance with their respective terms (the “Company Note Conversion”);

WHEREAS, at the Effective Time and following the Company Note Conversion, all shares of the Company’s Capital Stock (as defined below) and Company Awards will be converted into the right to receive (in the case of the Company Awards, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement) the Aggregate Merger Consideration as set forth in this Agreement; provided, that certain of the Company Warrants may remain outstanding in accordance with their terms;

WHEREAS, each of the parties intends that, for United States federal income tax purposes, the Mergers constitute an integrated transaction that qualifies as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), to which each of Acquiror, and the Company are parties under Section 368(b) of the Code (the “Intended Tax Treatment”), and this Agreement is intended to constitute a “plan of reorganization” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.368-2(g);

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has approved this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, declared it advisable for the Company to enter into this Agreement and the other documents contemplated hereby and recommended the adoption of this Agreement by the Company’s stockholders;

WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to Acquiror’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Requisite Company Stockholders (as defined below) have each executed and delivered to Acquiror a Company Holders Support Agreement (as defined below) pursuant to which the Requisite Company Stockholders have agreed, among other things, to vote (whether pursuant to a duly convened meeting of the stockholders of the Company or pursuant to an action by written consent of the stockholders of the Company) in favor of the adoption and approval, promptly following the time at which the Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and delivered or otherwise made available to stockholders, of this Agreement, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Restated Company Certificate”) and the other documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

 

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WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Acquiror has (i) determined that it is advisable for Acquiror to enter into this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby; (ii) approved the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; and (iii) recommended the adoption and approval of this Agreement and the other documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby by the Acquiror Stockholders;

WHEREAS, Acquiror, as sole shareholder of First Merger Sub, has approved and adopted this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

WHEREAS, Acquiror, as sole member of Second Merger Sub, has approved and adopted this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Mergers and in accordance with the terms hereof, Acquiror shall provide an opportunity to its stockholders to have their outstanding shares of Acquiror Common Stock redeemed on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and Acquiror’s Governing Documents (as defined below) in connection with obtaining the Acquiror Stockholder Approval (as defined below);

WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to the Company’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Sponsor has executed and delivered to the Company the Sponsor Support Agreement (as defined below) pursuant to which the Sponsor has agreed to, among other things, vote to adopt and approve this Agreement and the other documents contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby;

WHEREAS, on or prior to the date hereof, Acquiror entered into Subscription Agreements (as defined below) with PIPE Investors (as defined below) pursuant to which, and on the terms and subject to the conditions of which, such PIPE Investors agreed to purchase from Acquiror shares of Acquiror Common Stock for an aggregate purchase price equal to the Minimum PIPE Investment Amount (as defined below), such purchases to be consummated prior to or substantially concurrently with the Closing;

WHEREAS, at the Closing, Acquiror, the Sponsor and the directors and executive officers of the Sponsor shall enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (“Lock-Up Agreement A”) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D-1, which shall be effective as of the Closing;

WHEREAS, at the Closing, Acquiror and the Company Founders shall enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (“Lock-Up Agreement B”) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D-2, which shall be effective as of the Closing;

WHEREAS, at the Closing, Acquiror, the directors and executive officers of the Company and certain stockholders of the Company shall enter into a Lock-Up Agreement (“Lock-Up Agreement C”) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D-3, which shall be effective as of the Closing; and

WHEREAS, at the Closing, Acquiror, the Sponsor, certain of the members of the Sponsor and certain former stockholders of the Company shall enter into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E (with such changes as may be agreed in writing by Acquiror and the Company), which shall be effective as of the Closing.

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement and intending to be legally bound hereby, Acquiror, First Merger Sub, Second Merger Sub and the Company agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

Section 1.1. Definitions. As used herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Acquiror” has the meaning specified in the Preamble hereto.

Acquiror Certificate of Incorporation” means the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of Acquiror, dated March 4, 2021.

Acquiror Class A Common Stock” means Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Acquiror.

Acquiror Class B Common Stock” means Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Acquiror.

Acquiror Closing Cash Amount” means an amount equal to the sum of (a) the amount of cash available in the Trust Account as of the Closing after deducting the Acquiror Share Redemption Amount, plus (b) the PIPE Investment Amount, to the extent actually received by Acquiror, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries substantially concurrently with the Closing, in each case of clauses (a) and (b) prior to giving effect to the payment of any Acquiror Transaction Expenses or Company Transaction Expenses.

Acquiror Common Share” means a share of Acquiror Common Stock.

Acquiror Common Stock” means, collectively, Acquiror Class A Common Stock and Acquiror Class B Common Stock.

Acquiror Common Warrant” means a warrant to purchase one (1) share of Acquiror Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of eleven Dollars fifty cents ($11.50) per share that was included in the units sold as part of Acquiror’s initial public offering.

Acquiror Cure Period” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(g).

Acquiror D&O Tail Policy” has the mean specified in Section 7.7(b).

Acquiror Disclosure Letter” has the meaning specified in the introduction to Article V.

 

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Acquiror Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(d).

Acquiror Fundamental Representations” means: the representations and warranties made pursuant to the first and second sentences of Section 5.1 (Company Organization); the entirety of Section 5.2 (Due Authorization); the entirety of Section 5.3(i) (No Conflict); the first sentence of Section 5.8 (Trust Account); the entirety of Section 5.12 (Capitalization of Acquiror); and the entirety of Section 5.13 (Brokers’ Fees).

Acquiror Indemnified Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 7.7(a).

Acquiror Material Adverse Effect” means any event, state of facts, condition, change, development, circumstance, occurrence or effect (each, an “Effect,” and collectively, “Effects”) that (i) has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of Acquiror or (ii) does or would reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, prevent, materially delay or materially impede the ability of Acquiror or Merger Subs to consummate the Mergers; provided, however, that in no event would any of the following, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, or be taken into account in determining whether there has been or will be, an “Acquiror Material Adverse Effect”: (a) any change in applicable Laws or GAAP or any interpretation thereof following the date of this Agreement; (b) any change in interest rates or economic, political, business or financial market conditions generally; (c) the taking of any action required by this Agreement; (d) any natural disaster (including hurricanes, storms, tornados, flooding, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or similar occurrences), pandemic (including COVID-19, or any COVID-19 Measures or any change in such COVID-19 Measures or interpretations following the date of this Agreement) or change in climate; (e) any acts of terrorism or war, the outbreak or escalation of hostilities, geopolitical conditions, local, national or international political conditions; (f) any decline in the market price or trading volume of the Acquiror Common Stock or any change in the credit rating of Acquiror or any of its securities (provided that clause (f) shall not prevent a determination that any Effect not otherwise excluded from this definition of Acquiror Material Adverse Effect underlying such decline or change has resulted in an Acquiror Material Adverse Effect), (g) any Effects generally applicable to the industries or markets in which Acquiror operates; (h) the announcement of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including any termination of, reduction in or similar adverse impact (but in each case only to the extent attributable to such announcement or consummation) on relationships, contractual or otherwise, with any landlords, customers, suppliers, distributors, partners or employees of Acquiror and any litigation by or on behalf of Acquiror Stockholders (it being understood that this clause (h) shall be disregarded for purposes of the representation and warranty set forth in Section 5.3 and the condition to Closing with respect thereto); (i) any matters expressly set forth on the Acquiror Disclosure Letter to the extent that the adverse Effect of such matter is reasonably apparent; (j) any Effects to the extent actually known by those individuals set forth on Section 1.3 of the Company Disclosure Letter on or prior to the date hereof; or (k) the Warrant Accounting Issue or any actions taken or actions omitted to be taken in connection therewith, or (l) any action taken by, or at the request of, the Company; provided, further, that any Effect referred to in clauses (a), (b), (d), (e) or (g) above may be taken into account in determining if an Acquiror Material Adverse Effect has occurred to the extent it has a disproportionate and adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of Acquiror relative to other special purpose acquisition companies, but only to the extent of the incremental disproportionate effect on the Acquiror relative to special purpose acquisition companies.

 

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Acquiror Option” has the meaning specified in Section 3.4(a).

Acquiror PIPE Expenses” means any expenses, fees or costs incurred in connection with the PIPE Investment (including the success fees payable to the placement agents of the PIPE Investment pursuant to the applicable engagement letters).

Acquiror Private Placement Warrant” means a warrant to purchase one (1) share of Acquiror Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of eleven Dollars fifty cents ($11.50) issued to the Sponsor.

Acquiror Restricted Stock Award” has the meaning specified in Section 3.4(d).

Acquiror SEC Filings” has the meaning specified in Section 5.5.

Acquiror Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(a).

Acquiror Share Redemption” means the election of an eligible (as determined in accordance with Acquiror’s Governing Documents) holder of Acquiror Class A Common Stock to redeem all or a portion of the shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock held by such holder at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to a pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit in the Trust Account (including any interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account) (as determined in accordance with Acquiror’s Governing Documents) in connection with the Transaction Proposals.

Acquiror Share Redemption Amount” means the aggregate amount payable with respect to all Acquiror Share Redemptions.

Acquiror Stockholder Approval” means the approval, as determined in accordance with the Acquiror’s Governing Documents, the DGCL and the rules of the NYSE, as applicable, of (1) the Transaction Proposal identified in clause (A) of Section 8.2(b) by the affirmative vote of the holders of (i) at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock, and (ii) at least a majority of the outstanding Acquiror Common Stock entitled to vote thereon, voting as a single class, at a stockholders’ meeting duly called by the Board of Directors of Acquiror and held for such purpose, (2) those Transaction Proposals identified in clauses (B), (C), (D) and, if necessary, (G), of Section 8.2(b), in each case, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the votes cast by the holders of Acquiror Common Stock present in person (or virtually) or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, and (3), the Transaction Proposal identified in clause (E) of Section 8.2(b) by the applicable requisite votes, in each case, at a stockholders’ meeting duly called by the Board of Directors of Acquiror and held for such purpose. The vote at the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting on any other matter than those described in the first sentence of this definition, including a vote on any separate or unbundled advisory proposals, shall not affect whether the Acquiror Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained.

Acquiror Stockholders” means the stockholders of Acquiror as of immediately prior to the Effective Time.

 

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Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).

Acquiror Transaction Expenses” means the out-of-pocket fees and expenses paid or payable by Acquiror as a result of or in connection with its initial public offering, its operations or the negotiation, documentation and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including: (i) all fees, costs, expenses, brokerage fees, commissions, finders’ fees and disbursements of financial advisors, investment banks, data room administrators in connection with Acquiror’s initial public offering, attorneys, accountants and other advisors and service providers; (ii) 50% of all fees and expenses incurred in connection with making the HSR Filing (as defined below) under Section 8.1 (other than the Company PIPE Expenses) or in connection with filing and printing the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement under Section 8.2; (iii) any fees, expenses and costs payable by Acquiror in connection with making any filings under Section 8.1 other than the HSR Filing; (iv) any Acquiror PIPE Expenses; (v) obtaining approval of the NYSE under Section 7.3 and obtaining the Acquiror Stockholder Approval; (vi) obligations of Acquiror or Merger Subs under any Working Capital Loans; (vii) any deferred underwriting commissions and other fees and expenses relating to Acquiror’s initial public offering or operations; and (viii) contingent upon the Closing, any costs of the Acquiror D&O Tail Policy (as defined below) contemplated under Section 7.7(b).

Acquiror Warrants” means the Acquiror Common Warrants and the Acquiror Private Placement Warrants.

Acquisition Proposal” means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, other than the transactions contemplated hereby and other than the acquisition or disposition of inventory, equipment or other tangible personal property in the ordinary course of business, any offer or proposal relating to, in a single transaction or series of related transactions: (i) any acquisition or purchase, direct or indirect, of: (A) a portion of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries that comprises 15% or more of their combined net revenues or net income; (B) 15% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (based on the fair market value thereof, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company); or (C) 15% or more of the equity or voting securities on a fully diluted basis of (1) the Company or (2) one or more Subsidiaries of the Company holding assets constituting, individually or in the aggregate, 15% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, for the avoidance of doubt, a bona fide equity or convertible equity financing; (ii) any tender offer (including a self-tender offer) or exchange offer that, if consummated, would result in any Person beneficially owning 15% or more of any class of equity or voting securities of (A) the Company or (B) one or more Subsidiaries of the Company holding assets constituting, individually or in the aggregate, 15% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or (iii) a merger, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, sale of substantially all the assets, reorganization, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or other similar transaction involving the sale or disposition of (A) the Company or (B) one or more Subsidiaries of the Company holding assets constituting, individually or in the aggregate, 15% or more of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or (iv) any initial public offering or direct listing of any equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on any stock exchange.

 

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Action” means any claim, action, suit, audit, examination, assessment, arbitration, mediation or inquiry, or any proceeding or investigation, by or before any Governmental Authority.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any specified Person, any Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person, whether through one or more intermediaries or otherwise. The term “control” (including the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by Contract or otherwise.

Affiliate Agreements” has the meaning specified in Section 4.12(a)(vi).

Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares” means, without duplication, (i) the aggregate number of shares of Company Common Stock that are (A) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (but excluding shares subject to an Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award, except to the extent subject to vesting only upon the occurrence of the Effective Time); (B) issuable upon, or subject to, the exercise or settlement of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards, the Company Notes, the Company Convertible Debt or Company Warrants that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (in each case of Company Options and Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards, excluding any that are unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, except to the extent subject to vesting only upon the occurrence of the Effective Time), with the number of shares of Company Common Stock issuable to be calculated on an as-converted basis assuming the consummation of the Mergers; and (C) issuable upon the optional conversion pursuant to Article IV, Section C.5 (a) of the Company Charter of all Company Preferred Stock that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, with the number of shares of Company Common Stock issuable to be calculated on an as-converted basis assuming consummation of the Mergers, minus (ii) the Treasury Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, minus (iii) a number of shares equal to the aggregate exercise price of the Company Options that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (excluding any that are unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, except to the extent subject to vesting only upon the occurrence of the Effective Time) divided by the Per Share Merger Consideration; provided, that any Company Option with an exercise price equal to or greater than the Per Share Merger Consideration shall not be counted for purposes of determining the number of Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares.

Aggregate Merger Consideration” means a number of Acquiror Common Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the Closing Date Purchase Price, by (b) $10.00.

Aggregate Share Consideration” means a number of shares (rounded to the nearest whole share) of Acquiror Common Shares equal to (i) the Aggregate Merger Consideration divided by (ii) $10.00.

Agreement” has the meaning specified in the Preamble hereto.

Agreement Deadline” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(e).

Ancillary Agreements” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10.

 

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Anti-Bribery Laws” means the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and all other applicable anti-corruption and bribery Laws (including the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder or other Laws of other countries implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials).

Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means applicable Laws related to money laundering, including the U.S. Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act of 1970, as amended (also known as the Bank Secrecy Act), the U.S. Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, as amended, the U.K. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and any other applicable Law related to money laundering of any jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business, including any anti-racketeering Laws involving money laundering or bribery as a racketeering act.

Antitrust Authorities” means the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, the United States Federal Trade Commission or the antitrust or competition Law authorities of any other jurisdiction (whether the United States, foreign or multinational).

Antitrust Information or Document Request” means any request or demand for the production, delivery or disclosure of documents or other evidence, or any request or demand for the production of witnesses for interviews or depositions or other oral or written testimony, by any Antitrust Authorities relating to the transactions contemplated hereby or challenging the transactions contemplated hereby.

Business Combination” has the meaning specified in Article 1.1 of Acquiror’s Governing Documents as in effect on the date hereof.

Business Combination Proposal” means any offer, inquiry, proposal or indication of interest (whether written or oral, binding or non-binding, and other than an offer, inquiry, proposal or indication of interest with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby) relating to a Business Combination.

Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or another day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by Law to close.

CCC” has the meaning specified in Section 3.6.

Change of Control” means any transaction or series of transactions (A) the result of which is that a Person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of Persons (other than the Company Founders, Acquiror, the Surviving Entity or any of their respective Subsidiaries), has direct or indirect beneficial ownership of securities (or rights convertible or exchangeable into securities) representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of or economic rights or interests in the then-outstanding equity securities of Acquiror, (B) constituting a merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination, however effected, following which either (1) the members of the Board of Directors of Acquiror immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the company surviving the combination or (2) the voting securities of Acquiror immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not continue to represent or are not converted into fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person

 

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resulting from such combination, or (C) the result of which is (i) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Acquiror (as appearing in its most recent balance sheet), or assets of Acquiror generating all or substantially all of the gross revenues or net income (as appearing in its most recent income statement), to any Person or (ii) that shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock are delisted from the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock are then traded prior to the consummation of such transaction(s).

Closing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(a).

Closing Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(a).

Closing Date Purchase Price” means $2,135,000,000.

Closing Price” means, for each Trading Day, the last sale price of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source).

Code” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Company” has the meaning specified in the Preamble hereto.

Company Award” shall mean a Company Option, a Company Restricted Stock Unit Award or an Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award.

Company Benefit Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 4.13(a).

Company Capital Stock” means the shares of the Company Common Stock and the Company Preferred Stock.

Company Charter” means the Company amended and restated certificate of incorporation, dated as of April 27, 2017 (as it may be subsequently amended, supplemented or amended and restated).

Company Class A Common Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Company Class B Common Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Company Common Stock” means, collectively, Company Class A Common Stock and Company Class B Common Stock.

Company Convertible Debt” means that certain Loan and Security Agreement and that certain Supplement to Loan and Security Agreement, each dated as of May 3, 2017, by and among the Company, PL Foreign Holdco, Inc., Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc., and Venture Lending & Leasing VIII, Inc., as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Loan Documents, dated as of June 21, 2019.

Company Cure Period” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(f).

Company Disclosure Letter” has the meaning specified in the introduction to Article IV.

 

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Company D&O Tail Policy” has the mean specified in Section 7.7(b).

Company Founders” means William Marshall and Robert Schingler Jr., co-founders of the Company.

Company Fundamental Representations” means: the representations and warranties made pursuant to the first and second sentences of Section 4.1 (Company Organization); the first and second sentences of Section 4.2 (Subsidiaries); the entirety of Section 4.3 (Due Authorization); the entirety of Section 4.4(i) (No Conflict); the entirety of Section 4.6 (Capitalization of the Company); the entirety of Section 4.7 (Capitalization of Subsidiaries); and the entirety of Section 4.16 (Brokers’ Fees).

Company Holders Support Agreement” means that certain Support Agreement, dated as of the date of this Agreement, by and among each of the Requisite Company Stockholders, Acquiror and the Company, as amended or modified from time to time.

Company Incentive Plans” means the Planet Labs Inc. Amended and Restated 2011 Stock Incentive Plan and the Cosmogia Inc. 2011 Stock Incentive Plan, in each case, as amended from time to time.

Company Indemnified Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 7.7(a).

Company IP” or “Company Intellectual Property” means any and all Intellectual Property owned (or purported to be owned), in whole or in part, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and includes the Company Software and the Company Registered Intellectual Property.

Company IT Systems” means any and all IT Systems that are owned, leased, controlled, or licensed by the Company or its Subsidiaries and used in the operation of their businesses.

Company Material Adverse Effect” means any Effect that (i) has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (ii) does or would reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, prevent, materially delay or materially impede the ability of the Company to consummate the Mergers; provided, however, that in no event would any of the following, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, or be taken into account in determining whether there has been or will be, a “Company Material Adverse Effect”: (a) any change in applicable Laws or GAAP or any interpretation thereof following the date of this Agreement; (b) any change in interest rates or economic, political, business or financial market conditions generally; (c) the taking of any action required by this Agreement; (d) any natural disaster (including hurricanes, storms, tornados, flooding, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or similar occurrences), pandemic (including COVID-19, or any COVID-19 Measures or any change in such COVID-19 Measures or interpretations following the date of this Agreement) or change in climate; (e) any acts of terrorism or war, the outbreak or escalation of hostilities, geopolitical conditions, local, national or international political conditions; (f) any failure of the Company to meet any projections or forecasts (provided that clause (f) shall not prevent a determination that any Effect not otherwise excluded from this definition of Company Material Adverse Effect underlying such failure to meet projections or forecasts has resulted in a Company Material Adverse Effect); (g) any Effects generally applicable

 

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to the industries or markets in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate (including increases in the cost of products, supplies, materials or other goods purchased from third party suppliers); (h) any launch failure, crash, launch or flight delay, launch or flight cancellation, inflight accident or malfunction or similar operational Effects, in each case, involving any satellite owned by the Company, provided that such event may be taken into account to determine whether a Company Material Adverse Effect has occurred if it materially and adversely impacts the long-term ability of the Company’s satellite fleet to provide data or service to the Company’s customers; (i) the announcement of this Agreement and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including any termination of, reduction in or similar adverse impact (but in each case only to the extent attributable to such announcement or consummation) on relationships, contractual or otherwise, with any landlords, customers, suppliers, distributors, partners or employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries and any litigation by or on behalf of the Company’s stockholders (it being understood that this clause (i) shall be disregarded for purposes of the representation and warranty set forth in Section 4.4 and the condition to Closing with respect thereto); (j) any matter expressly set forth on the Company Disclosure Letter to the extent that the adverse Effect of such matter is reasonably apparent; (k) any Effects to the extent actually known by those individuals set forth on Section 1.3 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter on or prior to the date hereof; or (l) any action taken by, or at the request of, Acquiror or Merger Subs; provided, further, that any Effects referred to in clauses (a), (b), (d), (e) or (g) above may be taken into account in determining if a Company Material Adverse Effect has occurred to the extent it has a disproportionate and adverse effect on the business, assets, results of operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to companies in the industry in which the Company and its Subsidiaries conduct their respective operations, but only to the extent of the incremental disproportionate effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to companies in the industry in which the Company and its Subsidiaries conduct their respective operations.

Company Note Agreement” means that certain Convertible Note and Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated March 13, 2020, by and between the Company and the Purchasers (as defined therein).

Company Notes” means the convertible promissory notes issued by the Company pursuant to the Company Note Agreement, as amended by Amendment No.1 to Convertible Promissory Notes, dated as of July 7, 2021.

Company Option” means an option to purchase shares of Company Common Stock granted under any of the Company Incentive Plans.

Company PIPE Expenses” means (i) any reimbursements of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses payable to any PIPE placement agent pursuant to an engagement letter entered into in connection with the PIPE investment and provided to the Company prior to the date hereof (including any reimbursable legal fees incurred by any PIPE placement agent in connection with the PIPE investment, subject in each case to any cap on fees set forth in such engagement letter as provided to the Company prior to the date hereof) and (ii) any expenses or costs incurred by Acquiror, any Merger Sub, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any filing with any Antitrust Authority relating to the PIPE Investment.

Company Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

 

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Company Registered Intellectual Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.21(a).

Company Restricted Stock Award” means an award of shares of Company Common Stock granted or acquired under any of the Company Incentive Plans that are subject to vesting and/or a right of repurchase (including, without limitation, any such shares acquired upon early exercise of a Company Option).

Company Restricted Stock Unit Award” means an award of restricted stock units covering Company Common Stock granted under any of the Company Incentive Plans.

Company Software” means any and all Software owned (or purported to be owned), in whole or in part, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including to the extent owned (or purported to be owned) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the “Planet Platform”.

Company Stockholder Approval” means (i) the adoption and approval of the Restated Company Certificate and (ii) the approval of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Mergers and the transactions contemplated thereby by the (a) affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the outstanding Company Capital Stock voting as a single class; (b) the affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the outstanding Company Preferred Stock, voting as a single class and on an as-converted basis; and (c) the affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock on an as-converted basis, which such majority shall include Google Inc., in each case, pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions of the Company’s Governing Documents and applicable Law.

Company Transaction Expenses” means the following out-of-pocket fees and expenses paid or payable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (whether or not billed or accrued for) as a result of or in connection with the negotiation, documentation and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby: (i) all fees, costs, expenses, brokerage fees, commissions, finders’ fees and disbursements of financial advisors, investment banks, data room administrators, attorneys, accountants and other advisors and service providers; (ii) change-in-control payments, transaction bonuses, retention payments, severance or similar compensatory payments payable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any current or former employee (including any amounts due under any consulting agreement with any such former employee), independent contractor, officer, or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries solely as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby (and not tied to any subsequent event or condition, such as a termination of employment), including the employer portion of payroll Taxes arising therefrom; (iii) any fees, expenses and costs payable by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with making any filings under Section 8.1 other than the HSR Filing (if any); (iv) Transfer Taxes (if any); (v) amounts owing or that may become owed, payable or otherwise due, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including fees, costs and expenses related to the termination of any Affiliate Agreement; (vi) 50% of all fees and expenses incurred in connection with making the HSR Filing under Section 8.1 or in connection with filing and printing the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement under Section 8.2; (vii) any Company PIPE Expenses; and (viii) contingent upon the Closing, any costs of the “Company D&O Tail Policy” (as defined below) contemplated under Section 7.7(b).

 

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Company Warrants” means the warrants of the Company to purchase capital stock of the Company.

Confidentiality Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10.

Contingent Consideration” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iv).

Contingent Milestones” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iv).

Contracts” means any legally binding contracts, agreements, licenses, subcontracts, Licenses, leases, and purchase orders.

Copyleft License” means any license that requires, as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of Software subject to such license, that such Software subject to such license, or other Software incorporated into, derived from, linked in or to, or used or distributed with such Software subject to such license (i) in the case of Software, be made available or distributed in source code form; (ii) be licensed for the purpose of preparing derivative works; (iii) be licensed under terms that allow the Company’s or any Subsidiary of the Company’s products or portions thereof or interfaces therefor to be reverse engineered, reverse assembled or disassembled (other than by operation of Law); or (iv) be redistributable at no license fee. Copyleft Licenses include the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Affero General Public License, the Mozilla Public License, the Common Development and Distribution License, the Eclipse Public License, and all Creative Commons “sharealike” licenses.

COVID-19” means SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, and any evolutions or mutations thereof or related or associated epidemics, pandemic or disease outbreaks.

COVID-19 Measures” means any quarantine, “shelter in place,” “stay at home,” workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, sequester, safety or similar Law, directive, guidelines or recommendations promulgated by any industry group or any Governmental Authority, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, in each case, in connection with or in response to COVID-19, including the CARES Act and Families First Act.

D&O Indemnified Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 7.7(a).

DGCL” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Disclosure Letter” means, as applicable, the Company Disclosure Letter or the Acquiror Disclosure Letter.

Dissenting Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 3.6.

dMY Group” has the meaning specified in Section 11.18(a).

Dollars” or “$” means lawful money of the United States.

 

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Effective Time” has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(b).

Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Laws relating to Hazardous Materials, pollution, the environment, natural resources, endangered or threatened species, or protection of human health (to the extent human health relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials).

ERISA” has the meaning specified in Section 4.13(a).

ERISA Affiliate” means any Affiliate or business, whether or not incorporated, that together with the Company would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

ESPP” has the meaning specified in Section 7.1.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Exchange Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2(a).

Exchange Ratio” means the quotient obtained by dividing (a) the number of shares constituting the Aggregate Merger Consideration, by (b) the number of Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares.

Export Approvals” has the meaning specified in Section 4.26(a).

FCC” means the Federal Communications Commission.

FCC or NOAA Licenses” means the Licenses issued to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries by the FCC or NOAA.

Federal Acquisition Regulation” means the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulations.

Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 4.8(a).

First Merger” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

First Merger Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.

First Merger Sub” has the meaning specified in the Preamble hereto.

First Merger Sub Capital Stock” means the shares of the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of First Merger Sub.

First Milestone” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(i).

First Milestone Contingent Consideration” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(i).

Fourth Milestone” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iv).

 

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Fourth Milestone Contingent Consideration” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iv).

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time.

Governing Documents” means the legal document(s) by which any Person (other than an individual) establishes its legal existence or which govern its internal affairs. For example, the “Governing Documents” of a corporation are its certificate of incorporation and by-laws, the “Governing Documents” of a limited partnership are its limited partnership agreement and certificate of limited partnership, the “Governing Documents” of a limited liability company are its operating agreement and certificate of formation and the “Governing Documents” of an exempted company are its memorandum and articles of association.

Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, provincial, municipal, local or foreign government, governmental authority, regulatory or administrative agency, governmental commission, department, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, court or tribunal or supra-national bodies such as the International Telecommunications Union.

Governmental Authorization” has the meaning specified in Section 4.5.

Governmental Order” means any order, judgment, injunction, decree, writ, stipulation, determination or award, in each case, entered by or with any Governmental Authority.

Hazardous Material” means any (i) pollutant, contaminant, chemical; (ii) industrial, solid, liquid, gaseous, toxic or hazardous substance, material or waste; (iii) petroleum or any fraction or product thereof; (iv) asbestos or asbestos-containing material; (v) polychlorinated biphenyl; (vi) chlorofluorocarbons; and (vii) other substance, material or waste, in each case, which are regulated under any Environmental Law or as to which liability may be imposed pursuant to Environmental Law.

HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Incentive Equity Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 7.1.

Indebtedness” means with respect to any Person, without duplication, any obligations, contingent or otherwise (together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon and any prepayment premium or other penalties and any fees, costs, and expenses thereunder due upon repayment thereof), in respect of (i) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of all indebtedness for borrowed money, including accrued interest and any per diem interest accruals or cost associated with prepaying any such indebtedness solely to the extent such indebtedness is prepaid; (ii) the principal and interest components of capitalized lease obligations under GAAP; (iii) amounts drawn (including any accrued and unpaid interest) on letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances and other similar instruments (solely to the extent such amounts have actually been drawn); (iv) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, debt securities, loans, credit agreements and similar instruments; (v) payment obligations of a third party secured by (or for which the holder of such payment obligations has an

 

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existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on assets or properties of such Person, whether or not the obligations secured thereby have been assumed; (vi) the termination value of interest rate protection agreements and currency obligation swaps, hedges or similar arrangements (without duplication of other indebtedness supported or guaranteed thereby); (vii) the principal component of all obligations to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property and equipment which have been delivered, including “earn outs” and “seller notes”; (viii) breakage costs, prepayment or early termination premiums, penalties, or other fees or expenses payable as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby in respect of any of the items in the foregoing clauses (i) through (viii), and (ix) all Indebtedness of another Person referred to in clauses (i) through (viii) above guaranteed directly or indirectly, jointly or severally.

Insiders Letter Agreement” means the Letter Agreement among Acquiror, dMY Sponsor IV, LLC and each of the executive officers and directors of Acquiror, dated as of March 4, 2021.

Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property rights and similar rights of every kind and description in any jurisdiction throughout the world, including the following: (i) patents, patent applications, including all related continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, reissues, re-examinations, substitutions, provisionals, and extensions thereof (collectively, “Patents”); (ii) registered and unregistered trademarks, logos, service marks, trade dress and trade names, social media identifiers and accounts, brand names, slogans, corporate names and pending applications therefor, and all other similar designations of source or origin, together with all goodwill symbolized by or associated with any of the foregoing (collectively, “Marks”); (iii) registered and unregistered copyrights, mask work rights, design rights and applications for registration of copyright, including such rights in Software, and other works of authorship; (iv) trade secrets, know-how, inventions, processes, procedures, algorithms, source code, databases, data and data collections, customer lists, supplier lists, business plans, formulae, discoveries, methods, techniques, ideas, designs, models, concepts, creations, confidential business information and other proprietary information; (v) internet domain name registrations; and (vi) applications, registrations, issuances, renewals, extensions or equivalents or counterparts of any of the foregoing in any jurisdiction.

Intended Tax Treatment” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Interim Period” has the meaning specified in Section 6.1.

International Trade Laws” means (i) all applicable Laws relating to the import, export, re-export, deemed export, deemed re-export, or transfer of Software, information, data, goods, and technology, that are imposed, administered, or enforced by the U.S. government, including but not limited to the Export Administration Regulations (codified at 15 CFR Parts 730-744); any Laws under the authority of or administered by the United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (codified at 15 CFR Parts 700-799); the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (codified at 22 CFR Part 120 et seq.); any Laws under the authority of or administered by the United States Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (codified at 22 CFR Parts 103, 120-130); customs and import Laws administered by United States Customs and Border Protection, (codified at 19 CFR Parts 1-199); the Arms Export Control Act (codified at 22 USC 2778 et seq.); Laws under the authority of or administered by the United States Department

 

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of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Controls (codified at 31 CFR Parts 500-599); any other export or import controls administered by an agency of the United States government; the anti-boycott regulations administered by the United States Department of Commerce and the United States Department of the Treasury; and (ii) other Laws imposed, administered or enforced by Governmental Authorities of other countries relating to the same subject matter as the United States Laws described above, except to the extent inconsistent with U.S. Law.

Intervening Event” means any Effect that (i) was not known to or reasonably foreseeable by the Board of Directors of Acquiror as of the date of this Agreement and (ii) does not relate to (A) any Business Combination or (B) clearance of the Mergers by any Governmental Authority, including with respect to the actions taken pursuant to or required to be taken pursuant to Section 8.1; provided, however, that (1) any change in the price or trading volume of Acquiror Common Shares shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether an Intervening Event has occurred and (2) the Company or any if its Subsidiaries meeting, failing to meet or exceeding projections (in and of itself, but without preventing a determination of an Intervening Event as to the Events underlying such change) shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether an Intervening Event has occurred.

Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

IPO Prospectus” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1.

IRS” means Internal Revenue Service.

IT Systems” means any and all information technology systems, hardware, networks, infrastructure, servers, computers, workstations, routers, hubs, switches, data communications systems, equipment and lines, sensors, cameras, interfaces, platforms, databases, websites and all other information technology, visual and communications equipment and assets and any Software in any of the foregoing, including any of the foregoing that are used (or held for use) pursuant to outsourced or cloud computing arrangements.

JOBS Act” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a).

Latham” has the meaning specified in Section 11.18(b).

Law” means any statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation or Governmental Order, in each case, of any Governmental Authority.

Leased Real Property” means all real property leased, licensed, subleased or otherwise used or occupied by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

Legal Proceedings” has the meaning specified in Section 4.10.

Letter of Transmittal” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2(b).

Licenses” means any approvals, authorizations, consents, licenses, registrations, permits or certificates of a Governmental Authority.

 

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Lien” means all liens, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledges, hypothecations, encumbrances, security interests, adverse claims, options, licenses, restrictions, claims or other liens of any kind whether consensual, statutory or otherwise.

Merger Subs” means, collectively, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub.

Mergers” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Minimum PIPE Investment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 5.12(e).

Modification in Recommendation” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).

Multiemployer Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 4.13(c).

NOAA” means the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NYSE” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(c).

Offer Documents” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a)(i).

Open Source License” means any license meeting the Open Source Definition (as promulgated by the Open Source Initiative) or the Free Software Definition (as promulgated by the Free Software Foundation), or any substantially similar license, including any license approved by the Open Source Initiative or any Creative Commons License.

Open Source Licenses” shall include Copyleft Licenses.

Open Source Materials” means any Software subject to an Open Source License.

PCAOB Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 6.3(a).

Per Share Merger Consideration” means the product obtained by multiplying (i) the Exchange Ratio by (ii) $10.00.

Per Share Contingent Consideration” means a number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock equal to: (a) the applicable Contingent Consideration divided by (b) the Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares; provided, that solely for the purpose of the definition of “Per Share Contingent Consideration”, the term “Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares” shall (i) include shares of Company Common Stock underlying both Vested Company Options and unvested Company Options, both Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and both vested Company Restricted Stock Awards and Unvested Company Restricted Stock Awards, in each case that are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and (ii) disregard clause (iii) of the definition of “Aggregate Fully Diluted Company Common Shares.”

 

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Permitted Liens” means (i) mechanic’s, materialmen’s and similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business with respect to any amounts (A) not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings and (B) for which adequate accruals or reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP; (ii) Liens for Taxes (A) not yet due and payable or (B) which are being contested in good faith through appropriate proceedings and for which adequate accruals or reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP; (iii) defects or imperfections of title, easements, encroachments, covenants, rights-of-way, conditions, matters that would be apparent from a physical inspection or current, accurate survey of such real property, restrictions and other similar charges or encumbrances that do not, in the aggregate, materially impair the value or materially interfere with the present use of the Leased Real Property; (iv) with respect to any Leased Real Property (A) the interests and rights of the respective lessors with respect thereto, including any statutory landlord liens and any Lien on the lessor’s interest therein, and (B) any Liens encumbering the underlying fee title of the real property of which the Leased Real Property is a part; (v) zoning, building, entitlement and other land use and environmental regulations promulgated by any Governmental Authority that do not, in the aggregate, materially interfere with the current use of, or materially impair the value of, the Leased Real Property and which are not violated in any material respect; (vi) non-exclusive licenses of Company Intellectual Property granted to customers or distributors entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (vii) ordinary course purchase money Liens and Liens securing rental payments under operating or capital lease arrangements for amounts not yet due or payable; (viii) other Liens arising in the ordinary course of business and not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of social security; (ix) reversionary rights in favor of landlords under any Real Property Leases with respect to any of the buildings or other improvements owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (x) any real property Liens that do not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Company Material Adverse Effect.

Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, joint stock company, Governmental Authority or instrumentality or other entity of any kind.

PIPE Investment” means the purchase of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Subscription Agreements.

PIPE Investment Amount” means the aggregate gross purchase price received by Acquiror prior to or substantially concurrently with Closing for the shares in the PIPE Investment.

PIPE Investors” means those certain investors participating in the PIPE Investment pursuant to the Subscription Agreements.

Planet Labs Group” has the meaning specified in Section 11.18(b).

Prospectus” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a)(i).

Proxy Statement” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a)(i).

Proxy Statement/Registration Statement” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a)(i).

Q1 Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 4.8(a).

Real Property Leases” has the meaning specified in Section 4.20(a)(ii).

 

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Registration Statement” means the Registration Statement on Form S-4, or other appropriate form, including any pre-effective or post-effective amendments or supplements thereto, to be filed with the SEC by Acquiror under the Securities Act with respect to the Registration Statement Securities.

Registration Statement Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(a)(i).

Requisite Company Stockholders” means the holders of Company Capital Stock set forth on Section 8.2(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter.

Sale Price” means the price per share of Acquiror Class A Common Stock paid or payable to the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a Change of Control. If and to the extent the price paid per share includes any escrows, holdbacks, deferred purchase price, earnouts or other contingent consideration, the Board of Directors of Acquiror shall determine the price paid per share of Acquiror Class A Common Stock in such Change of Control in good faith, including the affirmative vote of the director appointed by Sponsor pursuant to Section 7.6 if he is then on the Board of Directors of Acquiror. If and to the extent such price is payable in whole or in part in the form of consideration other than cash, the price for such non-cash consideration shall be (a) equal to the total value attributed to such non-cash consideration as determined in the transaction documents entered into in connection with such Change of Control, or (b) if no such transaction documents exist or no method for determining such value is contemplated therein, (i) with respect to any securities, (A) the average of the closing prices of the sales of such securities on the principal securities exchange on which such securities are then listed, averaged over a period of 20 Trading Days preceding the date of the consummation of such Change of Control, or (B) if the information contemplated by the preceding clause (A) is not practically available, then the fair market value of such securities as of the date of valuation as determined in accordance with the succeeding clause (ii), and (ii) with respect to any other non-cash assets, the fair market value thereof as of the date of valuation, as determined by an independent, nationally recognized investment banking firm mutually selected by the Company and the Sponsor and engaged at the cost of the Company, on the basis of an orderly sale to a willing, unaffiliated buyer in an arm’s-length transaction without giving effect to any minority or liquidity discount.

Sanctioned Country” means at any time, a country or territory which is itself the subject or target of any country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions Laws (at the time of this Agreement, the Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).

Sanctioned Person” means (i) any Person that is identified in any Sanctions-Law-related list of designated Persons maintained by (a) the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or the United States Department of State; (b) Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom; (c) any committee of the United Nations Security Council; or (d) the European Union or any European Union member state; (ii) any Person located, organized, or resident in, organized in, or a Governmental Authority or government instrumentality of, any Sanctioned Country; or (iii) any Person directly or indirectly, owned 50-percent or more by, or acting for the benefit or on behalf of, a Person described in clause (i) or (ii), either individually or in the aggregate.

 

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Sanctions Laws” means those trade, economic and financial sanctions Laws administered, enacted or enforced from time to time by (i) the United States including but not limited to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Department of State; (ii) the European Union and its member states; (iii) the United Nations Security Council; (iv) Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom; or (v) any other relevant sanctions authority.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Second Effective Time” has the meaning specified in Section 2.3.

Second Merger” has the meaning specified in the Recitals.

Second Merger Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1.

Second Merger Sub” has the meaning specified in the Preamble hereto.

Second Merger Sub Units” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1.

Second Milestone” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(ii).

Second Milestone Contingent Consideration” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(ii).

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Series A Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Series B Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Series C Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Series C’ Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Series D Preferred Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 4.6(a).

Software” means any and all (a) computer programs, including any and all algorithms, models and methodologies, whether in source code, object code, human readable form or other form, including compilers, middleware, tools, firmware, operating systems, platforms, interfaces, APIs, architecture, and modules, and (b) and all documentation including developer notes, instructions, comments, annotations, user manuals and other training documentation relating to any of the foregoing.

Sponsor” means dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Sponsor Support Agreement” means that certain Support Agreement, dated as of the date of this Agreement, by and among the Sponsor, Acquiror and the Company, as amended or modified from time to time.

 

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Subscription Agreements” means the subscription agreements pursuant to which the PIPE Investment will be consummated.

Subsidiary” means, with respect to a Person, a corporation or other entity of which more than 50% of the voting power of the equity securities or equity interests is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.

Surviving Corporation” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Surviving Entity” has the meaning specified in the Recitals hereto.

Tax Return” means any return, declaration, report, statement, information statement or other document filed or required to be filed with any Governmental Authority with respect to Taxes, including any claims for refunds of Taxes, any information returns and any schedules, attachments, amendments or supplements of any of the foregoing.

Taxes” means any and all federal, state, local, foreign or other taxes imposed by any Governmental Authority, including all income, gross receipts, license, payroll, net worth, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits, environmental, customs duties, escheat, capital stock, ad valorem, value added, inventory, franchise, profits, withholding, employment, social security (or similar), unemployment, disability, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, registration, alternative, add-on minimum, or estimated taxes, governmental charges, duties, levies and other similar charges imposed by a Governmental Authority in the nature of a tax (whether payable directly or by withholding and whether or not requiring the filing of a Tax Return), including any interest, penalty, deficiency assessments, or addition thereto.

Terminating Acquiror Breach” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(g).

Terminating Company Breach” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1(f).

Third Milestone” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iii).

Third Milestone Contingent Consideration” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(a)(iii).

Title IV Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 4.13(c).

Top Channel Partners” has the meaning specified in Section 4.28(a).

Top Customers” has the meaning specified in Section 4.28(a).

Top Suppliers” has the meaning specified in Section 4.28(a).

Trading Day” means any day on which shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock are actually traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which shares of Class A Common Stock are then traded.

 

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Transaction Proposals” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(b).

Transfer Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 8.3.

Treasury Regulations” means the regulations promulgated under the Code by the United States Department of the Treasury (whether in final, proposed or temporary form), as the same may be amended from time to time.

Treasury Share” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1(a)

Trust Account” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1.

Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 5.8.

Trustee” has the meaning specified in Section 5.8.

Unpaid Transaction Expenses” has the meaning specified in Section 2.4(c).

Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award” means each Company Restricted Stock Award that is outstanding and unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers).

Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award” means each Company Restricted Stock Unit Award that is outstanding and unvested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers).

Vested Company Option” means each Company Option that is outstanding and vested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers).

Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award” means each Company Restricted Stock Unit Award that is outstanding and vested as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (after giving effect to any vesting that may occur in connection with the Mergers).

W&C” has the meaning specified in Section 11.18(a).

Warrant Accounting Issue” means the fact that, pursuant to applicable Laws or requirements of the SEC in effect or announced as of the date of this Agreement, Acquiror may have improperly accounted for its outstanding warrants as equity instruments and may be required to restate its previously filed financial statements to reflect the classification of its outstanding warrants as liabilities for accounting purposes (together with any deficiencies in disclosure (including, without limitation, with respect to internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures)) arising from the treatment of such warrants of Acquiror as equity rather than liabilities.

Warrant Agreement” means the Warrant Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021, between Acquiror and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

 

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Warrant Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 5.5.

Working Capital Loans” means any loan made to Acquiror by any of the Sponsor, an Affiliate of the Sponsor, or any of Acquiror’s officers or directors, and evidenced by a promissory note, for the purpose of financing costs incurred in connection with a Business Combination.

Written Consent” has the meaning specified in Section 8.2(c).

Section 1.2. Construction.

(a) Unless the context of this Agreement otherwise requires: (i) words of any gender include each other gender; (ii) words using the singular or plural number also include the plural or singular number, respectively; (iii) the terms “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby,” “hereto” and derivative or similar words refer to this entire Agreement; (iv) the terms “Article” or “Section” refer to the specified Article or Section of this Agreement; (v) the word “including” shall mean “including, without limitation”; and (vi) the word “or” shall be disjunctive but not exclusive.

(b) Unless the context of this Agreement otherwise requires, references to statutes shall include all regulations promulgated thereunder and references to statutes or regulations shall be construed as including all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending or replacing the statute or regulation.

(c) Whenever this Agreement refers to a number of days, such number shall refer to calendar days unless Business Days are specified.

(d) All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined herein shall have the meanings given to them under GAAP.

(e) The term “actual fraud” means, with respect to a party to this Agreement, an actual and intentional fraud with respect to the making of the representations and warranties pursuant to Article IV or ARTICLE V (as applicable); provided, that such actual and intentional fraud of such Person shall only be deemed to exist if any of the individuals included on Section 1.3 of the Company Disclosure Letter (in the case of the Company) or Section 1.3 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter (in the case of Acquiror) had actual knowledge (as opposed to imputed or constructive knowledge) that the representations and warranties made by such Person pursuant to, in the case of the Company, Article IV as qualified by the Company Disclosure Letter, or, in the case of Acquiror, ARTICLE V as qualified by the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, were actually breached when made, with the express intention that the other party to this Agreement rely thereon to its detriment.

Section 1.3. Knowledge. As used herein: (i) the phrase “to the knowledge” of the Company shall mean the knowledge of the individuals identified on Section 1.3 of the Company Disclosure Letter; and (ii) the phrase “to the knowledge” of Acquiror shall mean the knowledge of the individuals identified on Section 1.3 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, in each case, as such individuals would have acquired in the exercise of a reasonable inquiry of direct reports.

 

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ARTICLE II

THE MERGERS; CLOSING

Section 2.1. The Mergers.

(a) At the Effective Time, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, Acquiror, First Merger Sub and the Company (First Merger Sub and the Company sometimes being referred to herein as the “First Merger Constituent Corporations”) shall cause First Merger Sub to be merged with and into the Company, with the Company being the Surviving Corporation in the First Merger. The First Merger shall be consummated in accordance with this Agreement and shall be evidenced by a certificate of merger with respect to the First Merger (as so filed, the “First Merger Certificate”), executed by the First Merger Constituent Corporations in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL, such First Merger to be effective as of the Effective Time (provided that references to the Company for periods after the Effective Time until the Second Effective Time shall include the Surviving Corporation).

(b) At the Second Effective Time, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, Acquiror, Second Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation (Second Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation sometimes being referred to herein as the “Second Merger Constituent Companies”) shall cause the Surviving Corporation to be merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub being the Surviving Entity in the Second Merger. The Second Merger shall be consummated in accordance with this Agreement and shall be evidenced by a certificate of merger with respect to the Second Merger (as so filed, the “Second Merger Certificate”), executed by the Second Merger Constituent Companies in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DLLCA, such Second Merger to be effective as of the Second Effective Time (provided that references to the Company or the Surviving Corporation for periods after the Second Effective Time shall include the Surviving Entity).

(c) Upon consummation of the First Merger, the separate corporate existence of First Merger Sub shall cease and the Company, as the “Surviving Corporation”, shall continue its corporate existence under the DGCL, as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror.

(d) Upon consummation of the Second Merger, the separate corporate existence of the Surviving Corporation shall cease and Second Merger Sub, as the Surviving Entity, shall continue its company existence under the DLLCA, as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Acquiror.

Section 2.2. Effects of the Mergers.

(a) At the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall thereupon and thereafter possess all of the rights, privileges, powers and franchises, of a public as well as a private nature, of the First Merger Constituent Corporations, and shall become subject to all the restrictions, disabilities and duties of each of the First Merger Constituent Corporations; and all rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each First Merger Constituent Corporation, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due to each such First Merger Constituent Corporation, on whatever account, shall become vested in the Surviving Corporation; and all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and all and every other interest shall become thereafter the property of the Surviving Corporation as they are of the First Merger Constituent Corporations; all of the foregoing in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL.

 

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(b) At the Second Effective Time, the Surviving Entity shall thereupon and thereafter possess all of the rights, privileges, powers and franchises, of a public as well as a private nature, of the Second Merger Constituent Companies, and shall become subject to all the restrictions, disabilities and duties of each of the Second Merger Constituent Companies; and all rights, privileges, powers and franchises of each Second Merger Constituent Companies, and all property, real, personal and mixed, and all debts due to each such Second Merger Constituent Companies, on whatever account, shall become vested in the Surviving Entity; and all property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises, and all and every other interest shall become thereafter the property of the Surviving Entity as they are of the Second Merger Constituent Companies; all of the foregoing in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DLLCA.

Section 2.3. Closing; Effective Times.

(a) In accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, the closing of the Mergers (the “Closing”) shall take place at the offices of Latham & Watkins LLP, 140 Scott Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on the date which is two (2) Business Days after the first date on which all conditions set forth in Article IX shall have been satisfied or waived (other than those conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver thereof) or such other time and place as Acquiror and the Company may mutually agree in writing. The date on which the Closing actually occurs is referred to in this Agreement as the “Closing Date.”

(b) Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions set forth in Article IX of this Agreement, and provided this Agreement has not theretofore been terminated pursuant to its terms, Acquiror, First Merger Sub, and the Company shall cause the First Merger Certificate to be executed and duly submitted for filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DGCL. The First Merger shall become effective at the time when the First Merger Certificate has been accepted for filing by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, or at such later time as may be agreed by Acquiror and the Company in writing and specified in each of the First Merger Certificate (the “Effective Time”). As soon as practicable following the Effective Time and in any case on the same day as the Effective Time, Acquiror, Second Merger Sub, and the Surviving Corporation shall cause the Second Merger Certificate to be executed and duly submitted for filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the applicable provisions of the DLLCA. The Second Merger shall become effective at the time when the Second Merger Certificate has been accepted for filing by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, or at such later time as may be agreed by Acquiror and the Company in writing and specified in each of the Second Merger Certificate (the “Second Effective Time”).

 

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Section 2.4. Closing Deliverables.

(a) At the Closing, the Company will deliver or cause to be delivered:

(i) to Acquiror, a certificate signed by an officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying that, to the knowledge and belief of such officer, the conditions specified in Section 9.2(a), Section 9.2(b) and Section 9.2(c) have been fulfilled;

(ii) to Acquiror, the written resignations of all of the directors of the Company (other than any such Persons identified as initial directors of the Surviving Corporation, in accordance with Section 2.6), effective as of the Effective Time;

(iii) to Acquiror, the Registration Rights Agreement, duly executed by the stockholders of the Company set forth in Section 2.4(a);

(iv) to Acquiror, Lock-Up Agreement B, duly executed by the Company Founders;

(v) to Acquiror, Lock-Up Agreement C, duly executed by the directors and executive officers of the Company and certain stockholders of the Company set forth on Exhibit A of Lock-Up Agreement C; and

(vi) to Acquiror, a certificate on behalf of the Company dated no more than thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date, prepared in a manner consistent and in accordance with the requirements of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.897-2(g), (h) and 1.1445-2(c)(3), certifying that no interest in the Company is, or has been during the relevant period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code, a “U.S. real property interest” within the meaning of Section 897(c) of the Code, and a form of notice to the Internal Revenue Service prepared in accordance with the provisions of Treasury Regulations Section 1.897-2(h)(2).

(b) At the Closing, Acquiror will deliver or cause to be delivered:

(i) to the Exchange Agent, the Aggregate Merger Consideration for further distribution to the Company’s stockholders pursuant to Section 3.2;

(ii) to the Company, a certificate signed by an officer of Acquiror, dated the Closing Date, certifying that, to the knowledge and belief of such officer, the conditions specified in Section 9.3(a), Section 9.3(b) and Section 9.3(c) and Section 9.3(d) have been fulfilled;

(iii) to the Company, the Registration Rights Agreement, duly executed by duly authorized representatives of Acquiror and the Sponsor;

(iv) to the Company, Lock-Up Agreement B and Lock-Up Agreement C, each duly executed by a duly authorized representative of Acquiror;

 

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(v) to the Company, Lock-Up Agreement A, duly executed by a duly authorized representative of the Sponsor, the directors and executive officers of the Sponsor and a duly authorized representative of Acquiror; and

(vi) to the Company, the written resignations of all of the directors and officers of Acquiror and Merger Subs (other than those Persons identified as the initial directors and officers, respectively, of Acquiror after the Effective Time, in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.6 and Section 7.6), effective as of the Effective Time.

(c) On the Closing Date, concurrently with the Effective Time, Acquiror shall pay or cause to be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds: (i) all accrued and unpaid Acquiror Transaction Expenses as set forth on a written statement to be delivered to the Company not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date; and (ii) all accrued and unpaid Company Transaction Expenses as set forth on a written statement to be delivered to Acquiror by or on behalf of the Company not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, which shall include the respective amounts and wire transfer instructions for the payment thereof, together with corresponding invoices for the foregoing (clauses (i) and (ii) collectively, “Unpaid Transaction Expenses”); provided, that any Unpaid Transaction Expenses due to current or former employees, independent contractors, officers, or directors of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be paid to the Company for further payment to such employee, independent contractor, officer or director through the Company’s payroll.

Section 2.5. Governing Documents.

(a) At the Effective Time, the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended as provided therein and under the DGCL.

(b) At the Second Effective Time, the certificate of formation and operating agreement of Second Merger Sub shall be the certificate of formation and operating agreement of the Surviving Entity until thereafter amended in accordance with its terms and as provided by applicable Law, except that the name of the Surviving Entity shall be a name reasonably determined by the Company.

(c) The certificate of incorporation and bylaws of Acquiror from and after the Effective Time shall be in the form attached as Exhibits A and B hereto (with such changes as may be agreed in writing by Acquiror and the Company), until thereafter amended as provided therein and under the DGCL.

Section 2.6. Directors and Officers.

(a) The (i) officers of the Company as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be the officers of the Surviving Corporation from and after the Effective Time; and (ii) the directors of Acquiror as of immediately after the Effective Time shall be the directors of the Surviving Corporation from and after the Effective Time, in each case, each to hold office in accordance with the Governing Documents of the Surviving Corporation. Immediately after the Second Effective Time, the board of managers and officers of the Surviving Entity shall be those individuals as the Company may determine.

 

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(b) The parties shall take all actions necessary to ensure that, from and after the Effective Time, the Persons identified as the initial post-Closing directors and officers of Acquiror in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.6 shall be the directors and officers (and in the case of such officers, holding such positions as are set forth on Section 2.6(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter), respectively, of Acquiror, each to hold office in accordance with the Governing Documents of Acquiror.

Section 2.7. Tax Free Reorganization Matters. The parties intend that, for United States federal income tax purposes, the Mergers qualify for the Intended Tax Treatment and this Agreement is intended to be, and is adopted as, a plan of reorganization for purposes of Sections 354, 361 and 368 of the Code and within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.368-2(g). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (a) if, after the date hereof but prior to the Closing, the Company determines that the Second Merger is neither necessary nor advisable, the Company may elect to cause the parties to not effect the Second Merger, in which case, the Surviving Corporation shall continue its separate existence as a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Acquiror and shall be the “Surviving Entity” for all purposes contemplated herein, mutatis mutandis, and references herein to the Intended Tax Treatment shall be to the intended qualification of the First Merger as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code to which each of Acquiror, the Company and the First Merger Sub are parties under Section 368(b) of the Code; and (b) after the date hereof but prior to the Closing, the Company may elect to structure the Second Merger as a merger directly into Acquiror rather than into the Second Merger Sub if the Company determines that structuring the Second Merger as a merger into Acquiror is preferable, in which case Acquiror shall be the “Surviving Entity” for purposes of this Agreement where the context so requires. None of the parties knows of any fact or circumstance (without conducting independent inquiry or diligence of the other relevant party) or has taken or will take any action, if such fact, circumstance or action would be reasonably expected to cause the Mergers to fail to qualify for the Intended Tax Treatment. The Mergers shall be reported by the parties for all applicable Tax purposes in accordance with the foregoing (including in connection with any audits, Tax Returns or otherwise), unless otherwise required by a Governmental Authority as a result of a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the Code (or any similar provision of applicable state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law) or by applicable Law. The parties shall reasonably cooperate in good faith with each other and their respective counsel and tax advisors to document and support the Tax treatment of the Mergers consistent with the Intended Tax Treatment.

 

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ARTICLE III

EFFECTS OF THE MERGERS ON THE COMPANY CAPITAL STOCK AND EQUITY AWARDS

Section 3.1. Conversion of Securities.

(a) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of any holder of Company Capital Stock, each share of Company Capital Stock, in each case, that is issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than (i) any shares of Company Capital Stock subject to Company Awards (which shall be subject to Section 3.4); (ii) any shares of Company Capital Stock held in the treasury of the Company, which treasury shares shall be canceled as part of the First Merger and shall not constitute “Company Capital Stock” hereunder (each such share, a “Treasury Share”); and (iii) Dissenting Shares), shall be canceled and converted into the right to receive (A) the applicable portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration as determined pursuant to Section 3.1(d) and Section 3.1(e) and (B) the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

(b) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of Acquiror or First Merger Sub, each share of First Merger Sub Capital Stock, shall be converted into a share of common stock, par value $0.0001 of the Surviving Corporation (“Surviving Corporation Capital Stock”).

(c) At the Second Effective Time, by virtue of the Second Merger and without any action on the part of Acquiror or the Surviving Corporation, each share of Surviving Corporation Capital Stock shall be converted into a common unit of the Surviving Entity (“Second Merger Sub Units”).

(d) Each holder of shares of Company Class B Common Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than in respect of Treasury Shares) shall be entitled to receive, in the form of a number of shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock, (A) a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration equal to (i) the Exchange Ratio, multiplied by (ii) the number of shares of Company Class B Common Stock held by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, with fractional shares rounded down to the nearest whole share and (B) a number of shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock equal to (i) the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any) multiplied by (ii) the number of shares of Company Class B Common Stock held by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, with fractional shares rounded down to the nearest whole share.

(e) Each holder of shares of Company Capital Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than in respect of (w) Company Class B Common Stock; (x) Treasury Shares; (y) Dissenting Shares; and (z) any shares of Company Capital Stock subject to Company Awards (which shall be subject to Section 3.4)) shall be entitled to receive (A) a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration in the form of a number of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock equal to (i) the Exchange Ratio, multiplied by (ii) the number of shares of Company Capital Stock held by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, with fractional shares rounded down to the nearest whole share and (B) a number of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock equal to (i) the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any) multiplied by (ii) the number of shares of Company Capital Stock held by such holder as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, with fractional shares rounded down to the nearest whole share. With respect to any holder of Company Preferred Stock, such number of shares of Company Capital Stock held by such holder shall be calculated as if such holder had exercised in full its optional conversion rights with respect to such Company Preferred Stock pursuant to Article IV, Section C.5(a) of the Company Charter.

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Section 3.2. Exchange Procedures.

(a) Prior to the Closing, Acquiror shall appoint an exchange agent (the “Exchange Agent”) to act as the agent for the purpose of paying the Aggregate Merger Consideration to the Company’s stockholders. At or before the Effective Time, Acquiror shall deposit with the Exchange Agent the number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock equal to the portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration to be paid in shares of Acquiror Common Stock.

(b) Reasonably promptly after the date hereof, Acquiror shall send or shall cause the Exchange Agent to send, to each record holder of shares of Company Common Stock entitled to receive a portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration, a letter of transmittal and instructions (which shall specify that the delivery shall be effected, and the risk of loss and title shall pass, only upon proper transfer of each share of Company Common Stock to the Exchange Agent, and which letter of transmittal will be in customary form and have such other provisions as Acquiror may reasonably specify) for use in such exchange (each, a “Letter of Transmittal”).

(c) Each holder of shares of Company Common Stock that have been converted into the right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration or Contingent Consideration (if any), pursuant to Section 3.1(a) and Section 3.3, respectively, shall be entitled to receive such portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration or Contingent Consideration (if any), upon receipt of an “agent’s message” by the Exchange Agent (or such other evidence, if any, of transfer as the Exchange Agent may reasonably request), together with a duly completed and validly executed Letter of Transmittal and such other documents as may reasonably be requested by the Exchange Agent. No interest shall be paid or accrued upon the transfer of any share.

(d) Promptly following the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, Acquiror shall instruct the Exchange Agent to deliver to Acquiror all documents in its possession relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Exchange Agent’s duties shall terminate. Thereafter, any portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration that remains unclaimed shall be returned to Acquiror, and any Person that was a holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of immediately prior to the Effective Time that has not exchanged such shares of Company Common Stock for an applicable portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration in accordance with this Section 3.2 prior to the date that is one (1) year after the Effective Time, may transfer such shares of Company Common Stock to Acquiror and (subject to applicable abandoned property, escheat and similar Laws) receive in consideration therefor, and Acquiror shall promptly deliver, such applicable portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration without any interest thereupon. None of Acquiror, any Merger Sub, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent shall be liable to any Person in respect of any of the Aggregate Merger Consideration delivered to a public official pursuant to and in accordance with any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws. If any such shares shall not have not been transferred immediately prior to such date on which any amounts payable pursuant to this Article III would otherwise escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Authority, any such amounts shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, become the property of the Surviving Corporation, free and clear of all claims or interest of any Person previously entitled thereto.

 

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Section 3.3. Contingent Consideration.

(a) Following the Closing, the Contingent Consideration to be received pursuant to Section 3.1 and Section 3.4 by the holders of Company Capital Stock and Company Awards shall be calculated, as follows:

(i) 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, in the aggregate, if at any time prior to or as of the fifth anniversary of the Closing, (x) the Closing Price equals or exceeds $15.00 over any 20 Trading Days within any 30 Trading Day period or (y) Acquiror consummates a Change of Control, which results in any stockholder of Acquiror having the right to exchange their shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $15.00 per share (the “First Milestone”) (such 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, the “First Milestone Contingent Consideration”).

(ii) 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, in the aggregate, if at any time prior to or as of the fifth anniversary of the Closing, (x) the Closing Price equals or exceeds $17.00 over any 20 Trading Days within any 30 Trading Day period or (y) Acquiror consummates a Change of Control, which results in any stockholder of Acquiror having the right to exchange their shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $17.00 per share (the “Second Milestone”) (such 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, the “Second Milestone Contingent Consideration”).

(iii) 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, in the aggregate, if at any time prior to or as of the fifth anniversary of the Closing, (x) the Closing Price equals or exceeds $19.00 over any 20 Trading Days within any 30 Trading Day period or (y) Acquiror consummates a Change of Control, which results in any stockholder of Acquiror having the right to exchange their shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $19.00 per share (the “Third Milestone”) (such 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, the “Third Milestone Contingent Consideration”).

(iv) 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, in the aggregate, if at any time prior to or as of the fifth anniversary of the Closing, (x) the Closing Price equals or exceeds $21.00 over any 20 Trading Days within any 30 Trading Day period or (y) Acquiror consummates a Change of Control, which results in any stockholder of Acquiror having the right to exchange their shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $21.00 per share (the “Fourth Milestone” and together with the First Milestone, the Second Milestone and the Third Milestone, the “Contingent Milestones”) (such 6,750,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, the “Fourth Milestone Contingent Consideration” and together with the First Milestone Contingent Consideration, the Second Milestone Contingent Consideration and the Third Milestone Contingent Consideration, the “Contingent Consideration”). For the avoidance of doubt, the maximum amount of the Contingent Consideration is 27,000,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock, in the aggregate.

(b) The Contingent Consideration shall be in the form of (i) shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock to extent issuable to a holder of Company Class B Common Stock pursuant to Section 3.1(d) and (ii) in the form of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock to the extent issuable otherwise.

 

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(c) If any of the Contingent Milestones set forth in Section 3.3(a) shall have been achieved, within three Business Days following the achievement of the applicable Contingent Milestone, Acquiror shall, or shall cause the Exchange Agent or any replacement transfer agent engaged by Acquiror to, issue the applicable Per Share Contingent Consideration to each holder of Company Capital Stock and Company Awards. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any Per Share Contingent Consideration issuable under this Section 3.3 in respect of a Company Award that was outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be issued to the holder of such Company Award only if such holder continues to provide services (whether as an employee, director or individual independent contractor) to Acquiror or one of its Subsidiaries through the date on which such Per Share Contingent Consideration is issued pursuant to this Section 3.3.

(d) If any of the Contingent Milestones set forth in Section 3.3(a) shall not have been achieved on or prior to the fifth anniversary of the Closing, the holders of Company Capital Stock and Company Awards shall have no further right to receive the applicable Contingent Consideration.

(e) The Closing Price targets and any determination with respect to the achievement of the Contingent Milestones and the amount of Contingent Consideration shall be adjusted to reflect appropriately the effect of any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend (including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible into shares of Acquiror Common Stock), reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, combination, merger, sale or exchange of shares or other like change with respect to shares of Acquiror Common Stock, occurring on or after the date hereof and prior to the time any such Contingent Consideration is delivered to the holders of Company Capital Stock and Company Awards, if any.

(f) The right of a holder of Company Capital Stock or Company Awards to receive the Per Share Contingent Consideration pursuant to this Section 3.3 shall not be transferrable or assignable to any other person except by will or intestacy upon the death of a holder of Company Capital Stock or Company Awards that is a natural person and any shares of Acquiror Common Stock issuable under this Section 3.3 shall be issued solely in the name of, or for the benefit of, such holder of Company Capital Stock or Company Awards or its permitted transferee in accordance with this Section 3.3(f).

(g) For the avoidance of doubt, if the condition for more than one Contingent Milestone is achieved, the Contingent Consideration to be earned in connection with such Contingent Milestone shall be cumulative with any Contingent Consideration earned prior to such time in connection with the achievement of any other Contingent Milestone; provided that, for avoidance of doubt, Contingent Consideration in respect of each Contingent Milestone will be issued and earned only once and the Contingent Consideration issued shall in no event exceed 27,000,000 shares of Acquiror Common Stock.

 

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Section 3.4. Treatment of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and Company Restricted Stock Awards.

(a) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of any holder of Company Options, each Company Option that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be assumed by Acquiror and converted into (i) an option to purchase shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock upon the same terms and conditions as are in effect with respect to such option immediately prior to the Effective Time, including with respect to vesting and termination-related provisions, except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative (or satisfied) by the First Merger (each, an “Acquiror Option”) except that (A) such Acquiror Option shall provide for the right to purchase that whole number of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock (rounded down to the nearest whole share) equal to the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Option immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio; and (B) the exercise price per share for each such Acquiror Option shall be equal to the exercise price per share of such Company Option in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, divided by the Exchange Ratio (the exercise price per share, as so determined, being rounded up to the nearest full cent) and (ii) the right to receive, with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Option immediately prior to the Effective Time, Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any); provided, however, that the conversion of the Company Options will be made in a manner consistent with Treasury Regulation Section 1.424-1, such that such conversion will not constitute a “modification” of such Company Options for purposes of Section 409A or Section 424 of the Code.

(b) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of any holder of Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards, each Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted into (i) a restricted stock unit award covering a number of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock (each, an “Acquiror Restricted Stock Unit Award”) equal to the number of shares of Company Common Stock underlying such Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio (rounded to the nearest whole share), with the same terms and conditions as were applicable to the related Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award immediately prior to the Effective Time (including with respect to vesting and termination-related provisions), except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative (or satisfied) by the First Merger and (ii) the right to receive, with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject to such Unvested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

(c) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of any holder of Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards, each Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall be cancelled and converted into the right to receive, and the holder of such Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award shall be entitled to receive (i) a portion of the Aggregate Share Consideration in the form of Acquiror Class A Common Stock equal to (A) the Exchange Ratio, multiplied by (B) the number of shares underlying such Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, with fractional shares rounded down to the nearest whole share and (ii) with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject to such Vested Company Restricted Stock Unit Award immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Per Share Contingent Consideration to the extent vested pursuant to Section 3.4(a).

 

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(d) At the Effective Time, by virtue of the First Merger and without any action on the part of any holder of Company Restricted Stock Awards, each Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted into (i) a restricted stock award covering a number of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock (each, an “Acquiror Restricted Stock Award”) equal to the number of shares of Company Common Stock underlying such Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award immediately prior to the Effective Time, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio (rounded to the nearest whole share), with the same terms and conditions as were applicable to the related Unvested Company Restricted Stock Awards immediately prior to the Effective Time (including with respect to vesting and termination-related provisions), except to the extent such terms or conditions are rendered inoperative (or satisfied) by the First Merger and (ii) the right to receive, with respect to each share of Company Common Stock subject to such Unvested Company Restricted Stock Award immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Per Share Contingent Consideration (if any).

(e) The Company shall take all necessary actions to effect the treatment of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and Company Restricted Stock Awards pursuant to this Section 3.4 in accordance with the Company Incentive Plans and the applicable award agreements. The Board of Directors of the Company shall terminate the Company Incentive Plans effective as of (and contingent upon) the Effective Time.

Section 3.5. Withholding. Notwithstanding any other provision to this Agreement, Acquiror, Merger Subs, the Company and its Subsidiaries and the Exchange Agent (and their respective representatives), as applicable, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amount payable pursuant to this Agreement such Taxes that are required to be deducted and withheld from such amounts under the Code or any other applicable Law (as reasonably determined by Acquiror, Merger Subs, the Company or its Subsidiaries, or the Exchange Agent, respectively); provided, that Acquiror shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide the Company with at least five (5) days prior written notice of any amounts that it intends to withhold in connection with the payment of the Aggregate Merger Consideration (other than any compensatory payments to be made pursuant to this Agreement) and will reasonably cooperate with the Company to reduce or eliminate any applicable withholding. To the extent that any amounts are so deducted and withheld, such deducted and withheld amounts shall be (i) timely remitted to the appropriate Governmental Authority; and (ii) treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Person in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made. In the case of any such payment payable to employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with the Mergers treated as compensation, the parties shall cooperate to pay such amounts through the Company’s or the relevant Subsidiary’s payroll to facilitate applicable withholding.

Section 3.6. Dissenting Shares. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, shares of Company Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a holder who has not voted in favor of adoption of this Agreement or consented thereto in writing and who is entitled to demand and has properly exercised appraisal rights of such shares in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL or, to the extent applicable,

 

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Chapter 13 of the California Corporations Code (the “CCC”) (such shares of Company Common Stock being referred to collectively as the “Dissenting Shares” until such time as such holder fails to perfect or otherwise waives, withdraws, or loses such holder’s appraisal rights under the DGCL or, to the extent applicable, the CCC with respect to such shares) shall not be converted into a right to receive a portion of the Aggregate Merger Consideration, but instead shall be entitled to only such rights as are granted by Section 262 of the DGCL or, to the extent applicable, Chapter 13 of the CCC; provided, however, that if, after the Effective Time, such holder fails to perfect, waives, withdraws, or loses such holder’s right to appraisal pursuant to Section 262 of the DGCL or, to the extent applicable, Chapter 13 of the CCC, or if a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that such holder is not entitled to the relief provided by Section 262 of the DGCL or, to the extent applicable, Chapter 13 of the CCC, such shares of Company Common Stock shall be treated as if they had been converted as of the Effective Time into the right to receive the Aggregate Merger Consideration in accordance with Section 3.1 without interest thereon, upon transfer of such shares. The Company shall provide Acquiror prompt written notice of any demands received by the Company for appraisal of shares of Company Common Stock, any waiver or withdrawal of any such demand, and any other demand, notice, or instrument delivered to the Company prior to the Effective Time that relates to such demand. Except with the prior written consent of Acquiror (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied), the Company shall not make any payment with respect to, or settle, or offer to settle, any such demands.

ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the disclosure letter delivered to Acquiror and Merger Subs by the Company on the date of this Agreement (the “Company Disclosure Letter”) (each section of which, subject to Section 11.9, qualifies the correspondingly numbered and lettered representations in this Article IV), the Company represents and warrants to Acquiror and Merger Subs as follows:

Section 4.1. Company Organization. The Company has been duly incorporated, formed or organized and is validly existing as a corporation under the Laws of the state of Delaware and has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease or operate all of its properties and assets and to conduct its business as it is now being conducted. The Governing Documents of the Company, as amended to the date of this Agreement and as previously made available by or on behalf of the Company to Acquiror, are true, correct and complete. The Company is duly licensed or qualified and in good standing as a foreign or extra-provincial corporation (or other entity, if applicable) in each jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the character of its activities is such as to require it to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing, as applicable, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 4.2. Subsidiaries. A complete list of each Subsidiary of the Company and its jurisdiction of incorporation, formation or organization, as applicable, is set forth on Section 4.2 of the Company Disclosure Letter. The Subsidiaries of the Company have been duly formed or organized and are validly existing under the Laws of their jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and have the requisite power and authority to own, lease or operate all of their respective properties and assets and to conduct their respective businesses as they are now being

 

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conducted. True, correct and complete copies of the Governing Documents of the Company’s Subsidiaries, in each case, as amended to the date of this Agreement, have been previously made available to Acquiror by or on behalf of the Company. Each Subsidiary of the Company is duly licensed or qualified and in good standing as a foreign or extra-provincial corporation (or other entity, if applicable) in each jurisdiction in which its ownership of property or the character of its activities is such as to require it to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing, as applicable, except where the failure to be so licensed or qualified or in good standing would not have, or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.3. Due Authorization.

(a) Other than the Company Stockholder Approval, the Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other documents to which it is a party contemplated hereby and (subject to the approvals described in Section 4.5) to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and to perform all of its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly authorized and approved by the Board of Directors of the Company, and no other company or corporate proceeding on the part of the Company is necessary to authorize this Agreement and the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been, and on or prior to the Closing, the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby will be, duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and this Agreement constitutes, and on or prior to the Closing, the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity. The Company Holders Support Agreements have been executed and delivered to Acquiror by the Requisite Company Stockholders.

(b) On or prior to the date of this Agreement, the Board of Directors of the Company has duly adopted resolutions: (i) determining that this Agreement and the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are advisable and fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and its stockholders, as applicable; and (ii) authorizing and approving the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. No other corporate action is required on the part of the Company or any of its stockholders to enter into this Agreement or the documents to which the Company is a party contemplated hereby or to approve the Mergers other than the Company Stockholder Approval.

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consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) violate or conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of, or default under the Governing Documents of the Company or its Subsidiaries; (ii) violate or conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of, or default under any Law, permit, or Governmental Order applicable to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or any of their respective properties or assets; (iii) violate, conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of, result in the loss of any right or benefit, or cause acceleration, or constitute (with or without due notice or lapse of time or both) a default (or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, modification, or acceleration) under any Contract of the type described in Section 4.12(a) to which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries may be bound, or terminate or result in the termination of any such foregoing Contract; or (iv) result in the creation of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of the properties, equity interests or assets of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, except, in the case of clauses (ii) through (iv), to the extent that the occurrence of the foregoing would not (A) have, or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the ability of the Company and its Subsidiaries to enter into and perform their obligations under this Agreement or (B) individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 4.5. Governmental Authorities; Consents. Assuming the truth and completeness of the representations and warranties of Acquiror contained in this Agreement, no consent, waiver, approval or authorization of, or designation, declaration or filing with, or notification to, any Governmental Authority (each, a “Governmental Authorization”) is required on the part of the Company or its Subsidiaries with respect to the Company’s execution or delivery of this Agreement or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby, except for (i) applicable requirements of the HSR Act; (ii) consent of the FCC and NOAA to the applications contemplated by Section 8.1, (iii) any other consents, approvals, authorizations, designations, declarations, waivers or filings, the absence of which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Company to perform or comply with on a timely basis any material obligation of the Company under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby; and (iv) the filing of the First Merger Certificate in accordance with the DGCL and the Second Merger Certificate in accordance with the DLLCA.

Section 4.6. Capitalization of the Company.

(a) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of the Company is 281,300,000 shares of capital stock consisting of: (i) 161,300,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.00002 per share (the “Company Class A Common Stock”); (ii) 15,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, par value $0.00002 per share (the “Company Class B Common Stock”); (iii) 105,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.00002 per share (the “Company Preferred Stock”), of which (1) 30,000,000 shares are designated as Series A Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”); (2) 15,000,000 shares are designated as Series B Preferred Stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”); (3) 14,436,335 shares are designated as Series C Preferred Stock (the “Series C Preferred Stock”); (4) 5,563,665 shares are designated as Series C’ Preferred Stock (the “Series C Preferred Stock”); and (5) 40,000,000 shares are designated as Series D Preferred Stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock”). As of the date of this Agreement, there

 

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were: (t) 15,487,892 shares of Company Class A Common Stock issued and outstanding; (u) 13,811,878 shares of Company Class B Common Stock issued and outstanding; (v) 26,072,555 shares of Series A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding; (w) 10,314,505 shares of Series B Preferred Stock issued and outstanding; (x) 13,756,905 shares Series C Preferred Stock issued and outstanding; (y) 4,024,175 shares of Series C’ Preferred Stock issued and outstanding; and (z) 31,514,850 shares of Series D Preferred Stock issued and outstanding, in each case, excluding shares subject to Company Restricted Stock Awards. All of the issued and outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; (ii) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable Law, including federal and state securities Laws, and all requirements set forth in (1) the Governing Documents of the Company and (2) any other applicable Contracts governing the issuance of such securities; (iii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable Law, the Governing Documents of the Company or any Contract to which the Company is a party or otherwise bound (except, with respect to any Company Restricted Stock Award, as set forth in the applicable Company Incentive Plan and award agreement governing such Company Restricted Stock Award); and (iv) are free and clear of any Liens.

(b) Section 4.6(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth, as of the date of this Agreement, the outstanding Company Warrants. All outstanding Company Warrants (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity; (ii) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable Law, including federal and state securities Laws, and all requirements set forth in (1) the Governing Documents of the Company and (2) any other applicable Contracts governing the issuance of such securities; and (iii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable Law, the Governing Documents of the Company or any Contract to which the Company is a party or otherwise bound; and (iv) are free and clear of any Liens.

(c) As of the date of this Agreement: (i) Company Options to purchase 30,358,146 shares of Company Common Stock; (ii) 2,872,551 Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards; and (iii) Company Restricted Stock Awards covering 1,200,000 shares of Company Common Stock are outstanding. As of the date of this Agreement, there are 981,403 shares of Company Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Company Incentive Plans. The Company has provided to Acquiror, prior to the date of this Agreement, a true and complete list of each Company Option, Company Restricted Stock Unit Award and Company Restricted Stock Award, including the holder thereof, the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject thereto, the vesting schedule, the expiration date (if applicable) and, if applicable, the exercise price thereof. All Company Options, Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards and Company Restricted Stock Awards are evidenced by award agreements in substantially the forms previously made available to Acquiror, and no Company Option, Company Restricted Stock Unit Award or Company Restricted Stock Award is subject to terms that are materially different from those set forth in such forms. Each Company Option, each Company Restricted Stock Unit Award and each Company Restricted Stock Award was validly granted and properly approved by the Board of

 

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Directors of the Company (or appropriate committee thereof) in accordance with the terms of the Company Incentive Plans. Each Company Option held by a U.S. taxpayer has been granted with an exercise price that is intended to be no less than the fair market value of the underlying Company Common Stock on the date of grant, as determined in accordance with Section 409A of the Code or Section 422 of the Code, if applicable. Each Company Option held by a U.S. taxpayer is intended to be exempt under Section 409A of the Code.

(d) Except as otherwise set forth in this Section 4.6 or on Section 4.6(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company has not issued or granted any outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock or other equity securities or subscriptions, options, stock appreciation rights, warrants, rights or other securities (including debt securities) convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Company Capital Stock, any other commitments, calls, conversion rights, rights of exchange or privilege (whether pre-emptive, contractual or by matter of Law), plans or other agreements of any character providing for the issuance of additional shares, the sale of Treasury Shares or other equity interests, or for the repurchase or redemption of shares or other equity interests of the Company or the value of which is determined by reference to shares or other equity interests of the Company, and there are no voting trusts, proxies or agreements of any kind which may obligate the Company to issue, purchase, register for sale, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of Company Capital Stock.

Section 4.7. Capitalization of Subsidiaries.

(a) The outstanding shares of capital stock or equity interests of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and are, to the extent applicable, fully paid and non-assessable; (ii) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable Law, including federal and state securities Laws, and all requirements set forth in (A) the Governing Documents of each such Subsidiary, and (B) any other applicable Contracts governing the issuance of such securities; (iii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable Law, the Governing Documents of each such Subsidiary or any Contract to which each such Subsidiary is a party or otherwise bound; and (iv) are free and clear of any Liens.

(b) Except as set forth on Section 4.7(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company owns of record and beneficially all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock or equity interests of such Subsidiaries free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens.

(c) Except as set forth on Section 4.7(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, rights or other securities (including debt securities) exercisable or exchangeable for any capital stock of such Subsidiaries, any other commitments, calls, conversion rights, rights of exchange or privilege (whether pre-emptive, contractual or by matter of Law), plans or other agreements of any character providing for the issuance of additional shares, the sale of Treasury Shares or other equity interests, or for the repurchase or redemption of shares or other equity interests of such Subsidiaries or the value of which is determined by reference to shares or other equity interests of the Subsidiaries, and there are no voting trusts, proxies or agreements of any kind which may obligate any Subsidiary of the Company to issue, purchase, register for sale, redeem or otherwise acquire any of its capital stock.

 

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Section 4.8. Financial Statements.

(a) Attached as Section 4.8(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter are true and complete copies of (i) the audited consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the years ended January 31, 2020 and January 31, 2021, together with the auditor’s reports thereon (together with the PCAOB Financial Statements, the “Audited Financial Statements”) and (ii) the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the three-month period ending April 30, 2021 (the “Q1 Financial Statements” and, together with the Audited Financial Statements and any financial statements when delivered pursuant to Section 6.3, the “Financial Statements”).

(b) Except as set forth on Section 4.8(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Financial Statements (i) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, as at the respective dates thereof, and the consolidated results of their operations, their consolidated incomes, their consolidated changes in stockholders’ equity (with respect to the Audited Financial Statements only) and their consolidated cash flows for the respective periods then ended (subject, in the case of the Q1 Financial Statements and any unaudited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.3, to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnotes); (ii) were prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto and, in the case of the Q1 Financial Statements and any unaudited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.3, the absence of footnotes or the inclusion of limited footnotes); (iii) were prepared from, and are in accordance in all material respects with, the books and records of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries; and (iv) when delivered by the Company for inclusion in the Registration Statement for filing with the SEC following the date of this Agreement in accordance with Section 6.3, will comply in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements and with the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Exchange Act and the Securities Act applicable to a registrant, in effect as of the respective dates thereof.

(c) Except as set forth on Section 4.8(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company (including, to the knowledge of the Company, any employee thereof) nor any independent auditor of the Company has identified or been made aware of (i) any significant deficiency or material weakness in the system of internal accounting controls utilized by the Company; (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves the Company’s management or other employees who have a role in the preparation of financial statements or the internal accounting controls utilized by the Company; or (iii) any claim or allegation regarding any of the foregoing.

(d) The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls designed to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with the management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; and (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization.

 

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Section 4.9. Undisclosed Liabilities. Except as set forth on Section 4.9 of the Company Disclosure Letter, as of the date of this Agreement, there is no other liability, debt (including Indebtedness) or obligation of, or claim or judgment against, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, known or unknown, liquidated or unliquidated, or due or to become due), except for liabilities, debts, obligations, claims or judgments (i) reflected or reserved for on the Financial Statements or disclosed in the notes thereto; (ii) that have arisen since the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the Financial Statements in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past practice, of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or (iii) that will be discharged or paid off prior to or at the Closing.

Section 4.10. Litigation and Proceedings. Except as set forth on Section 4.10 of the Company Disclosure Letter, as of the date of this Agreement: (i) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing, lawsuits, Actions, suits, judgments, claims, proceedings or any other Actions (including any investigations or inquiries initiated, pending or threatened by any Governmental Authority), or other proceedings at law or in equity (collectively, “Legal Proceedings”), against the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or their respective properties or assets; and (ii) there is no outstanding Governmental Order imposed upon the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; nor are any properties or assets of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries’ respective businesses bound or subject to any Governmental Order, except, in each case, as would not be, or would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 4.11. Legal Compliance.

(a) As of the date hereof, each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable Laws in all material respects.

(b) For the past three (3) years, none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has received any written notice of, or been charged with, violation of any Laws, except where such violation has not been, individually or in the aggregate, material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(c) The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain a program of policies, procedures and internal controls reasonably designed and implemented to provide reasonable assurance that violation of applicable Law by any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ directors, officers, employees or its or their respective agents, representatives or other Persons, acting on behalf of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, will be prevented, detected and deterred.

Section 4.12. Contracts; No Defaults.

(a) Section 4.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter contains a listing of all Contracts described in clauses (i) through (xv) below to which, as of the date of this Agreement, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is a party or by which they are bound, other than any Company Benefit Plan. True, correct and complete copies of the Contracts listed on Section 4.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter have previously been delivered to or made available to Acquiror or its agents or representatives, together with all amendments thereto.

 

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(i) Any Contract with any of the Top Customers, Top Suppliers or Top Channel Partners, excluding non-disclosure agreements, purchase order forms, sales acknowledgement forms and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(ii) Each note, debenture, other evidence of Indebtedness, guarantee, loan, credit or financing agreement or instrument or other Contract for money borrowed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, in each case, in excess of $500,000;

(iii) Each Contract for the acquisition of any Person or any business unit thereof or the disposition of any material assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the last two (2) years, in each case, involving payments in excess of $500,000 other than Contracts (A) in which the applicable acquisition or disposition has been consummated and there are no material obligations ongoing; (B) entered into in the ordinary course of business; or (C) between the Company and its Subsidiaries;

(iv) Each lease, rental or occupancy agreement, license, installment and conditional sale agreement, and other Contract that provides for the ownership of, leasing of, title to, use of, or any leasehold or other interest in any real or personal property that involves aggregate payments in excess of $500,000 in any calendar year;

(v) Each Contract involving the formation of a (A) joint venture; (B) partnership; or (C) limited liability company (excluding, in the case of clauses (B) and (C), any Subsidiary of the Company), but excluding Top Channel Partners;

(vi) Contracts (other than employment agreements, employee confidentiality and invention assignment agreements, director or officer indemnity agreements, investor agreements, equity or incentive equity documents and Governing Documents) between the Company and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and Affiliates of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (other than the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries), the officers and managers (or equivalents) of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or the members or stockholders of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, on the other hand (collectively, “Affiliate Agreements”);

(vii) Contracts with each current executive, officer, director or current employee of the Company or its Subsidiaries with a title of Senior Vice President or higher;

(viii) Contracts with any employee or consultant of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries that provide for the payment of change in control, retention or similar payments or benefits contingent upon, accelerated by or triggered by the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby;

 

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(ix) Contracts containing covenants of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (A) prohibiting or limiting the right of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to engage in or compete with any Person in any line of business in any material respect; or (B) prohibiting or restricting the Company’s and the Company’s Subsidiaries’ ability to conduct their business with any Person in any geographic area in any material respect other than customary non-solicitation and no-hire provisions entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(x) Any collective bargaining (or similar) agreement or Contract between the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any labor union or other body representing employees of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, on the other hand;

(xi) Each Contract (including license agreements, coexistence agreements, and agreements with covenants not to sue) pursuant to which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries: (i) grants to a third Person a license, immunity, or other right in or to any material Company Intellectual Property; or (ii) is granted by a third Person a license, immunity, or other right in or to any Intellectual Property that is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, excluding: (A) non-exclusive licenses or grants of rights in Intellectual Property in employee or independent contractor agreements or consulting agreements on terms substantially similar to the Company’s or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries’ standard forms made available to Acquiror); (B) Contracts granting nonexclusive rights to use Company products or services (or Marks in connection with the promotion or sale of Company products or services); (C) Contracts granting nonexclusive rights to Intellectual Property incidental to or implied by the sale or purchase of goods or services, in each case of (A)-(C), entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice); (D) Open Source Licenses; or (E) Contracts granting to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries nonexclusive rights to use Software that is generally commercially available to the public on standard or nondiscriminatory terms with license, maintenance, support, and other fees less than $100,000 per year);

(xii) Each Contract requiring capital expenditures by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries after the date of this Agreement in an amount in excess of $500,000 in any calendar year;

(xiii) Any Contract that (A) grants to any third Person any “most favored nation rights” or equivalent rights (howsoever described); or (B) grants to any third Person price guarantees for a period greater than one year from the date of this Agreement and requires aggregate future payments to the Company and its Subsidiaries in excess of $500,000 in any calendar year;

(xiv) Contracts granting to any Person (other than the Company or its Subsidiaries) a right of first refusal, first offer or similar preferential right to purchase or acquire equity interests in the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; and

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(b) Except for any Contract that will terminate upon the expiration of the stated term thereof prior to the anticipated Closing Date, all of the Contracts listed pursuant to Section 4.12(a) in the Company Disclosure Letter are (i) in full force and effect; and (ii) represent the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company or the Subsidiary of the Company party thereto and, to the knowledge of the Company, represent the legal, valid and binding obligations of the counterparties thereto. Except, in each case, where the occurrence of such breach or default or failure to perform would not be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole: (A) the Company and its Subsidiaries have performed in all respects all respective obligations required to be performed by them to date under such Contracts listed pursuant to Section 4.12(a) and neither the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto is in breach of or default under any such Contract; (B) during the last twelve (12) months, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any written claim or written notice of termination or breach of or default under any such Contract; and (C) to the knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred which individually or together with other events, would reasonably be expected to result in a breach of or a default under any such Contract by the Company or its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any other party thereto (in each case, with or without notice or lapse of time or both).

Section 4.13. Company Benefit Plans.

(a) Section 4.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth an accurate and complete list, as of the date of this Agreement, of each material Company Benefit Plan (other than any individual employment offer letters, individual employment Contracts, individual consulting agreements or individual Company Option, Company Restricted Stock Unit Award or Company Restricted Stock Award agreements, in each case, that are on substantially the forms set forth on Section 4.13(a)). For purposes of this Agreement, a “Company Benefit Plan” means an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), or any other plan, policy, practice, program, agreement or other arrangement (including any employment, bonus, incentive or deferred compensation, employee loan agreement, equity or equity-based compensation, severance, termination, retention, retirement, supplemental retirement, profit sharing, change in control, vacation, sick, insurance, medical, welfare, fringe or similar plan, policy, program, agreement or other arrangement) providing compensation or other benefits or remuneration to any current or former director, officer, individual consultant, worker or employee, which is maintained, sponsored or contributed to by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or to which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is a party or has or may have any liability, and in each case, whether or not (i) subject to the Laws of the United States, (ii) in writing or (iii) funded, but excluding in each case any statutory plan, program or arrangement that is required under applicable Law and maintained by any Governmental Authority. With respect to each material Company Benefit Plan, the Company has made available to Acquiror, to the extent applicable, true, complete and correct copies of (A) such Company Benefit Plan (or, if not written a written summary of its material terms) and all plan documents, related trust agreements, insurance Contracts or other funding vehicles and all amendments thereto; (B) the most recent summary plan description, including any summary of material modifications; (C) the two (2) most recent annual reports (Form 5500 series) filed with the IRS with respect to such Company Benefit Plan; (D) the most recent actuarial report or other financial statement relating to such Company Benefit Plan, (E) the most recent determination or opinion letter, if any, issued by the IRS with respect to any Company Benefit Plan and any pending request for such a determination letter; and (F) all material correspondence to or from the IRS, the United States Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other Governmental Authority received in the last three (3) years with respect to any Company Benefit Plan.

 

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(b) Except as set forth on Section 4.13(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (i) each Company Benefit Plan has been operated and administered in compliance with its terms and all applicable Laws, including the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code, except where the failure to comply would not be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (ii) in all material respects, all contributions required to be made with respect to any Company Benefit Plan have been made and all obligations not yet due in respect of each Company Benefit Plan have been accrued and reflected in the Company’s financial statements to the extent required by GAAP (if applicable); and (iii) each Company Benefit Plan which is intended to be qualified within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS as to its qualification or may rely upon an opinion letter for a prototype plan and, to the knowledge of the Company, no fact or event has occurred that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any such Company Benefit Plan.

(c) No Company Benefit Plan is a multiemployer pension plan (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA) (a “Multiemployer Plan”) or other pension plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA (each, a “Title IV Plan”), and neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has sponsored or contributed to, been required to contribute to, or had any actual or contingent liability under, a Multiemployer Plan or Title IV Plan at any time within the previous six (6) years. Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has incurred any withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA that has not been fully satisfied. No Company Benefit Plan is (i) a “multiple employer plan” (within the meaning of the Code or ERISA); (ii) a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” (within the meaning of Section 3(40) of ERISA); or a (iii) a “funded welfare plan” within the meaning of Section 419 of the Code.

(d) There are no pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened claims (other than routine claims for benefits) by, on behalf of or against any Company Benefit Plan or any trust related thereto, and no audit or other proceeding by a Governmental Authority is pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any Company Benefit Plan, in each case, which could reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(e) Neither the Company, any Company Benefit Plan nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any trustee, administrator or other third-party fiduciary and/or party-in-interest thereof, has engaged in any breach of fiduciary responsibility or any “prohibited transaction” (as such term is defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) to which Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code applies and which could subject the Company or any ERISA Affiliate to the Tax or penalty on prohibited transactions imposed by Section 4975 of the Code, which, assuming the taxable period of such transaction expired as of the date of this Agreement, would reasonably be expected to result in any material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

 

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(f) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan, no Actions, suits or claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary course) are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, and to the knowledge of the Company, no facts or circumstances exist that would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such Actions, suits or claims, except as would not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(g) No Company Benefit Plan provides medical, surgical, hospitalization, death or similar benefits (whether or not insured) for employees or former employees of the Company or any Subsidiary for periods extending beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than coverage mandated by applicable Law, and none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation to provide such benefits (other than as mandated by applicable Law).

(h) Except as set forth on Section 4.13(h) of the Company Disclosure Letter or as expressly set forth in this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, either alone or in combination with another event (such as termination following the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby): (i) entitle any current or former employee, officer or other service provider of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to any severance pay or increase in severance pay or any other compensation payable by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company; (ii) accelerate the time of payment, funding or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to any such employee, officer or other individual service provider by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company; (iii) directly or indirectly cause the Company to transfer or set aside any assets to fund any material benefits under any Company Benefit Plan; or (iv) otherwise give rise to any material liability under any Company Benefit Plan. The consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not, either alone or in combination with another event, result in any “excess parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code. No Company Benefit Plan provides for a Tax gross-up, make whole or similar payment with respect to the Taxes imposed under Sections 409A or 4999 of the Code or any other Tax.

Section 4.14. Labor Relations; Employees.

(a) Except as set forth on Section 4.14(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter: (i) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any collective bargaining agreement, or any similar agreement or arrangement; (ii) no such agreement or such other arrangement is being negotiated by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; (iii) no labor union or any other employee representative body has requested or, to the knowledge of the Company, has sought to represent any of the employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries; and (iv) there are no representation or certification proceedings or petitions seeking a representation proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing to be brought or filed with the National Labor Relations Board or any other applicable labor relations authority with respect to employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries. In the past three (3) years, there has been no actual or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened strike, slowdown, work stoppage, labor organization activity, lockout or other material labor dispute or similar activity against or affecting the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.

 

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(b) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries are, and have been for the past three (3) years, in material compliance with all applicable Laws respecting labor and employment including, but not limited to, all Laws respecting terms and conditions of employment, health and safety, wages and hours, holiday pay and the calculation of holiday pay, working time, employee classification (with respect to both exempt vs. non-exempt status and employee vs. independent contractor and worker status), child labor, immigration, employment discrimination, disability rights or benefits, equal opportunity and equal pay, plant closures and layoffs, affirmative action, workers’ compensation, labor relations, employee leave and unemployment insurance.

(c) In the past three (3) years, the Company and its Subsidiaries have not received (i) notice of any material unfair labor practice charge or material complaint pending or threatened before the National Labor Relations Board or any other Governmental Authority against them; (ii) notice of any material complaints, grievances or arbitrations arising out of any collective bargaining agreement to which the Company or its Subsidiaries is bound; (iii) notice of any material charge or complaint against them pending before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or any other Governmental Authority responsible for the prevention of unlawful employment practices; (iv) notice of the intent of any Governmental Authority responsible for the enforcement of labor, employment, wages and hours of work, child labor, immigration, or occupational safety and health Laws to conduct an investigation with respect to or relating to them or notice that such investigation is in progress; or (v) notice of any material complaint, lawsuit or other proceeding pending or threatened before any Governmental Authority against them by or on behalf of any present or former employee of such entities, any applicant for employment or classes of the foregoing alleging breach of any express or implied Contract of employment, breach of any applicable Law governing employment or the termination thereof or other discriminatory, wrongful or tortious conduct in connection with the employment relationship.

(d) To the knowledge of the Company, no present or former employee, worker or independent contractor of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries’ is in material violation of (i) any restrictive covenant, nondisclosure obligation or fiduciary duty to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; or (ii) any restrictive covenant or nondisclosure obligation to a former employer or engager of any such individual relating to (A) the right of any such individual to work for or provide services to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries’ or (B) the knowledge or use of material trade secrets.

(e) In the past three (3) years, the Company and its Subsidiaries have not engaged in layoffs, furloughs or employment terminations sufficient to trigger application of the Workers’ Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act or any similar state or local Law relating to group terminations. The Company and its Subsidiaries have not engaged in layoffs or furloughs or effected any broad-based salary or other compensation or benefits reductions, in each case, whether temporary or permanent, since January 1, 2020 through the date hereof.

(f) In the past three (3) years: (i) no allegations of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct have been made in writing, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened to be made against or involving any current or former officer, director or other employee at the level of Vice President or above by any current or former officer, employee or individual service provider of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into any settlement agreements resolving, in whole or in part, allegations of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct by any current or former officer, director or other key employee.

 

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Section 4.15. Taxes.

(a) All material Tax Returns required to be filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have been timely filed (taking into account any applicable extensions), all such Tax Returns (taking into account all amendments thereto) are true, complete and accurate in all material respects. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is currently the beneficiary of any extension of time within which to file any material Tax Return other than extensions of time to file Tax Returns obtained in the ordinary course of business.

(b) All material Taxes due and payable (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) by the Company and its Subsidiaries have been timely paid in full to the appropriate taxing authorities on or prior to the Closing Date, other than Taxes being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP.

(c) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have withheld from amounts owing to any employee, creditor or other Person all material Taxes required by Law to be withheld, paid over to the proper Governmental Authority in a timely manner all such withheld amounts required to have been so paid over and otherwise complied in all material respects with all applicable withholding and related reporting requirements with respect to such Taxes.

(d) There are no Liens for Taxes (other than Permitted Liens) upon the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(e) No claim, assessment, deficiency or proposed adjustment for any material amount of Tax has been asserted or assessed by any Governmental Authority against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that remains unresolved or unpaid.

(f) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is currently or has been within the past three (3) years the subject of an audit or other examination relating to Taxes by the taxing authorities of any nation, state or locality (and no such audit is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, contemplated) nor has the Company or any of its Subsidiaries received any written notices within the past three (3) years from any taxing authority that such an audit or examination is pending.

(g) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has entered into a written agreement or waiver extending any statute of limitations relating to the payment or collection of Taxes of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable, that has not expired; or (ii) is presently contesting the Tax liability of the Company or such Subsidiary, as applicable, before any taxing authority or other Governmental Authority. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made a request for an advance tax ruling, request for technical advice, a request for a change of any method of accounting or any similar request that is in progress or pending with any Governmental Authority with respect to any material Taxes.

(h) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any Tax indemnification or Tax sharing or similar agreement (other than any such agreement solely between the Company and its existing Subsidiaries and customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes).

 

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(i) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a party to any transaction treated by the parties as a distribution of stock qualifying for tax-deferred treatment under Section 355 of the Code in the two (2) years prior to the date of this Agreement.

(j) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been included in any “consolidated,” “unitary,” or “combined” Tax Return provided for under the Law of the United States, any non-U.S. jurisdiction or any state, province, prefect or locality with respect to Taxes for any taxable period for which the statute of limitations has not expired (other than a group of which the Company and its Subsidiaries are the only members).

(k) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is liable for Taxes of any other Person (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law or as a transferee or successor or by Contract (other than customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes); or (ii) has ever been a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group filing for U.S. federal, state or local income Tax purposes, other than a group the common parent of which was or is the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(l) No written claim has been made by any Governmental Authority where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation in that jurisdiction.

(m) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has participated in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b).

(n) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will be required to include any material amount in taxable income, exclude any material item of deduction or loss from taxable income, or make any adjustment under Section 481 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) for any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any (i) installment sale, intercompany transaction described in the Treasury Regulations under Section 1502 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) or open transaction disposition, in each case, made by the Company or its Subsidiaries prior to the Closing; (ii) prepaid amount received or deferred revenue realized or received by the Company or its Subsidiaries prior to the Closing; (iii) change in method of accounting of the Company or its Subsidiaries for a taxable period (or portion thereof) ending on or prior to the Closing Date made or required to be made prior to the Closing; (iv) “closing agreement” described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) executed by the Company or its Subsidiaries prior to the Closing; or (v) any inclusion under Section 965 of the Code.

(o) The Company has not taken any action, nor to the knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are there any facts or circumstances, that would reasonably be expected to prevent the Mergers from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment.

(p) The Company is and has been treated as a C corporation for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes since the date of its formation.

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(r) All material transactions entered into between or among the Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective Affiliates have been entered into on terms that would properly be considered arm’s length, consistent in all material respects with what would have been agreed to between unrelated third parties, and no material adjustment is required with respect to any such transactions pursuant to Section 482 of the Code or any similar provision of any state, local or foreign Law.

Section 4.16. Brokers Fees. Except as set forth on Section 4.16 of the Company Disclosure Letter, no broker, finder, investment banker or other Person is entitled to any brokerage fee, finders’ fee or other commission in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby based upon arrangements made by the Company, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries’ or any of their Affiliates for which Acquiror, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries has any obligation. True, correct and complete copies of all Contracts, agreements and arrangements (including engagement letters) between the Company and the parties set forth on Section 4.16 of the Company Disclosure Letter as in effect as of the date of this Agreement have previously been made available to Acquiror.

Section 4.17. Insurance. The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain insurance coverage (including launch and in-orbit insurance coverage) with reputable insurers in such amounts and covering such risks as the Company reasonably believes, based on past experience and good industry practice, is adequate for the businesses and operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries. Section 4.17 of the Company Disclosure Letter contains a list of, as of the date of this Agreement, all material policies or binders of property, fire and casualty, product liability, workers’ compensation, and other forms of insurance held by, or for the benefit of, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement. True, correct and complete copies of such insurance policies as in effect as of the date of this Agreement have previously been made available to Acquiror. As of the date hereof, all such policies are in full force and effect, all premiums due have been paid, the Company is not in breach or default and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a breach a default under any such policy, and no notice of cancellation or termination has been received by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries with respect to any such policy. Except as disclosed on Section 4.17 of the Company Disclosure Letter, no insurer has denied or disputed coverage of any material claim under an insurance policy during the last twelve (12) months.

Section 4.18. Licenses.

(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries have obtained, and maintain, all of the material Licenses (including any FCC or NOAA Licenses) required to permit the Company and its Subsidiaries to acquire, originate, own, operate, use and maintain their assets in the manner in which they are now operated, used and maintained and to conduct the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted.

(b) Each material License (including any FCC or NOAA Licenses) held by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is in full force and effect is not subject to any condition except for those conditions appearing on the face of such License (if any), has not been revoked, suspended, canceled, rescinded or terminated and has not expired.

 

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(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is in default or violation (and no event has occurred which, with notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute a material default or violation) in any material respect of any term, condition or provision of any material License to which it is a party (including all FCC or NOAA Licenses); (ii) is or has been the subject of any pending or threatened Action by a Governmental Authority seeking the revocation, suspension, cancellation, rescission, termination, modification, or impairment of any material License (including all FCC or NOAA Licenses); or (iii) has received any notice that any Governmental Authority that has issued any material License intends to cancel, suspend, rescind terminate, or not renew any such material License (including all FCC or NOAA Licenses), except to the extent such material License may be amended, replaced, or reissued as a result of and as necessary to reflect the transactions contemplated hereby, or as otherwise disclosed in Section 4.4 of the Company Disclosure Letter, provided such amendment, replacement, or reissuance does not materially adversely affect the continuous conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted from and after Closing. Section 4.18 of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list of material Licenses held by the Company or its Subsidiaries.

(d) Without limiting the foregoing, as of the date of this Agreement there is no order to show cause, notice of violation, notice of apparent liability, or notice of forfeiture or complaint pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company, its Subsidiaries or the FCC or NOAA Licenses by or before the FCC or NOAA. The Company, its Subsidiaries and the FCC or NOAA Licenses have been operating and are operating in compliance in all material respects with the FCC or NOAA Licenses, the Communications Act of 1934 (as amended), the National and Commercial Space Programs Act, and the applicable rules, regulations and policies of the FCC or NOAA. All reports and filings required to be filed with the FCC or NOAA with respect to the Company, its Subsidiaries or the FCC or NOAA Licenses have been timely filed, and all such reports and filings are accurate and complete in all respects, in each case, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(e) To the Company’s knowledge, there is no circumstance which would reasonably likely lead to any material License (including any FCC or NOAA License) (i) not remaining in full force and effect; (ii) not being renewed or extended; or (iii) being subject to a condition or requirement which it is required to comply with which it does not reasonably expect to satisfy, except where this would not, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(f) No proceedings are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened in writing which are reasonably likely to result in the loss, revocation, modification, non-renewal, suspension or termination of any material License (including any FCC or NOAA Licenses), except where this would not, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 4.19. Equipment and Other Tangible Property. The Company or one of its Subsidiaries owns and has good title to, and has the legal and beneficial ownership of or a valid leasehold interest in or right to use by license or otherwise, all material machinery, equipment and other tangible property reflected on the books of the Company and its Subsidiaries as owned by

 

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the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens. All material personal property and leased personal property assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries are structurally sound and in good operating condition and repair (ordinary wear and tear expected) and are suitable for their present use.

Section 4.20. Real Property.

(a) Section 4.20(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list as of the date of this Agreement of all Leased Real Property, including the address thereof, and all Real Property Leases (as hereinafter defined) pertaining to such Leased Real Property. With respect to each parcel of Leased Real Property:

(i) The Company or one of its Subsidiaries holds a good and valid leasehold estate in such Leased Real Property, free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens.

(ii) The Company and its Subsidiaries have delivered to Acquiror true, correct and complete copies of all leases, lease guaranties, subleases, agreements for the leasing, use or occupancy of, or otherwise granting a right in and to the Leased Real Property by or to the Company and its Subsidiaries, including all amendments, terminations and modifications thereof (collectively, the “Real Property Leases”), and none of such Real Property Leases have been modified in any material respect, except to the extent that such modifications have been disclosed by the copies delivered to Acquiror.

(iii) The Company and its Subsidiaries’, as applicable, possession and quiet enjoyment of the Leased Real Property under such Real Property Leases has not been materially disturbed and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no material disputes with respect to such Real Property Leases.

(iv) No party, other than the Company or its Subsidiaries, has any right to use or occupy the Leased Real Property or any portion thereof.

(v) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received written notice of any current condemnation proceeding or proposed similar Action or agreement for taking in lieu of condemnation with respect to any portion of the Leased Real Property, and to the Company’s knowledge no such proceeding or similar Action has been threatened.

(b) None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owns any real property or has owned any real property in the last three (3) years.

Section 4.21. Intellectual Property.

(a) Section 4.21(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list of each item of Company Intellectual Property that is registered and applied-for with a Governmental Authority by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement including, for each applicable item listed, the applicable jurisdiction, title, application, registration or serial number (“Company Registered Intellectual Property”). The

 

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Company or one of the Company’s Subsidiaries is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to all Company Registered Intellectual Property, and all Company Registered Intellectual Property (excluding any pending applications included in the Company Registered Intellectual Property) is subsisting and, to the knowledge of the Company (excluding any pending applications included in the Company Registered Intellectual Property) valid and enforceable. All material Company Registered Intellectual Property has been maintained effective by the filing of all necessary filings, registrations, maintenance and renewals and timely payment of requisite fees.

(b) The Company or one of its Subsidiaries solely and exclusively owns all right, title, and interest in and to all Company IP free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and has a valid license or sublicense to use all other material Intellectual Property and IT Systems used in or necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries in substantially the same manner as such business is currently operated, and none of the foregoing will be materially adversely impacted by (nor will require the payment or grant of additional amounts or consideration as a result of) the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; provided that the foregoing shall not be deemed a representation or warranty of non-infringement of third-party Intellectual Property. None of the material Company IP is subject to any pending or outstanding Governmental Order, settlement, consent order or other disposition of dispute that materially restricts the use, transfer, or registration of, or adversely affects the validity or enforceability of, any material Company IP.

(c) As of the date of this Agreement, there is not, and within the six (6) years preceding the date of this Agreement there has not been, any Action pending against the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Company, that is threatened in writing (including unsolicited offers to license Patents) against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries either (A) alleging the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ infringement, misappropriation or other violation of any Intellectual Property of any third Person; or (B) challenging the ownership, use, patentability, validity, or enforceability of any Company IP. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, their products and services, nor the conduct of their businesses does or did infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person.

(d) Except as set forth on Section 4.21(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter: (i) to the knowledge of the Company, no Person is infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Company Intellectual Property; and (ii) the Company and its Subsidiaries have not sent to any Person within the six (6) years preceding the date of this Agreement any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion against any third Person claiming infringement or violation by or misappropriation of any Company Intellectual Property.

(e) The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable measures to maintain and protect the Company IP and to protect the secrecy and confidentiality of all material trade secrets and other material confidential information included in the Company Intellectual Property and all material trade secrets and other material confidential information of any third Person to whom the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries has a contractual confidentiality obligation with respect to such information. To the knowledge of the Company, there has not been any unauthorized disclosure of or unauthorized access to any material trade secrets or other material confidential information owned or held by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to or by any Person in a manner that has resulted or may result in the misappropriation of, or loss of any material trade secret or other material rights in and to such information.

 

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(f) All current and past employees and contractors of the Company who contribute or have contributed to the creation or development of any material Intellectual Property for or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the course of their employment or provision of services for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have executed written agreements pursuant to which such Persons have (i) assigned to the Company or its applicable Subsidiaries all of such Person’s rights, title, and interest in and to such Intellectual Property that did not vest automatically in the Company or its Subsidiary by operation of Law (and, in the case of contractors, to the extent such Intellectual Property was intended by the Company to be proprietary to the Company or its Subsidiary); and (ii) agreed to hold all confidential information of the Company and its Subsidiaries in confidence both during and after such Person’s employment or retention, as applicable. To the knowledge of the Company, no past or present director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries owns (or has any claim, or any right (whether or not currently exercisable) to any ownership interest, in or to) any material Company Intellectual Property.

(g) No government funding, nor any facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or similar institution, or research center, was used by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in the development of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries nor does any such Person have any ownership rights, title, or interest in or to any material Company Intellectual Property. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a member of or party to any patent pool, industry standards body, trade association, or other organization pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to grant any license, rights, or immunity in or to any Company Intellectual Property to any Person.

(h) The Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ use and distribution of (i) all Company Software; and (ii) Open Source Materials, is in compliance in all material respects with all Open Source Licenses applicable thereto. To the knowledge of the Company neither the Company nor any of the Subsidiaries of the Company has used any Open Source Materials in a manner that subjects any material Company Software to any requirements under any Copyleft Licenses to (i) be made available or distributed in source code form; (ii) be licensed for the purpose of preparing derivative works; (iii) be licensed under terms that allow the Company’s or any Subsidiary of the Company’s products or portions thereof or interfaces therefor to be reverse engineered, reverse assembled or disassembled (other than by operation of Law); or (iv) be redistributable at no license fee. To the Company’s knowledge, no Person other than the Company and its Subsidiaries possesses, nor has a right to possess, and no event has occurred, and no circumstance or condition exists, (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) that would give rise to the right to possess, a copy, in any form (print, electronic or otherwise), of any source code for any material Company Software and all such source code is in the sole possession of the Company and its Subsidiaries and has been maintained as strictly confidential (in each case, other than employees, service providers, contractors, and consultants of the Company and its Subsidiaries that have confidentiality obligations to the Company or its Subsidiaries (as applicable) with respect to such source code).

 

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(i) The Company IT Systems operate and perform as required for the conduct of the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries as presently conducted in all material respects. To the knowledge of the Company, the Company IT Systems and Company Software do not contain any “time bombs,” “Trojan horses,” “back doors,” “trap doors,” worms, viruses, spyware, keylogger Software, or other faults or malicious code or damaging devices that, in each case, if activated would reasonably be expected to be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or would enable or assist any Person to access without authorization any Company IT Systems.

Section 4.22. Privacy and Cybersecurity.

(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries maintain and are in compliance with, and during the three (3) years preceding the date of this Agreement have maintained and been in compliance with: (i) all applicable Laws relating to privacy, data security, and data protection; (ii) the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ internal or external privacy policies; and (iii) the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ contractual obligations concerning privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, data security and the security of the Company’s and each of its Subsidiaries’ information technology systems, in each case of clauses (i)(iii) above, other than any non-compliance that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. There are no Legal Proceedings by any Person (including any Governmental Authority) pending to which the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries is a named party or, threatened in writing against the Company or its Subsidiaries alleging a material violation of any applicable Law relating to privacy, data security, and data protection.

(b) Except as set forth on Section 4.22(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, during the two (2) years preceding the date of this Agreement, to the knowledge of the Company: (i) there have been no unauthorized intrusions nor breaches of the security of the Company IT Systems; and (ii) there have been no disruptions in any of the Company IT Systems, including any failures, breakdowns, data loss, or outages, in the case of either of clauses (i) or (ii) that resulted in a Company Material Adverse Effect. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable security measures designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Company IT Systems, Company products, personal information and sensitive business information in its possession, custody, or control, against unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or other misuse, including through administrative, technical and physical safeguards, such as backup, anti-virus, security and disaster recovery technology, policies and procedures consistent with applicable legal and regulatory standards and customary industry practices.

(c) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company has received any written notice or complaint of any claims, investigation or inquiries from any Person, or provided any notice to any Person, with respect to any material violation of their privacy, data security, and data protection practices or obligations, or any information security-related incidents, nor to the knowledge of the Company, has any such notice or complaint been threatened in writing against the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries.

 

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Section 4.23. Environmental Matters.

(a) The Company, its Subsidiaries, and each property or facility at any time owned, leased, or operated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, are and, except for matters which have been fully resolved, have been in material compliance with all Environmental Laws.

(b) The Company and its Subsidiaries have obtained, hold, are, and have been, in material compliance with all permits required under Environmental Laws to permit each of the Company and its Subsidiaries to operate their assets and to conduct their business except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect.

(c) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any other Person has released, manufactured, handled, stored, generated, treated, transported, discharged, emitted, or disposed any Hazardous Material (i) at, in, on or under any Leased Real Property; (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, at, in, on, to, from, or under any property or facility formerly owned, leased or operated by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries during the time that the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries owned, operated or leased such property or facility; or (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, at, in, on, to, from or under any other location in each case in a manner that would be reasonably likely to give rise to any liability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, that would, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(d) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries are subject to any current Governmental Order relating to any material non-compliance with Environmental Laws by the Company or its Subsidiaries or the investigation, sampling, monitoring, treatment, remediation, removal or cleanup of Hazardous Materials.

(e) No material Legal Proceeding is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ compliance with or liability under Environmental Laws, and, to the knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances which could reasonably be expected to form the basis of such a Legal Proceeding.

(f) The Company has made available to Acquiror all material environmental reports, assessments, audits and inspections and any material communications or notices from or to any Governmental Authority concerning any material non-compliance of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries with, or liability of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries under, Environmental Law.

Section 4.24. Absence of Changes. From the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the Financial Statements to the date of this Agreement, there has not been any Company Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.25. Anti-Corruption Compliance; Anti-Money Laundering.

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or official thereof, or any candidate for political office; or (ii) any other Person, in any such case while knowing that all or a portion of such money or thing of value will be offered, given or promised, directly or indirectly, to any official or employee of a Governmental Authority or candidate for political office, in each case in violation of the Anti-Bribery Laws.

(b) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has instituted and maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance in all material respects with the Anti-Bribery Laws.

(c) To the knowledge of the Company, as of the date of this Agreement, there are no current or pending internal investigations, third party investigations (including by any Governmental Authority), or internal or external audits that address any material allegations or information concerning possible material violations of the Anti-Bribery Laws related to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries.

(d) To the knowledge of the Company, as of the date of this Agreement, there are no current or pending internal investigations, third-party investigations (including by any Governmental Authority) or internal or external audits that address any allegations or information concerning possible violations of Anti-Money Laundering Laws related to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in any material respect. During the past five (5) years, the Company and its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any directors, officers, and agents acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have been in compliance with all relevant Anti-Money Laundering Laws in all material respects.

Section 4.26. Sanctions and International Trade Compliance.

(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries (i) are, and have been for the past five (5) years, in compliance in all material respects with all International Trade Laws and Sanctions Laws; and (ii) have obtained all required Licenses, consents, notices, waivers, approvals, orders, registrations, declarations, or other authorizations from, and have made any material filings with, any applicable Governmental Authority for the import, export, re-export, deemed export, deemed re-export, or transfer required under the International Trade Laws and Sanctions Laws (the “Export Approvals”). The Company and its Subsidiaries will by the Closing have instituted and maintained policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure compliance with International Trade Laws and Sanctions Laws. There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, claims, complaints, charges, investigations, voluntary disclosures or Legal Proceedings against the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries related to any International Trade Laws or Sanctions Laws or any Export Approvals.

(b) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective directors or officers, or to the knowledge of the Company, employees or any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ respective agents, representatives or other Persons acting on behalf of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; (i) is, or has during the past five (5) years, been a Sanctioned Person; (ii) has been located, organized, or resident in a Sanctioned Country; or (iii) has transacted business directly or knowingly indirectly with any Sanctioned Person or in any Sanctioned Country in violation of applicable Sanctions Laws.

 

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Section 4.27. Information Supplied. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries specifically in writing for inclusion in the Registration Statement will, at the date on which the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement is first mailed to the Acquiror Stockholders or at the time of the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

Section 4.28. Customers and Suppliers.

(a) Section 4.28(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth, as of the date of this Agreement, the top ten (10) customers, the top ten (10) suppliers, service providers or manufacturers and the top ten (10) channel partners, in each case, based on the aggregate Dollar value of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ transaction volume with such counterparty during the twelve-month period ending January 31, 2021 (each group of Persons, respectively, the “Top Customers,” “Top Suppliers” and “Top Channel Partners”).

(b) Except as set forth on Section 4.28(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, none of the Top Customers, Top Suppliers or Top Channel Partners has, as of the date of this Agreement, notified the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in writing, or to the Company’s knowledge, verbally: (i) that it will, or, to the knowledge of the Company, has threatened to, terminate, cancel, exercise any contractual right of non-renewal, materially limit or materially alter and adversely modify any of its existing business with the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (other than due to the expiration of an existing contractual arrangement); or (ii) that it is in a material dispute with the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective businesses.

Section 4.29. Government Contracts. Other than as set forth on Section 4.29 of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company is not party to: (i) any Contract, including an individual task order, delivery order, purchase order, basic ordering agreement, letter Contract or blanket purchase agreement between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on one hand, and any Governmental Authority, on the other hand; or (ii) any subcontract or other Contract by which the Company or one of its Subsidiaries has agreed to provide goods or services through a prime contractor directly to a Governmental Authority that is expressly identified in such subcontract or other Contract as the ultimate consumer of such goods or services, in each case, in excess of $1,000,000.

Section 4.30. Sufficiency of Assets. Except as would not be expected to be material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the tangible and intangible assets owned, licensed or leased by the Company and its Subsidiaries constitute all of the assets reasonably necessary for the continued conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries after the Closing in the ordinary course.

Section 4.31. Related Party Transactions. Except as set forth on Section 4.31 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no material transactions or Contracts between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and any Affiliate of the Company, present officer or director of the Company, beneficial owner (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange

 

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Act) of Company Capital Stock constituting, as of the date of this Agreement, more than 5% of the total number of Company Capital Stock on a fully diluted basis, calculated as of the date of this Agreement (each of the foregoing, a “Company Related Party”), on the other hand, except, in each case, for (a) Contracts and arrangements related or incidental to any Company Related Party’s employment or retention as a director or other service provider by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including compensation, benefits and advancement or reimbursement of expenses), (b) loans to employees or other service providers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with applicable Company policies and arrangements related or incidental thereto and (c) Contracts relating to a Company Related Party’s status as a holder of Company Capital Stock of the Company.

Section 4.32. No Outside Reliance. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, the Company, and any of its directors, managers, officers, employees, equityholders, partners, members or representatives, acknowledge and agree that the Company has made its own investigation of Acquiror and Merger Sub and that neither Acquiror nor any of its Affiliates, agents or representatives is making any representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, beyond those expressly given by Acquiror or Merger Sub in Article V, including any implied warranty or representation as to condition, merchantability, suitability or fitness for a particular purpose or trade as to any of the assets of Acquiror or the Merger Sub. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, the Company understands and agrees that any assets, properties and business of the Acquiror and the Merger Sub are furnished “as is,” “where is” and subject to and except as otherwise provided in the representations and warranties contained in Article V, with all faults and without any other representation or warranty of any nature whatsoever.

Section 4.33. No Additional Representation or Warranties. Except as provided in this Article IV, neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates, nor any of their respective directors, managers, officers, employees, equityholders, partners, members or representatives has made, or is making, any representation or warranty whatsoever to Acquiror or Merger Subs or their Affiliates and no such party shall be liable in respect of the accuracy or completeness of any information provided to Acquiror or Merger Subs or their Affiliates.

ARTICLE V

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF ACQUIROR AND MERGER SUBS

Except as set forth in (i) in the case of Acquiror, any Acquiror SEC Filings filed or submitted on or prior to the date hereof (excluding (A) any disclosures in any risk factors section that do not constitute statements of fact, disclosures in any forward-looking statements disclaimer and other disclosures that are generally cautionary, predictive or forward-looking in nature and (B) any exhibits or other documents appended thereto) (it being acknowledged that nothing disclosed in such Acquiror SEC Filings will be deemed to modify or qualify the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.8, Section 5.12 and Section 5.15); or (ii) in the case of Acquiror and Merger Subs, in the disclosure letter delivered by Acquiror and Merger Subs to the Company (the “Acquiror Disclosure Letter”) on the date of this Agreement (each section of which, subject to Section 11.9, qualifies the correspondingly numbered and lettered representations in this Article V), Acquiror and Merger Sub represent and warrant to the Company as follows:

 

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Section 5.1. Company Organization. Each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub has been duly incorporated, organized or formed and is validly existing as a corporation or company in good standing under the Laws of the state of Delaware, and has the requisite corporate or company power and authority to own, lease or operate all of its properties and assets and to conduct its business as it is now being conducted. The copies of Acquiror’s Governing Documents and the Governing Documents of Merger Subs, in each case, as amended to the date of this Agreement, previously delivered by Acquiror to the Company, are true, correct and complete. Merger Subs have no assets or operations other than those required to effect the transactions contemplated hereby. All of the equity interests of Merger Subs are held directly by Acquiror. Each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub is duly licensed or qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation or company in all jurisdictions in which its ownership of property or the character of its activities is such as to require it to be so licensed or qualified, except where failure to be so licensed or qualified would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, be material to Acquiror.

Section 5.2. Due Authorization.

(a) Each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub has all requisite corporate and company power and authority, as applicable, to (i) execute and deliver this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby; and (ii) consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and perform all obligations to be performed by it hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been (i) duly and validly authorized and approved by the Board of Directors of Acquiror and by Acquiror as the sole shareholder or sole member, as applicable, of First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub; and (ii) determined by the Board of Directors of Acquiror as advisable to Acquiror and the Acquiror Stockholders and recommended for approval by the Acquiror Stockholders. No other company proceeding on the part of Acquiror or Merger Subs is necessary to authorize this Agreement and the documents contemplated hereby (other than the Acquiror Stockholder Approval). This Agreement has been, and at or prior to the Closing, the other documents contemplated hereby will be, duly and validly executed and delivered by each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, and this Agreement constitutes, and at or prior to the Closing, the other documents contemplated hereby will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, enforceable against Acquiror and Merger Subs in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity.

(b) Assuming that a quorum (as determined pursuant to Acquiror’s Governing Documents) is present:

(i) The Transaction Proposal identified in clause (A) of Section 8.2(b) shall require approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of (i) at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock, and (ii) at least a majority of the outstanding Acquiror Common Stock entitled to vote thereon, voting as a single class, at a stockholders’ meeting duly called by the Board of Directors of Acquiror and held for such purpose; and

 

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(ii) each of those Transaction Proposals identified in clauses (B), (C)(D), and if necessary, (G), of Section 8.2(b), in each case, shall require approval by an affirmative vote of at least a majority of the outstanding Acquiror Common Shares, entitled to vote, who attend and vote thereupon (as determined in accordance with Acquiror’s Governing Documents) at a stockholders’ meeting duly called by the Board of Directors of Acquiror and held for such purpose;

in the case of each of (i) and (ii), as determined in accordance with the Acquiror’s Governing Documents, the DGCL and the rules of the NYSE, as applicable.

(c) Other than, if necessary, votes on those Transaction Proposals identified in clauses (E) and (F) of Section 8.2(b), the foregoing votes are the only votes of any of Acquiror’s share capital necessary in connection with entry into this Agreement by Acquiror and Merger Subs and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Closing.

(d) At a meeting duly called and held, the Board of Directors of Acquiror has unanimously approved the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as a Business Combination.

Section 5.3. No Conflict. Subject to the Acquiror Stockholder Approval, the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Acquiror and Merger Subs and the other documents contemplated hereby by Acquiror and Merger Subs and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) violate or conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of or default under the Governing Documents of Acquiror or Merger Subs; (ii) violate or conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of, or default under any applicable Law or Governmental Order applicable to Acquiror or Merger Subs; (iii) violate or conflict with any provision of, or result in the breach of, result in the loss of any right or benefit, or cause acceleration, or constitute (with or without due notice or lapse of time or both) a default (or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation or acceleration) under any Contract to which Acquiror or Merger Subs are a party or by which Acquiror or Merger Subs may be bound, or terminate or result in the termination of any such Contract; or (iv) result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of Acquiror or Merger Subs, except, in the case of clauses (ii) through (iv), to the extent that the occurrence of the foregoing would not (A) have, or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the ability of Acquiror or Merger Subs to enter into and perform their obligations under this Agreement; or (B) be material to Acquiror.

Section 5.4. Litigation and Proceedings. There are no pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, threatened Legal Proceedings against Acquiror or Merger Subs, their respective properties or assets, or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, any of their respective directors, managers, officers or employees (in their capacity as such). There are no investigations or other inquiries pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, threatened by any Governmental Authority, against Acquiror or Merger Subs, their respective properties or assets, or, to the knowledge of Acquiror,

 

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any of their respective directors, managers, officers or employees (in their capacity as such). There is no outstanding Governmental Order imposed upon Acquiror or Merger Subs, nor are any assets of Acquiror’s or each Merger Sub’s respective businesses bound or subject to any Governmental Order the violation of which would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be material to Acquiror. As of the date hereof, each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub is in compliance with all applicable Laws in all material respects. For the past three (3) years, Acquiror and Merger Subs have not received any written notice of or been charged with the violation of any Laws, except where such violation has not been, individually or in the aggregate, material to Acquiror.

Section 5.5. SEC Filings. Acquiror has timely filed or furnished all statements, prospectuses, registration statements, forms, reports and documents required to be filed by it with the SEC since March 9, 2021, pursuant to the Exchange Act or the Securities Act (collectively, as they have been amended since the time of their filing through the date hereof, the “Acquiror SEC Filings”). Each of the Acquiror SEC Filings, as of the respective date of its filing, and as of the date of any amendment, complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder applicable to the Acquiror SEC Filings. As of the respective date of its filing (or if amended or superseded by a filing prior to the date of this Agreement or the Closing Date, then on the date of such filing), the Acquiror SEC Filings did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. As of the date hereof, there are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters received from the SEC with respect to the Acquiror SEC Filings. To the knowledge of Acquiror, none of the Acquiror SEC Filings filed on or prior to the date hereof is subject to ongoing SEC review or investigation as of the date of this Agreement (including in connection with the Warrant Accounting Issue). To resolve the Warrant Accounting Issue, Acquiror’s Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021 filed on June 4, 2021 with the SEC classified Acquiror Warrants as derivative liabilities measured at fair value on the Acquiror Financial Statements (the “Warrant Liabilities”).

Section 5.6. Internal Controls; Listing; Financial Statements.

(a) Except as not required in reliance on exemptions from various reporting requirements by virtue of Acquiror’s status as an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”), Acquiror has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act). Such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to Acquiror, including its consolidated Subsidiaries, if any, is made known to Acquiror’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared. Such disclosure controls and procedures are effective in timely alerting Acquiror’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer to material information required to be included in Acquiror’s periodic reports required under the Exchange Act. Since March 9, 2021, Acquiror has established and maintained a system of internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of Acquiror’s financial reporting and the preparation of Acquiror Financial Statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP.

 

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(b) As of the date of this Agreement, each director and executive officer of Acquiror has filed with the SEC on a timely basis all statements required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

(c) Since March 31, 2021, Acquiror has complied in all material respects with the applicable listing and corporate governance rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”). The Acquiror Class A Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed for trading on the NYSE. There is no Legal Proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, threatened against Acquiror by the NYSE or the SEC with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the Acquiror Class A Common Stock or prohibit or terminate the listing of Acquiror Class A Common Stock on the NYSE.

(d) The Acquiror SEC Filings contain a true and complete copy of the unaudited condensed balance sheet as of March 31, 2021, condensed statement of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2021, and condensed statement of operations, and changes in stockholders’ equity of Acquiror for the three months ended March 31, 2021, together with the auditor’s reports therein (together with any additional financial statements of Acquiror included in the Acquiror SEC Filings filed on or following the date of this Agreement, the “Acquiror Financial Statements”). Except as disclosed in the Acquiror SEC Filings, the Acquiror Financial Statements: (i) fairly present in all material respects the financial position of Acquiror, as at the respective dates thereof, and the results of operations and consolidated cash flows for the respective periods then ended; (ii) were prepared in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated therein or in the notes thereto); and (iii) comply in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements and with the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Exchange Act and the Securities Act in effect as of the respective dates thereof. The books and records of Acquiror have been, and are being, maintained in all material respects in accordance with GAAP and any other applicable legal and accounting requirements.

(e) There are no outstanding loans or other extensions of credit made by Acquiror to any executive officer (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Exchange Act) or director of Acquiror. Acquiror has not taken any action prohibited by Section 402 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

(f) Neither Acquiror (including any employee thereof) nor Acquiror’s independent auditors has identified or been made aware of (i) any significant deficiency or material weakness in the system of internal accounting controls utilized by Acquiror; (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves Acquiror’s management or other employees who have a role in the preparation of financial statements or the internal accounting controls utilized by Acquiror; or (iii) any claim or allegation regarding any of the foregoing.

Section 5.7. Governmental Authorities; Consents. Assuming the truth and completeness of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement, no consent, waiver, approval or authorization of, or designation, declaration or filing with, or notification to, any Governmental Authority or other Person is required on the part of Acquiror or Merger Subs with respect to Acquiror’s or any Merger Sub’s execution or delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, except for (i) applicable requirements of the HSR Act; and (ii) consent of the FCC and NOAA as contemplated by Section 8.1.

 

 

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Section 5.8. Trust Account. As of the date of this Agreement, Acquiror has at least $345,000,000.00 in the Trust Account (including, if applicable, an aggregate of approximately $12,075,000.00 of deferred underwriting commissions and other fees being held in the Trust Account), such monies invested in United States government securities or money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act pursuant to the Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021, between Acquiror and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (the “Trust Agreement”). There are no separate Contracts, side letters or other arrangements or understandings (whether written or unwritten, express or implied) that would cause the description of the Trust Agreement in the Acquiror SEC Filings to be inaccurate or that would entitle any Person (other than stockholders of Acquiror holding Acquiror Common Shares sold in Acquiror’s initial public offering who shall have elected to redeem their shares of Acquiror Common Stock pursuant to Acquiror’s Governing Documents and the underwriters of Acquiror’s initial public offering with respect to deferred underwriting commissions) to any portion of the proceeds in the Trust Account. Prior to the Closing, none of the funds held in the Trust Account may be released other than to pay Taxes and payments with respect to all Acquiror Share Redemptions. There are no claims or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, threatened with respect to the Trust Account. Acquiror has performed all material obligations required to be performed by it to date under, and is not in default, breach or delinquent in performance or any other respect (claimed or actual) in connection with, the Trust Agreement, and no event has occurred which, with due notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default or breach thereunder. As of the Effective Time, the obligations of Acquiror to dissolve or liquidate pursuant to Acquiror’s Governing Documents shall terminate, and as of the Effective Time, Acquiror shall have no obligation whatsoever pursuant to Acquiror’s Governing Documents to dissolve and liquidate the assets of Acquiror by reason of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. To Acquiror’s knowledge, as of the date of this Agreement, following the Effective Time, no Acquiror Stockholder shall be entitled to receive any amount from the Trust Account except to the extent such Acquiror Stockholder is exercising an Acquiror Share Redemption. As of the date hereof, assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and the compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder, neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub have any reason to believe that any of the conditions to the use of funds in the Trust Account will not be satisfied or funds available in the Trust Account will not be available to Acquiror and Merger Subs on the Closing Date.

Section 5.9. Investment Company Act; JOBS Act. Acquiror is not an “investment company” or a Person directly or indirectly “controlled” by or acting on behalf of an “investment company,” in each case within the meaning of the Investment Company Act. Acquiror constitutes an “emerging growth company” within the meaning of the JOBS Act.

Section 5.10. Absence of Changes. Since March 4, 2021, there has not been any Event or occurrence that has had, or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the ability of Acquiror or Merger Subs to enter into and perform their obligations under this Agreement.

 

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Section 5.11. No Undisclosed Liabilities. Except for any fees and expenses payable by Acquiror or Merger Subs as a result of or in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, there is no liability, debt or obligation of or claim or judgment against Acquiror or Merger Subs (whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, known or unknown, liquidated or unliquidated, or due or to become due), except for liabilities and obligations (i) reflected or reserved for on the financial statements or disclosed in the notes thereto included in Acquiror SEC Filings; (ii) that have arisen since the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the Acquiror SEC Filings in the ordinary course of business of Acquiror and Merger Subs; or (iii) which would not be, or would not reasonably be expected to be, material to Acquiror.

Section 5.12. Capitalization of Acquiror.

(a) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized share capital of Acquiror is $401,000,000 divided into (i) 380,000,000 shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock, 34,500,000 of which are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement; (ii) 20,000,000 shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock, of which 8,625,000 shares are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement; and (iii) 1,000,000 preference shares of par value $0.0001 each, of which no shares are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement ((i), (ii) and (iii) collectively, the “Acquiror Securities”). The foregoing represents all of the issued and outstanding Acquiror Securities as of the date of this Agreement. All issued and outstanding Acquiror Securities (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; (ii) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable Law, including federal and state securities Laws, and all requirements set forth in (A) Acquiror’s Governing Documents, and (B) any other applicable Contracts governing the issuance of such securities; and (iii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable Law, Acquiror’s Governing Documents or any Contract to which Acquiror is a party or otherwise bound.

(b) Subject to the terms of conditions of the Warrant Agreement, the Acquiror Warrants will be exercisable after giving effect to the Mergers for one share of Acquiror Common Stock at an exercise price of eleven Dollars fifty cents ($11.50) per share. As of the date of this Agreement, 6,900,000 Acquiror Common Warrants and 5,933,333 Acquiror Private Placement Warrants are issued and outstanding. The Acquiror Warrants are not exercisable until the later of (i) March 9, 2022; and (ii) thirty (30) days after the Closing. All outstanding Acquiror Warrants (i) have been duly authorized and validly issued and constitute valid and binding obligations of Acquiror, enforceable against Acquiror in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general principles of equity; (ii) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable Law, including federal and state securities Laws, and all requirements set forth in (A) Acquiror’s Governing Documents and (B) any other applicable Contracts governing the issuance of such securities; and (iii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable Law, Acquiror’s Governing Documents or any Contract to which Acquiror is a party or otherwise bound. Except for the Subscription Agreements, Acquiror’s Governing Documents and this Agreement, there are no outstanding Contracts of Acquiror to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any Acquiror Securities.

 

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(c) Except as set forth in this Section 5.12 or as contemplated by this Agreement or the other documents contemplated hereby, and other than in connection with the PIPE Investment, Acquiror has not granted any outstanding options, stock appreciation rights, warrants, rights or other securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Acquiror Securities, or any other commitments or agreements providing for the issuance of additional shares, the sale of treasury shares, for the repurchase or redemption of any Acquiror Securities or the value of which is determined by reference to the Acquiror Securities, and there are no Contracts of any kind which may obligate Acquiror to issue, purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any of its Acquiror Securities.

(d) The Aggregate Merger Consideration, the Contingent Consideration and the Acquiror Common Shares, when issued in accordance with the terms hereof, shall be duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and issued in compliance with all applicable state and federal securities Laws and not subject to, and not issued in violation of, any Lien, purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of applicable Law, Acquiror’s Governing Documents, or any Contract to which Acquiror is a party or otherwise bound.

(e) On or prior to the date of this Agreement, Acquiror has entered into Subscription Agreements, in the form attached to Section 5.12(e) of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, with PIPE Investors, true and correct copies of which have been provided to the Company prior to the date of this Agreement, pursuant to which, and on the terms and subject to the conditions of which, such PIPE Investors have agreed, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, to purchase from Acquiror, shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock for a PIPE Investment Amount of $200,000,000 (such amount, the “Minimum PIPE Investment Amount”), $7,000,000 of which is in respect of such shares to be so purchased by one or more PIPE Investors set forth on Annex I to Section 5.12(e) of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter. On or prior to the date of this Agreement, Acquiror has identified to the Company each of the PIPE Investors (or has caused the identification of each such PIPE Investor to the Company) and, to the knowledge of Acquiror, the Company has not exercised its right to reasonably object to any such PIPE Investor as of the date of this Agreement. Such Subscription Agreements are in full force and effect with respect to, and binding on, Acquiror and, to the knowledge of Acquiror, on each PIPE Investor party thereto, in accordance with their terms.

(f) Acquiror has no Subsidiaries apart from Merger Subs, and does not own, directly or indirectly, any equity interests or other interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any Person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. Acquiror is not party to any Contract that obligates Acquiror to invest money in, loan money to or make any capital contribution to any other Person.

Section 5.13. Brokers Fees. Except fees described on Section 5.13 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, no broker, finder, investment banker or other Person is entitled to any brokerage fee, finders’ fee or other commission in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby based upon arrangements made by Acquiror or any of its Affiliates. True, correct and complete copies of all Contracts, agreements and arrangements (including engagement letters) between Acquiror and the parties set forth on Section 5.13 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter as in effect as of the date of this Agreement have previously been made available to the Company.

 

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Section 5.14. Indebtedness. Neither Acquiror nor Merger Subs has any Indebtedness other than the Warrant Liabilities.

Section 5.15. Taxes.

(a) All material Tax Returns required to be filed by Acquiror or Merger Subs have been timely filed (taking into account any applicable extensions), all such Tax Returns (taking into account all amendments thereto) are true, complete and accurate in all material respects. Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub is currently the beneficiary of any extension of time within which to file any material Tax Return other than extensions of time to file Tax Returns obtained in the ordinary course of business.

(b) All material Taxes due and payable (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) by Acquiror or Merger Subs have been timely paid in full to the appropriate taxing authorities on or prior to the Closing Date, other than Taxes being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP.

(c) Acquiror and Merger Subs have withheld from amounts owing to any employee, creditor or other Person all material Taxes required by Law to be withheld, paid over to the proper Governmental Authority in a timely manner all such withheld amounts required to have been so paid over and otherwise complied in all material respects with all applicable withholding and related reporting requirements with respect to such Taxes.

(d) There are no Liens for Taxes (other than Permitted Liens) upon the property or assets of Acquiror or Merger Subs.

(e) No claim, assessment, deficiency or proposed adjustment for any material amount of Tax has been asserted or assessed by any Governmental Authority against Acquiror or Merger Subs that remains unresolved or unpaid.

(f) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub is currently or has been the subject of an audit or other examination relating to Taxes by the taxing authorities of any nation, state or locality (and no such audit is pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, contemplated) nor has Acquiror nor any Merger Sub received any written notices from any taxing authority that such an audit or examination is pending.

(g) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub (i) has entered into a written agreement or waiver extending any statute of limitations relating to the payment or collection of Taxes of Acquiror or Merger Subs, as applicable, that has not expired; or (ii) is presently contesting the Tax liability of Acquiror or Merger Subs, as applicable, before any taxing authority or other Governmental Authority.

(h) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub has made a request for an advance tax ruling, request for technical advice, a request for a change of any method of accounting or any similar request that is in progress or pending with any Governmental Authority with respect to any material Taxes.

 

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(i) No written claim has been made by any Governmental Authority where Acquiror or Merger Subs do not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to taxation in that jurisdiction.

(j) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub is a party to any Tax indemnification or Tax sharing or similar agreement (other than any such agreement solely between Acquiror and/or Merger Subs and customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes).

(k) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub has been a party to any transaction treated by the parties as a distribution of stock qualifying for tax-deferred treatment under Section 355 of the Code.

(l) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub has been included in any “consolidated,” “unitary,” or “combined” Tax Return provided for under the Law of the United States, any non-U.S. jurisdiction or any state, province, prefect or locality with respect to Taxes for any taxable period for which the statute of limitations has not expired (other than a group of which Acquiror and Merger Subs are the only members).

(m) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub (i) is liable for Taxes of any other Person (other than Acquiror or Merger Subs) under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law or as a transferee or successor, or by Contract (other than customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes) or (ii) has ever been a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group filing for U.S. federal, state or local income Tax purposes, other than a group the common parent of which was or is Acquiror or Merger Subs.

(n) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub has participated in a “reportable transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b).

(o) Neither the Acquiror nor any Merger Sub will be required to include any material amount in taxable income, exclude any material item of deduction or loss from taxable income, or make any adjustment under Section 481 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) for any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any (i) installment sale, intercompany transaction described in the Treasury Regulations under Section 1502 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) or open transaction disposition by the Acquiror or Merger Subs made on or prior to the Closing; (ii) prepaid amount received or deferred revenue realized or received by the Acquiror or Merger Subs prior to the Closing; (iii) change in method of accounting of Acquiror or Merger Subs for a taxable period (or portion thereof) ending on or prior to the Closing Date made or required to be made prior to the Closing; (iv) “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) executed by the Acquiror or Merger Subs prior to the Closing; or (v) any inclusion under Section 965 of the Code.

 

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(p) Acquiror and Merger Subs have not taken any action, nor to the knowledge of Acquiror are there any facts or circumstances, that would reasonably be expected to prevent the Mergers from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment.

(q) Acquiror has been treated as a C corporation for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes since the date of its formation.

(r) Neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub has an office, permanent establishment, branch or other activities outside the jurisdiction of its incorporation.

(s) All material transactions entered into between or among Acquiror and any Merger Sub have been entered into on terms that would properly be considered arm’s length, consistent in all material respects with what would have been agreed to between unrelated third parties, and no material adjustment is required with respect to any such transactions pursuant to Section 482 of the Code or any similar provision of any state, local or foreign Law.

Section 5.16. Business Activities.

(a) Since formation, neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub have conducted any business activities other than activities related to Acquiror’s initial public offering or directed toward the accomplishment of a Business Combination. Except as set forth in Acquiror’s Governing Documents or as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, there is no agreement, commitment, or Governmental Order binding upon Acquiror or Merger Subs or to which Acquiror or Merger Subs are a party which has or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or impairing any business practice of Acquiror or Merger Subs or any acquisition of property by Acquiror or Merger Subs or the conduct of business by Acquiror or Merger Subs as currently conducted or as contemplated to be conducted as of the Closing, other than such effects, individually or in the aggregate, which have not been and would not reasonably be expected to be material to Acquiror or Merger Subs.

(b) Except for Merger Subs and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, Acquiror does not own or have a right to acquire, directly or indirectly, any interest or investment (whether equity or debt) in any corporation, partnership, joint venture, business, trust or other entity. Except for this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, Acquiror has no material interests, rights, obligations or liabilities with respect to, and is not party to, bound by or has its assets or property subject to, in each case whether directly or indirectly, any Contract or transaction which is, or would reasonably be interpreted as constituting, a Business Combination. Except for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, Merger Subs do not own or have a right to acquire, directly or indirectly, any interest or investment (whether equity or debt) in any corporation, partnership, joint venture, business, trust or other entity.

(c) First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub were formed solely for the purpose of effecting the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and have not engaged in any business activities or conducted any operations other than in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and have no, and at all times prior to the Effective Time, except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the other documents and transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, will have no, assets, liabilities or obligations of any kind or nature whatsoever other than those incident to their respective formations.

 

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(d) As of the date hereof and except for this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the other documents and transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including with respect to expenses and fees incurred in connection therewith), neither Acquiror nor Merger Subs are party to any Contract with any other Person that would require payments by Acquiror or any of its Subsidiaries after the date hereof in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate with respect to any individual Contract, other than Working Capital Loans. As of the date hereof, there are no amounts outstanding under any Working Capital Loans.

Section 5.17. NYSE Stock Market Quotation. The Acquiror Class A Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is listed for trading on the NYSE under the symbol “DMYQ.” The Acquiror Common Warrants are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and are listed for trading on the NYSE under the symbol “DMYQ WS.” As of the Closing, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (and by the other agreements contemplated hereby) to occur prior to the Closing, the Acquiror Common Stock and the Acquiror Warrants will be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and listed for trading on the NYSE. Acquiror is in compliance with the rules of the NYSE and there is no Action or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of Acquiror, threatened against Acquiror by the NYSE or the SEC with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the Acquiror Class A Common Stock or Acquiror Warrants or terminate the listing of Acquiror Class A Common Stock or Acquiror Warrants on the NYSE. None of Acquiror, Merger Subs or their respective Affiliates has taken any action in an attempt to terminate the registration of the Acquiror Class A Common Stock or Acquiror Warrants under the Exchange Act except as contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 5.18. Registration Statement, Proxy Statement and Proxy Statement/Registration Statement. On the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Registration Statement, and when first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and/or filed pursuant to Section 14A, the Proxy Statement and the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), shall comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. On the effective date of the Registration Statement, the Registration Statement will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading. On the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and/or Section 14A, the date the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement, as applicable, is first mailed to the Acquiror Stockholders and certain of the Company’s stockholders, as applicable, and at the time of the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting, the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement, as applicable (together with any amendments or supplements thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that Acquiror makes no representations or warranties as to the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement, Proxy Statement or the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to Acquiror by or on behalf of the Company specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement, Proxy Statement or the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement.

 

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Section 5.19. Other Businesses. As of the date of this Agreement, none of Acquiror, Acquiror’s Affiliates or either Merger Sub owns more than ten percent (10%) of the voting securities of or controls or operates any business engaged in, or that competes with, any of the lines of business in which the Company is engaged.

Section 5.20. No Outside Reliance. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, each of Acquiror, First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub, and any of their respective directors, managers, officers, employees, equityholders, partners, members or representatives, acknowledge and agree that Acquiror has made its own investigation of the Company and that neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates, agents or representatives is making any representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, beyond those expressly given by the Company in Article IV, including any implied warranty or representation as to condition, merchantability, suitability or fitness for a particular purpose or trade as to any of the assets of the Company or its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is understood that any cost estimates, financial or other projections or other predictions that may be contained or referred to in the Company Disclosure Letter or elsewhere, as well as any information, documents or other materials (including any such materials contained in any “data room” (whether or not accessed by Acquiror or its representatives) or reviewed by Acquiror pursuant to the Confidentiality Agreement) or management presentations that have been or shall hereafter be provided to Acquiror or any of its Affiliates, agents or representatives are not and will not be deemed to be representations or warranties of the Company, and no representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the foregoing except as may be expressly set forth in Article IV of this Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, Acquiror understands and agrees that any assets, properties and business of the Company and its Subsidiaries are furnished “as is,” “where is” and subject to and except as otherwise provided in the representations and warranties contained in Article IV, with all faults and without any other representation or warranty of any nature whatsoever.

Section 5.21. No Additional Representation or Warranties. Except as provided in this Article V, neither Acquiror nor any Merger Sub nor any their respective Affiliates, nor any of their respective directors, managers, officers, employees, stockholders, partners, members or representatives has made, or is making, any representation or warranty whatsoever to the Company or its Affiliates and no such party shall be liable in respect of the accuracy or completeness of any information provided to the Company or its Affiliates. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company acknowledges that the Company and its advisors, have made their own investigation of Acquiror, Merger Subs and their respective Subsidiaries and, except as provided in this Article V, are not relying on any representation or warranty whatsoever as to the condition, merchantability, suitability or fitness for a particular purpose or trade as to any of the assets of Acquiror, Merger Subs or any of their respective Subsidiaries, the prospects (financial or otherwise) or the viability or likelihood of success of the business of Acquiror, Merger Subs and their respective Subsidiaries as conducted after the Closing, as contained in any materials provided by Acquiror, Merger Subs or any of their Affiliates or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, shareholders, partners, members or representatives or otherwise.

 

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ARTICLE VI

COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

Section 6.1. Conduct of Business. From the date of this Agreement through the earlier of the Closing or valid termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article X (the “Interim Period”), the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, except as otherwise explicitly contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements or required by Law or as consented to by Acquiror in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied), use reasonable best efforts to operate the business of the Company in the ordinary course consistent with past practices. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as set forth on Section 6.1 of the Company Disclosure Letter or as consented to by Acquiror in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied) the Company shall not, and the Company shall cause its Subsidiaries not to, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements or required by Law:

(a) change or amend the Governing Documents of the Company (other than as contemplated by the Restated Company Certificate);

(b) make or declare any dividend or distribution to the stockholders of the Company or make any other distributions in respect of any of the Company Capital Stock or equity interests;

(c) split, combine, reclassify, recapitalize or otherwise amend any terms of any shares or series of the Company Capital Stock or equity interests in a manner that would increase the Aggregate Merger Consideration payable to the stockholders of the Company;

(d) purchase, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any issued and outstanding share capital, outstanding shares of capital stock, membership interests or other equity interests of the Company, except for (i) the acquisition by the Company of any shares of capital stock, membership interests or other equity interests of the Company or of any Company Options or Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards in connection with the repurchase, forfeiture or cancellation of such interests, Company Options, and Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards; (ii) the acquisition by the Company of shares of Company Common Stock in connection with the surrender of shares of Company Common Stock by holders of Company Options in order to pay the exercise price of the Company Options; and (iii) the withholding of shares of Company Common Stock to satisfy Tax obligations with respect to the Company Options and Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards;

(e) enter into, modify in any material respect or terminate (other than expiration in accordance with its terms) any Contract of a type required to be listed on Section 4.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, or any Real Property Lease or FCC or NOAA Licenses, in each case, other than in the ordinary course of business, as required by Law or as expressly permitted under this Section 6.1;

 

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(f) sell, assign, transfer, license, sublicense, convey, lease, covenant not to assert, pledge or otherwise encumber or subject to any Lien, abandon, cancel, let lapse, or otherwise dispose of any material tangible assets or properties of the Company or its Subsidiaries, except for (i) the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (ii) dispositions of obsolete or worthless equipment; (iii) transactions among the Company and its Subsidiaries or among its Subsidiaries; and (iv) transactions in the ordinary course of business;

(g) acquire any ownership interest in any real property;

(h) except as otherwise required by Law, existing Company Benefit Plans or the Contracts listed on Section 4.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (i) grant any severance, retention, change in control or termination or similar payment, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (ii) terminate, adopt, enter into or materially amend or grant any new non-equity-based awards under any Company Benefit Plan or any plan, policy, practice, program, agreement or other arrangement that would be deemed a Company Benefit Plan if in effect as of the date of this Agreement, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (iii) increase the cash compensation or bonus opportunity of any employee, officer, director or other individual service provider, except such increases to any such individuals who are not directors or officers of the Company or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (iv) take any action to amend or waive any performance or vesting criteria or to accelerate the time of payment or vesting of any compensation or benefit payable by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries; (v) hire or engage any new employee or individual independent contractor if such new employee or individual independent contractor will receive annual base compensation in excess of $350,000, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; or (vi) terminate the employment or engagement other than for cause, death or disability, of any employee with a title of senior vice president or above;

(i) acquire by merger or consolidation with, or merge or consolidate with, or purchase substantially all or a material portion of the assets of, any corporation, partnership, association, joint venture or other business organization or division thereof;

(j) incur, create, assume, refinance, guarantee or otherwise become liable for (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) any Indebtedness in excess of $20,000,000, other than in connection with borrowings, extensions of credit and other financial accommodations under the Company’s existing credit facilities, notes and other existing Indebtedness and, in each case, any refinancings thereof, provided, that, in no event shall any such borrowing, extension of credit or other financial accommodation be subject to any prepayment fee or penalty or similar arrangement or amend, restate or modify in a manner materially adverse to the Company any terms of or any agreement with respect to any such outstanding Indebtedness (when taken as a whole) other than with respect to the Company Note Conversion;

(k) (i) make, change or revoke any material election in respect of Taxes; (ii) amend, modify or otherwise change any filed Tax Return in a manner that is material to the Company or its Subsidiaries; (iii) adopt or request permission of any taxing authority to change any accounting method in respect of material Taxes; (iv) enter into any closing agreement in respect of material Taxes executed on or prior to the Closing Date or enter into any Tax sharing or similar agreement (other than customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes); (v) settle or compromise any claim or assessment in

 

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respect of material Taxes; (vi) surrender or allow to expire any right to claim a refund of material Taxes; (vii) file any Tax Return of the Company or its Subsidiaries in a manner that is inconsistent with the past practices of the Company; or (viii) consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of material Taxes or in respect to any material Tax attribute that would give rise to any claim or assessment of Taxes;

(l) take any action, or knowingly fail to take any action, where such action or failure to act would reasonably be expected to prevent the Mergers from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment;

(m) authorize for issuance, issue, sell, transfer, encumber, dispose or deliver any additional shares of Company Capital Stock or securities exercisable or exchangeable for or convertible into Company Capital Stock or grant any additional equity or equity-based compensation other than (i) upon the exercise or settlement of Company Options or Company Restricted Stock Unit Awards under the Company Incentive Plans and applicable award agreement outstanding on the date of this Agreement in accordance with their terms as in effect as of the date of this Agreement; (ii) as required to comply with any Company Benefit Plan as in effect on the date of this Agreement; (iii) upon the exercise of any Company Warrant and (iv) upon the Company Note Conversion;

(n) adopt a plan of, or otherwise enter into or effect a, complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization of the Company or its Subsidiaries (other than the Mergers);

(o) waive, release, settle, compromise or otherwise resolve any inquiry, investigation, claim, Action, litigation or other Legal Proceedings, except in the ordinary course of business or where such waivers, releases, settlements or compromises are covered by insurance or involve only the payment of monetary damages in an amount less than $1,000,000 in the aggregate;

(p) (A) sell, assign, transfer, license, sublicense, covenant not to assert, pledge, encumber, subject to a Lien (other than a Permitted Lien), or grant to, or agree to grant to, any Person rights in or to any Company IP that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, (other than non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses of Company IP granted in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice), or dispose of, cancel, abandon or permit to lapse any rights to any Company Intellectual Property that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, except for the expiration of Company Registered Intellectual Property in accordance with the applicable statutory term, or (B) subject any material Company IP to any Copyleft Licenses;

(q) disclose or agree to disclose to any Person (other than Acquiror or any of its representatives) any material trade secret or any other material confidential information of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and pursuant to confidentiality agreements containing obligations to maintain the confidentiality thereof;

 

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(r) make or commit to make capital expenditures other than in an amount not in excess of the amount set forth on Section 6.1(r) of the Company Disclosure Letter, in the aggregate;

(s) manage the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ working capital in a manner other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(t) enter into or extend any collective bargaining agreement or similar labor agreement, other than as required by applicable Law, or recognize or certify any labor union, labor organization, or group of employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries as the bargaining representative for any employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries;

(u) terminate without replacement or fail to use reasonable efforts to maintain any License material to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

(v) (i) limit the right of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to engage in any line of business or in any geographic area, to develop, market or sell products or services, or to compete with any Person; or (ii) grant any exclusive or similar rights to any Person, in each case, except where such limitation or grant does not, and would not be reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect, or materially disrupt the ordinary course operation of the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

(w) terminate without replacement or amend in a manner materially detrimental to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, any material insurance policy insuring the business of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;

(x) cease conducting, or enter into any new line of business outside of the business currently conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date of this Agreement;

(y) make any material change in financial accounting methods, principles or practices, except insofar as may have been required by a change in GAAP or applicable Law; or

(z) enter into any agreement to do any action prohibited under this Section 6.1.

Section 6.2. Inspection. Subject to confidentiality obligations that may be applicable to information furnished to the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries by third parties that may be in the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ possession from time to time, and except for any information that is subject to attorney-client privilege (provided that, to the extent possible, the parties shall cooperate in good faith to permit disclosure of such information in a manner that preserves such privilege or compliance with such confidentiality obligation), and to the extent permitted by applicable Law: (i) the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, afford to Acquiror and its accountants, counsel and other representatives reasonable access during the Interim Period (including for the purpose of coordinating transition planning for employees), during normal business hours and with reasonable advance notice, in such manner as to not materially interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, to all of their respective properties, books, Contracts, commitments, Tax Returns, records and appropriate officers and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, and shall furnish such

 

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representatives with all financial and operating data and other information concerning the affairs of the Company and its Subsidiaries as such representatives may reasonably request; provided, that such access shall not include any unreasonably invasive or intrusive investigations or other testing, sampling or analysis of any properties, facilities or equipment of the Company or its Subsidiaries without the prior written consent of the Company; and (ii) the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, provide to Acquiror and, if applicable, its accountants, counsel or other representatives: (A) such information and such other materials and resources relating to any Legal Proceeding initiated, pending or threatened during the Interim Period, or to the compliance and risk management operations and activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the Interim Period, in each case, as Acquiror or such representative may reasonably request; (B) prompt written notice of any material status updates in connection with any such Legal Proceedings or otherwise relating to any compliance and risk management matters or decisions of the Company or its Subsidiaries; and (C) copies of any communications sent or received by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with such Legal Proceedings, matters and decisions (and, if any such communications occurred orally, the Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, memorialize such communications in writing to Acquiror). All information obtained by Acquiror, Merger Subs or their respective representatives pursuant to this Section 6.2 shall be subject to the Confidentiality Agreement.

Section 6.3. Preparation and Delivery of Additional Company Financial Statements.

(a) As soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement, the Company shall deliver to Acquiror audited consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the years ended January 31, 2020 and January 31, 2021, together with the auditor’s reports thereon, which comply in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements and with the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Exchange Act and the Securities Act applicable to a registrant (collectively, the “PCAOB Financial Statements”); provided, that upon delivery of such PCAOB Financial Statements, such financial statements shall be deemed “Audited Financial Statements” for the purposes of this Agreement and the representation and warranties set forth in Section 4.8 shall be deemed to apply to such Audited Financial Statements with the same force and effect as if made as of the date of this Agreement.

(b) (i) If the Effective Time has not occurred prior to July 31, 2021, as soon as reasonably practicable following July 31, 2021, the Company shall deliver to Acquiror the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the three-month and six-month periods ending July 31, 2021 (the “Company Q2 Financial Statements”); and (ii) if the Effective Time has not occurred prior to October 31, 2021, as soon as reasonably practicable following October 31, 2021, the Company shall deliver to Acquiror the unaudited consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the three-month and nine-month periods ending October 31, 2021 (the “Company Q3 Financial Statements” and, together with the Company Q2 Financial Statements, the “Updated Company Financial Statements”), which comply with the applicable accounting requirements and with the rules and regulations of the SEC, the Exchange Act and the Securities Act applicable to a registrant; provided, that upon delivery of such Updated Company Financial Statements, the representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.8 shall be deemed to apply to the Updated Company Financial Statements with the same force and effect as if made as of the date of this Agreement.

 

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(c) Upon delivery of such financial statements referred to in this Section 6.3, such financial statements shall be deemed “Financial Statements” for the purposes of this Agreement and the representation and warranties set forth in Section 4.8 shall be deemed to apply to such Financial Statements with the same force and effect as if such financial statements were attached in Section 4.8(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter as of the date of this Agreement.

Section 6.4. Affiliate Agreements. All Affiliate Agreements set forth on Section 6.4 of the Company Disclosure Letter shall be terminated or settled at or prior to the Closing without further liability to Acquiror, the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, in each case, except as otherwise set forth on Section 6.4 of the Company Disclosure Letter.

Section 6.5. Acquisition Proposals. From the date hereof until the Closing Date or, if earlier, the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article X, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not, and the Company shall instruct and use its reasonable best efforts to cause its representatives, not to, directly or indirectly: (i) initiate, solicit or engage in any negotiations with any Person with respect to, or provide any non-public information or data concerning the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries to any Person relating to, an Acquisition Proposal or afford to any Person access to the business, properties, assets or personnel of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in connection with an Acquisition Proposal; (ii) execute or enter into any acquisition agreement, merger agreement or similar definitive agreement, or any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding or agreement in principle, or any other arrangement or agreement relating to an Acquisition Proposal; (iii) grant any waiver, amendment or release under any confidentiality agreement or the anti-takeover Laws of any state; (iv) otherwise knowingly encourage or facilitate any such inquiries, proposals, discussions, or negotiations or any effort or attempt by any Person to make an Acquisition Proposal; or (v) agree or otherwise commit to enter into or engage in any of the foregoing. The Company also agrees that immediately following the execution of this Agreement it shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their representatives to, cease any solicitations, discussions or negotiations with any Person (other than the parties and their respective representatives) conducted heretofore in connection with an Acquisition Proposal or any inquiry or request for information that could reasonably be expected to lead to, or result in, an Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall promptly (and in any event within two Business Days) notify, in writing, Acquiror of the receipt of any inquiry, proposal, offer or request for information received after the date hereof that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to result in or lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, which notice shall include a summary of the material terms of such inquiry, proposal, offer or request for information. The Company shall promptly (and in any event within twenty-four (24) hours) keep Acquiror reasonably informed of any material developments with respect to any such inquiry, proposal, offer, request for information or Acquisition Proposal (including any material changes thereto).

 

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ARTICLE VII

COVENANTS OF ACQUIROR

Section 7.1. Equity Plans.

(a) Prior to the Closing Date, Acquiror shall approve and adopt, subject to receipt of Acquiror Shareholder Approval: (i) an incentive equity plan (the “Incentive Equity Plan”); and (ii) an employee stock purchase plan (the “ESPP”), in each case, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Company in consultation with Acquiror and effective as of the Closing Date. The Incentive Equity Plan will provide for awards of Acquiror Common Stock with a total pool of shares equal to the sum of (i) 10% of the aggregate number of the sum of (x) shares of Acquiror Common Stock outstanding as of immediately after the Closing, (y) other securities outstanding as of immediately after the Closing convertible into Acquiror Common Stock and (z) a number of shares underlying the long-term performance incentive awards granted to the Company’s management team in connection with the Closing, plus (ii) an annual “evergreen” increase of 5% of the shares of Acquiror Common Stock outstanding as of the day prior to such increase, plus (iii) the maximum aggregate number of shares of Acquiror Common Stock that may be issued to holders of Company Awards pursuant to Section 3.3 hereof (the “Incentive Equity Plan Share Reserve”). The ESPP will provide for the grant of purchase rights with respect to Acquiror Common Stock with a total pool of shares equal to 2.5% of the aggregate number of the sum of (x) shares of Acquiror Common Stock outstanding as of immediately after the Closing and (y) other securities outstanding as of immediately after the Closing convertible into Acquiror Common Stock, with an annual “evergreen” increase of 1% of the shares of Acquiror Common Stock outstanding as of the day prior to such increase (the “ESPP Share Reserve”). The Incentive Equity Plan Share Reserve and the ESPP Share Reserve will be determined by the Company in consultation with Acquiror based upon benchmarking against peer companies and the recommendation of a compensation consultant engaged by the Company. Within two (2) Business Days following the expiration of the sixty (60) day period following the date Acquiror has filed current Form 10 information with the SEC reflecting its status as an entity that is not a shell company, Acquiror shall file an effective registration statement on Form S-8 (or other applicable form, including Form S-3) with respect to the Acquiror Common Stock issuable under the Incentive Equity Plan and the ESPP, and Acquiror shall use commercially reasonable best efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement(s) (and maintain the current status of the prospectus or prospectuses contained therein) for so long as awards granted pursuant to the Incentive Equity Plan and the ESPP remain outstanding.

(b) No Third-Party Beneficiaries. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of the parties to this Agreement acknowledges and agrees that all provisions contained in this Section 7.1 are included for the sole benefit of Acquiror and the Company, and that nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, (i) shall be construed to establish, amend, or modify any employee benefit plan, program, agreement or arrangement, (ii) shall limit the right of Acquiror, the Company or their respective Affiliates to amend, terminate or otherwise modify any Company Benefit Plan or other employee benefit plan, agreement or other arrangement following the Closing Date, or (iii) shall confer upon any Person who is not a party to this Agreement (including any equityholder, any current or former director, manager, officer, employee or independent contractor of the Company, or any participant in any Company Benefit Plan or other employee benefit plan, agreement or other arrangement (or any dependent or beneficiary thereof)), any right to continued or resumed employment or recall, any right to compensation or benefits, or any third-party beneficiary or other right of any kind or nature whatsoever.

 

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Section 7.2. Trust Account. Upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article IX and provision of notice thereof to the Trustee (which notice Acquiror shall provide to the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement): (i) in accordance with and pursuant to the Trust Agreement, at the Closing, Acquiror (A) shall cause any documents, opinions and notices required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement to be so delivered and (B) shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee to, and the Trustee shall thereupon be obligated to (1) pay as and when due all amounts payable to Acquiror Stockholders pursuant to the Acquiror Share Redemptions, and (2) pay all remaining amounts then available in the Trust Account to Acquiror for immediate use, subject to this Agreement and the Trust Agreement; and (ii) thereafter, the Trust Account shall terminate, except as otherwise provided therein.

Section 7.3. NYSE Listing. From the date hereof through the Effective Time, Acquiror shall ensure Acquiror remains listed as a public company on the NYSE, and shall prepare and submit to NYSE a listing application, if required under NYSE rules, covering the shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock issuable in the Mergers, including any shares of Acquiror Common Stock issuable upon the achievement of the Contingent Milestones, and shall obtain approval for the listing of such shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock and the Company shall reasonably cooperate with Acquiror with respect to such listing.

Section 7.4. No Solicitation by Acquiror. From the date hereof until the Closing Date or, if earlier, the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article X, Acquiror shall not, and shall cause its Subsidiaries not to, and Acquiror shall instruct its and their representatives, not to: (i) make any proposal or offer that constitutes a Business Combination Proposal; (ii) initiate or have any discussions or negotiations with any Person with respect to a Business Combination Proposal; or (iii) enter into any acquisition agreement, business combination, merger agreement or similar definitive agreement, or any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding or agreement in principle, or any other agreement relating to a Business Combination Proposal, in each case, other than to or with the Company and its respective representatives. From and after the date hereof, Acquiror shall, and shall instruct its officers and directors to, and Acquiror shall instruct and cause its representatives, its Subsidiaries and their respective representatives to, immediately cease and terminate all discussions and negotiations with any Persons that may be ongoing with respect to a Business Combination Proposal (other than the Company and its representatives).

Section 7.5. Acquiror Conduct of Business.

(a) During the Interim Period, Acquiror shall, and shall cause Merger Subs to, except as contemplated by this Agreement (including as contemplated by the PIPE Investment) or as consented to by the Company in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied), operate its business in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as consented to by the Company in writing (which consent shall not be unreasonably conditioned, withheld, delayed or denied),

 

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Acquiror shall not, and Acquiror shall cause Merger Subs not to, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement (including as contemplated by the PIPE Investment) or the Ancillary Agreements or as required by Law:

(i) seek any approval from the Acquiror Stockholders, to change, modify or amend the Trust Agreement or the Governing Documents of Acquiror or Merger Subs, except as contemplated by the Transaction Proposals;

(ii) (A) make or declare any dividend or distribution to the stockholders of Acquiror or make any other distributions in respect of any of Acquiror’s or First Merger Sub Capital Stock or Second Merger Sub Units, share capital or equity interests; (B) split, combine, reclassify or otherwise amend any terms of any shares or series of Acquiror’s or First Merger Sub Capital Stock or Second Merger Sub Units or equity interests; or (C) purchase, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any issued and outstanding share capital, outstanding shares of capital stock, share capital or membership interests, warrants or other equity interests of Acquiror or Merger Subs, other than redemption of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock made as part of the Acquiror Share Redemptions;

(iii) (A) make or change any material election in respect of Taxes; (B) amend, modify or otherwise change any filed Tax Return in a manner that is material to Acquiror and Merger Subs; (C) adopt or request permission of any taxing authority to change any accounting method in respect of material Taxes; (D) enter into any closing agreement in respect of material Taxes or enter into any Tax sharing or similar agreement (other than customary commercial Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business not primarily related to Taxes); (E) settle or compromise any claim or assessment in respect of material Taxes; (F) surrender or allow to expire any right to claim a refund of material Taxes; (G) file any Tax Return in a manner that is inconsistent with the past practices of Acquiror and Merger Subs; or (H) consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of material Taxes or in respect to any material Tax attribute that would give rise to any claim or assessment of Taxes;

(iv) take any action, or knowingly fail to take any action, where such action or failure to act would reasonably be expected to prevent the Mergers from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment;

(v) other than as expressly required by the Sponsor Support Agreement, enter into, renew or amend in any material respect, any transaction or Contract with an Affiliate of Acquiror or any Merger Sub (including, for the avoidance of doubt, (x) the Sponsor and (y) any Person in which the Sponsor has a direct or indirect legal, contractual or beneficial ownership interest of 5% or greater);

(vi) incur or assume any Indebtedness or guarantee any Indebtedness of another Person, issue or sell any debt securities or warrants or other rights to acquire any debt securities of Acquiror or any of Acquiror’s Subsidiaries or guaranty any debt securities of another Person, other than any Indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantee (A) incurred in the ordinary course of business to fund Acquiror Transaction Expenses (which the parties agree shall include any Indebtedness in respect of any Working Capital Loan incurred in the ordinary course of business in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000); or (B) incurred between Acquiror and Merger Subs;

 

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(vii) incur, guarantee or otherwise become liable for (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) any Indebtedness or otherwise knowingly and purposefully incur, guarantee or otherwise become liable for (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) any other material liabilities, debts or obligations, other than fees and expenses for professional services incurred in support of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements or in support of the ordinary course operations of Acquiror (which the parties agree shall include any Indebtedness in respect of any Working Capital Loan incurred in the ordinary course of business in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000);

(viii) (A) issue any Acquiror Securities or securities exercisable for or convertible into Acquiror Securities, other than the issuance of the Aggregate Merger Consideration and other than as contemplated in the Insiders Letter Agreement; (B) grant any options, warrants or other equity-based awards with respect to Acquiror Securities not outstanding on the date hereof; or (C) amend, modify or waive any of the material terms or rights set forth in any Acquiror Warrant or the Warrant Agreement, including any amendment, modification or reduction of the warrant price set forth therein;

(ix) enter into, amend or modify, or agree to pay any discretionary amount under, any Contract with any broker, finder, or investment bank related to the Transaction; or

(x) enter into any agreement to do any action prohibited under this Section 7.5.

(b) During the Interim Period, Acquiror shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries (including Merger Subs) to comply with, and continue performing under, as applicable, Acquiror’s Governing Documents, the Trust Agreement and all other agreements or Contracts to which Acquiror or its Subsidiaries may be a party.

Section 7.6. Post-Closing Directors and Officers of Acquiror. Subject to the terms of the Acquiror’s Governing Documents, Acquiror shall take all such action within its power as may be necessary or appropriate such that immediately following the Effective Time:

(a) the Board of Directors of Acquiror shall consist of a number of directors determined by the Company, which shall be divided into three classes serving staggered terms and initially include:

(i) one (1) Class II (as defined in the amended and restated certificate of incorporation in the form set forth on Exhibit A) director nominee, who shall be among the individuals listed on Section 7.6(a) of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, pursuant to written notice to be delivered to the Company as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement; and

 

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(ii) the remaining director nominees to be designated by the Company pursuant to written notice to Acquiror as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement;

(b) within one (1) year of the date upon which the Company no longer qualifies as a “controlled company” under Section 303A of the NYSE Listed Company Manual, the Board of Directors of Acquiror shall have a majority of “independent” directors for the purposes of NYSE rules, each of whom shall serve in such capacity in accordance with the terms of the Acquiror’s Governing Documents following the Effective Time; and

(c) the initial officers of Acquiror shall be as set forth on Section 2.6 of the Company Disclosure Letter (as may be updated by the Company prior to Closing following written notice to Acquiror), who shall serve in such capacity in accordance with the terms of Acquiror’s Governing Documents following the Effective Time.

Section 7.7. Indemnification and Insurance.

(a) From and after the Effective Time, Acquiror agrees that it shall indemnify and hold harmless each present and former director and officer of the (i) Company and each of its Subsidiaries (in each case, solely to the extent acting in their capacity as such and to the extent such activities are related to the business of the Company being acquired under this Agreement) (the “Company Indemnified Parties”); and (ii) Acquiror and each of its Subsidiaries (the “Acquiror Indemnified Parties” together with the Company Indemnified Parties, the “D&O Indemnified Parties”) against any costs or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims, damages or liabilities incurred in connection with any Legal Proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time, whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, to the fullest extent that the Company, Acquiror or their respective Subsidiaries, as the case may be, would have been permitted under applicable Law and its respective certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, bylaws, limited liability company agreement or other organizational documents in effect on the date of this Agreement to indemnify such D&O Indemnified Parties (including the advancing of expenses as incurred to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law). Without limiting the foregoing, Acquiror shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to (i) maintain for a period of not less than six (6) years from the Effective Time provisions in its Governing Documents concerning the indemnification and exoneration (including provisions relating to expense advancement) of Acquiror’s and its Subsidiaries’ former and current officers, directors, employees, and agents that are no less favorable to those Persons than the provisions of the Governing Documents of the Company, Acquiror or their respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, in each case, as of the date of this Agreement; and (ii) not amend, repeal or otherwise modify such provisions in any respect that would adversely affect the rights of those Persons thereunder, in each case, except as required by Law. Acquiror shall assume, and be liable for, each of the covenants in this Section 7.7.

 

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(b) For a period of six (6) years from the Effective Time, Acquiror shall maintain in effect directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering those Persons who are currently covered by Acquiror’s, the Company’s or their respective Subsidiaries’ directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies (true, correct and complete copies of which have been heretofore made available to Acquiror or its agents or representatives) on terms not less favorable than the terms of such current insurance coverage, except that in no event shall Acquiror be required to pay (A) with respect to Acquiror, an annual premium for such insurance in excess of three hundred percent (300%) of the aggregate annualized premium payable by Acquiror for its current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy, or (B) with respect to the Company, an annual premium for such insurance in excess of three hundred percent (300%) of the aggregate annualized premium payable by the Company for such insurance policy for the year ended August 5, 2021; provided, however, that (i) each of Acquiror and the Company shall, to the extent reasonably available, cause coverage to be extended under each of Acquiror’s and the Company’s respective current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance by each obtaining a six (6) year “tail” policy containing terms not materially less favorable than the terms of each of Acquiror’s and the Company’s current insurance coverage with respect to claims existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time (such policies, with respect to Acquiror, the “Acquiror D&O Tail Policy” and with respect to the Company, the “Company D&O Tail Policy”); and (ii) if any claim is asserted or made within such six (6) year period, any insurance required to be maintained under this Section 7.7 shall be continued in respect of such claim until the final disposition thereof.

(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, this Section 7.7 shall survive the consummation of the Mergers indefinitely and shall be binding, jointly and severally, on Acquiror and all successors and assigns of Acquiror. In the event that Acquiror or any of its successors or assigns consolidates with or merges into any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity of such consolidation or merger or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, then, and in each such case, Acquiror shall ensure that proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of Acquiror shall succeed to the obligations set forth in this Section 7.7.

(d) On the Closing Date, Acquiror shall enter into customary indemnification agreements reasonably satisfactory to each of the Company and Acquiror with the post-Closing directors and officers of Acquiror, which indemnification agreements shall continue to be effective following the Closing.

Section 7.8. Acquiror Public Filings. From the date hereof through the Effective Time, Acquiror will keep current and timely file all reports required to be filed or furnished with the SEC and otherwise comply in all material respects with its reporting obligations under applicable Laws.

Section 7.9. PIPE Subscriptions. Unless otherwise approved in writing by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), Acquiror shall not permit any amendment or modification to be made to, any waiver (in whole or in part) of, or provide consent to modify (including consent to terminate), any provision or remedy under, or any replacements of, any of the Subscription Agreements. Subject to the immediately preceding sentence, Acquiror shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or to cause to be taken, all actions required, necessary or that it otherwise deems to be proper or advisable to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreements on the terms described therein, including using its reasonable best efforts to enforce its rights under the Subscription Agreements to cause the PIPE Investors to pay to (or as directed by) Acquiror the applicable purchase price under each PIPE Investor’s applicable Subscription Agreement in accordance with its terms; provided that in no event shall Acquiror or Merger Subs be obligated to pay any amount or grant any concession to a PIPE Investor in connection with taking any such action except for a concession reasonably requested by the Company that is contingent upon the Closing and would not result in a failure to meet the Minimum PIPE Investment Amount.

 

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ARTICLE VIII

JOINT COVENANTS

Section 8.1. HSR Act; Other Filings.

(a) In connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, each of the Company and Acquiror shall (and, to the extent required, shall cause its Affiliates to) comply promptly but in no event later than ten (10) Business Days after the date hereof with the notification and reporting requirements of the HSR Act (the “HSR Filing”). Each of the Company and Acquiror shall substantially comply with any Antitrust Information or Document Requests.

(b) Each of the Company and Acquiror shall (and, to the extent required, shall cause its controlled Affiliates to) request early termination of any waiting period under the HSR Act and (i) obtain termination or expiration of the waiting period under the HSR Act; and (ii) prevent the entry, in any Legal Proceeding brought by an Antitrust Authority or any other Person, of any Governmental Order which would prohibit, make unlawful or delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(c) Each of the Company and Acquiror shall comply promptly (but in no event later than ten (10) Business Days after the date hereof), as required, to file all necessary applications: (i) with the FCC, requesting consent to the change of control of the Company and to the assignment of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ Licenses issued by the FCC to the Surviving Entity, each as contemplated by this Agreement and (ii) with the NOAA, requesting consent to the modification of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ Licenses issued by the NOAA to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The parties shall furnish each other with such information and assistance as the other may reasonably request in connection with their preparation and prosecution of such applications. In addition, the parties shall agree to any extensions of the NOAA review period (but in no event beyond the Agreement Deadline) as reasonably necessary to effect the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(d) Acquiror shall cooperate in good faith with Governmental Authorities and undertake promptly any and all action required to complete lawfully the transactions contemplated hereby as soon as practicable (but in any event prior to the Agreement Deadline) and any and all action necessary or advisable to avoid, prevent, eliminate or remove the actual or threatened commencement of any proceeding in any forum by or on behalf of any Governmental Authority or the issuance of any Governmental Order that would delay, enjoin, prevent, restrain or otherwise prohibit the consummation of the Mergers.

 

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(e) With respect to each of the above filings, and any other requests, inquiries, Actions or other proceedings by or from Governmental Authorities, other than a so called “second request” under the HSR Act, each of the Company and Acquiror shall (and, to the extent required, shall cause its controlled Affiliates to): (i) diligently and expeditiously defend and obtain any necessary clearance, approval, consent, or Governmental Authorization under Laws prescribed or enforceable by any Governmental Authority for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and to resolve any objections as may be asserted by any Governmental Authority with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and (ii) cooperate fully with each other in the defense of such matters. To the extent not prohibited by Law, the Company shall promptly furnish to Acquiror, and Acquiror shall promptly furnish to the Company, copies of any material notices or material written communications received by such party or any of its Affiliates from any third party or any Governmental Authority with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and each party shall permit counsel to the other parties an opportunity to review in advance, and each party shall consider in good faith the views of such counsel in connection with, any material proposed written communications by such party and/or its Affiliates to any Governmental Authority concerning the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, that none of the parties shall extend any waiting period or comparable period under the HSR Act or enter into any agreement with any Governmental Authority without the written consent of the other parties. To the extent not prohibited by Law, the Company agrees to provide Acquiror and its counsel, and Acquiror agrees to provide the Company and its counsel, the opportunity, on reasonable advance notice, to participate in any substantive meetings or discussions, either in person or by telephone, between such party and/or any of its Affiliates, agents or advisors, on the one hand, and any Governmental Authority, on the other hand, concerning or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 8.2. Preparation of Registration Statement and Proxy Statement/Registration Statement; Stockholders Meeting and Approvals.

(a) Registration Statement and Prospectus.

(i) As promptly as practicable after the execution of this Agreement and receipt of the PCAOB Financial Statements, (A) Acquiror and the Company shall jointly prepare and Acquiror shall file with the SEC, mutually acceptable materials which shall include the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC as part of the Registration Statement and sent to the Acquiror Stockholders relating to the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting (such proxy statement, together with any amendments or supplements thereto, the “Proxy Statement”); and (B) Acquiror shall prepare (with the Company’s reasonable cooperation (including causing its Subsidiaries and representatives to cooperate)) and file with the SEC the Registration Statement, in which the Proxy Statement will be included as a prospectus (the “Prospectus”, and together with the Proxy Statement and the Registration Statement, the “Proxy Statement/Registration Statement”), in connection with the registration under the Securities Act of the shares of Acquiror Common Stock that constitute the Aggregate Merger Consideration and the Contingent Consideration (the “Registration Statement Securities”). Each of Acquiror and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement to comply with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC, to have the Registration Statement declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable after such filing and to keep the Registration Statement effective as long as is necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. Acquiror also agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain all necessary state securities law or “Blue Sky” permits and approvals required to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Company shall furnish all information concerning the

 

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Company, its Subsidiaries and any of their respective members or stockholders as may be reasonably requested in connection with any such action. Each of Acquiror and the Company agrees to furnish to the other party all information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, officers, directors, managers, stockholders, and other equity holders and information regarding such other matters as may be reasonably necessary or advisable or as may be reasonably requested in connection with the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement, a Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to the Exchange Act in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or any other statement, filing, notice or application made by or on behalf of Acquiror, the Company or their respective Subsidiaries to any regulatory authority (including the NYSE) in connection with the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated hereby (the “Offer Documents”). Acquiror will cause the Proxy Statement and the Registration Statement to be mailed to the Acquiror Stockholders in each case promptly after the Registration Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in the event there is any tax opinion, comfort letter or other opinion required to be provided in connection with the Registration Statement, Proxy Statement or the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement, nothing in this Agreement shall require Acquiror’s counsel or tax advisors to provide an opinion that the Mergers qualify for the Intended Tax Treatment; provided, however, that in connection with any such required tax opinion, comfort letter or other opinion, Acquiror shall use reasonable efforts to cooperate, and to cause its counsel and tax advisors to cooperate, in good faith with the Company and its counsel and tax advisors in connection with providing such required tax opinion, comfort letter or other opinion, including by providing reasonable and customary factual support letters.

(ii) To the extent not prohibited by Law, Acquiror will advise the Company, reasonably promptly after Acquiror receives notice thereof, of the time when the Registration Statement has become effective or any supplement or amendment has been filed, of the issuance of any stop order or the suspension of the qualification of the Acquiror Common Stock for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or written threat of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the SEC for the amendment or supplement of the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement for additional information. To the extent not prohibited by Law, the Company and their counsel shall be given a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement and any Offer Document each time before any such document is filed with the SEC, and Acquiror shall give reasonable and good faith consideration to any comments made by the Company and its counsel. To the extent not prohibited by Law, Acquiror shall provide the Company and its counsel with (A) any comments or other communications, whether written or oral, that Acquiror or its counsel may receive from time to time from the SEC or its staff with respect to the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement or Offer Documents promptly after receipt of those comments or other communications; and (B) a reasonable opportunity to participate in the response of Acquiror to those comments and to provide comments on that response (to which reasonable and good faith consideration shall be given), including by participating with the Company or its counsel in any discussions or meetings with the SEC.

 

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(iii) Each of Acquiror and the Company shall ensure that none of the information supplied by or on its behalf for inclusion or incorporation by reference in (A) the Registration Statement will, at the time the Registration Statement is filed with the SEC, at each time at which it is amended and at the time it becomes effective under the Securities Act, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, not misleading; or (B) the Proxy Statement will, at the date it is first mailed to the Acquiror Stockholders and at the time of the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

(iv) If at any time prior to the Effective Time any information relating to the Company, Acquiror or any of their respective Subsidiaries, Affiliates, directors or officers is discovered by the Company or Acquiror, which is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement or the Registration Statement, so that neither of such documents would include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, with respect to the Proxy Statement, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the party which discovers such information shall promptly notify the other parties and an appropriate amendment or supplement describing such information shall be promptly filed with the SEC and, to the extent required by Law, disseminated to the Acquiror Stockholders or the stockholders of the Company, as applicable.

(b) Acquiror Stockholder Approval. Acquiror shall (i) as promptly as practicable after the Registration Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act, (A) cause the Proxy Statement to be disseminated to Acquiror Stockholders in compliance with applicable Law; (B) solely with respect to the following clause (1), duly (1) give notice of and (2) convene and hold a meeting of its stockholders (the “Acquiror Stockholders Meeting”) in accordance with Acquiror’s Governing Documents and Section 312.03 of the NYSE Listing Rules for a date no later than thirty (30) Business Days following the date the Registration Statement is declared effective; and (C) solicit proxies from the holders of Acquiror Common Stock to vote in favor of each of the Transaction Proposals; and (ii) provide its stockholders with the opportunity to elect to effect an Acquiror Share Redemption. Acquiror shall, through its Board of Directors, recommend to its stockholders the (A) amendment and restatement of Acquiror’s Certificate of Incorporation, in the form attached as Exhibit A to this Agreement (as may be subsequently amended by mutual written agreement of the Company and Acquiror at any time before the effectiveness of the Registration Statement), including any separate or unbundled advisory proposals as are required to implement the foregoing and approval of the change of Acquiror’s name to a name reasonably determined by the Company, which name shall include the word “Planet”; (B) the adoption and approval of this Agreement in accordance with applicable Law and exchange rules and regulations; (C) approval of the issuance of shares of Acquiror Common Stock in connection with the Mergers and pursuant to the rules of the NYSE as contemplated by the Subscription Agreements with the applicable PIPE Investors; (D) approval of the adoption by Acquiror of the Incentive Equity Plan and ESPP described in Section 7.1; (E) adoption and approval of any other proposals as the SEC (or staff member thereof) may indicate are necessary in its comments to the Registration Statement or correspondence related thereto; (F) adoption and

 

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approval of any other proposals as reasonably agreed by Acquiror and the Company to be necessary or appropriate in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; and (G) adjournment of the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting, if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies because there are not sufficient votes to approve and adopt any of the foregoing (such proposals in (A) through (G), together, the “Transaction Proposals”), and include such recommendation in the Proxy Statement. The Board of Directors of Acquiror shall not withdraw, amend, qualify or modify its recommendation to the stockholders of Acquiror that they vote in favor of the Transaction Proposals (together with any withdrawal, amendment, qualification or modification of its recommendation to the stockholders of Acquiror described in the Recitals hereto, a “Modification in Recommendation”), provided, that if at any time prior to obtaining the Acquiror Stockholder Approval, the Board of Directors of Acquiror determines in good faith after consultation with outside legal counsel, in response to an Intervening Event, that the failure to make a Modification in Recommendation would constitute a violation of its fiduciary duties under applicable Law, the Board of Directors of Acquiror may make a Modification in Recommendation. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, (i) Acquiror’s obligations to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting shall not be affected by any Modification in Recommendation; and (ii) Acquiror agrees to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting and submit for approval the Transaction Proposals. Acquiror shall adjourn the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting (i) to solicit additional proxies for the purpose of obtaining the Acquiror Stockholder Approval if the Acquiror Stockholder Approval would not be obtained at the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting if a vote was held; (ii) if a quorum is absent; or (iii) to allow reasonable additional time for the filing or mailing of any supplemental or amended disclosure that Acquiror has determined in good faith after consultation with outside legal counsel is required under applicable Law and for such supplemental or amended disclosure to be disseminated and reviewed by Acquiror Stockholders prior to the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting; provided that the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting will not be adjourned to a date that is (i) more than thirty (30) days after the date for which the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting was originally scheduled (excluding any adjournments required by applicable Law); or (ii) later than three (3) Business Days prior to the date on which the Agreement Deadline occurs. Acquiror agrees that it shall provide the holders of shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock the opportunity to elect redemption of such shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock in connection with the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting, as required by Acquiror’s Governing Documents.

(c) Company Stockholder Approval. Upon the terms set forth in this Agreement, the Company shall: (i) use its reasonable best efforts to solicit and obtain the Company Stockholder Approval in the form of an irrevocable written consent (the “Written Consent”) of each of the Requisite Company Stockholders (pursuant to the Company Holders Support Agreement) promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) following the time at which the Registration Statement shall have been declared effective under the Securities Act and delivered or otherwise made available to stockholders; and (ii) distribute the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement to the stockholders of the Company, accompanied by any such additional disclosure to the stockholders of the Company as the Company and its outside counsel determine is necessary or appropriate. In the event the Company is not able to obtain the Written Consent, the Company shall duly convene a meeting of the stockholders of the Company for the purpose of voting solely upon the adoption of this Agreement, the other agreements contemplated hereby and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the Mergers, as soon as

 

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reasonably practicable after the Registration Statement is declared effective. If such meeting of the stockholders of the Company is convened, the Company shall obtain the Company Stockholder Approval at such meeting of the stockholders of the Company and shall take all other action necessary or advisable to secure the Company Stockholder Approval as soon as reasonably practicable after the Registration Statement is declared effective. If the Company Stockholder Approval is obtained by the Written Consent, then as promptly as reasonably practicable following the receipt of the Written Consent, the Company will prepare and deliver to its stockholders who have not consented the notice required by Sections 228(e) (if applicable) and 262 of the DGCL or, to the extent applicable, Chapter 13 of the CCC; provided that, Acquiror shall be given a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the contents of such notice before delivery to the applicable stockholders.

Section 8.3. Support of Transaction. Without limiting any covenant contained in Article VI, or Article VII, Acquiror and the Company shall each, and each shall cause its Subsidiaries to (i) use reasonable best efforts to obtain all material consents and approvals of third parties that any of Acquiror, or the Company or their respective Affiliates are required to obtain in order to consummate the Mergers; and (ii) take such other action as may be reasonably necessary or as another party hereto may reasonably request to satisfy the conditions of Article IX or otherwise to comply with this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby as soon as practicable, including the compliance with the applicable requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no action taken by the Company under this Section 8.3 will constitute a breach of Section 6.1 and in no event shall Acquiror, Merger Subs or the Company be obligated to pay any amount (except for any filing or registration fee with a Governmental Authority) or grant any concession in connection with obtaining any such consents or approvals.

Section 8.4. Tax Matters. All transfer, documentary, sales, use, real property, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes, fees and costs (including any associated penalties and interest) incurred in connection with this Agreement that are payable by Acquiror, Merger Subs, the Company or its Subsidiaries (“Transfer Taxes”) shall constitute Company Transaction Expenses. The Company and its Subsidiaries shall, at their own expense, file all necessary Tax Returns with respect to all such Taxes, and, if required by applicable Law, Acquiror will cooperate and join in the execution of any such Tax Returns.

Section 8.5. Section 16 Matters. Prior to the Effective Time, each of the Company and Acquiror shall take all such steps as may be required (to the extent permitted under applicable Law) to cause any dispositions of shares of the Company Capital Stock or acquisitions of Acquiror Common Shares (including, in each case, securities deliverable upon exercise, vesting or settlement of any derivative securities) resulting from the transactions contemplated hereby by each individual who may become subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby to be exempt under Rule B-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

 

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Section 8.6. Cooperation; Consultation.

(a) Prior to Closing, each of the Company and Acquiror shall, and each of them shall cause its respective Subsidiaries (as applicable) and its and their officers, directors, managers, employees, consultants, counsel, accounts, agents and other representatives to, reasonably cooperate in a timely manner in connection with any financing arrangement the parties mutually agree to seek in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (it being understood and agreed that the consummation of any such financing by the Company or Acquiror shall be subject to the parties’ mutual agreement), including (if mutually agreed by the parties) (i) by providing such information and assistance as the other party may reasonably request; (ii) granting such access to the other party and its representatives as may be reasonably necessary for their due diligence; and (iii) participating in a reasonable number of meetings, presentations, road shows, drafting sessions, due diligence sessions with respect to such financing efforts (including direct contact between senior management and other representatives of the Company and its Subsidiaries at reasonable times and locations). All such cooperation, assistance and access shall be granted during normal business hours and shall be granted under conditions that shall not unreasonably interfere with the business and operations of the Company, Acquiror, or their respective auditors.

(b) From the date of the announcement of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (pursuant to any applicable public communication made in compliance with Section 11.12), until the Closing Date, Acquiror shall use its reasonable best efforts to, and shall instruct its financial advisors to, keep the Company and its financial advisors reasonably informed with respect to the PIPE Investment during such period, including by (i) providing regular updates; and (ii) consulting and cooperating with, and considering in good faith any feedback from, the Company or its financial advisors with respect to such matters; provided, that each of Acquiror and the Company acknowledges and agrees that none of their respective financial advisors shall be entitled to any fees with respect to the PIPE Investment unless disclosed in Section 4.16 of the Company Disclosure Letter or Section 5.13 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter or as otherwise mutually agreed by the Company and Acquiror in writing.

Section 8.7. Stockholder Litigation. In the event that any litigation related to this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby is brought, or, to the knowledge of Acquiror or the Company, threatened in writing, against Acquiror or the Board of Directors of Acquiror, on the one hand, or the Company or the Board of Directors of the Company, on the other hand, by any of Acquiror’s or the Company’s stockholders prior to the Closing, Acquiror or the Company, as applicable, shall promptly notify the other party of any such litigation and keep the other party reasonably informed with respect to the status thereof. Acquiror or the Company, as applicable, shall provide the other party the opportunity to participate in (subject to a customary joint defense agreement), but not control, the defense of any such litigation, shall give due consideration to the other party’s advice with respect to such litigation and shall not settle or agree to settle any such litigation without the prior written consent of the other party, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.

ARTICLE IX

CONDITIONS TO OBLIGATIONS

Section 9.1. Conditions to Obligations of Acquiror, Merger Subs, and the Company. The obligations of Acquiror, Merger Subs, and the Company to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the Mergers are subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions, any one or more of which may be waived in writing by all of such parties:

 

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(a) The Acquiror Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained;

(b) The Company Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained;

(c) The Registration Statement shall have become effective under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the SEC and not withdrawn;

(d) The waiting period or periods under the HSR Act applicable to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements shall have expired or been terminated;

(e) The necessary consents of the FCC and NOAA to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have been obtained;

(f) There shall not be in force any Governmental Order, statute, rule or regulation enjoining or prohibiting the consummation of the Mergers; provided, that the Governmental Authority issuing such Governmental Order has jurisdiction over the parties hereto with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby;

(g) Acquiror shall not have received valid redemption requests (that have not subsequently been withdrawn) that would require it to redeem Acquiror Class A Common Stock in an amount that would cause Acquiror not to have, at least $5,000,001 of net tangible assets (as determined in accordance with Rule 3a51-1(g)(1) of the Exchange Act); and

(h) The shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Mergers shall have been approved for listing on the NYSE, subject only to official notice of issuance thereof.

Section 9.2. Conditions to Obligations of Acquiror and Merger Subs. The obligations of Acquiror and Merger Subs to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the Mergers are subject to the satisfaction of the following additional conditions, any one or more of which may be waived in writing by Acquiror and Merger Subs:

(a) the Company Fundamental Representations (disregarding any qualifications and exceptions contained therein relating to materiality, material adverse effect and Company Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualification or exception) shall be true and correct in all material respects, in each case as of the Closing Date, except with respect to such representations and warranties which speak as to an earlier date, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of such date, except for changes after the date of this Agreement which are expressly permitted by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements; (ii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 4.24 shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Closing Date; and (iii) each of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement other than the Company Fundamental

 

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Representations and Section 4.24 (disregarding any qualifications and exceptions contained therein relating to materiality, material adverse effect and Company Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualification or exception) shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date, except with respect to such representations and warranties which speak as to an earlier date, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct at and as of such date, except for, in each case, inaccuracies or omissions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect;

(b) each of the covenants of the Company to be performed as of or prior to the Closing shall have been performed in all material respects; provided, that for purposes of this Section 9.2(b), a covenant of the Company shall only be deemed to have not been performed if the Company has failed to cure within twenty (20) days after notice (or if earlier, the Agreement Deadline); and

(c) there shall not have occurred any Company Material Adverse Effect between the date of this Agreement and the date of the Closing the impact of which continues to be a Company Material Adverse Effect.

Section 9.3. Conditions to the Obligations of the Company. The obligation of the Company to consummate, or cause to be consummated, the Mergers are subject to the satisfaction of the following additional conditions, any one or more of which may be waived in writing by the Company:

(a) the Acquiror Fundamental Representations (disregarding any qualifications and exceptions contained therein relating to materiality, material adverse effect and Acquiror Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualification or exception) shall be true and correct in all material respects, in each case as of the Closing Date, except with respect to such representations and warranties which speak as to an earlier date, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of such date, except for changes after the date of this Agreement which are expressly permitted by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements; and (ii) each of the representations and warranties of Acquiror and Merger Subs contained in this Agreement other than the Acquiror Fundamental Representations (disregarding any qualifications and exceptions contained therein relating to materiality, material adverse effect and Acquiror Material Adverse Effect or any similar qualification or exception) shall be true and correct as of the Closing Date, except with respect to such representations and warranties which speak as to an earlier date, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct at and as of such date, except for, in each case, inaccuracies or omissions that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have an Acquiror Material Adverse Effect;

(b) each of the covenants of Acquiror to be performed as of or prior to the Closing shall have been performed in all material respects; provided, that for purposes of this Section 9.3(b), a covenant of Acquiror shall only be deemed to have not been performed if Acquiror has failed to cure within twenty (20) days after notice (or if earlier, the Agreement Deadline);

 

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(c) there shall not have occurred an Acquiror Material Adverse Effect between the date of this Agreement and the date of the Closing the impact of which continues to be a Acquiror Material Adverse Effect; and

(d) the Acquiror Closing Cash Amount shall be equal to or greater than $250,000,000.

ARTICLE X

TERMINATION/EFFECTIVENESS

Section 10.1. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated hereby abandoned:

(a) by written consent of the Company and Acquiror;

(b) by the Company or Acquiror by written notice to the other party if any Governmental Authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any Governmental Order which has become final and nonappealable and has the effect of making consummation of the Mergers illegal or otherwise preventing or prohibiting consummation of the Mergers; provided, that the Governmental Authority issuing such Governmental Order has jurisdiction over the parties hereto with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby; provided, further, that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.1(b) shall not be available to a party if such party’s breach of any of its obligations under this Agreement is the primary cause of the existence or occurrence of any fact or circumstance but for the existence or occurrence of which the consummation of the Mergers would not be illegal or otherwise prevented or prohibited;

(c) by the Company or Acquiror if the Acquiror Stockholder Approval shall not have been obtained by reason of the failure to obtain the required vote at the Acquiror Stockholders’ Meeting duly convened therefor or at any adjournment thereof;

(d) by the Company, following a Modification in Recommendation;

(e) by the Company or Acquiror by written notice to the other party if the Closing has not occurred before 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 21, 2022 (such time on such date, the “Agreement Deadline”); provided that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.1(e) shall not be available to a party if such party’s breach of any of its obligations under this Agreement is the primary cause of the failure of the Closing to have occurred before the Agreement Deadline;

(f) prior to the Closing, by written notice to the Company from Acquiror if there is any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of the Company set forth in this Agreement, such that the conditions specified in Section 9.2(a) or Section 9.2(b) would not be satisfied at the Closing (a “Terminating Company Breach”), except that, if such Terminating Company Breach is curable by the Company through the exercise of its reasonable best efforts, then, for a period of up to thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of notice from Acquiror of such breach, but only as long as the Company continues to use its

 

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respective reasonable best efforts to cure such Terminating Company Breach (the “Company Cure Period”), such termination shall not be effective, and such termination shall become effective only if the Terminating Company Breach is not cured within the Company Cure Period; provided that Acquiror shall not be entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.1(f) if Acquiror is then in breach of this Agreement that would cause the conditions specified in Section 9.3(a) or Section 9.3(b) not to be satisfied at such time; or

(g) prior to the Closing, by written notice to Acquiror from the Company if there is any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on the part of Acquiror or Merger Subs set forth in this Agreement, such that the conditions specified in Section 9.3(a) and Section 9.3(b) would not be satisfied at the Closing (a “Terminating Acquiror Breach”), except that, if any such Terminating Acquiror Breach is curable by Acquiror through the exercise of its reasonable best efforts, then, for a period of up to thirty (30) days after receipt by Acquiror of notice from the Company of such breach, but only as long as Acquiror continues to exercise such reasonable best efforts to cure such Terminating Acquiror Breach (the “Acquiror Cure Period”), such termination shall not be effective, and such termination shall become effective only if the Terminating Acquiror Breach is not cured within the Acquiror Cure Period; provided that the Company shall not be entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.1(g) if the Company is then in breach of this Agreement that would cause the conditions specified in Section 9.2(a) or Section 9.2(b) not to be satisfied at such time.

Section 10.2. Effect of Termination. In the event of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.1, this Agreement shall forthwith become void and have no effect, without any liability on the part of any party hereto or its respective Affiliates, officers, directors or stockholders, other than liability of the Company, Acquiror or Merger Subs, as the case may be, for any actual fraud occurring prior to such termination, except that the provisions of this Section 10.2 and ARTICLE XI and the Confidentiality Agreement shall survive any termination of this Agreement.

ARTICLE XI

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1. Trust Account Waiver. The Company acknowledges that Acquiror is a blank check company with the powers and privileges to effect a Business Combination. The Company further acknowledges that, as described in the prospectus dated March 4, 2021 (the “IPO Prospectus”) available at www.sec.gov, substantially all of Acquiror assets consist of the cash proceeds of Acquiror’s initial public offering and private placements of its securities and substantially all of those proceeds have been deposited in a trust account for the benefit of Acquiror, certain of its public stockholders and the underwriters of Acquiror’s initial public offering (the “Trust Account”). The Company acknowledges that it has been advised by Acquiror that, except with respect to interest earned on the funds held in the Trust Account that may be released to Acquiror to pay its franchise Tax, income Tax and similar obligations, the Trust Agreement provides that cash in the Trust Account may be disbursed only (i) if Acquiror completes the transactions which constitute a Business Combination, then to those Persons and in such amounts as described in the IPO Prospectus; (ii) if Acquiror fails to complete a Business Combination within the allotted time period and liquidates, subject to the terms of the Trust

 

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Agreement, to Acquiror in limited amounts to permit Acquiror to pay the costs and expenses of its liquidation and dissolution, and then to Acquiror’s public stockholders; and (iii) if Acquiror holds a stockholder vote to amend the Acquiror Certificate of Incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the obligation to redeem 100% of Acquiror Common Shares if Acquiror fails to complete a Business Combination within the allotted time period, then for the redemption of any Acquiror Common Shares properly tendered in connection with such vote. For and in consideration of Acquiror entering into this Agreement, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company hereby irrevocably waives any right, title, interest or claim of any kind they have or may have in the future in or to any monies in the Trust Account and agree not to seek recourse against the Trust Account or any funds distributed therefrom as a result of, or arising out of, this Agreement and any negotiations, Contracts or agreements with Acquiror; provided, that (i) nothing herein shall serve to limit or prohibit the Company’s right to pursue a claim against Acquiror for legal relief against monies or other assets held outside the Trust Account, for specific performance or other equitable relief in connection with the consummation of the transactions (including a claim for Acquiror to specifically perform its obligations under this Agreement and cause the disbursement of the balance of the cash remaining in the Trust Account (after giving effect to the Acquiror Share Redemptions) to the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Trust Agreement) so long as such claim would not affect Acquiror’s ability to fulfill its obligation to effectuate the Acquiror Share Redemptions; and (ii) nothing herein shall serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Company may have in the future against Acquiror’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds).

Section 11.2. Waiver. Any party to this Agreement may, at any time prior to the Closing, by action taken by its Board of Directors, Board of Managers, Managing Member or other officers or Persons thereunto duly authorized: (i) extend the time for the performance of the obligations or acts of the other parties hereto; (ii) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties (of another party hereto) that are contained in this Agreement; or (iii) waive compliance by the other parties hereto with any of the agreements or conditions contained in this Agreement, but such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party granting such extension or waiver.

Section 11.3. Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person; (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid; (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service; or (iv) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iv), solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), addressed as follows:

(a) If to Acquiror or Merger Subs prior to the Closing, or to Acquiror after the Effective Time, to:

DMY Technology Group, Inc. IV

1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100

Las Vegas, Nevada 89144

 

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Attention:     Harry You

                       Niccolo de Masi

Email:           harry@dmytechnology.com

                       niccolo@dmytechnology.com

with copies to (which shall not constitute notice):

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attention:       Joel Rubinstein

                       James Hu

Email:           joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com

                       james.hu@whitecase.com

(b) If to the Company prior to the Closing, or to the Surviving Corporation after the Effective Time, to:

 

Planet Labs Inc.

645 Harrison Street, Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attention:         Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email:               legal@planet.com

with copies to (which shall not constitute notice):

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attention:         Josh Dubofsky

                           Saad Khanani

Email:                 josh.dubofsky@lw.com

                             saad.khanani@lw.com

or to such other address or addresses as the parties may from time to time designate in writing. Copies delivered solely to outside counsel shall not constitute notice.

Section 11.4. Assignment. No party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any part hereof without the prior written consent of the other parties and any such transfer without prior written consent shall be void. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns.

Section 11.5. Rights of Third Parties. Nothing expressed or implied in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to confer upon or give any Person, other than the parties hereto, any right or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement; provided, however, that the D&O Indemnified Parties and the past, present and future directors, managers, officers, employees, incorporators, members, partners, stockholders, Affiliates, agents, attorneys, advisors and representatives of the parties, and any Affiliate of any of the foregoing (and their successors, heirs and representatives), are intended third-party beneficiaries of, and may enforce, Section 11.16.

 

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Section 11.6. Expenses. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, each party hereto shall be responsible for and pay its own expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including all fees of its legal counsel, financial advisers and accountants; provided, that (i) all Acquiror Transaction Expenses shall be borne by the Acquiror, (ii) all Company Transaction Expenses shall be borne by the Company and (iii) if and only if the Closing shall occur, Acquiror shall pay or cause to be paid, the Unpaid Transaction Expenses in accordance with Section 2.4(c). For the avoidance of doubt, any payments to be made (or to cause to be made) by Acquiror pursuant to this Section 11.6 shall be paid upon consummation of the Mergers and release of proceeds from the Trust Account.

Section 11.7. Governing Law. This Agreement, and all claims or causes of Action based upon, arising out of, or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise), shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles or rules of conflict of Laws to the extent such principles or rules would require or permit the application of Laws of another jurisdiction.

Section 11.8. Headings; Counterparts. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

Section 11.9. Company and Acquiror Disclosure Letters. The Company Disclosure Letter and the Acquiror Disclosure Letter (including, in each case, any section thereof) referenced herein are a part of this Agreement as if fully set forth herein. All references herein to the Company Disclosure Letter and/or the Acquiror Disclosure Letter (including, in each case, any section thereof) shall be deemed references to such parts of this Agreement, unless the context shall otherwise require. Any disclosure made by a party in the applicable Disclosure Letter, or any section thereof, with reference to any section of this Agreement or section of the applicable Disclosure Letter shall be deemed to be a disclosure with respect to such other applicable sections of this Agreement or sections of applicable Disclosure Letter if it is reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure that such disclosure is responsive to such other section of this Agreement or section of the applicable Disclosure Letter. Certain information set forth in the Disclosure Letters is included solely for informational purposes and may not be required to be disclosed pursuant to this Agreement. The disclosure of any information shall not be deemed to constitute an acknowledgment that such information is required to be disclosed in connection with the representations and warranties made in this Agreement, nor shall such information be deemed to establish a standard of materiality.

Section 11.10. Entire Agreement. (i) This Agreement (together with the Company Disclosure Letter and the Acquiror Disclosure Letter); (ii) the Sponsor Support Agreement and Company Holders Support Agreement; and (iii) the Confidentiality Agreement, dated as of March 17, 2021, between Acquiror and the Company (the “Confidentiality Agreement”) (clause (ii) and

 

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(iii), collectively, the “Ancillary Agreements”) constitute the entire agreement among the parties to this Agreement relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and supersede any other agreements, whether written or oral, that may have been made or entered into by or among any of the parties hereto or any of their respective Subsidiaries relating to the transactions contemplated hereby. No representations, warranties, covenants, understandings, agreements, oral or otherwise, relating to the transactions contemplated hereby exist between such parties except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements.

Section 11.11. Amendments. This Agreement may be amended or modified in whole or in part, only by a duly authorized agreement in writing executed in the same manner as this Agreement and which makes reference to this Agreement.

Section 11.12. Publicity.

(a) The initial press release relating to this Agreement shall be a joint press release, the text of which has been agreed to by each of Acquiror and the Company. Thereafter, all press releases or other public communications relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and the method of the release for publication thereof, shall prior to the Closing (or the earlier termination of this Agreement) be subject to the prior mutual approval of Acquiror and the Company, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld by any party; provided, that no party shall be required to obtain consent pursuant to this Section 11.12(a) (i) to the extent any proposed release or statement is substantially equivalent to the information that has previously been made public without breach of the obligation under this Section 11.12(a), and (ii) in the case of the Company, to the extent any proposed release or statement is directed to (A) its equityholders, Affiliates, and its and their respective directors, officers, employees, managers, advisors, direct and indirect investors and prospective investors, (B) subject to Sections 8.1 and 8.3, third parties to the extent necessary for the purpose of issuing notice to any third party or seeking any third party consent, approval or waiver, in each case, as required in connection with the transactions contemplated herein, and (C) employees and consultants of the Company and its Subsidiaries in internal announcements of the Company.

(b) The restriction in Section 11.12(a) shall not apply to the extent the public announcement is required by applicable securities Law, any Governmental Authority or stock exchange rule; provided, however, that in such an event, the party making the announcement shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to consult with the other party in advance as to its form, content and timing. Disclosures resulting from the parties’ efforts to obtain approval or early termination under the HSR Act and to make any relating filing or in connection with applications filed with the FCC and NOAA pursuant to this Agreement or with any other Governmental Authority the Company deems necessary or advisable shall be deemed not to violate this Section 11.12.

Section 11.13. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The parties further agree that if any provision contained herein is, to any extent, held invalid or unenforceable in any respect under the Laws governing this Agreement, they shall take any actions necessary to render the remaining provisions of this Agreement valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by Law and, to the extent necessary, shall amend or otherwise modify this Agreement to replace any provision contained herein that is held invalid or unenforceable with a valid and enforceable provision giving effect to the intent of the parties.

 

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Section 11.14. Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a) Any proceeding or Action based upon, arising out of or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby must be brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, to the extent such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware), or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and each of the parties irrevocably (i) submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in any such proceeding or Action; (ii) waives any objection it may now or hereafter have to personal jurisdiction, venue or to convenience of forum; (iii) agrees that all claims in respect of the proceeding or Action shall be heard and determined only in any such court; and (iv) agrees not to bring any proceeding or Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any other court. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of any party to serve process in any manner permitted by Law or to commence Legal Proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction, in each case, to enforce judgments obtained in any Action, suit or proceeding brought pursuant to this Section 11.14.

(b) EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY, UNCONDITIONALLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY ACTION, SUIT OR PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 11.15. Enforcement. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage could occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to specific enforcement of the terms and provisions of this Agreement, in addition to any other remedy to which any party is entitled at law or in equity. In the event that any Action shall be brought in equity to enforce the provisions of this Agreement, no party shall allege, and each party hereby waives the defense, that there is an adequate remedy at law, and each party agrees to waive any requirement for the securing or posting of any bond in connection therewith.

Section 11.16. Non-Recourse. Except in the case of claims against a Person in respect of such Person’s actual fraud:

(a) Solely with respect to the Company, Acquiror and Merger Subs, this Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim or cause of Action based upon, arising out of, or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby may only be brought against, the Company, Acquiror and Merger Subs as named parties hereto; and

 

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(b) except to the extent a party hereto (and then only to the extent of the specific obligations undertaken by such party hereto): (i) no past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, member, partner, stockholder, Affiliate, agent, attorney, advisor or representative or Affiliate of the Company, Acquiror or Merger Subs; and (ii) no past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, member, partner, stockholder, Affiliate, agent, attorney, advisor or representative or Affiliate of any of the foregoing shall have any liability (whether in Contract, tort, equity or otherwise) for any one or more of the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations or liabilities of any one or more of the Company, Acquiror or Merger Subs under this Agreement for any claim based on, arising out of, or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 11.17. Non-Survival of Representations, Warranties and Covenants. Except (i) as otherwise contemplated by Section 10.2; or (ii) in the case of claims against a Person in respect of such Person’s actual fraud, none of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations or other agreements in this Agreement or in any certificate, statement or instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement, including any rights arising out of any breach of such representations, warranties, covenants, obligations, agreements and other provisions, shall survive the Closing and shall terminate and expire upon the occurrence of the Effective Time (and there shall be no liability after the Closing in respect thereof), except for (A) those covenants and agreements contained herein that by their terms expressly apply in whole or in part after the Closing and then only with respect to any breaches occurring after the Closing; and (B) this Article XI.

Section 11.18. Conflicts and Privilege.

(a) Acquiror and the Company, on behalf of their respective successors and assigns (including, after the Closing, the Surviving Corporation), hereby agree that, in the event a dispute with respect to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby arises after the Closing between or among (i) the Sponsor, the stockholders or holders of other equity interests of Acquiror or the Sponsor and/or any of their respective directors, members, partners, officers, employees or Affiliates (other than the Surviving Corporation) (collectively, the “dMY Group”), on the one hand; and (ii) the Surviving Corporation and/or any member of the Planet Labs Group, on the other hand, any legal counsel, including White & Case LLP (“W&C”), that represented Acquiror and/or the Sponsor prior to the Closing may represent the Sponsor and/or any other member of the dMY Group, in such dispute even though the interests of such Persons may be directly adverse to the Surviving Corporation, and even though such counsel may have represented Acquiror in a matter substantially related to such dispute, or may be handling ongoing matters for the Surviving Corporation and/or the Sponsor. Acquiror and the Company, on behalf of their respective successors and assigns (including, after the Closing, the Surviving Corporation), further agree that, as to all legally privileged communications prior to the Closing (made in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance under, or any dispute or Action arising out of or relating to, this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreements or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby) between or among Acquiror, the Sponsor and/or any other member of the dMY Group, on the one hand, and W&C, on the other hand, the attorney/client privilege and the expectation of client confidence shall survive the Mergers and belong to the dMY Group after the Closing, and shall not pass to or be claimed or controlled by the Surviving Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any privileged communications or information shared by the Company prior to the Closing with Acquiror or the Sponsor under a common interest agreement shall remain the privileged communications or information of the Surviving Corporation.

 

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(b) Acquiror and the Company, on behalf of their respective successors and assigns (including, after the Closing, the Surviving Corporation), hereby agree that, in the event a dispute with respect to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby arises after the Closing between or among (i) the stockholders or holders of other equity interests of the Company and/or any of their respective directors, members, partners, officers, employees or Affiliates (other than the Surviving Corporation) (collectively, the “Planet Labs Group”), on the one hand; and (ii) the Surviving Corporation and/or any member of the dMY Group, on the other hand, any legal counsel, including Latham & Watkins LLP (“Latham”) that represented the Company prior to the Closing may represent any member of the Planet Labs Group in such dispute even though the interests of such Persons may be directly adverse to the Surviving Corporation, and even though such counsel may have represented Acquiror and/or the Company in a matter substantially related to such dispute, or may be handling ongoing matters for the Surviving Corporation, further agree that, as to all legally privileged communications prior to the Closing (made in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance under, or any dispute or Action arising out of or relating to, this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreements or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby) between or among the Company and/or any member of the Planet Labs Group, on the one hand, and Latham, on the other hand, the attorney/client privilege and the expectation of client confidence shall survive the Mergers and belong to the Planet Labs Group after the Closing, and shall not pass to or be claimed or controlled by the Surviving Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any privileged communications or information shared by Acquiror prior to the Closing with the Company under a common interest agreement shall remain the privileged communications or information of the Surviving Corporation.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have hereunto caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
PHOTON MERGER SUB, INC.
By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
  Title: President
PHOTON MERGER SUB TWO, LLC
By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
  Title: President
PLANET LABS INC.
By:  

/s/ Will Marshall

  Name: Will Marshall
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger]

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

This SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Subscription Agreement”) is entered into on July 7, 2021, by and between dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the undersigned subscriber (“Subscriber”).

WHEREAS, substantially concurrently with the execution of this Subscription Agreement, the Company is entering into a definitive agreement with Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”), and the other parties thereto, providing for the acquisition of Planet (the “Transaction Agreement” and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Agreement, the “Transaction”) and in connection with which the Company shall change its name to a name reasonably determined by the Company, which such name shall include the word “Planet”;

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, Subscriber desires to subscribe for and purchase from the Company, immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Transaction, that number of shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”), set forth on the signature page hereto (the “Subscribed Shares”) for a purchase price of $10.00 per share (the “Per Share Price” and the aggregate of such Per Share Price for all Subscribed Shares being referred to herein as the “Purchase Price”), and the Company desires to issue and sell to Subscriber the Subscribed Shares in consideration of the payment of the Purchase Price by or on behalf of Subscriber to the Company; and

WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of this Subscription Agreement, the Company is entering into subscription agreements (the “Other Subscription Agreements”) substantially similar to this Subscription Agreement with certain other investors (the “Other Subscribers”), pursuant to which such Other Subscribers have agreed to purchase on the closing date of the Transaction, inclusive of the Subscribed Shares, an aggregate amount of up to 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock, at the Per Share Price.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual representations, warranties and covenants, and subject to the conditions, herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

Section 1 Subscription. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, at the Closing (as defined below), Subscriber hereby agrees to subscribe for and purchase, and the Company hereby agrees to issue and sell to Subscriber, upon the payment of the Purchase Price, the Subscribed Shares (such subscription and issuance, the “Subscription”).

Section 2 Closing.

(a) The consummation of the Subscription contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur on the closing date of the Transaction (the “Closing Date”), immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of, and conditioned upon the effectiveness of, the Transaction.

 

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(b) At least five (5) Business Days prior to the date the Company reasonably expects all conditions to the closing of the Transaction to be satisfied and the closing of the Transaction to actually occur (the “Anticipated Closing Date”), the Company shall deliver written notice to Subscriber (the “Closing Notice”) specifying (i) the Anticipated Closing Date and (ii) the wire instructions for delivery of the Purchase Price to the Company. No later than two (2) Business Days prior to the Anticipated Closing Date or such other time agreed to between the Company and the Subscriber, Subscriber shall deliver the Purchase Price for the Subscribed Shares by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice, such funds to be held by the Company in escrow until the Closing, and deliver to the Company such information as is reasonably requested in the Closing Notice in order for the Company to issue the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber, including, without limitation, the legal name of the person in whose name the Subscribed Shares are to be issued and a duly completed and executed Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or appropriate Form W-8. The Company shall deliver to Subscriber (i) at the Closing, the Subscribed Shares in book entry form, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions (other than those arising under applicable securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions), and (ii) as promptly as practicable after the Closing, evidence from the Company’s transfer agent of the issuance to Subscriber of the Subscribed Shares (in book entry form) on and as of the Closing Date. [Notwithstanding the foregoing two sentences, if Subscriber informs the Company (1) that it is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (2) that it is advised by an investment adviser subject to regulation under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, or (3) that its internal compliance policies and procedures so require it, then, in lieu of the settlement procedures in the foregoing two sentences, the following shall apply: Subscriber shall deliver at 8:00 a.m. New York City time on the Closing Date (or as soon as practicable following receipt of evidence from the Company’s transfer agent of the issuance to Subscriber of the Subscribed Shares on and as of the Closing Date) the Purchase Price for the Subscribed Shares by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company in the Closing Notice against delivery by the Company to Subscriber of the Subscribed Shares in book entry form, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions (other than those arising under applicable securities laws), in the name of Subscriber (or its nominee in accordance with its delivery instructions) and evidence from the Company’s transfer agent of the issuance to Subscriber of the Subscribed Shares on and as of the Closing Date.]1 In the event that the consummation of the Transaction does not occur within two (2) Business Days after the Anticipated Closing Date, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Company and the Subscriber, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than one (1) Business Day after such two (2) Business Day period has lapsed) return the Purchase Price so delivered by Subscriber to the Company by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by Subscriber, and any book entries shall be deemed cancelled. Notwithstanding such return or cancellation, unless and until this Subscription Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 6 herein, Subscriber shall remain obligated (1) to redeliver funds to the Company in accordance with this Section 2 following the Company’s delivery to Subscriber of a new Closing Notice and (2) to consummate the Closing immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the consummation of the Transaction. For the purposes of this Subscription Agreement, “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in the State of New York.

 

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(c) The Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction, or waiver in writing by each of the parties hereto, of the conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

  (i)

no suspension of the qualification of the Common Stock for offering or sale or trading in any jurisdiction and no suspension or removal from listing of the Common Stock on the Stock Exchange (as defined below) or initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes, shall have occurred, and the Subscribed Shares shall have been approved for listing on the Stock Exchange, subject to official notice of issuance;

 

  (ii)

all conditions precedent to the closing of the Transaction set forth in the Transaction Agreement, including all necessary approvals of the Company’s stockholders and regulatory approvals, if any, shall have been satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Agreement (other than those conditions which, by their nature, are to be satisfied at the closing of the Transaction pursuant to the Transaction Agreement), and the closing of the Transaction shall be scheduled to occur substantially concurrently with or immediately following the Closing; and

 

  (iii)

no governmental authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any judgment or order, law, rule or regulation (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent), which is then in effect and has the effect of making the consummation of the Transaction or transactions contemplated hereby illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting consummation of the Transaction or transactions contemplated hereby and no such governmental authority shall have instituted or threatened in writing a proceeding seeking to impose any such restraint or prohibition.

(d) The obligation of the Company to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or valid waiver by the Company of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

  (i)

the representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Subscriber Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date), in each case, without giving effect to consummation of the Transaction; and

 

  (ii)

Subscriber shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing; except where the failure of such performance, satisfaction or compliance would not or would not reasonably be likely to prevent, materially delay, or materially impact the ability of the Company to consummate the Closing.

 

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(e) The obligation of Subscriber to consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or waiver in writing by Subscriber of the additional conditions that, on the Closing Date:

 

  (i)

no amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Transaction Agreement (as the same exists at the execution of this Agreement), including, without limitation, any representation or covenant of the Company or Planet in the Transaction Agreement relating to the financial position or outstanding indebtedness of the Company or Planet, shall have occurred that would reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the economic benefits that Subscriber would reasonably expect to receive under this Subscription Agreement;

 

  (ii)

the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Subscription Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined below), which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) at and as of the Closing Date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects (other than representations and warranties that are qualified as to materiality or Company Material Adverse Effect, which representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date);

 

  (iii)

the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Subscription Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by it at or prior to the Closing, except where the failure of such performance, satisfaction or compliance would not or would not be reasonably likely to prevent, materially delay, or materially impact the ability of the Subscriber to consummate the Closing; and

 

  (iv)

there shall have been no amendment or modification of, or waiver under, any Other Subscription Agreement that materially benefits such Other Subscriber thereunder unless the Subscriber has been offered substantially the same benefits.

(f) Prior to or at the Closing, Subscriber shall deliver all such other information as is reasonably requested in order for the Company to issue the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber.

Section 3 Company Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to Subscriber, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, that:

 

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(a) The Company (i) is duly organized, validly existing as a corporation and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, (ii) has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties, to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement, and (iii) is duly licensed or qualified to conduct its business and, if applicable, is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction (other than its jurisdiction of incorporation) in which the conduct of its business or the ownership of its properties or assets requires such license or qualification, except, with respect to the foregoing clause (iii), where the failure to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Company Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken together as a whole (on a consolidated basis), that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company, or a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Shares, or the Transaction.

(b) As of the Closing Date, the Subscribed Shares will be duly authorized and, when issued and delivered to Subscriber against full payment therefor in accordance with the terms of this Subscription Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, free and clear of any liens or other restrictions (other than those arising under applicable securities laws) and will not have been issued in violation of or subject to any preemptive or similar rights created under the Company’s organizational documents (as adopted on or prior to the Closing Date), by contract or the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation. As of the Closing Date, the Subscribed Shares will be issued in book entry form and approved for listing on the Stock Exchange.

(c) This Subscription Agreement, the Other Subscription Agreements and the Transaction Agreement (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) have been duly authorized, validly executed and delivered by the Company, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by the applicable counterparties, each such Transaction Document shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and by principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

(d) The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents, and the performance of the Company under the Transaction Documents, including the execution and delivery of this Subscription Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Subscribed Shares hereunder and the compliance by the Company with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; (ii) the organizational documents of the Company; or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties that, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(e) Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of Subscriber in Section 4, the Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority, self-regulatory organization (including New York Stock Exchange (the “Stock Exchange”)) or other person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Subscription Agreement (including, without limitation, the issuance of the Subscribed Shares), other than (i) filings required by applicable state securities laws, (ii) the filing of the Registration Statement (as the term is defined in Section 5) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Section 5 below or other filings required by the Commission, if applicable, (iii) the filing of a Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities on Form D with the Commission under Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), if applicable, (iv) those required by the Stock Exchange, including with respect to obtaining stockholder approval, (v) those required to consummate the Transaction as provided under the Transaction Agreement, (vi) the filing of notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, if applicable, and (vii) any filing the failure of which to obtain would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

(f) Except for such matters as would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, there is no (i) suit, action, claim or other proceeding or arbitration before a governmental authority or arbitrator pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (ii) judgment, decree, injunction, ruling or order of any governmental authority or arbitrator outstanding against the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

(g) Assuming the accuracy of Subscriber’s representations and warranties set forth in Section 4 of this Subscription Agreement, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Subscribed Shares by the Company to Subscriber.

(h) Neither the Company, nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any person acting on its behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any Company security or solicited any offers to buy any security under circumstances that would adversely affect reliance by the Company on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act for the exemption from registration for the transactions contemplated hereby or would require registration of the issuance of the Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement under the Securities Act.

(i) Neither the Company nor any person acting on its behalf has engaged or will engage in any form of general solicitation or general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D under the Securities Act) in connection with any offer or sale of the Subscribed Shares, and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any person acting on its behalf has offered any of the Subscribed Shares in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act or any state securities laws.

(j) Except for Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (the “Placement Agents”), no broker, investment banker, finder or other person is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission solely in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company and not the Subscriber is liable for any and all amounts in connection with and due to the Placement Agents.

 

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(k) As of the date of this Subscription Agreement, the authorized share capital of the Company is 401,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 380,000,000 shares of Common Stock, 34,500,000 of which are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Subscription Agreement, (ii) 20,000,000 shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, of which 8,625,000 shares are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Subscription Agreement, and (iii) 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, of which no shares are issued and outstanding as of the date of this Subscription Agreement ((i), (ii) and (iii) collectively, the “Company Securities”). As of the date of this Subscription Agreement, 6,900,000 warrants to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price $11.50 per share (the “Public Warrants”) and 5,933,333 warrants to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 (the “Private Placement Warrants” and together with the Public Warrants, the “Warrants”) were issued and outstanding. All issued and outstanding Company Securities have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. No Warrants are exercisable on or prior to the Closing. All of the Company Securities and the Warrants (i) have been offered, sold and issued in compliance with applicable law, including federal and state securities laws, and with all requirements set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended from time to time (the “Company Certificate”), and any other applicable contracts governing the issuance of such securities; and (ii) are not subject to, nor have they been issued in violation of, any purchase option, call option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, subscription right or any similar right under any provision of any applicable law, the Company Certificate or any contract to which the Company is a party or otherwise bound. As of the date hereof, except as set forth above, as disclosed in the SEC Reports (as defined below) and pursuant to the Other Subscription Agreements, and the Transaction Agreement, there are no outstanding options, warrants or other rights to subscribe for, purchase or acquire from the Company any Company Securities, Warrants or other equity interests in the Company, or securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for such equity interests. As of the date hereof, other than First Merger Sub and Second Merger Sub (each as defined in the Transaction Agreement), the Company has no subsidiaries and does not own, directly or indirectly, interests or investments (whether equity or debt) in any person, whether incorporated or unincorporated. There are no stockholder agreements, voting trusts or other agreements or understandings to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound relating to the voting of any securities of the Company, other than (A) as set forth in the SEC Reports and (B) as contemplated by the Transaction Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (as defined in the Transaction Agreement).

(l) There are no securities or instruments issued by or to which the Company is a party containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of (i) the Subscribed Shares or (ii) the shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to any Other Subscription Agreement, in each case, that have not been or will not be validly waived on or prior to the Closing Date.

(m) Other than the Other Subscription Agreements and the Transaction Agreement (or any other agreement expressly contemplated by the Transaction Agreement) or as disclosed in the SEC Reports as of the date hereof, the Company has not entered into any side letter or similar agreement with any Other Subscriber or other investor in connection with such Other Subscriber’s or other investor’s direct or indirect investment in the Company. The Other Subscription Agreements reflect the same Per Share Price and other terms that are no more favorable to such subscriber thereunder than the terms of this Subscription Agreement, other than terms particular to the regulatory requirements of such subscriber or its affiliates or related funds.

 

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(n) As of their respective dates or, if amended, as of the date of such amendment, all reports required to be filed by the Company with the Commission (the “SEC Reports”) complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed or, if amended, as of the date of such amendment, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports (or, if amended, in such amendment) comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, year-end audit adjustments. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3(n) to the contrary, no representation or warranty is made in this Subscription Agreement as to the historical accounting treatment of the Warrants, or as to any deficiencies in disclosure (including with respect to internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures) arising from the treatment of such Warrants as equity rather than liabilities in the Company’s historical financial statements. There are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment letters received by the Company from the Commission with respect to any SEC Report.

(o) The issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and are listed for trading on the Stock Exchange under the symbol “DMYQ.” There is no suit, action, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company by the Stock Exchange or the Commission with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister the shares of Common Stock or prohibit or terminate the listing of the shares of Common Stock on the Stock Exchange, except as disclosed in the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on June 1, 2021 with the Commission. The Company has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of the shares of Common Stock under the Exchange Act.

(p) The Company is not, and is not controlled by or acting on behalf of (in connection with this Transaction), a Sanctioned Person. The Company is not a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services to a non-U.S. shell bank. For purposes of this Agreement, “Sanctioned Person” means at any time any person or entity: (a) listed on any Sanctions-related list of designated or blocked or restricted persons; (b) that is a national of, the government of, or any agency or instrumentality of the government of, or resident in, or organized under the laws of, a country or territory that is the target of comprehensive Sanctions from time to time (as of the date of this Agreement, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea region); or (c) owned or controlled by or acting on behalf of any of the foregoing. “Sanctions” means those trade, economic and financial sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes, and restrictive measures (in each case having the force of law) administered, enacted or enforced from time to time by (a) the United States (including without limitation the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Department of Commerce), (b) the European Union and enforced by its member states, (c) the United Nations and (d) Her Majesty’s Treasury.

 

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(q) The Company is not controlled by or acting on behalf of (in connection with this Transaction) a person or entity resident that: (i) has been designated as non-cooperative with international anti-money laundering or counter terrorist financing principles or procedures by the United States or by an intergovernmental group or organization, such as the Financial Action Task Force, of which the United States is a member; (ii) is the subject of an advisory issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; or (iii) has been designated by the Secretary of the Treasury under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act as warranting special measures due to money laundering concerns (any such country or territory, a “Non-cooperative Jurisdiction”), or an entity or individual that resides or has a place of business in, or is organized under the laws of, a Non-cooperative Jurisdiction.

(r) The Company is in compliance with all applicable laws, except where such non-compliance would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received any written communication from a governmental authority that alleges that the Company is not in compliance with or is in default or violation of any applicable law, except where such non-compliance, default or violation would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.

(s) The Company is not, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Subscribed Shares of the Company will not be, subject to registration as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(t) The Company acknowledges and agrees that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Subscribed Shares may be pledged by Subscriber in connection with a bona fide margin agreement, provided such pledge shall be (i) pursuant to an available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act or (ii) pursuant to, and in accordance with, a registration statement that is effective under the Securities Act at the time of such pledge, and Subscriber effecting a pledge of Subscribed Shares shall not be required to provide the Company with any notice thereof; provided, however, that neither the Company nor its counsel shall be required to take any action (or refrain from taking any action) in connection with any such pledge, other than providing any such lender of such margin agreement with an acknowledgment that the Subscribed Shares are not subject to any contractual prohibition on pledging or lock up, the form of such acknowledgment to be subject to review and comment by the Company in all respects.

Section 4 Subscriber Representations and Warranties. Subscriber represents and warrants to the Company, as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date, that:

(a) Subscriber (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and (ii) has the requisite power and authority to enter into, deliver and perform its obligations under this Subscription Agreement.

(b) This Subscription Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Subscriber, and assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of the same by the Company, this Subscription Agreement shall constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of Subscriber, enforceable against Subscriber in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting creditors generally and principles of equity, whether considered at law or equity.

 

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(c) The execution, delivery and performance by Subscriber of this Subscription Agreement, the purchase of the Subscribed Shares and the compliance by Subscriber with all of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any of the property or assets of Subscriber pursuant to the terms of (i) any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease, license or other agreement or instrument to which Subscriber is a party or by which Subscriber is bound or to which any of the property or assets of Subscriber is subject; (ii) the organizational documents of Subscriber; or (iii) any statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over Subscriber or any of its properties that, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), would reasonably be expected to have a Subscriber Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Subscription Agreement, a “Subscriber Material Adverse Effect” means an event, change, development, occurrence, condition or effect with respect to Subscriber that would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Subscriber’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, including the purchase of the Subscribed Shares.

(d) Subscriber (i) is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act), in each case, satisfying the applicable requirements set forth on Annex A, (ii) is acquiring the Subscribed Shares only for its own account and not for the account of others, or if Subscriber is subscribing for the Subscribed Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, each owner of such account is a qualified institutional buyer or an institutional accredited investor and Subscriber has full investment discretion with respect to each such account, and the full power and authority to make the acknowledgements, representations and agreements herein on behalf of each owner of each such account, and (iii) is not acquiring the Subscribed Shares with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act (and has provided the Company with the requested information on Annex A following the signature page hereto). Subscriber is not an entity formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the Subscribed Shares and is an “institutional account” as defined by FINRA Rule 4512(c).

(e) Subscriber understands that the Subscribed Shares are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Subscribed Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act and that the Company is not required to register the Subscribed Shares except as set forth in Section 5 of this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber understands that the Subscribed Shares may not be offered, resold, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of by Subscriber absent an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, except (i) to the Company or a subsidiary thereof, or (ii) pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act (including, without limitation, a private resale pursuant to so-called rule 4(a) 11/2 of the Securities Act), and, in each of cases (i) and (ii), in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the applicable states and other jurisdictions of the United States, and that any certificates or account entries representing the Subscribed Shares shall contain the restrictive legend set forth in Section 4(u). Subscriber understands that the Subscribed Shares will be subject to these securities law transfer restrictions, and as a result of these transfer restrictions, Subscriber may not be able to readily resell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of the Subscribed Shares and may be required to bear the financial

 

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risk of an investment in the Subscribed Shares for an indefinite period of time. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the Subscribed Shares will not be eligible for offer, resale, transfer, pledge or disposition pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”), absent a change in law, receipt of regulatory no-action relief or an exemption, until at least one year from the filing of “Form 10” information with the Commission after the Closing Date. Subscriber understands that it has been advised to consult legal counsel prior to making any offer, resale, pledge or transfer of any of the Subscribed Shares.

(f) Subscriber understands and agrees that Subscriber is purchasing the Subscribed Shares directly from the Company. Subscriber further acknowledges that there have not been, and Subscriber hereby agrees that it is not relying on, any representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made to Subscriber by the Company, Planet, the Placement Agents, any of their respective affiliates or any control persons, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents or representatives, any other party to the Transaction or any other person or entity, expressly or by implication, other than those representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company set forth in this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber acknowledges that certain information provided by the Company or by or on behalf of Planet was based on projections prepared by Planet, and such projections were prepared based on assumptions and estimates that are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the projections.

(g) In making its decision to purchase the Subscribed Shares, Subscriber has relied solely upon independent investigation made by Subscriber. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that Subscriber has received such information as Subscriber deems necessary in order to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Shares, including with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries, including Planet (collectively, the “Acquired Companies”) and the Transaction, and made its own assessment and is satisfied concerning the relevant financial, tax and other economic considerations relevant to Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Shares. Subscriber represents and agrees that Subscriber and Subscriber’s professional advisor(s), if any, have had the opportunity to ask such questions, receive such answers and obtain such information as Subscriber and such undersigned’s professional advisor(s), if any, have deemed necessary to make an investment decision with respect to the Subscribed Shares. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Subscriber acknowledges that it has reviewed the Company’s filings with the Commission. Subscriber further acknowledges that the proxy statement/prospectus that the Company intends to file with the Commission will include substantial additional information about the Company and the Transaction and will update and supersede the information previously provided to Subscriber. Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that none of the Acquired Companies or the Placement Agents, or any of their respective affiliates, or any of such person’s or its affiliate’s control persons, officers, directors, employees or other representatives, legal counsel, financial advisors, accountants or agents (collectively, “Representatives”) has provided Subscriber with any advice with respect to the Subscribed Shares nor is such advice necessary or desired. None of the Acquired Companies, the Placement Agents or any of their respective affiliates or Representatives has made or makes any representation as to the Company or the Acquired Companies or the quality or value of the Subscribed Shares. In addition, the Placement Agents and any of their respective affiliates or Representatives may have acquired non-public information with respect to the Company or the Acquired Companies which Subscriber agrees need not be provided to it. In connection with the issuance of the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber, none of the Placement Agents or any of their respective affiliates has acted as a financial advisor or fiduciary to Subscriber.

 

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(h) Subscriber became aware of this offering of the Subscribed Shares solely by means of direct contact between Subscriber and the Company and/or Planet, or their respective representatives or affiliates, or by means of contact from the Placement Agents and the Subscribed Shares were offered to Subscriber solely by direct contact between Subscriber and the Company and/or Planet, or their respective affiliates, or between Subscriber and the Placement Agents. Subscriber did not become aware of this offering of the Subscribed Shares, nor were the Subscribed Shares offered to Subscriber, by any other means. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company represents and warrants that the Subscribed Shares (i) were not offered by any form of general advertising or, to its knowledge, general solicitation and (ii) to its knowledge, are not being offered in a manner involving a public offering under, or in a distribution in violation of, the Securities Act, or any state securities laws.

(i) Subscriber acknowledges that it is aware that there are substantial risks incident to the purchase and ownership of the Subscribed Shares. Subscriber has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of an investment in the Subscribed Shares, and Subscriber has had an opportunity to seek, and has sought, such accounting, legal, business and tax advice as Subscriber has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates has offered Subscriber any tax advice relating to Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Shares, or made any representations, warranties or guarantees regarding the tax consequences of Subscriber’s investment in the Subscribed Shares. Subscriber is a sophisticated investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities. Subscriber understands and acknowledges that the purchase and sale of the Subscribed Shares hereunder meets (i) the exemptions from filing under FINRA Rule 5123(b)(1)(A) and (ii) the institutional customer exemption under FINRA Rule 2111(b).

(j) Alone, or together with any professional advisor(s), Subscriber has adequately analyzed and fully considered the risks of an investment in the Subscribed Shares and determined that the Subscribed Shares are a suitable investment for Subscriber and that Subscriber is able at this time and in the foreseeable future to bear the economic risk of a total loss of Subscriber’s investment in the Company. Subscriber acknowledges specifically that a possibility of total loss exists.

(k) Subscriber understands and agrees that no federal or state agency has passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Subscribed Shares or made any findings or determination as to the fairness of this investment.

(l) Subscriber is not, and is not owned or controlled by or acting on behalf of (in connection with this Transaction), a Sanctioned Person. Subscriber is not a non-U.S. shell bank or providing banking services to a non-U.S. shell bank. Subscriber represents that if it is a financial institution subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (31 U.S.C. Section 5311 et seq.), as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “BSA/PATRIOT Act”), that Subscriber maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to comply with

 

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applicable obligations under the BSA/PATRIOT Act. Subscriber also represents that, to the extent required by applicable law, it maintains, either directly or through the use of a third-party administrator, policies and procedures reasonably designed for the screening of any investors against Sanctions-related lists of blocked or restricted persons. Subscriber further represents and warrants that it maintains, either directly or through the use of a third-party administrator, policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the funds held by Subscriber and used to purchase the Subscribed Shares were derived from lawful activities.

(m) Subscriber is not currently (and at all times through Closing will refrain from being or becoming) a member of a “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of equity securities of the Company or Planet (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act).

(n) No foreign person (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.224) in which the national or subnational governments of a single foreign state have a substantial interest (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.244) will acquire a substantial interest in the Company as a result of the purchase and sale of Subscribed Shares hereunder such that a declaration to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be mandatory under 31 C.F.R. Part 800.401, and no foreign person will have control (as defined in 31 C.F.R. Part 800.208) over the Company from and after the Closing as a result of the purchase and sale of Subscribed Shares hereunder.

(o) If Subscriber is an employee benefit plan that is subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), a plan, an individual retirement account or other arrangement that is subject to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or an employee benefit plan that is a governmental plan (as defined in section 3(32) of ERISA), a church plan (as defined in section 3(33) of ERISA), a non-U.S. plan (as described in section 4(b)(4) of ERISA) or other plan that is not subject to the foregoing but may be subject to provisions under any other federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other laws or regulations that are similar to such provisions of ERISA or the Code, or an entity whose underlying assets are considered to include “plan assets” of any such plan, account or arrangement (each, a “Plan”) subject to the fiduciary or prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or section 4975 of the Code, Subscriber represents and warrants that (i) it has not relied on the Company, or any of its affiliates (the “Transaction Parties”) for investment advice or as the Plan’s fiduciary, or has been relied on for advice, with respect to its decision to acquire and hold the Subscribed Shares, and none of the Transaction Parties shall at any time be relied upon as the Plan’s fiduciary with respect to any decision to acquire, continue to hold or transfer the Subscribed Shares and (ii) the acquisition and holding of the Subscribed Shares will not constitute a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

(p) Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, firm or corporation (including, without limitation, the Company, Planet or any of their respective affiliates or any of its or their respective control persons, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives), other than the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 3 of this Subscription Agreement, in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company.

 

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(q) Subscriber acknowledges that it is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by the Placement Agents in making its investment or decision to invest in the Company. Subscriber agrees that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, none of the Placement Agents, their respective affiliates, or any of their or their respective affiliates’ control persons, officers, directors or employees, shall be liable to the Subscriber pursuant to this Subscription Agreement for any action heretofore or hereafter taken or omitted to be taken by any of them in connection with the purchase of the Subscribed Shares.

(r) When required to deliver payment pursuant to Section 2, Subscriber will have sufficient funds to pay the Purchase Price pursuant to Section 2.

(s) No broker or finder is entitled to any brokerage or finder’s fee or commission to be paid by Subscriber solely in connection with the sale of the Subscribed Shares to Subscriber.

(t) Subscriber acknowledges and agrees that the certificate or book entry position representing the Subscribed Shares will bear or reflect, as applicable, a legend substantially similar to the following:

“THIS SECURITY WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT THIS SECURITY MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) PURSUANT TO ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (II) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (III) TO THE COMPANY, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (III) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES.”

(u) Subscriber acknowledges and is aware that Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is acting as financial advisor to Planet in connection with the Transaction.

Section 5 Registration Rights.

(a) The Company shall, within fifteen (15) Business Days after the Closing (the “Filing Deadline”), file with the Commission (at the Company’s sole cost and expense) a registration statement registering the resale of the Subscribed Shares (the “Registration Statement”), and use its commercially reasonable efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (i) the 60th calendar day (or 120th calendar day if the Commission notifies the Company that it will “review” the Registration Statement) following the earlier of (A) the filing of the Registration Statement and (B) Filing Deadline and (ii) the 5th Business Day after the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review (such date, the “Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that (i) if the Effectiveness Deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Effectiveness Deadline shall

 

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be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days on which the Commission remains closed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Commission prevents the Company from including any or all of the shares proposed to be registered under the Registration Statement due to limitations on the use of Rule 415 of the Securities Act by the applicable stockholders or otherwise, such Registration Statement shall register for resale such number of shares of Common Stock which is equal to the maximum number of shares as is permitted by the Commission. In such event, the number of Subscribed Shares and any other shares to be registered for each selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement shall be reduced pro rata among all such selling stockholders and as promptly as practicable after being permitted to register additional shares under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, the Company shall file one or more new Registration Statement(s) (such new Registration Statement shall also be deemed to be “Registration Statement” hereunder) to register such additional Subscribed Shares and cause such Registration Statement(s) to become effective as promptly as practicable after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than thirty (30) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement (the “Additional Effectiveness Deadline”); provided, that the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after the filing of such Registration Statement if such Registration Statement is reviewed by, and comments thereto are provided from, the Commission; provided, further the Company shall have such Registration Statement declared effective within ten (10) Business Days after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the staff of the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review; provided, further that (i) if such day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other day that the Commission is closed for business, the Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended to the next Business Day on which the Commission is open for business and (ii) if the Commission is closed for operations due to a government shutdown, the Effectiveness Deadline shall be extended by the same number of Business Days on which the Commission remains closed. Any failure by the Company to file a Registration Statement by the Filing Deadline or to effect the Registration Statement by the Effectiveness Deadline or Additional Effectiveness Deadline shall not otherwise relieve the Company of its obligations to file or effect a Registration Statement as set forth in this Section 5. For purposes of this Section 5, the term “Company” shall refer to the Company and Planet on a combined basis following the closing of the Transaction.

(b) The Company’s obligation to include the Subscribed Shares in the Registration Statement are contingent upon Subscriber furnishing in writing to the Company such information regarding Subscriber, the securities of the Company held by Subscriber and the intended method of disposition of the Subscribed Shares (which shall be limited to non-underwritten public offerings) as shall be reasonably requested by the Company to effect the registration of the Subscribed Shares, and shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request that are customary of a selling stockholder in similar situations. Unless required under applicable laws and Commission rules, in no event shall the Subscriber be identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement; provided, that if the Subscriber is required to be so identified as a statutory underwriter in the Registration Statement, the Subscriber will have an opportunity to withdraw its Subscribed Shares from the Registration Statement. The Company agrees that, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to, at its expense, cause such Registration

 

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Statement to remain effective with respect to Subscriber, keep any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain continuously effective with respect to Subscriber, and to keep the applicable Registration Statement or any subsequent shelf registration statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of (i) three years from the issuance of the Subscribed Shares, (ii) the date on which all of the Subscribed Shares shall have been sold, or (iii) on the first date on which the undersigned can sell all of its Subscribed Shares (or shares received in exchange therefor) under Rule 144 of the Securities Act without limitation as to the manner of sale, the amount of such securities that may be sold and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144(c)(1) (or Rule 144(i)(2), if applicable). The Company shall be entitled to delay or postpone the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and from time to time to require Subscriber not to sell under the Registration Statement or to suspend the effectiveness thereof, if the negotiation or consummation of a transaction by the Company or its subsidiaries is pending or an event has occurred, which negotiation, consummation or event the Company’s board of directors reasonably believes, upon the advice of legal counsel, would require additional disclosure by the Company in the Registration Statement of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for keeping confidential and the non-disclosure of which in the Registration Statement would be expected, in the reasonable determination of the Company’s board of directors, upon the advice of legal counsel, to cause the Registration Statement to fail to comply with applicable disclosure requirements (such circumstance, a “Suspension Event”); provided, however, that the Company may not delay or suspend the Registration Statement on more than three occasions or for more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days, or more than ninety (90) total calendar days, in each case during any twelve-month period. Upon receipt of any written notice from the Company (which notice shall not contain any material non-public information regarding the Company) of the happening of any Suspension Event during the period that the Registration Statement is effective or if as a result of a Suspension Event the Registration Statement or related prospectus contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made (in the case of the prospectus) not misleading, Subscriber agrees that (i) it will immediately discontinue offers and sales of the Subscribed Shares under the Registration Statement (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, sales conducted pursuant to Rule 144) until Subscriber receives copies of a supplemental or amended prospectus (which the Company agrees to promptly prepare) that corrects the misstatement(s) or omission(s) referred to above and receives notice that any post-effective amendment has become effective or unless otherwise notified by the Company that it may resume such offers and sales, and (ii) it will maintain the confidentiality of any information included in such written notice delivered by the Company unless otherwise required by law or subpoena. If so directed by the Company, Subscriber will deliver to the Company or, in Subscriber’s sole discretion destroy, all copies of the prospectus covering the Subscribed Shares in Subscriber’s possession; provided, however, that this obligation to deliver or destroy all copies of the prospectus covering the Subscribed Shares shall not apply (i) to the extent Subscriber is required to retain a copy of such prospectus (a) in order to comply with applicable legal, regulatory, self-regulatory or professional requirements or (b) in accordance with a bona fide pre-existing document retention policy or (ii) to copies stored electronically on archival servers as a result of automatic data back-up. The Subscriber shall not in connection with the foregoing be required to execute any lock-up or similar agreement or otherwise be subject to any contractual restriction on the ability to transfer the Subscribed Shares.

 

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(c) The Subscriber may deliver written notice (an “Opt-Out Notice”) to the Company requesting that the Subscriber not receive notices from the Company otherwise required by Section 5(b); provided, however, that the Subscriber may later revoke any such Opt-Out Notice in writing. Following receipt of an Opt-Out Notice from the Subscriber (unless subsequently revoked), (i) the Company shall not deliver any such notices to the Subscriber and the Subscriber shall no longer be entitled to the rights associated with any such notice and (ii) each time prior to the Subscriber’s intended use of an effective Registration Statement, the Subscriber will notify the Company in writing at least two (2) Business Days in advance of such intended use, and if a notice of a Suspension Event was previously delivered (or would have been delivered but for the provisions of this Section 5(c)) and the related suspension period remains in effect, the Company will so notify the Subscriber within one (1) Business Day of the Subscriber’s notification to the Company by delivering to the Subscriber a copy of such previous notice of Suspension Event, and thereafter will provide the Subscriber with the related notice of the conclusion of such Suspension Event promptly following its availability.

(d) In the case of the registration effected by the Company pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform Subscriber as to the status of such registration. The Company shall advise Subscriber within five (5) Business Days:

 

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when a Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed with the Commission and when such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective;

 

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of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose;

 

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of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Subscribed Shares included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and

 

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subject to the provisions in this Subscription Agreement, of the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in any Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the Company shall not, when so advising Subscriber of such events, provide Subscriber with any material, nonpublic information regarding the Company other than to the extent that providing notice to Subscriber of the occurrence of the events listed in (i) through (iv) above may constitute material, nonpublic information regarding the Company.

 

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(e) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable.

(f) Except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend, and has suspended, the use of a prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement as contemplated by this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Subscribed Shares included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(g) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Subscribed Shares to be listed on each securities exchange or market, if any, on which the Common Stock have been listed.

(h) The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take all other steps necessary to effect the registration of the Subscribed Shares required hereby.

(i) For purposes of this Section 5, “Subscribed Shares” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the Subscribed Shares and any other equity security issued or issuable with respect to the Subscribed Shares by way of share split, dividend, distribution, recapitalization, merger, exchange, replacement or similar event, and “Subscriber” shall include any affiliate of the undersigned Subscriber to which the rights under this Section 5 shall have been duly assigned.

Section 6 Termination. This Subscription Agreement shall terminate and be void and of no further force and effect, and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall terminate without any further liability on the part of any party in respect thereof, upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Transaction Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms; (b) upon the mutual written agreement of the parties hereto to terminate this Subscription Agreement; (c) if, on the Closing Date, any of the conditions to the Closing set forth in Section 2 are not satisfied or waived and, as a result thereof, the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement are not consummated at the Closing; and (d) February 21, 2022; provided, that nothing herein will relieve any party from liability for any willful breach hereto prior to the time of termination, and each party will be entitled to any remedies at law or in equity to recover losses, liabilities or damages arising from such breach. The Company shall notify Subscriber of the termination of the Transaction Agreement promptly after the termination thereof. Upon the termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with this Section 6, any monies paid by the Subscriber to the Company in connection herewith shall be promptly (and in any event within one Business Day after such termination) returned to the Subscriber.

Section 7 Trust Account Waiver. Subscriber hereby acknowledges that the Company has established a trust account (the “Trust Account”) containing the proceeds of its initial public offering (the “IPO”) and from certain private placements occurring simultaneously with the IPO (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of the Company’s public stockholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the IPO). For and in consideration of the Company entering into this Subscription Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Subscriber

 

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hereby (a) agrees that it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any assets held in the Trust Account, and shall not make any claim against the Trust Account, regardless of whether such claim arises as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Subscription Agreement or any other matter, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”),(b) irrevocably waives any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with the Company, and (c) will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 7 shall (x) be deemed to limit any of Subscriber’s right, title, interest or claim to the Trust Account by virtue of such Subscriber’s record or beneficial ownership of securities of the Company acquired by any means other than pursuant to this Subscription Agreement, including but not limited to any redemption right with respect to any such securities of the Company, (y) serve to limit or prohibit Subscriber’s right to pursue a claim against the Company for legal relief against assets held outside the Trust Account, for specific performance or other equitable relief or (z) serve to limit or prohibit any claims that Subscriber may have in the future against the Company’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account.

Section 8 Indemnity.

(a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, to the extent permitted by law, the Subscriber, its directors, officers, employees, advisers, and agents, each person who controls the Subscriber (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) and each affiliate of the Subscriber (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, any reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) resulting from, based upon or arising out of any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus included in any Registration Statement or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in light of the circumstances in which they were made) not misleading, except to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statements, alleged untrue statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding the Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of the Subscriber expressly for use therein.

(b) The Subscriber agrees, severally and not jointly with any Other Subscriber or other selling stockholder named in the Registration Statement, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, employees, advisers and agents, each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act) and each affiliate of the Company against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) resulting from, based upon or arising out of any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in the Registration Statement, prospectus or preliminary prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances in which they were made) not misleading, to the extent but only to the extent that such untrue statements, alleged untrue

 

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statements, omissions or alleged omissions are based upon information regarding the Subscriber furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of the Subscriber expressly for use therein. In no event shall the liability of the Subscriber be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the net proceeds received by the Subscriber upon the sale of the Subscribed Shares purchased pursuant to this Subscription Agreement giving rise to such indemnification obligation.

(c) Any person entitled to indemnification herein shall (1) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (2) permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent. An indemnifying party who elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of legal counsel to any indemnified party a conflict of interest exists between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

(d) The indemnification provided for under this Subscription Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director, employee, agent, affiliate or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of the Subscribed Shares purchased pursuant to this Subscription Agreement.

(e) If the indemnification provided under this Section 8 from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by (or not made by, in the case of an omission), or relates to information supplied by or on behalf of, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Section 8, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 8 from any person

 

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who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. Any contribution pursuant to this Section 8(e) by any seller of Subscribed Shares, together with any amounts under Section 8(b), shall be limited in amount to the amount of net proceeds received by such seller from the sale of such Subscribed Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any party be liable for consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages in connection with this Subscription Agreement.

Section 9 Company’s Covenants.

(a) Within five (5) Business Days of the request of the holder of the Subscribed Shares, and subject to the execution and delivery of such representation letters and other information as the Company or its transfer agent shall reasonably request, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the removal of the legend set forth in Section 4(u), and cause its transfer agent to issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Subscribed Shares upon which it is stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account at The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), if (a) such Subscribed Shares are sold pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, (b) in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer, such holder provides the Company with an opinion of counsel, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company, to the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer of the Subscribed Shares may be made without registration under the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, or (c) the Subscribed Shares are sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144. In connection with the removal of the restrictive legend pursuant to the foregoing clauses (a) and (c), if required by the Company’s transfer agent, the Company shall cause its legal counsel to provide a legal opinion in connection with such removal request. The Company shall be responsible for the fees of its transfer agent, its legal counsel and all DTC fees associated with such issuance.

(b) With a view to making available to Subscriber the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act or any other similar rule or regulation of the Commission that may at any time permit Subscriber to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the Company agrees, from the one-year anniversary of the filing of “Form 10” information with the Commission following the Closing Date until the Subscribed Shares are sold by Subscriber, to (i) make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144; (ii) file with the Commission in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements and the filing of such reports and other documents is required for the applicable provisions of Rule 144; and (iii) furnish to Subscriber so long as it owns the Subscribed Shares, as promptly as reasonably practicable upon request, (A) a written statement by the Company, if true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of Rule 144, (B) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company with the Commission and (C) such other information as may be reasonably requested to permit Subscriber to sell such securities pursuant to Rule 144 without registration.

Section 10 Miscellaneous.

(a) All notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder shall be in writing. Any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered by internationally

 

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recognized overnight delivery service, or (iii) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iii) solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), in each case, addressed to the intended recipient at its address specified on the signature page hereof or to such electronic mail address or address as subsequently modified by written notice given in accordance with this Section 10(a).

(b) Subscriber acknowledges that the Company and the Placement Agents will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber contained in this Subscription Agreement; provided, however, that the foregoing clause of this Section 10(b) shall not give the Placement Agents any rights other than those expressly set forth herein. Prior to the Closing, Subscriber agrees to promptly notify the Company and the Placement Agents if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of Subscriber set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects. The Company acknowledges that Subscriber will rely on the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties contained in this Subscription Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the Company agrees to promptly notify Subscriber and the Placement Agents if it becomes aware that any of the acknowledgments, understandings, agreements, representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein are no longer accurate in all material respects.

(c) The Company hereby agrees and acknowledges that Subscriber (together with its affiliates) invests in numerous companies, some of which may be deemed competitive with the Company’s business. The Company hereby agrees that, to the extent permitted under applicable law, Subscriber shall not be liable to the Company for any claim arising out of, or based upon, the investment by Subscriber in any entity competitive with the Company; provided, that nothing in this Section 10(c) shall limit Subscriber’s liability resulting from a breach of the Subscription Agreement.

(d) Each of the Company, Planet, the Placement Agents and Subscriber is irrevocably authorized to produce this Subscription Agreement or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

(e) Except as otherwise provided herein, each party shall pay all of its own expenses in connection with this Subscription Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein.

(f) The Subscriber hereby acknowledges and agrees that it will not, nor will any person acting at the Subscriber’s direction or pursuant to any understanding with the Subscriber, directly or indirectly offer, sell, pledge, contract to sell, sell any option, engage in hedging activities or execute any “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act, of the Subscribed Shares until the consummation of the Transactions (or such earlier termination of this Subscription Agreement in accordance with its terms). This Section 10(f) shall not apply to any sale (including the exercise of any redemption right) of securities of the Company (i) held by the Subscriber, its controlled affiliates or any person or entity acting on behalf of Subscriber or any of its controlled affiliates prior to the execution of this Subscription Agreement or (ii) purchased by Subscriber, its controlled affiliates or any person or entity acting on behalf of Subscriber or any of its controlled affiliates in open market transactions after the execution of this Subscription Agreement in each case, provided that such action does not create any “put equivalent position,” as such term is defined in Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act, or short sale positions,

 

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with respect to the Subscribed Shares. In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) nothing herein shall prohibit other entities under common management with the Subscriber that have no knowledge of this Subscription Agreement or of the Subscriber’s participation in the Subscription (including the Subscriber’s controlled affiliates and/or affiliates) from entering into any “short sales” and (b) in the case of a Subscriber that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Subscriber’s assets and the portfolio managers have no knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Subscriber’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Subscribed Shares covered by this Subscription Agreement.

(g) Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to Subscriber hereunder (other than the Subscribed Shares acquired hereunder, if any) may be transferred or assigned. Neither this Subscription Agreement nor any rights that may accrue to the Company hereunder may be transferred or assigned (provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company may transfer the Subscription Agreement and its rights hereunder solely in connection with the consummation of the Transaction and exclusively to another entity under the control of, or under common control with, the Company). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Subscriber may assign its rights and obligations under this Subscription Agreement to one or more of its affiliates or to other investment funds or accounts managed or advised by the investment manager who acts on behalf of Subscriber or, with the Company’s prior written consent, to another person, provided that no such assignment shall relieve Subscriber of its obligations hereunder if any such assignee fails to perform such obligations.

(h) All the agreements, representations and warranties made by each party hereto in this Subscription Agreement shall survive the Closing. For the avoidance of doubt, if for any reason the Closing does not occur prior to the consummation of the Transaction, all representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the parties hereunder shall survive the consummation of the Transaction and remain in full force and effect.

(i) The Company may request from Subscriber such additional information as the Company may reasonably deem necessary to evaluate the eligibility of Subscriber to acquire the Subscribed Shares and to register the Subscribed Shares for resale, and Subscriber shall provide such information as may be reasonably requested, to the extent within Subscriber’s possession and control or otherwise readily available to Subscriber; provided that the Company agrees to keep any such information confidential except to the extent such information is already publicly available, such information is or becomes available to the Company on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Subscriber, or to the extent required to be disclosed by applicable law or reasonably necessary to register the Subscribed Shares for resale. Subscriber acknowledges that the Company may file a copy of the form of this Subscription Agreement with the Commission as an exhibit to a periodic report of the Company or a registration statement of the Company.

(j) This Subscription Agreement may not be amended, modified or waived except by an instrument in writing, signed by each of the parties hereto.

(k) This Subscription Agreement constitutes the entire agreement, and supersedes all other prior agreements, understandings, representations and warranties, both written and oral, among the parties, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

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(l) Except as otherwise provided herein, this Subscription Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their heirs, executors, administrators, successors, legal representatives, and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Placement Agents are third-party beneficiaries of the acknowledgements, representations, warranties and covenants of the (i) Company contained in this Subscription Agreement and (ii) Subscriber contained in Section 4, Section 10(b), Section 10(d) and this Section 10(l).

(m) The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (i) this Subscription Agreement is being entered into in order to induce the Company to execute and deliver the Transaction Agreement and (ii) irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Subscription Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for such damage. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to equitable relief, including in the form of an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Subscription Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Subscription Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law, in equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Company shall be entitled to specifically enforce Subscriber’s obligations to fund the Purchase Price and the provisions of the Subscription Agreement, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein. The parties hereto further acknowledge and agree: (x) to waive any requirement for the security or posting of any bond in connection with any such equitable remedy; (y) not to assert that a remedy of specific enforcement pursuant to this Section 10(m) is unenforceable, invalid, contrary to applicable law or inequitable for any reason; and (z) to waive any defenses in any action for specific performance, including the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

(n) In any dispute arising out of or related to this Subscription Agreement, or any other agreement, document, instrument or certificate contemplated hereby, or any transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, the applicable adjudicating body shall award to the prevailing party, if any, the costs and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred by the prevailing party in connection with the dispute and the enforcement of its rights under this Subscription Agreement or any other agreement, document, instrument or certificate contemplated hereby and, if the adjudicating body determines a party to be the prevailing party under circumstances where the prevailing party won on some but not all of the claims and counterclaims, the adjudicating body may award the prevailing party an appropriate percentage of the costs and attorneys’ fees reasonably incurred by the prevailing party in connection with the adjudication and the enforcement of its rights under this Subscription Agreement or any other agreement, document, instrument or certificate contemplated hereby or thereby.

(o) If any provision of this Subscription Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Subscription Agreement shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall continue in full force and effect.

(p) No failure or delay by a party hereto in exercising any right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement, and no course of dealing between the parties hereto, shall operate as a waiver of any such right, power or remedy of such party. No single or partial exercise of any

 

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right, power or remedy under this Subscription Agreement by a party hereto, nor any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce any such right, power or remedy, shall preclude such party from any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder. The election of any remedy by a party hereto shall not constitute a waiver of the right of such party to pursue other available remedies. No notice to or demand on a party not expressly required under this Subscription Agreement shall entitle the party receiving such notice or demand to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of the party giving such notice or demand to any other or further action in any circumstances without such notice or demand.

(q) This Subscription Agreement may be executed and delivered in one or more counterparts (including by facsimile or electronic mail or in .pdf) and by different parties in separate counterparts, with the same effect as if all parties hereto had signed the same document. All counterparts so executed and delivered shall be construed together and shall constitute one and the same agreement.

(r) This Subscription Agreement, and any claim or cause of action hereunder based upon, arising out of or related to this Subscription Agreement (whether based on law, in equity, in contract, in tort or any other theory) or the negotiation, execution, performance or enforcement of this Subscription Agreement, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws that would otherwise require the application of the law of any other state.

(s) EACH PARTY AND ANY PERSON ASSERTING RIGHTS AS A THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARY HEREBY WAIVES ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF ANY OTHER SUCH PARTY, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PARTIES FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION AS TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF. THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT.

(t) The parties agree that all disputes, legal actions, suits and proceedings arising out of or relating to this Subscription Agreement must be brought exclusively in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, to the extent such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware), or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (collectively the “Designated Courts”). Each party hereby consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Designated Courts. No legal action, suit or proceeding with respect to this Subscription Agreement may be brought in any other

 

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forum. Each party hereby irrevocably waives all claims of immunity from jurisdiction, and any objection which such party may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding in any Designated Court, including any right to object on the basis that any dispute, action, suit or proceeding brought in the Designated Courts has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum or venue. Each of the parties also agrees that delivery of any process, summons, notice or document to a party hereof in compliance with Section 10(a) of this Subscription Agreement shall be effective service of process for any action, suit or proceeding in a Designated Court with respect to any matters to which the parties have submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above.

(u) This Subscription Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim, action, suit or other legal proceeding based upon, arising out of, or related to this Subscription Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Subscription Agreement, may only be brought against the entities that are expressly named as parties hereto and then only with respect to the specific obligations set forth herein with respect to such party or third party beneficiary. No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, manager, member, partner, stockholder, affiliate, agent, attorney or other representative of any party hereto or of any affiliate of any party hereto, or any of their successors or permitted assigns, shall have any liability for any obligations or liabilities of any party hereto under this Subscription Agreement or for any claim, action, suit or other legal proceeding based on, in respect of or by reason of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(v) If, any change in the Common Stock shall occur between the date hereof and immediately prior to the Closing by reason of any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split (including reverse stock split) or combination, exchange or readjustment of shares, or any stock dividend, the number of Subscribed Shares issued to Subscriber shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such change.

(w) Except as otherwise provided in this Subscription Agreement, the Company shall not, without the prior written consent (including by e-mail) of Subscriber, (i) publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its advisors or affiliates, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its advisors or affiliates in any press release, marketing or similar materials or (ii) publicly disclose the name of Subscriber or any of its advisors or affiliates, or include the name of Subscriber or any of its advisors or affiliates in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or trading market, in any other documents or communications provided by the Company or Planet to any governmental entity or to any securityholders of the Company or in any other form of public disclosure, in each case, except to the extent required by the federal securities laws, exchange rules, the Commission or any other securities authorities or any rules and regulations promulgated thereby, and if required, the Company may disclose the Subscriber’s identity and beneficial ownership of the Subscribed Shares and the nature of Subscriber’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under and relating to this Agreement and, if deemed appropriate by the Company or Planet, a copy of this Agreement, all solely to the extent required by applicable law or any regulation or stock exchange listing requirement, in which case of any such disclosure under this Section 10(w), the Company shall provide to Subscriber a copy of any proposed disclosure relating to the Subscriber in advance of any publication thereof and shall include such revisions to such proposed disclosure as Subscriber shall reasonably request. Subscriber will promptly provide any information reasonably requested by the Company that is required in connection with any regulatory application or filing made or approval required in connection with the Transaction

 

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(including filings with the Commission) to the extent readily available and the Company agrees to keep such information confidential and to disclose only such information as is required with respect to such filings, except to the extent such information is already publicly available, such information is or becomes available to the Company on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Subscriber, or to the extent required to be disclosed by applicable law.

(x) The Company shall, by 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the first (1st) Business Day immediately following the date of this Subscription Agreement, issue one or more press releases or file with the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (collectively, the “Disclosure Document”) disclosing all material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the Other Subscription Agreements and the Transaction and any other material, nonpublic information that the Company or Planet has provided to Subscriber (provided that Subscriber is not, or is not an affiliate of any person who is, an existing investor in Planet) in connection with the Transaction at any time prior to the filing of the Disclosure Document. Upon the issuance of the Disclosure Document, to the Company’s knowledge, Subscriber (provided that Subscriber is not, or is not an affiliate of any person who is, an existing investor in Planet) shall not be in possession of any material, non-public information received from the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents, and Subscriber shall no longer be subject to any confidentiality or similar obligations under any current agreement, whether written or oral with the Company, the Placement Agents, or any of their affiliates in connection with the Transaction.

(y) The obligations of Subscriber under this Subscription Agreement are several and not joint with the obligations of any Other Subscriber or any other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements, and Subscriber shall not be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any Other Subscriber or other investor under the Other Subscription Agreements. The decision of Subscriber to purchase Subscribed Shares pursuant to this Subscription Agreement has been made by Subscriber independently of any Other Subscriber or any other investor and independently of any information, materials, statements or opinions as to the business, affairs, operations, assets, properties, liabilities, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company, Planet or any of their respective subsidiaries which may have been made or given by any Other Subscriber or investor or by any agent or employee of any Other Subscriber or investor, and neither Subscriber nor any of its agents or employees shall have any liability to any Other Subscriber or investor (or any other person) relating to or arising from any such information, materials, statements or opinions. Nothing contained herein or in any Other Subscription Agreement, and no action taken by Subscriber or investor pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute Subscriber and Other Subscribers or other investors as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that Subscriber and Other Subscribers or other investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Subscription Agreement and the Other Subscription Agreements. Subscriber acknowledges that no Other Subscriber has acted as agent for Subscriber in connection with making its investment hereunder and no Other Subscriber will be acting as agent of Subscriber in connection with monitoring its investment in the Subscribed Shares or enforcing its rights under this Subscription Agreement. Subscriber shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Subscription Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any Other Subscriber or investor to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

 

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[Signature pages follow.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Company and the Subscriber has executed or caused this Subscription Agreement to be executed by its duly authorized representative as of the date first set forth above.

 

DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
By:  

 

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
Address for Notices:

 

1180 NORTH TOWN CENTER DRIVE,

SUITE 100

LAS VEGAS NV 89144

ATTN: Niccolo de Masi, Chief Executive Officer

EMAIL: niccolo@dmytechnology.com

 

with a copy (not to constitute notice) to:

 

WHITE & CASE LLP

1221 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS

NEW YORK, NY 10020

ATTN:    Joel Rubinstein

EMAIL:  joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]


[SUBSCRIBER]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
Address for Notices:

 

 

Email:

Name in which shares are to be registered:

 

 

Number of Subscribed Shares subscribed for:     
Price Per Subscribed Share:    $10.00
Aggregate Purchase Price:    $_____________________________

You must pay the Purchase Price by wire transfer of United States dollars in immediately available funds to the account of the Company specified by the Company in the Closing Notice.

[Signature Page to Subscription Agreement]

 


ANNEX A

ELIGIBILITY REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBSCRIBER

This Annex A should be completed by Subscriber

and constitutes a part of the Subscription Agreement.

 

A.

QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER STATUS (Please check the box, if applicable)

 

 

Subscriber is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) (a “QIB”)

 

 

We are subscribing for the Subscribed Shares as a fiduciary or agent for one or more investor accounts, and each owner of such account is a QIB.

** OR **

 

B.

ACCREDITED INVESTOR STATUS (Please check the box)

 

 

Subscriber is an institutional “accredited investor” (within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or an entity in which all of the equity holders are accredited investors within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act, and has marked and initialed the appropriate box below indicating the provision under which it qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

** AND **

 

C.

AFFILIATE STATUS

(Please check the applicable box) SUBSCRIBER:

 

 

is:

 

 

is not:

an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) of the Company or acting on behalf of an affiliate of the Company.

Rule 501(a), in relevant part, states that an “accredited investor” shall mean any person who comes within any of the below listed categories, or who the issuer reasonably believes comes within any of the below listed categories, at the time of the sale of the securities to that person. Subscriber has indicated, by marking and initialing the appropriate box below, the provision(s) below which apply to Subscriber and under which Subscriber accordingly qualifies as an “accredited investor.”

 

 

Any bank, registered broker or dealer, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;

 

 

Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions for the benefit of its employees, if such plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000, or, if a self-directed plan, with investment decisions made solely by persons that are accredited investors;

 


 

Any employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5,000,000;

 

 

Any private business development company as defined in section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940;

 

 

Any organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, corporation, Massachusetts or similar business trust, partnership, or limited liability company, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000; and

 

 

Any trust, with total assets in excess of $ 5,000,000, not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring the securities offered, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person as described in Rule 506(b)(2)(ii) under the Securities Act.

 

 

This page should be completed by Subscriber and constitutes a part of

the Subscription Agreement.

Exhibit 10.2

Execution Version

SUPPORT AGREEMENT

This Support Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, is entered into by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (“Acquiror”), Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and certain of the stockholders of the Company, whose names appear on the signature pages of this Agreement (such stockholders, the “Stockholders”, and Acquiror, the Company and the Stockholders, each a “Party”, and collectively, the “Parties”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, concurrently herewith, Acquiror, the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (“First Merger Sub”), and Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (“Second Merger Sub” and together with First Merger Sub, each a “Merger Sub” and together the “Merger Subs”), are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Merger Agreement), pursuant to which (and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein) First Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing on as the surviving corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “First Merger”) and, at the Company’s election, immediately following the First Merger, and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the Surviving Corporation may merge with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”);

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, each Stockholder is the sole record and “beneficial owner” (as such term is used herein, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”)) of, and is entitled to dispose of and vote, the number of shares of Company Common Stock and Company Preferred Stock set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1 of this Agreement (collectively, with respect to each Stockholder, such Stockholder’s “Owned Shares”); and such Owned Shares, together with (1) any additional shares of Company Common Stock and Company Preferred Stock (or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock) in which such Stockholder acquires record and beneficial ownership after the date hereof, including by purchase, as a result of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, exchange or change of such shares, or upon exercise or conversion of any securities and (2) any additional shares of Company Common Stock and Company Preferred Stock with respect to which such Stockholder has the right to vote through a proxy, the “Covered Shares”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to their terms, upon consummation of the Mergers, each of the following agreements will automatically terminate without any further action on the part of the parties thereto pursuant to their respective terms: (i) that certain Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2017, by and among the Company and the Investors (as defined therein) (the “Investors Rights Agreement”); (ii) that certain Amended and Restated


Voting Agreement, dated as of February 2, 2017, by and among the Company and the Stockholders (as defined therein) (the “Voting Agreement”); and (iii) that certain Amended and Restated Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2017, by and among the Company, the Key Holders (as defined therein) and the Investors (as defined therein) (the “ROFR Agreement” and, together with the Investors’ Rights Agreement and the Voting Agreement, the “Investment Agreements”); and

WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to the willingness of Acquiror and each Merger Sub to enter into the Merger Agreement, the Company and the Stockholders are entering into this Agreement.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Acquiror, the Company and each Stockholder hereby agree as follows:

1. Agreement to Vote. Subject to the earlier termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 4 and the last paragraph of this Section 1, the Stockholder, solely in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, irrevocably and unconditionally agrees, and agrees to cause any other holder of record of any of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, to validly execute and deliver to the Company in respect of all of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, on (or effective as of) the second (2nd) Business Day following the date that the consent solicitation statement/prospectus included in the Registration Statement is disseminated to the Company’s stockholders (following the date that the Registration Statement becomes effective), a written consent in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A hereto, as shall be revised to address any comments from the SEC, with respect to all of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares. In addition, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 1, prior to the Termination Date (as defined herein), the Stockholder, in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, at any other meeting of the stockholders of the Company (whether annual or special and whether or not an adjourned or postponed meeting, however called and including any adjournment or postponement thereof) and in connection with any written consent of stockholders of the Company, such Stockholder shall, and shall cause any other holder of record of any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares to:

(a) approve the exercise of the drag-along rights set forth in Section 2 of the Voting Agreement;

(b) when such meeting is held, appear at such meeting or otherwise cause the Stockholder’s Covered Shares to be counted as present thereat for the purpose of establishing a quorum;

(c) vote (or execute and return an action by written consent), or cause to be voted at such meeting (or validly execute and return and cause such consent to be granted with respect to), all of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares owned as of the record date for such meeting (or the date that any written consent is executed by such Stockholder) in favor of the Mergers, the adoption of the Merger Agreement, the adoption of the Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C to the Merger Agreement, and any other matters reasonably requested by the Company that are necessary for the consummation of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement;

 

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(d) in any other circumstances upon which a consent or other approval is required under the Company’s Governing Documents or the Investment Agreements with respect to the Merger Agreement or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, vote, consent or approve (or cause to be voted, consented or approved) all of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares held at such time in favor thereof;

(e) vote (or execute and return an action by written consent), or cause to be voted at such meeting (or validly execute and return and cause such consent to be granted with respect to), all of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares against (i) any Acquisition Proposal and (ii) any other action that would reasonably be expected to (x) materially impede, interfere with, delay, postpone or adversely affect the Mergers or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, (y) result in a breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or other obligation or agreement of the Company under the Merger Agreement or (z) result in a breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or other obligation or agreement of such Stockholder contained in this Agreement.

The obligations of each Stockholder specified in this Section 1 shall apply whether or not the Mergers or any action described above is recommended by the Company Board or the Company Board has previously recommended the Mergers but changed such recommendation.

2. Closing Date Deliverables. On the Closing Date, each Stockholder shall deliver to Acquiror and the Company a duly executed copy of that certain Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, by and among Acquiror, the Company, the Sponsor, and certain of the Company’s stockholders or their respective affiliates, as applicable, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit E to the Merger Agreement. Further, the Stockholders set forth on Schedule 2 hereto shall deliver to Acquiror and the Company a duly executed copy of that certain Lockup Agreement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit B hereto and all other Stockholders shall deliver to Acquiror and the Company a duly executed copy of that certain Lockup Agreement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit C hereto.

3. No Inconsistent Agreements. Each Stockholder hereby covenants and agrees that such Stockholder shall not (i) enter into any voting agreement or voting trust with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) grant a proxy or power of attorney with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, or (iii) enter into any agreement or undertaking that is otherwise inconsistent with, or would interfere with, or prohibit or prevent it from satisfying, its obligations pursuant to this Agreement.

4. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate upon the earliest of (i) the Effective Time, (ii) the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms, (iii) such time that the Merger Agreement (including any exhibits, schedules or agreements referred to therein) shall be amended, modified or supplemented such that a Stockholder is disproportionately and adversely impacted relative to the other stockholders holding the same class of Company Capital

 

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Stock without the prior written consent of the applicable Stockholder, (iv) such time that a provision in the Merger Agreement shall be waived by the Company such that a Stockholder is disproportionately and adversely impacted relative to the other stockholders holding the same class of Company Capital Stock; and (v) the time this Agreement is terminated upon the mutual written agreement of the Company, Acquiror, Merger Subs and the Stockholder (the earliest such date under clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) being referred to herein as the “Termination Date”) and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement and in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto shall not survive the Closing or the termination of this Agreement; provided, that the provisions set forth in Sections 11 through 22 shall survive the termination of this Agreement; provided, further, that the termination of this Agreement shall not relieve any Party from liability arising from any actual fraud in respect of this Agreement prior to such termination.

5. Representations and Warranties of the Stockholders. Each Stockholder hereby represents and warrants (severally, and not jointly, as to itself only) to the Acquiror as follows:

(a) Such Stockholder is the sole beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of, and has good, valid and marketable title to or has a valid proxy to vote such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, free and clear of any Liens (other than as created by this Agreement or the organizational documents of the Company (including, for the purposes hereof, any agreements between or among stockholders of the Company). As of the date hereof, other than the Owned Shares set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1, such Stockholder does not own beneficially or of record any shares of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock (or any securities convertible into shares of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock) or any interest therein.

(b) Such Stockholder, in each case except as provided in this Agreement, the Investment Agreements or the Governing Documents of the Company, (i) has full voting power, full power of disposition and full power to issue instructions with respect to the matters set forth herein whether by ownership or by proxy, in each case, with respect to such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, (ii) has not entered into any voting agreement or voting trust, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such voting agreement or voting trust in effect with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, (iii) has not granted a proxy or power of attorney with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such proxy or power of attorney in effect, and (iv) has not entered into any agreement or undertaking that is otherwise inconsistent with, or would interfere with, or prohibit or prevent it from satisfying, its obligations pursuant to this Agreement, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such agreement or undertaking.

(c) Such Stockholder affirms that (i) if the Stockholder is a natural person, he or she has all the requisite power and authority and has taken all action necessary in order to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform his or her obligations hereunder and to consummate the transaction contemplated hereby, and (ii) if the Stockholder is not a natural person, (A) is a legal entity duly organized, validly existing and, to the extent such concept is applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and (B) has all requisite corporate or other power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and to

 

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consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Stockholder and, subject to the due execution and delivery of this Agreement by each other Party hereto, constitutes a legally valid and binding agreement of such Stockholder enforceable against the Stockholder in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws or other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies).

(d) Other than the filings, notices and reports pursuant to, in compliance with or required to be made under the Exchange Act, no filings, notices, reports, consents, registrations, approvals, permits, waivers, expirations of waiting periods or authorizations are required to be obtained by such Stockholder from, or to be given by such Stockholder to, or be made by such Stockholder with, any Governmental Authority in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Stockholder of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(e) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Stockholder does not, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement will not, constitute or result in (i) a breach or violation of, or a default under, the Governing Documents of such Stockholder (if such Stockholder is not a natural person), (ii) with or without notice, lapse of time or both, a breach or violation of, a termination (or right of termination) of or a default under, the loss of any benefit under, the creation, modification or acceleration of any obligations under or the creation of a Lien on any of the properties, rights or assets of such Stockholder pursuant to any Contract binding upon such Stockholder or, assuming (solely with respect to performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby) compliance with the matters referred to in Section 5(d), under any applicable Law to which such Stockholder is subject or (iii) any change in the rights or obligations of any party under any Contract legally binding upon such Stockholder, except, in the case of clause (ii) or (iii) directly above, for any such breach, violation, termination, default, creation, acceleration or change that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay or impair such Stockholder’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, the consummation of the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(f) As of the date of this Agreement, there is no action, proceeding or investigation pending against such Stockholder or, to the knowledge of such Stockholder, threatened against such Stockholder that, in any manner, questions the beneficial or record ownership of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares or the validity of this Agreement, or challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by such Stockholder of its obligations under this Agreement.

(g) The Stockholder is a sophisticated stockholder and has adequate information concerning the business and financial condition of Acquiror and the Company to make an informed decision regarding this Agreement and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and has independently, based on such information as the Stockholder has deemed appropriate, made its own analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. The Stockholder acknowledges that Acquiror and the Company have not made and do not make any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, of any kind or character except as expressly set forth in this Agreement. The Stockholder acknowledges receipt and review of a copy of the Merger Agreement and that the agreements contained herein with respect to the Covered Shares held by the Stockholder are irrevocable.

 

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(h) Such Stockholder understands and acknowledges that Acquiror is entering into the Merger Agreement in reliance upon such Stockholder’s execution and delivery of this Agreement and the representations, warranties, covenants and other agreements of such Stockholder contained herein.

(i) No investment banker, broker, finder or other intermediary is entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or other similar fee or commission for which Acquiror or the Company is or could be liable in connection with the Merger Agreement or this Agreement or any of the respective transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, in each case based upon arrangements made by such Stockholder in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or, to the knowledge of such Stockholder, on behalf of such Stockholder in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder.

6. Certain Covenants of the Stockholders. Other than in accordance with the other terms of this Agreement, each Stockholder severally and not jointly, hereby covenants and agrees as follows:

(a) Subject to Section 7 hereof, prior to the Termination Date, the Stockholder shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage or knowingly facilitate any inquiries or requests for information with respect to, or the making of, any inquiry regarding, or any proposal or offer that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to result in or lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (ii) engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any negotiations or discussions concerning, or provide access to its properties, books and records or any confidential information or data to, any Person relating to any proposal, offer, inquiry or request for information that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to result in or lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) approve, endorse or recommend, or propose publicly to approve, endorse or recommend, any Acquisition Proposal or (iv) execute or enter into, any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, confidentiality agreement, merger agreement, acquisition agreement, exchange agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement, option agreement or other similar agreement for or relating to any Acquisition Proposal.

Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) such Stockholder shall not be responsible for the actions of the Company or the Board of Directors of the Company (or any committee thereof), any subsidiary of the Company, or any officers, directors (in their capacity as such), employees and professional advisors of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Company Related Parties”), (ii) such Stockholder makes no representations or warranties with respect to the actions of any of the Company Related Parties, and (iii) any breach by the Company of its obligations under Section 6.5 of the Merger Agreement shall not be considered a breach of this Section 6(a) (it being understood that, for the avoidance of doubt, such Stockholder or his, her or its representatives (other than any such representative that is a Company Related Party) shall remain responsible for any breach by such Stockholder or his, her or its representatives of this Section 6(a)).

 

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(b) Each Stockholder hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees, prior to the Termination Date, not to (except in each case pursuant to the Merger Agreement), (i) directly or indirectly, (A) sell, publicly offer to sell, transfer, pledge, encumber, assign, hedge, swap, convert or otherwise dispose of (including by merger (including by conversion into securities or other consideration), by tendering into any tender or exchange offer, by testamentary disposition, by operation of Law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily (collectively, “Transfer”), or (B) enter into any Contract or option with respect to the Transfer of, any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, or (ii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (A) or (B), or (iii) take any action that would make any representation or warranty of such Stockholder contained herein untrue or incorrect or have the effect of preventing or disabling such Stockholder from performing its obligations under this Agreement; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit a Transfer to an Affiliate of the Stockholder or to another Stockholder of the Company that becomes a party to this Agreement and bound by the terms and obligations hereof (a “Permitted Transfer”); provided, further, that any Permitted Transfer shall be permitted only if, as a precondition to such Transfer, the transferee agrees in a writing, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Acquiror, to assume all of the obligations of the Stockholder under, and be bound by all of the terms of, this Agreement; provided, further, that any Transfer permitted under this Section 6(b) shall not relieve the Stockholder of its obligations under this Agreement. Any Transfer in violation of this Section 6(b) with respect to the Stockholder’s Covered Shares shall be null and void.

(c) Each Stockholder hereby authorizes the Company to maintain a copy of this Agreement at either the executive office or the registered office of the Company.

7. Further Assurances. Hereafter until the Termination Date, at Acquiror’s request and without further consideration, each Stockholder shall execute and deliver such additional documents and take all such further action as may be reasonably necessary or reasonably requested to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements. Each Stockholder further agrees not to commence or participate in, and to take all actions necessary to opt out of any class in any class action with respect to, any action or claim, derivative or otherwise, against Acquiror, Acquiror’s Affiliates, the Sponsor, the Company or any of their respective successors and assigns relating to the negotiation, execution or delivery of this Agreement, the Merger Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and hereby waives its appraisal or dissenter’s right. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the Stockholders from enforcing the Stockholders’ rights under this Agreement and the other Agreements entered into by a Stockholder in connection herewith, including the Stockholder’s right to receive the consideration as provided in the Merger Agreement.

8. Disclosure. Such Stockholder hereby authorizes the Company and Acquiror to publish and disclose in any announcement or disclosure required by the SEC (but only to the extent such disclosure is required under applicable Law) such Stockholder’s identity and ownership of the Covered Shares and the nature of such Stockholder’s obligations under this Agreement.

9. Changes in Company Capital Stock. In the event (i) of a stock split, stock dividend or distribution, or any change in Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock by reason of any split-up, reverse stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, exchange of shares or the like, (ii) the Stockholder purchases or otherwise acquires beneficial ownership of any

 

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Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock or (iii) the Stockholder acquires the right to vote or share in the voting of any Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock, the terms “Owned Shares” and “Covered Shares” shall be deemed to refer to and include such shares as well as all such stock dividends and distributions and any securities into which or for which any or all of such shares may be changed or exchanged or which are received in such transaction.

10. Amendment and Modification. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented in any manner, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, except by an instrument in writing signed by Acquiror, both Merger Subs, the Company and the applicable Stockholder.

11. Waiver. No failure or delay by any Party exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies of the Parties hereto hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies which they would otherwise have hereunder. Any agreement on the part of a Party hereto to any such waiver shall be valid only if set forth in a written instrument executed and delivered by such Party.

12. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given if delivered personally, by email (with confirmation of receipt) or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, such as Federal Express, to the Parties hereto at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified by like notice made pursuant to this Section 12):

if to the Stockholder, to the address or email address set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1, or in the absence of such address or email address being set forth on Schedule 1, the address (including email) set forth in the Company’s books and records.

if to the Company, to it at:

Planet Labs Inc.

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attn: Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email: legal@planet.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn:     Josh Dubofsky

             Saad Khanani

Email:   Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

             Saad.Khanani@lw.com

 

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if to Acquiror or either Merger Sub, to it at:

dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV

1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100

Las Vegas, Nevada 89144

Attn:     Niccolo de Masi

             Harry L. You

Email:   niccolo@dmytechnology.com

              harry@dmytechnology.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attn:     Joel Rubinstein

             James Hu

Email:   joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com

              james.hu@whitecase.com

13. No Ownership Interest. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to vest in Acquiror any direct or indirect ownership or incidence of ownership of or with respect to the Covered Shares of the Stockholder. During the term of this Agreement, all rights, ownership and economic benefits of and relating to the Covered Shares of the Stockholder shall remain vested in and belong to the Stockholder, and Acquiror shall have no authority to direct the Stockholder in the voting or disposition of any of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, except as otherwise provided herein.

14. Entire Agreement; Time of Effectiveness. This Agreement and the Merger Agreement constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. This Agreement shall not be effective or binding upon the Stockholder until after such time as the Merger Agreement is executed and delivered by the Company, Acquiror and Merger Sub.

15. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. The Stockholder hereby agrees that its representations, warranties and covenants set forth herein are solely for the benefit of Acquiror in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Agreement, and this Agreement is not intended to, and does not, confer upon any Person other than the parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder, including the right to rely upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, and the parties hereto hereby further agree that this Agreement may only be enforced against, and any Action that may be based upon, arise out of or relate to this Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Agreement may only be made against, the Persons expressly named as parties hereto.

 

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16. Governing Law and Venue; Service of Process; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a) This Agreement, and all claims or causes of action based upon, arising out of, or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles or rules of conflicts of laws to the extent such principles or rules are not mandatorily applicable and would require or permit the application of the Laws of another jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

(b) In addition, each of the parties (i) consents to submit itself, and hereby submits itself, to the personal jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware having subject matter jurisdiction, in the event any dispute arises out of this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) agrees that it will not attempt to deny or defeat such personal jurisdiction by motion or other request for leave from any such court, and agrees not to plead or claim any objection to the laying of venue in any such court or that any judicial proceeding in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum, (iii) agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in any court other than the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware having subject matter jurisdiction, and (iv) consents to service of process being made through the notice procedures set forth in Section 12.

(c) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY KNOWINGLY, INTENTIONALLY, VOLUNTARILY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

17. Assignment; Successors. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder shall (a) be assigned by any of the Stockholders in whole or in part (whether by operation of Law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of Acquiror and the Company or (b) be assigned by Acquiror or the Company in whole or in part (whether by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of (i) the Company or Acquiror, respectively, and (ii) the applicable Stockholder. Any such assignment without such consent shall be null and void. This Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

18. Enforcement. The rights and remedies of the parties shall be cumulative with and not exclusive of any other remedy conferred hereby. The parties agree that irreparable damage would occur and that the parties would not have any adequate remedy at law in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement, including each Stockholder’s obligations to vote its Covered Shares as provided in this Agreement, in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if under applicable law exclusive jurisdiction over such matter is vested in the federal courts, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware, without proof of actual damages or otherwise (and each Party hereby waives any requirement for the securing or posting of any bond in connection with such remedy), this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.

 

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19. Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void, unenforceable or against its regulatory policy, the remainder of the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, so long as the economic and legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby, taken as a whole, are not affected in a manner materially adverse to any Party hereto. Upon such a determination, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties hereto as closely as possible in an acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby be consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.

20. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, it being understood that each Party need not sign the same counterpart. This Agreement shall become effective when each Party shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by all of the other parties. Signatures delivered electronically or by facsimile shall be deemed to be original signatures.

21. Interpretation and Construction. The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The descriptive headings used herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. References to Sections are to Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term the singular. The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such term. Whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation,” whether or not they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import. “Writing,” “written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form. References to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute and to any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. References to any person include the successors and permitted assigns of that person. References from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including such date or through and including such date, respectively. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement will be construed as if drafted jointly by the Parties, and no presumption or burden of proof will arise favoring or disfavoring any Party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

22. Capacity as a Stockholder or Proxy holder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Stockholder or proxy holder signs this Agreement solely in the Stockholder’s or Proxy holder’s capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, and not in any other capacity and this Agreement shall not limit, prevent or otherwise affect the actions of the Stockholder, proxy holder or any Affiliate, employee or designee of the Stockholder or proxyholder, or any of their respective Affiliates in his or her capacity, if applicable, as an officer or director of the Company (or any Subsidiary of the Company) or any other Person, including in the exercise of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company. No Stockholder shall be liable or responsible for any action undertaken by or any breach, default, or violation of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement by any other Stockholder that is also a Party hereto or the Company and each Stockholder shall solely be required to perform its obligations hereunder in its individual capacity.

 

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23. Affiliate Agreements. The Stockholder irrevocably and unconditionally hereby agrees and consents to the termination of all affiliate arrangements indicated for termination as set forth in Schedule 3 hereto, to which the Stockholder is party, effective as of the Effective Time without any liability or obligation to the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or Acquiror.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

dMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name:  Niccolo de Masi
  Title:    Chief Executive Officer


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

GOOGLE LLC
By:  

/s/ Kenneth H. Yi

  Name: Kenneth H. Yi
  Title: Assistant Secretary

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

/s/ Will Marshall

Will Marshall

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

DRAPER FISHER JURVETSON FUND X, L.P.
By:  

/s/ John Fisher

  Name: John Fisher
  Title: Managing Member

DRAPER FISHER JURVETSON

    PARTNERS X, LLC

By:  

/s/ John Fisher

  Name: John Fisher
  Title: Managing Member

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

DRAPER ASSOCIATES

    RISKMASTERS FUND II, LLC

By:  

/s/ Tim Draper

  Name: Tim Draper
  Title: Managing Member

DRAPER ASSOCIATES

    RISKMASTERS FUND III, LLC

By:  

/s/ Tim Draper

  Name: Tim Draper
  Title: Managing Member

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

/s/ Robert Schingler Jr.

Robert Schingler Jr.

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

PLANET LABS INC.
By:  

/s/ Will Marshall

Name:   Will Marshall
Title:   Chief Executive Officer


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF WRITTEN CONSENT


EXHIBIT B

FORM OF LOCKUP AGREEMENT


EXHIBIT C

FORM OF LOCKUP AGREEMENT

Exhibit 10.3

Execution Version

SUPPORT AGREEMENT

This Support Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, is entered into by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (“Acquiror”), Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and certain of the stockholders of the Company, whose names appear on the signature pages of this Agreement (such stockholders, the “Stockholders”, and Acquiror, the Company and the Stockholders, each a “Party”, and collectively, the “Parties”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, concurrently herewith, Acquiror, the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (“First Merger Sub”), and Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (“Second Merger Sub” and together with First Merger Sub, each a “Merger Sub” and together the “Merger Subs”), are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”; capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Merger Agreement), pursuant to which (and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein) First Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing on as the surviving corporation (the “Surviving Corporation”) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “First Merger”) and, at the Company’s election, immediately following the First Merger, and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the Surviving Corporation may merge with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”);

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, each Stockholder is the sole record and “beneficial owner” (as such term is used herein, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”)) of, and is entitled to dispose of and vote, the number of shares of Company Preferred Stock set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1 of this Agreement (collectively, with respect to each Stockholder, such Stockholder’s “Owned Shares”); and such Owned Shares, together with (1) any additional shares of Company Preferred Stock (or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Company Preferred Stock) in which such Stockholder acquires record and beneficial ownership after the date hereof, including by purchase, as a result of a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, exchange or change of such shares, or upon exercise or conversion of any securities and (2) any additional shares of Company Preferred Stock with respect to which such Stockholder has the right to vote through a proxy, the “Covered Shares”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to their terms, upon consummation of the Mergers, each of the following agreements will automatically terminate without any further action on the part of the parties thereto pursuant to their respective terms: (i) that certain Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2017, by and among the Company and the Investors (as defined therein) (the “Investors Rights Agreement”); (ii) that certain Amended and Restated Voting Agreement, dated as of February 2, 2017, by and among the Company and the Stockholders


(as defined therein) (the “Voting Agreement”); and (iii) that certain Amended and Restated Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, dated as of May 9, 2017, by and among the Company, the Key Holders (as defined therein) and the Investors (as defined therein) (the “ROFR Agreement” and, together with the Investors’ Rights Agreement and the Voting Agreement, the “Investment Agreements”); and

WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to the willingness of Acquiror and each Merger Sub to enter into the Merger Agreement, the Company and the Stockholders are entering into this Agreement.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Acquiror, the Company and each Stockholder hereby agree as follows:

1. Agreement to Vote. Subject to the earlier termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 3 and the last paragraph of this Section 1, the Stockholder, solely in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, irrevocably and unconditionally agrees, and agrees to cause any other holder of record of any of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, to validly execute and deliver to the Company in respect of all of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, on (or effective as of) the second (2nd) Business Day following the date that the consent solicitation statement/prospectus included in the Registration Statement is disseminated to the Company’s stockholders (following the date that the Registration Statement becomes effective), a written consent in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A hereto (the “Written Consent”), as shall be revised to address any comments from the SEC, with respect to all of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares. In addition, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 1, prior to the Termination Date (as defined herein), the Stockholder, in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, at any other meeting of the stockholders of the Company (whether annual or special and whether or not an adjourned or postponed meeting, however called and including any adjournment or postponement thereof) and in connection with any written consent of stockholders of the Company, such Stockholder shall, and shall cause any other holder of record of any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares to vote (or execute and return an action by written consent), or cause to be voted at such meeting (or validly execute and return and cause such consent to be granted with respect to), all of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares owned as of the record date for such meeting (or the date that any written consent is executed by such Stockholder) in favor of the matters set forth in the Written Consent.

The obligations of each Stockholder specified in this Section 1 shall apply whether or not the Mergers or any action described above is recommended by the Company Board or the Company Board has previously recommended the Mergers but changed such recommendation.

2. No Inconsistent Agreements. Each Stockholder hereby covenants and agrees that such Stockholder shall not (i) enter into any voting agreement or voting trust with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) grant a proxy or power of attorney with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, or (iii) enter into any agreement or undertaking that is otherwise inconsistent with, or would interfere with, or prohibit or prevent it from satisfying, its obligations pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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3. Termination. This Agreement shall terminate upon the earliest of (i) the Effective Time, (ii) the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms, (iii) such time that the Merger Agreement (including any exhibits, schedules or agreements referred to therein) shall be amended, modified or supplemented such that a Stockholder is disproportionately and adversely impacted relative to the other stockholders holding the same class of Company Capital Stock without the prior written consent of the applicable Stockholder, (iv) such time that a provision in the Merger Agreement shall be waived by the Company such that a Stockholder is disproportionately and adversely impacted relative to the other stockholders holding the same class of Company Capital Stock; and (v) the time this Agreement is terminated upon the mutual written agreement of the Company, Acquiror, Merger Subs and the Stockholder (the earliest such date under clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) being referred to herein as the “Termination Date”) and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement and in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto shall not survive the Closing or the termination of this Agreement; provided, that the provisions set forth in Sections 10 through 21 shall survive the termination of this Agreement; provided, further, that the termination of this Agreement shall not relieve any Party from liability arising from any actual fraud in respect of this Agreement prior to such termination.

4. Representations and Warranties of the Stockholders. Each Stockholder hereby represents and warrants (severally, and not jointly, as to itself only) to the Acquiror as follows:

(a) Such Stockholder is the sole beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of, and has good, valid and marketable title to or has a valid proxy to vote such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, free and clear of any Liens (other than as created by this Agreement or the organizational documents of the Company (including, for the purposes hereof, any agreements between or among stockholders of the Company). As of the date hereof, other than the Owned Shares set forth opposite such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1, such Stockholder does not own beneficially or of record any shares of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock (or any securities convertible into shares of Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock) or any interest therein.

(b) Such Stockholder, in each case except as provided in this Agreement, the Investment Agreements or the Governing Documents of the Company, (i) has full voting power, full power of disposition and full power to issue instructions with respect to the matters set forth herein whether by ownership or by proxy, in each case, with respect to such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, (ii) has not entered into any voting agreement or voting trust, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such voting agreement or voting trust in effect with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, (iii) has not granted a proxy or power of attorney with respect to any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares that is inconsistent with such Stockholder’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such proxy or power of attorney in effect, and (iv) has not entered into any agreement or undertaking that is otherwise inconsistent with, or would interfere with, or prohibit or prevent it from satisfying, its obligations pursuant to this Agreement, and has no knowledge and is not aware of any such agreement or undertaking.

 

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(c) Such Stockholder affirms that (i) if the Stockholder is a natural person, he or she has all the requisite power and authority and has taken all action necessary in order to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform his or her obligations hereunder and to consummate the transaction contemplated hereby, and (ii) if the Stockholder is not a natural person, (A) is a legal entity duly organized, validly existing and, to the extent such concept is applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, and (B) has all requisite corporate or other power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Stockholder and, subject to the due execution and delivery of this Agreement by each other Party hereto, constitutes a legally valid and binding agreement of such Stockholder enforceable against the Stockholder in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws or other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies).

(d) Other than the filings, notices and reports pursuant to, in compliance with or required to be made under the Exchange Act, no filings, notices, reports, consents, registrations, approvals, permits, waivers, expirations of waiting periods or authorizations are required to be obtained by such Stockholder from, or to be given by such Stockholder to, or be made by such Stockholder with, any Governmental Authority in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Stockholder of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(e) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Stockholder does not, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement will not, constitute or result in (i) a breach or violation of, or a default under, the Governing Documents of such Stockholder (if such Stockholder is not a natural person), (ii) with or without notice, lapse of time or both, a breach or violation of, a termination (or right of termination) of or a default under, the loss of any benefit under, the creation, modification or acceleration of any obligations under or the creation of a Lien on any of the properties, rights or assets of such Stockholder pursuant to any Contract binding upon such Stockholder or, assuming (solely with respect to performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby) compliance with the matters referred to in Section 4(d), under any applicable Law to which such Stockholder is subject or (iii) any change in the rights or obligations of any party under any Contract legally binding upon such Stockholder, except, in the case of clause (ii) or (iii) directly above, for any such breach, violation, termination, default, creation, acceleration or change that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay or impair such Stockholder’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, the consummation of the Mergers or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(f) As of the date of this Agreement, there is no action, proceeding or investigation pending against such Stockholder or, to the knowledge of such Stockholder, threatened against such Stockholder that, in any manner, questions the beneficial or record ownership of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares or the validity of this Agreement, or challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by such Stockholder of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

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(g) The Stockholder is a sophisticated stockholder and has adequate information concerning the business and financial condition of Acquiror and the Company to make an informed decision regarding this Agreement and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and has independently, based on such information as the Stockholder has deemed appropriate, made its own analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. The Stockholder acknowledges that Acquiror and the Company have not made and do not make any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, of any kind or character except as expressly set forth in this Agreement. The Stockholder acknowledges receipt and review of a copy of the Merger Agreement and that the agreements contained herein with respect to the Covered Shares held by the Stockholder are irrevocable.

(h) Such Stockholder understands and acknowledges that Acquiror is entering into the Merger Agreement in reliance upon such Stockholder’s execution and delivery of this Agreement and the representations, warranties, covenants and other agreements of such Stockholder contained herein.

(i) No investment banker, broker, finder or other intermediary is entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or other similar fee or commission for which Acquiror or the Company is or could be liable in connection with the Merger Agreement or this Agreement or any of the respective transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, in each case based upon arrangements made by such Stockholder in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder or, to the knowledge of such Stockholder, on behalf of such Stockholder in his, her or its capacity as a stockholder.

5. Certain Covenants of the Stockholders. Other than in accordance with the other terms of this Agreement, each Stockholder severally and not jointly, hereby covenants and agrees as follows:

(a) Subject to Section 6 hereof, prior to the Termination Date, the Stockholder shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage or knowingly facilitate any inquiries or requests for information with respect to, or the making of, any inquiry regarding, or any proposal or offer that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to result in or lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (ii) engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any negotiations or discussions concerning, or provide access to its properties, books and records or any confidential information or data to, any Person relating to any proposal, offer, inquiry or request for information that constitutes, or could reasonably be expected to result in or lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) approve, endorse or recommend, or propose publicly to approve, endorse or recommend, any Acquisition Proposal or (iv) execute or enter into, any letter of intent, memorandum of understanding, agreement in principle, confidentiality agreement, merger agreement, acquisition agreement, exchange agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement, option agreement or other similar agreement for or relating to any Acquisition Proposal.

 

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Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) such Stockholder shall not be responsible for the actions of the Company or the Board of Directors of the Company (or any committee thereof), any subsidiary of the Company, or any officers, directors (in their capacity as such), employees and professional advisors of any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Company Related Parties”), (ii) such Stockholder makes no representations or warranties with respect to the actions of any of the Company Related Parties, and (iii) any breach by the Company of its obligations under Section 6.5 of the Merger Agreement shall not be considered a breach of this Section 5(a) (it being understood that, for the avoidance of doubt, such Stockholder or his, her or its representatives (other than any such representative that is a Company Related Party) shall remain responsible for any breach by such Stockholder or his, her or its representatives of this Section 5(a)).

(b) Each Stockholder hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees, prior to the Termination Date, not to (except in each case pursuant to the Merger Agreement), (i) directly or indirectly, (A) sell, publicly offer to sell, transfer, pledge, encumber, assign, hedge, swap, convert or otherwise dispose of (including by merger (including by conversion into securities or other consideration), by tendering into any tender or exchange offer, by testamentary disposition, by operation of Law or otherwise), either voluntarily or involuntarily (collectively, “Transfer”), or (B) enter into any Contract or option with respect to the Transfer of, any of such Stockholder’s Covered Shares, or (ii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (A) or (B), or (iii) take any action that would make any representation or warranty of such Stockholder contained herein untrue or incorrect or have the effect of preventing or disabling such Stockholder from performing its obligations under this Agreement; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit a Transfer to an Affiliate of the Stockholder or to another Stockholder of the Company that becomes a party to this Agreement and bound by the terms and obligations hereof (a “Permitted Transfer”); provided, further, that any Permitted Transfer shall be permitted only if, as a precondition to such Transfer, the transferee agrees in a writing, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Acquiror, to assume all of the obligations of the Stockholder under, and be bound by all of the terms of, this Agreement; provided, further, that any Transfer permitted under this Section 5(b) shall not relieve the Stockholder of its obligations under this Agreement. Any Transfer in violation of this Section 5(b) with respect to the Stockholder’s Covered Shares shall be null and void.

(c) Each Stockholder hereby authorizes the Company to maintain a copy of this Agreement at either the executive office or the registered office of the Company.

6. Further Assurances. Hereafter until the Termination Date, at Acquiror’s request and without further consideration, each Stockholder shall execute and deliver such additional documents and take all such further action as may be reasonably necessary or reasonably requested to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements. Each Stockholder further agrees not to commence or participate in, and to take all actions necessary to opt out of any class in any class action with respect to, any action or claim, derivative or otherwise, against Acquiror, Acquiror’s Affiliates, the Sponsor, the Company or any of their respective successors and assigns relating to the negotiation, execution or delivery of this Agreement, the Merger Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and hereby waives its appraisal or dissenter’s right. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the Stockholders from enforcing the Stockholders’ rights under this Agreement and the other Agreements entered into by a Stockholder in connection herewith, including the Stockholder’s right to receive the consideration as provided in the Merger Agreement.

 

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7. Disclosure. Such Stockholder hereby authorizes the Company and Acquiror to publish and disclose in any announcement or disclosure required by the SEC (but only to the extent such disclosure is required under applicable Law) such Stockholder’s identity and ownership of the Covered Shares and the nature of such Stockholder’s obligations under this Agreement.

8. Changes in Company Capital Stock. In the event (i) of a stock split, stock dividend or distribution, or any change in Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock by reason of any split-up, reverse stock split, recapitalization, combination, reclassification, exchange of shares or the like, (ii) the Stockholder purchases or otherwise acquires beneficial ownership of any Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock or (iii) the Stockholder acquires the right to vote or share in the voting of any Company Common Stock or Company Preferred Stock, the terms “Owned Shares” and “Covered Shares” shall be deemed to refer to and include such shares as well as all such stock dividends and distributions and any securities into which or for which any or all of such shares may be changed or exchanged or which are received in such transaction.

9. Amendment and Modification. This Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented in any manner, whether by course of conduct or otherwise, except by an instrument in writing signed by Acquiror, both Merger Subs, the Company and the applicable Stockholder.

10. Waiver. No failure or delay by any Party exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies of the Parties hereto hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies which they would otherwise have hereunder. Any agreement on the part of a Party hereto to any such waiver shall be valid only if set forth in a written instrument executed and delivered by such Party.

11. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given if delivered personally, by email (with confirmation of receipt) or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, such as Federal Express, to the Parties hereto at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Party as shall be specified by like notice made pursuant to this Section 11):

if to the Stockholder, to the address or email address set forth opposite

such Stockholder’s name on Schedule 1, or in the absence of such address

or email address being set forth on Schedule 1, the address (including

email) set forth in the Company’s books and records.

if to the Company, to it at:

Planet Labs Inc.

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attn: Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email: legal@planet.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

 

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Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn:   Josh Dubofsky

            Saad Khanani

Email: Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

            Saad.Khanani@lw.com

if to Acquiror or either Merger Sub, to it at:

dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV

1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100

Las Vegas, Nevada 89144

Attn:   Niccolo de Masi

           Harry L. You

Email: niccolo@dmytechnology.com

            harry@dmytechnology.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attn:   Joel Rubinstein

           James Hu

Email:   joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com

             james.hu@whitecase.com

12. No Ownership Interest. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to vest in Acquiror any direct or indirect ownership or incidence of ownership of or with respect to the Covered Shares of the Stockholder. During the term of this Agreement, all rights, ownership and economic benefits of and relating to the Covered Shares of the Stockholder shall remain vested in and belong to the Stockholder, and Acquiror shall have no authority to direct the Stockholder in the voting or disposition of any of the Stockholder’s Covered Shares, except as otherwise provided herein.

13. Entire Agreement; Time of Effectiveness. This Agreement and the Merger Agreement constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. This Agreement shall not be effective or binding upon the Stockholder until after such time as the Merger Agreement is executed and delivered by the Company, Acquiror and Merger Sub.

 

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14. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. The Stockholder hereby agrees that its representations, warranties and covenants set forth herein are solely for the benefit of Acquiror in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Agreement, and this Agreement is not intended to, and does not, confer upon any Person other than the parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder, including the right to rely upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, and the parties hereto hereby further agree that this Agreement may only be enforced against, and any Action that may be based upon, arise out of or relate to this Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Agreement may only be made against, the Persons expressly named as parties hereto.

15. Governing Law and Venue; Service of Process; Waiver of Jury Trial.

(a) This Agreement, and all claims or causes of action based upon, arising out of, or related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles or rules of conflicts of laws to the extent such principles or rules are not mandatorily applicable and would require or permit the application of the Laws of another jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

(b) In addition, each of the parties (i) consents to submit itself, and hereby submits itself, to the personal jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware having subject matter jurisdiction, in the event any dispute arises out of this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) agrees that it will not attempt to deny or defeat such personal jurisdiction by motion or other request for leave from any such court, and agrees not to plead or claim any objection to the laying of venue in any such court or that any judicial proceeding in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum, (iii) agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in any court other than the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware having subject matter jurisdiction, and (iv) consents to service of process being made through the notice procedures set forth in Section 11.

(c) EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY KNOWINGLY, INTENTIONALLY, VOLUNTARILY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

16. Assignment; Successors. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder shall (a) be assigned by any of the Stockholders in whole or in part (whether by operation of Law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of Acquiror and the Company or (b) be assigned by Acquiror or the Company in whole or in part (whether by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of (i) the Company or Acquiror, respectively, and (ii) the applicable Stockholder. Any such assignment without such consent shall be null and void. This Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

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17. Enforcement. The rights and remedies of the parties shall be cumulative with and not exclusive of any other remedy conferred hereby. The parties agree that irreparable damage would occur and that the parties would not have any adequate remedy at law in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches or threatened breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement, including each Stockholder’s obligations to vote its Covered Shares as provided in this Agreement, in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if under applicable law exclusive jurisdiction over such matter is vested in the federal courts, any state or federal court located in the State of Delaware, without proof of actual damages or otherwise (and each Party hereby waives any requirement for the securing or posting of any bond in connection with such remedy), this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.

18. Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void, unenforceable or against its regulatory policy, the remainder of the terms and provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, so long as the economic and legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby, taken as a whole, are not affected in a manner materially adverse to any Party hereto. Upon such a determination, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties hereto as closely as possible in an acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby be consummated as originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.

19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, it being understood that each Party need not sign the same counterpart. This Agreement shall become effective when each Party shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by all of the other parties. Signatures delivered electronically or by facsimile shall be deemed to be original signatures.

20. Interpretation and Construction. The words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The descriptive headings used herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. References to Sections are to Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. Any singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any plural term the singular. The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the masculine as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such term. Whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation,” whether or not they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import. “Writing,” “written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form. References to any statute shall be deemed to refer to such statute and to any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder. References to any person include the successors and permitted assigns of that person. References from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including such date or through and including such date, respectively. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement will be construed as if drafted jointly by the Parties, and no presumption or burden of proof will arise favoring or disfavoring any Party by virtue of the authorship of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

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21. Capacity as a Stockholder or Proxy holder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Stockholder or proxy holder signs this Agreement solely in the Stockholder’s or Proxy holder’s capacity as a stockholder or proxy holder of the Company, and not in any other capacity and this Agreement shall not limit, prevent or otherwise affect the actions of the Stockholder, proxy holder or any Affiliate, employee or designee of the Stockholder or proxyholder, or any of their respective Affiliates in his or her capacity, if applicable, as an officer or director of the Company (or any Subsidiary of the Company) or any other Person, including in the exercise of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company. No Stockholder shall be liable or responsible for any action undertaken by or any breach, default, or violation of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement by any other Stockholder that is also a Party hereto or the Company and each Stockholder shall solely be required to perform its obligations hereunder in its individual capacity.

22. Affiliate Agreements. The Stockholder irrevocably and unconditionally hereby agrees and consents to the termination of all affiliate arrangements indicated for termination as set forth in Schedule 2 hereto, to which the Stockholder is party, effective as of the Effective Time without any liability or obligation to the Company, the Company’s Subsidiaries or Acquiror.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

dMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
By:  

/s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name:  Niccolo de Masi
  Title:    Chief Executive Officer


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

CAPRICORN-LIBRA INVESTMENT GROUP, LP
By:  

/s/ Dipender Saluja

  Name: Dipender Saluja
  Title:

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

DATA COLLECTIVE II, L.P.
on behalf of itself and as nominee for Data Collective II Alpha, L.P., and certain affiliated entities

By: Data Collective GP, LLC

Its: General Partner

By:  

/s/ Zachary Bogue

  Name: Zachary Bogue
  Title: Managing Member

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

DCVC OPPORTUNITY FUND, L.P.

By: DCVC Opportunity Fund GP, LLC

Its: General Partner

By:  

/s/ Zachary Bogue

  Name: Zachary Bogue
  Title: Managing Member

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

TECHNOLOGY IMPACT GROWTH FUND, L.P.

By: TIGF Partners, LLC

Its: General Partner

By:  

/s/ Dipender Saluja

  Name: Dipender Saluja
  Title: Manager

[Signature Page to Company Shareholder Support Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Support Agreement to be executed (where applicable, by their respective officers or other authorized Persons thereunto duly authorized) as of the date first written above.

 

PLANET LABS INC.
By:  

/s/ Will Marshall

Name:   Will Marshall
Title:     Chief Executive Officer


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF WRITTEN CONSENT

Exhibit 10.4

Execution Version

SPONSOR SUPPORT AGREEMENT

This Sponsor Support Agreement (this “Sponsor Agreement”) is dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation (“Acquiror”), Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and the directors and executive officers of the Sponsor whose names appear on the signature pages of this Sponsor Agreement (such stockholders and affiliates, the “Insiders”, and together with the “Sponsor”, the “Sponsor Parties” and individually, a “Sponsor Party”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Merger Agreement.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, the Sponsor Parties are the holders of record and the “beneficial owners” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of 8,625,000 shares of Acquiror Class B Common Stock and 5,933,333 Acquiror Private Placement Warrants in the aggregate as set forth on Schedule I attached hereto (collectively, the “Subject Securities”);

WHEREAS, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Sponsor Agreement, Acquiror, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Second Merger Sub” and together with First Merger Sub the “Merger Subs”), and the Company, have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of the date hereof, pursuant to which, among other transactions, Merger Sub is to merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing on as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “First Merger” and, immediately following the First Merger, and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, the Company will merge with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Acquiror (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), all on the terms and conditions set forth therein; and

WHEREAS, as an inducement to Acquiror and the Company to enter into the Merger Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated therein, the parties hereto desire to agree to certain matters as set forth herein.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual agreements contained herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:


ARTICLE I

SPONSOR SUPPORT AGREEMENT; COVENANTS

Section 1.1 Binding Effect of Merger Agreement. Each Sponsor Party hereby acknowledges that it has read the Merger Agreement and this Sponsor Agreement and has had the opportunity to consult with its tax and legal advisors. Each Sponsor Party shall be bound by and comply with Sections 7.4 (No Solicitation by Acquiror) and 11.12 (Publicity) of the Merger Agreement (and any relevant definitions contained in any such Sections) as if such Sponsor Party was an original signatory to the Merger Agreement solely with respect to such provisions.

Section 1.2 No Transfer. During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the earliest of (a) the Effective Time, (b) such date and time as the Merger Agreement shall be terminated in accordance with Section 10.1 thereof (the earlier of (a) and (b), the “Expiration Time”) and (c) the liquidation of Acquiror, each Sponsor Party shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, (i) sell, publicly offer to sell, enter into contract or agree to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of, directly or indirectly, file (or participate in the filing of) a registration statement with the SEC (other than the Proxy Statement/Registration Statement) or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, with respect to any Subject Securities owned by such Sponsor Party (unless the transferee agrees to be bound by this Sponsor Agreement), (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any Subject Securities owned by such Sponsor Party or (iii) publicly announce any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (i) or (ii).

Section 1.3 New Shares. In the event that (a) any Acquiror Common Shares, Acquiror Warrants or other equity securities of Acquiror are issued to a Sponsor Party after the date of this Sponsor Agreement pursuant to any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, reclassification, combination or exchange of Acquiror Common Shares or Acquiror Warrants of, on or affecting the Acquiror Common Shares or Acquiror Warrants owned by such Sponsor Party or otherwise, (b) a Sponsor Party purchases or otherwise acquires beneficial ownership of any Acquiror Common Shares, Acquiror Warrants or other equity securities of Acquiror after the date of this Sponsor Agreement, or (c) a Sponsor Party acquires the right to vote or share in the voting of any Acquiror Common Shares or other equity securities of Acquiror after the date of this Sponsor Agreement (such Acquiror Common Shares, Acquiror Warrants or other equity securities of Acquiror, collectively the “New Securities”), then, to the extent of such Sponsor Party’s control of such New Securities, such New Securities acquired or purchased by such Sponsor Party shall be subject to the terms of this Sponsor Agreement to the same extent as if they constituted the Subject Securities owned by such Sponsor Party as of the date hereof.

Section 1.4 Closing Date Deliverables. On the Closing Date, (a) the Sponsor shall deliver to Acquiror and the Company (i) a duly executed copy of that certain Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, by and among Acquiror, the Company, the Sponsor, and certain of the Company’s stockholders or their respective affiliates, as applicable, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit E to the Merger Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) and (ii) a duly executed copy of that certain Lockup Agreement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A hereto (the “Lockup Agreement”), (b) each Insider shall deliver to Acquiror and the Company a duly executed copy of the Lockup Agreement and (c) Acquiror shall deliver to the Sponsor and the Insiders, as applicable, a duly executed copy of the Registration Rights Agreement and Lockup Agreement.

 

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Section 1.5 Sponsor Party Agreements.

(a) Prior to the Expiration Time, at any meeting of the shareholders of Acquiror, however called, or at any adjournment thereof, or in any other circumstance in which the vote, consent or other approval of the shareholders of Acquiror is sought, the Sponsor shall, solely in its capacity as a record owner of common stock of Acquiror, (i) appear at each such meeting or otherwise cause all of its Acquiror Common Shares to be counted as present thereat for purposes of calculating a quorum and (ii) vote (or cause to be voted), or execute and deliver a written consent (or cause a written consent to be executed and delivered) covering, all of its Acquiror Common Shares:

(i) in favor of each Transaction Proposal;

(ii) against any Business Combination Proposal or any proposal relating to a Business Combination Proposal (in each case, other than the Transaction Proposals);

(iii) against any merger agreement or merger (other than the Merger Agreement and the Mergers), consolidation, combination, sale of substantial assets, reorganization, recapitalization, dissolution, liquidation or winding up of or by Acquiror;

(iv) against any change in the business, management or Board of Directors of Acquiror (other than in connection with the Transaction Proposals); and

(v) against any proposal, action or agreement that would (A) impede, frustrate, prevent or nullify any provision of this Sponsor Agreement, the Merger Agreement or any Mergers, (B) result in a breach in any respect of any covenant, representation, warranty or any other obligation or agreement of Acquiror or the Merger Subs under the Merger Agreement, (C) result in any of the conditions set forth in Article IX of the Merger Agreement not being fulfilled or (D) change in any manner the dividend policy or capitalization of, including the voting rights of any class of capital stock of, Acquiror.

Each Sponsor Party hereby agrees, in such Person’s capacity as a record owner of, or owner of interests representing the economic benefits of, common stock of Acquiror, that such Sponsor Party shall not commit or agree to take any action inconsistent with the foregoing obligation set forth in Section 1.5(a).

(b) Each Sponsor Party shall comply with, and fully perform all of its obligations, covenants and agreements set forth in, the Insider Letter (as defined below), including the obligations of the Sponsor Parties pursuant to Section 1 therein to not redeem any Acquiror Common Shares owned by such Sponsor Party in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

(c) During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the earlier of the Effective Date and the termination of the Merger Agreement pursuant to Section 10.1 thereof, without the prior written consent of the Company, each Sponsor Party shall not modify or amend any Contract listed on Schedule II hereto.

 

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Section 1.6 Further Assurances. In addition to the obligations set forth in Section 1.4 and Section 1.5 of this Sponsor Agreement, each Sponsor Party shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do, or cause to be done, all things reasonably necessary under applicable Laws to consummate the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein and herein. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Sponsor Agreement, no Sponsor Party shall be obligated to bear any expense, pay any amount or grant any concession in connection with any action required to be taken by this Sponsor Agreement, except for cash expenses incurred incidental to actions required to be taken pursuant to Section 1.4 and Section 1.5 of this Sponsor Agreement.

Section 1.7 No Inconsistent Agreement. Each Sponsor Party hereby represents and covenants that such Sponsor Party has not entered into, and shall not enter into, any agreement that would restrict, limit or interfere with the performance of such Sponsor Party’s obligations hereunder.

Section 1.8 No Amendment to Insider Letter. Neither the Sponsor Parties nor Acquiror shall amend, terminate or otherwise modify that certain letter agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021, by and among the Acquiror and the Sponsor Parties (the “Insider Letter”), without the Company’s prior written consent.

Section 1.9 Waiver of Anti-Dilution Provision. Subject to and contingent upon the consummation of the Mergers, each Sponsor Party hereby waives (for itself, for its successors, heirs and assigns), to the fullest extent permitted by law and the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of Acquiror (as may be amended from time to time, the “Charter”), the provisions of Section 4.3(b)(i) of the Charter to have the Acquiror Class B Common Stock convert to Acquiror Class A Common Stock at a ratio of greater than one-for-one. The waiver specified in this Section 1.9 shall be applicable only in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and this Sponsor Agreement (and any shares of Acquiror Class A Common Stock or equity-linked securities issued in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and this Sponsor Agreement) and shall be void and of no force and effect if the Merger Agreement shall be terminated for any reason.

ARTICLE II

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Section 2.1 Representations and Warranties of each Sponsor Party. Each Sponsor Party represents and warrants as of the date hereof to Acquiror and the Company (solely with respect to itself, himself or herself and not with respect to any other Sponsor Party) as follows:

(a) Organization; Due Authorization. If such Sponsor Party is not an individual, it is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, formed, organized or constituted, and the execution, delivery and performance of this Sponsor Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby are within such Sponsor Party’s corporate, limited liability company or organizational powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company or organizational actions on the part of such Sponsor Party. If such Sponsor Party is an

 

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individual, such Sponsor Party has full legal capacity, right and authority to execute and deliver this Sponsor Agreement and to perform his or her obligations hereunder. This Sponsor Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Sponsor Party and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the other parties to this Sponsor Agreement, this Sponsor Agreement constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation of such Sponsor Party, enforceable against such Sponsor Party in accordance with the terms hereof (except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy Laws, other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights and general principles of equity affecting the availability of specific performance and other equitable remedies). If this Sponsor Agreement is being executed in a representative or fiduciary capacity, the Person signing this Sponsor Agreement has full power and authority to enter into this Sponsor Agreement on behalf of the applicable Sponsor Party.

(b) Ownership. The Sponsor is the record and beneficial owner of, and has good title to, all of the Sponsor’s Subject Securities listed across from the Sponsor’s name on Schedule I hereto and each other Sponsor Party holds interest in the Sponsor representing the economic benefit in the Subject Securities listed across from such Sponsor Party’s name on Schedule I hereto, and there exist no Liens or any other limitation or restriction (including any restriction on the right to vote, sell or otherwise dispose of such Subject Securities (other than transfer restrictions under the Securities Act)) affecting any such Subject Securities owned by the Sponsor, other than Liens pursuant to (i) this Sponsor Agreement, (ii) the Acquiror Governing Documents, (iii) the Merger Agreement, (iv) the Insider Letter or (v) any applicable securities Laws. The Sponsor’s Subject Securities are the only equity securities in Acquiror owned of record or beneficially by the Sponsor on the date of this Sponsor Agreement, and none of the Sponsor’s Subject Securities are subject to any proxy, voting trust or other agreement or arrangement with respect to the voting of such Subject Securities, except as provided hereunder and under the Insider Letter. Other than the Acquiror Warrants held by such Sponsor Party and the Subscription Agreement to which the Sponsor is a party, such Sponsor Party does not hold or own any rights to acquire (directly or indirectly) any equity securities of Acquiror or any equity securities convertible into, or which can be exchanged for, equity securities of Acquiror.

(c) No Conflicts. The execution and delivery of this Sponsor Agreement by such Sponsor Party does not, and the performance by such Sponsor Party of his, her or its obligations hereunder will not, (i) if such Sponsor Party is not an individual, conflict with or result in a violation of the organizational documents of such Sponsor Party or (ii) require any consent or approval that has not been given or other action that has not been taken by any Person (including under any Contract binding upon such Sponsor Party or such Sponsor Party’s Subject Securities), in each case, to the extent such consent, approval or other action would prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by such Sponsor Party of its, his or her obligations under this Sponsor Agreement.

(d) Litigation. There are no Actions pending against such Sponsor Party, or to the knowledge of such Sponsor Party threatened against such Sponsor Party, before (or, in the case of threatened Actions, that would be before) any arbitrator or any Governmental Authority, which in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin or materially delay the performance by such Sponsor Party of its, his or her obligations under this Sponsor Agreement.

 

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(e) Brokerage Fees. Except as described on Section 5.13 of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter, no broker, finder, investment banker or other Person is entitled to any brokerage fee, finders’ fee or other commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement based upon arrangements made by such Sponsor Party, for which Acquiror or any of its Subsidiaries may become liable.

(f) Affiliate Arrangements. Except as set forth on Schedule II attached hereto or any Acquiror SEC Filings, neither such Sponsor Party nor any anyone related by blood, marriage or adoption to such Sponsor Party or, to the knowledge of such Sponsor Party, any Person in which such Sponsor Party has a direct or indirect legal, contractual or beneficial ownership of 5% or greater is party to, or has any rights with respect to or arising from, any Contract with Acquiror or its Subsidiaries.

(g) Acknowledgment. Such Sponsor Party understands and acknowledges that each of Acquiror and the Company is entering into the Merger Agreement in reliance upon such Sponsor Party’s execution and delivery of this Sponsor Agreement.

ARTICLE III

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 3.1 Termination. This Sponsor Agreement and all of its provisions (except for Section 1.8 of this Sponsor Agreement) shall terminate and be of no further force or effect upon the earliest of (a) the Expiration Time, (b) the liquidation of Acquiror and (c) the written agreement of the Sponsor, Acquiror, and the Company. Upon such termination of this Sponsor Agreement, all obligations of the parties under this Sponsor Agreement will terminate, without any liability or other obligation on the part of any party hereto to any Person in respect hereof or the transactions contemplated hereby, and no party hereto shall have any claim against another (and no person shall have any rights against such party), whether under contract, tort or otherwise, with respect to the subject matter hereof; provided, however, that the termination of this Sponsor Agreement shall not relieve any party hereto from liability arising from any actual fraud in respect of this Sponsor Agreement occurring prior to such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Article III shall survive the termination of this Sponsor Agreement.

Section 3.2 Governing Law. This Sponsor Agreement, and all claims or causes of action (whether in contract or tort) that may be based upon, arise out of or relate to this Sponsor Agreement or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Sponsor Agreement (including any claim or cause of action based upon, arising out of or related to any representation or warranty made in or in connection with this Sponsor Agreement) will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal Laws of the State of Delaware applicable to agreements executed and performed entirely within such State.

 

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Section 3.3 CONSENT TO JURISDICTION AND SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.

(a) THE PARTIES TO THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT SUBMIT TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE COURTS LOCATED IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE OR THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES LOCATED IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE IN RESPECT OF THE INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT AND ANY RELATED AGREEMENT, CERTIFICATE OR OTHER DOCUMENT DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH AND BY THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT WAIVE, AND AGREE NOT TO ASSERT, ANY DEFENSE IN ANY ACTION FOR THE INTERPRETATION OR ENFORCEMENT OF THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT AND ANY RELATED AGREEMENT, CERTIFICATE OR OTHER DOCUMENT DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH, THAT THEY ARE NOT SUBJECT THERETO OR THAT SUCH ACTION MAY NOT BE BROUGHT OR IS NOT MAINTAINABLE IN SUCH COURTS OR THAT THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT MAY NOT BE ENFORCED IN OR BY SUCH COURTS OR THAT THEIR PROPERTY IS EXEMPT OR IMMUNE FROM EXECUTION, THAT THE ACTION IS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM, OR THAT THE VENUE OF THE ACTION IS IMPROPER. SERVICE OF PROCESS WITH RESPECT THERETO MAY BE MADE UPON ANY PARTY TO THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT BY MAILING A COPY THEREOF BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO SUCH PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 3.8.

(b) WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (II) EACH SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (III) EACH SUCH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) EACH SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS SPONSOR AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 3.3.

Section 3.4 Assignment. This Sponsor Agreement and all of the provisions hereof will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors and permitted assigns. Neither this Sponsor Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder will be assigned (including by operation of law) without the prior written consent of the parties hereto. Any purported assignment or delegation not permitted under this Section 3.4 shall be null and void.

Section 3.5 Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage may occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Sponsor Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It is accordingly agreed that the parties hereto shall be entitled to seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Sponsor Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Sponsor Agreement in the chancery court or any other state or federal court within the State of Delaware, this being in addition to any other remedy to which such party is entitled at law or in equity.

 

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Section 3.6 Amendment. This Sponsor Agreement may not be amended, changed, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified or terminated, except upon the execution and delivery of a written agreement executed by Acquiror, the Company and the Sponsor.

Section 3.7 Severability. If any provision of this Sponsor Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Sponsor Agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any provision of this Sponsor Agreement held invalid or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid or unenforceable.

Section 3.8 Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties hereto shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) when delivered in person, (b) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (c) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service or (d) when e-mailed during normal business hours (and otherwise as of the immediately following Business Day), addressed as follows:

 

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If to Acquiror:

dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV

1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100

Las Vegas, Nevada 89144

Attention:    Niccolo de Masi

                    Harry L. You

Email:          niccolo@dmytechnology.com

                    harry@dmytechnology.com

with a copy to (which will not constitute notice):

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attention:     Joel Rubinstein

                    James Hu

Email:          joel.rubinstein@whitecase.com

                    james.hu@whitecase.com

If to the Company:

Planet Labs Inc.

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attention:      Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email:            legal@planet.com

with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attention:    Josh Dubofsky

                    Saad Khanani

Email:         Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

                   Saad.Khanani@lw.com

 

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If to a Sponsor Party:

To such Sponsor Party’s address set forth in Schedule I

with a copy to (which will not constitute notice):

White & Case LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

Attention:     Joel Rubinstein

                    James Hu

Email:          niccolo@dmytechnology.com

                    harry@dmytechnology.com

Section 3.9 Counterparts. This Sponsor Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts (any of which may be delivered by electronic transmission), each of which shall constitute an original, and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

Section 3.10 Trust Account Waiver. Section 11.1 of the Merger Agreement is hereby incorporated into this Sponsor Agreement, mutatis mutandis.

Section 3.11 Entire Agreement. This Sponsor Agreement and the agreements referenced herein constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties hereto to the extent they relate in any way to the subject matter hereof.

Section 3.12 Publicity. Except to the extent required by applicable Law or legal process, neither Acquiror nor the Company may disclose the identities of any direct or indirect members or investors of the Sponsor or their direct or indirect interests in the Sponsor (other than the Sponsor Parties) without the Sponsor’s prior written consent.

Section 3.13 Capacity as a Stockholder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each Sponsor Party signs this Sponsor Agreement solely in such Person’s capacity as a record owner of, or owner of interests representing the economic benefits of, common stock of Acquiror, and not in any other capacity and this Sponsor Agreement shall not limit, prevent or otherwise affect the actions of any Sponsor Party or any Affiliate, employee or designee of the Sponsor Party, or any of their respective Affiliates in his or her capacity, if applicable, as an officer or director of Acquiror, either Merger Sub or any other Person, including in the exercise of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer of Acquiror. No Sponsor Party shall be liable or responsible for any breach, default, or violation of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement by any other Sponsor Party that is also a party hereto and each Sponsor Party shall solely be required to perform its obligations hereunder in its individual capacity.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Sponsor Parties, Acquiror, and the Company have each caused this Sponsor Support Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

SPONSOR:
DMY SPONSOR IV, LLC
By:  

/s/ Harry L. You

  Name: Harry L. You
  Title: Manager

[Signature Page to Sponsor Support Agreement]


INSIDERS:
By:  

            /s/ Harry L. You

  Name: Harry L. You
By:  

            /s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
By:  

            /s/ Darla Anderson

  Name: Darla Anderson
By:  

            /s/ Francesca Luthi

  Name: Francesca Luthi
By:  

            /s/ Charles Wert

  Name: Charles Wert

[Signature Page to Sponsor Support Agreement]


ACQUIROR:
DMY TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC. IV
By:  

            /s/ Niccolo de Masi

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Sponsor Support Agreement]


COMPANY:
PLANET LABS INC.
By:  

            /s/ Will Marshall

  Name: Will Marshall
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Sponsor Support Agreement]


EXHIBIT A

FORM OF LOCKUP AGREEMENT

[Exhibit A to Sponsor Support Agreement]

Exhibit 10.5

FORM OF AMENDED AND RESTATED

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, is made and entered into by and among (i) [PUBCO], a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (formerly known as dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, a Delaware corporation), (ii) dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), (iii) solely for purposes of Article I, Section 2.4.6 and Article V, (A) Niccolo de Masi and (B) Harry L. You (each, a “Sponsor Principal” and collectively, the “Sponsor Principals”), (iv) (A) Darla Anderson, (B) Francesca Luthi, and (C) Charles E. Wert (each, a “DMY Independent Director” and, collectively, the “DMY Independent Directors” and together with the Sponsor, the “DMY Holders” and each, a “DMY Holder”), and (v) certain former stockholders of Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”) identified on the signature pages hereto (such stockholders, the “Planet Holders” and, collectively with the DMY Holders, and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 or Section 5.10 of this Agreement, the “Holders” and each, a “Holder”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company, the Sponsor, the Sponsor Principals and the DMY Independent Directors are party to that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021 (the “Original RRA”);

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 7, 2021 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Planet;

WHEREAS, on the date hereof, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Planet Holders received shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), of the Company;

WHEREAS, on the date hereof, certain other investors (such other investors, collectively, the “Third Party Investor Stockholders”) purchased an aggregate of 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock (the “Investor Shares”) in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act pursuant to the respective Subscription Agreements, each dated as of July 7, 2021, entered into by and between the Company and each of the Third Party Investor Stockholders (each, a “Subscription Agreement” and, collectively, the “Subscription Agreements”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 5.5 of the Original RRA, the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth therein may be amended or modified upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders (as defined in the Original RRA) of at least a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Original RRA) at the time in question, and the Sponsor is the Holder of at least a majority-in-interest of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Original RRA) as of the date hereof; and

 


WHEREAS, the Company, the Sponsor, the Sponsor Principals, and the DMY Independent Directors desire to amend and restate the Original RRA in its entirety and enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company, as set forth in this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:

Additional Holder” shall have the meaning given in Section 5.10.

Additional Holder Common Stock” shall have the meaning given in Section 5.10.

Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain a Misstatement, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, declared effective or used, as the case may be, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Block Trade” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.4.1.

Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.

Class B Common Stock” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Closing” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Closing Date” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Stock” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

 

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Company” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto and includes the Company’s successors by recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, reorganization or similar transaction.

Competing Registration Rights” shall have the meaning given in Section 5.7.

Demanding Holder” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

DMY Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

DMY Independent Director” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

Form S-1 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.1.

Form S-3 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.1.

Founders” shall mean Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler.

Holder Information” shall have the meaning given in Section 4.1.2.

Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto, for so long as such person or entity holds any Registrable Securities.

Insiders Letter Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Investor Shares” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Joinder” shall have the meaning given in Section 5.10.

Lock-Up Agreement A” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Lock-Up Agreement B” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Lock-Up Agreement C” shall have the meaning given in the Merger Agreement.

Lock-Up Period” shall mean (a) with respect to the DMY Holders and their respective Permitted Transferees, the Lock-up Period as defined in Lock-Up Agreement A, (b) with respect to the Founders and their respective Permitted Transferees, the Lock-Up Period as defined in Lock-Up Agreement B, and (c) with respect to all other Planet Holders, the Lock-Up Period as defined in Lock-Up Agreement C.

Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.5.

Merger Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Minimum Takedown Threshold” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

 

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Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus (in the case of a Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

New Registration Statement” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.7.

Original RRA” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Other Coordinated Offering” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.4.1.

Permitted Transferees” shall mean (a) with respect to the DMY Holders and their respective Permitted Transferees, (i) prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any person or entity to whom such Holder is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities pursuant to Lock-Up Agreement A and (ii) after the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any person or entity to whom such Holder is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities, subject to and in accordance with any applicable agreement between such Holder and/or their respective Permitted Transferees and the Company and any transferee thereafter; (b) with respect to the Founders and their respective Permitted Transferees, (i) prior to the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, any person or entity to whom such Holder is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities pursuant to Lock-up Agreement B and (ii) after the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any person or entity to whom such Holder is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities, subject to and in accordance with any applicable agreement between such Holder and/or their respective Permitted Transferees and the Company and any transferee thereafter; and (c) with respect to all other Planet Holders and their respective Permitted Transferees, (i) prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any person or entity to whom such Holder is permitted to transfer Registrable Securities pursuant to Lock-Up Agreement C and (ii) after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period, to any person or entity to whom such Holder of Registrable Securities is permitted to transfer such Registrable Securities, subject to and in accordance with any applicable agreement between such Holder and/or their respective Permitted Transferees and the Company and any transferee thereafter.

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.2.1.

Planet” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Planet Holders” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, as supplemented by any and all prospectus supplements and as amended by any and all post-effective amendments and including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.

Registrable Security” shall mean (a) any outstanding shares of Common Stock or any other equity security (including the Warrants and shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of the Warrants or any other equity security, including for the avoidance of doubt, the shares of Common Stock underlying shares of Class B Common Stock, or any warrants or shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of any loan pursuant to the Insiders Letter Agreement) of the Company held by a Holder immediately following the Closing (including any securities distributable pursuant to the Merger Agreement); (b) any outstanding shares of

 

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Common Stock or any other equity security (including the Warrants and shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of the Warrants or any other equity security, including for the avoidance of doubt, the shares of Common Stock underlying shares of Class B Common Stock, or any warrants or shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of any loan pursuant to the Insiders Letter Agreement) of the Company acquired by a Holder following the date hereof to the extent that such securities are “restricted securities” (as defined in Rule 144) or are otherwise held by an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 144) of the Company; (c) any Additional Holder Common Stock; (d) any Vesting Shares, any Vesting Warrants and any shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of any Vesting Warrants (each as defined in Lock-Up Agreement A) and (e) any other equity security of the Company or any of its subsidiaries issued or issuable with respect to any securities referenced in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above by way of a stock dividend or stock split or in connection with a recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, reorganization, exchange, or similar transaction; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Security, such securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities upon the earliest to occur of: (A) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such securities shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such securities shall have been sold, transferred, disposed of or exchanged in accordance with such Registration Statement by the applicable Holder; (B) (i) such securities shall have been otherwise transferred (other than to Permitted Transferees), (ii) new certificates for such securities not bearing (or book entry positions not subject to) a legend restricting further transfer shall have been delivered by the Company and (iii) subsequent public distribution of such securities shall not require registration under the Securities Act; (C) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding; (D) such securities may be sold without registration pursuant to Rule 144 or any successor rule promulgated under the Securities Act (but with no volume or other restrictions or limitations including as to manner or timing of sale); and (E) such securities have been sold to, or through, a broker, dealer or underwriter in a public distribution or other public securities transaction.

Registration” shall mean a registration, including any related Shelf Takedown, effected by preparing and filing a registration statement, Prospectus or similar document in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and such registration statement becoming effective.

Registration Expenses” shall mean the documented, out-of-pocket expenses of a Registration, including, without limitation, the following:

(A) all registration and filing fees (including fees with respect to filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.) and any national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed;

(B) fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of outside counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

(C) printing, messenger, telephone and delivery expenses;

(D) reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

 

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(E) reasonable fees and disbursements of all independent registered public accountants of the Company incurred specifically in connection with such Registration, including the expenses of any special audits and/or “cold comfort” letters required by or incident to such performance and compliance;

(F) reasonable and documented fees and disbursements not to exceed $50,000 in the aggregate for a single counsel (including local and special counsel, to the extent necessary) for the DMY Holders incurred in connection with any registration statement or registered offering (including any Registration) covering Registrable Securities;

(G) in an Underwritten Offering or Other Coordinated Offering, reasonable fees and expenses not to exceed $50,000 in the aggregate for each Registration of one (1) legal counsel selected by the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders;

(H) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to analyst and investor presentations or any “road show” undertaken in connection with any Registration and/or marketing of the Registrable Securities (including the expenses pursuant to clause (F) and (G) above); and

(I) any other fees and disbursements customarily paid by the issuers of securities, excluding in any case, any underwriting fees payable to a third party in connection with such issuance.

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement that covers Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus included in such registration statement, amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registration statement, and all exhibits to and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

SEC Guidance” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.7.

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf” shall mean the Form S-1 Shelf, the Form S-3 Shelf or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be.

Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration of securities pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Commission in accordance with and pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule then in effect).

Shelf Takedown” shall mean an Underwritten Shelf Takedown or any proposed transfer or sale using a Registration Statement, including a Piggyback Registration.

Sponsor shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Sponsor Letter means that certain Letter Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021, by and among dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, its officers, its directors and the Sponsor.

 

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Sponsor Principal” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble hereto.

Sponsor Support Agreement” means that certain Sponsor Support Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and among the Sponsor, the Company, Planet and the directors and executive officers of the Sponsor.

Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.2.

Transfer” shall mean the (a) sale or assignment of, offer to sell, contract or agreement to sell, hypothecate, pledge, grant of any option to purchase or otherwise dispose of or agreement to dispose of, directly or indirectly, or establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act with respect to, any security, (b) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, or (c) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (a) or (b).

Underwriter” shall mean a securities dealer who purchases any Registrable Securities as principal in an Underwritten Offering and not as part of such dealer’s market-making activities.

Underwritten Offering” shall mean a Registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an Underwriter in a firm commitment underwriting for distribution to the public.

Underwritten Shelf Takedown” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.4.

Warrants” means the outstanding warrants, each exercisable for one Common Share, to purchase an aggregate of 5,933,333 Common Shares, issued to the Sponsor pursuant to that certain Private Placement Warrants Purchase Agreement, dated March 4, 2021, by and among the Sponsor and dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV.

Withdrawal Notice” shall have the meaning given in Section 2.1.6.

ARTICLE II

REGISTRATIONS AND OFFERINGS

2.1 Shelf Registration.

2.1.1 Filing. Within thirty (30) calendar days following the Closing Date, the Company shall submit to or file with the Commission a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-1 (the “Form S-1 Shelf”) or a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 (the “Form S-3 Shelf”), if the Company is then eligible to use a Form S-3 Shelf, in each case, covering the resale of all the Registrable Securities (determined as of two (2) business days prior to such submission or filing) on a delayed or continuous basis and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to have such Shelf declared effective as soon as practicable after the filing thereof, but no later than the earlier of (a) the sixtieth (60th) calendar day following the filing date thereof, which shall be extended to the ninetieth (90th) calendar day following the

 

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filing date thereof if the Commission notifies the Company that it will “review” the Registration Statement and (b) the fifth (5th) business day after the date the Company is notified (orally or in writing, whichever is earlier) by the Commission that the Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review. Such Shelf shall provide for the resale of the Registrable Securities included therein pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder named therein. The Company shall maintain a Shelf in accordance with the terms hereof, and shall prepare and file with the Commission such amendments, including post-effective amendments, and supplements as may be necessary to keep a Shelf continuously effective, available for use to permit the Holders named therein to sell their Registrable Securities included therein and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act, including by filing a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2.1.2, until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. In the event the Company files a Form S-1 Shelf, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to convert the Form S-1 Shelf (and any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement) to a (i) Form S-3 Shelf or (ii) file a Form S-3 Shelf as the case may be, in each case, as soon as practicable after the Company is eligible to use Form S-3. The Company’s obligation under this Section 2.1.1, shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to Section 3.4.

2.1.2 Subsequent Shelf Registration. If any Shelf ceases to be effective under the Securities Act for any reason at any time while Registrable Securities are still outstanding, the Company shall, subject to Section 3.4, use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable cause such Shelf to again become effective under the Securities Act (including using its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf), and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable amend such Shelf in a manner reasonably expected to result in the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf or file an additional registration statement as a Shelf Registration (a “Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement”) registering the resale of all Registrable Securities (determined as of two (2) business days prior to such filing), and pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder named therein. If a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement is filed, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) cause such Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is reasonably practicable after the filing thereof (it being agreed that the Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement shall be an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) if the Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) at the most recent applicable eligibility determination date) and (ii) keep such Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, available for use to permit the Holders named therein to sell their Registrable Securities included therein and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. Any such Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 to the extent that the Company is eligible to use such form. Otherwise, such Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement shall be on another appropriate form. The Company’s obligation under this Section 2.1.2, shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to Section 3.4.

 

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2.1.3 Additional Registrable Securities. Subject to Section 3.4, in the event that any Holder holds Registrable Securities that are not registered for resale on a delayed or continuous basis, the Company, upon written request of a DMY Holder or a Planet Holder, shall promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the resale of such Registrable Securities to be covered by either, at the Company’s option, any then available Shelf (including by means of a post-effective amendment) or by filing a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement and cause the same to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and such Shelf or Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement shall be subject to the terms hereof; provided, however, that the Company shall only be required to cause such Registrable Securities to be so covered twice per calendar year for each of the DMY Holders, collectively, on the one hand, and the Planet Holders, collectively, on the other.

2.1.4 Requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns. Subject to Section 3.4, at any time and from time to time when an effective Shelf is on file with the Commission, a DMY Holder or a Planet Holder (a DMY Holder or a Planet Holder being in such case, a “Demanding Holder”) may request to sell all or any portion of its Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering that is registered pursuant to the Shelf (each, an “Underwritten Shelf Takedown”); provided that the Company shall only be obligated to effect an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if such offering shall include Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by the Demanding Holder, either individually or together with other Demanding Holders, with an anticipated gross aggregate offering price of at least $25 million (the “Minimum Takedown Threshold”). All requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns shall be made by giving written notice to the Company, which shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown. The Demanding Holders shall have the right to select the Underwriters for such offering (which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks), and to agree to the pricing and other terms of such offering, subject to the Company’s prior approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). The DMY Holders may collectively demand not more than one (1) Underwritten Shelf Takedown and the Planet Holders may collectively demand not more than four (4) Underwritten Shelf Takedowns, in each case, pursuant to this Section 2.1.4 in any twelve (12) month period. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company may effect any Underwritten Offering pursuant to any then effective Registration Statement, including a Form S-3, that is then available for such offering.

2.1.5 Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, in good faith, advise the Company, the Demanding Holders and the Piggyback Holders (if any) in writing that the dollar amount or number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and the Piggyback Holders (if any) desire to sell, taken together with all other shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that the Company desires to sell and all other shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, that have been requested to be sold in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights held by any other shareholders, exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number of shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that can be sold in the Underwritten Offering without adversely affecting the proposed offering price, the timing, the distribution method, or the probability of success of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of such securities, as applicable, the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, as follows: at all times (i) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Piggyback Holders (if any) (pro rata based on the respective then-ownership of Registrable Securities of each Demanding Holder and Piggyback Holder (if any) that has requested to be

 

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included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities, but at all times subject to the terms of the Lock-Up Agreement applicable to such Holder; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities of other Persons that the Company is obligated to include in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such Persons and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

2.1.6 Withdrawal. Prior to the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used for marketing such Underwritten Shelf Takedown, a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall have the right to withdraw from such Underwritten Shelf Takedown for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification (a “Withdrawal Notice”) to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Underwritten Shelf Takedown; provided that the DMY Holders or the Planet Holders may elect to have the Company continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if the Minimum Takedown Threshold would still be satisfied by the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown by the DMY Holders and the Planet Holders or any of their respective Permitted Transferees, as applicable. If withdrawn, a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall constitute a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown by the withdrawing Demanding Holder for purposes of Section 2.1.4, unless either (i) such Demanding Holder has not previously withdrawn any Underwritten Shelf Takedown or (ii) such Demanding Holder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses with respect to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown (or, if there is more than one Demanding Holder, a pro rata portion of such Registration Expenses based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder has requested be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown); provided that, if the DMY Holders or the Planet Holders elect to continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, such Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall instead count as an Underwritten Shelf Takedown demanded by the DMY Holders, the Planet Holders, as applicable, for purposes of Section 2.1.4. Following the receipt of any Withdrawal Notice, the Company shall promptly forward such Withdrawal Notice to any other Holders that had elected to participate in such Shelf Takedown. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Shelf Takedown prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.1.6, other than if a Demanding Holder elects to pay such Registration Expenses pursuant to clause (ii) of the second sentence of this Section 2.1.6.

2.1.7 New Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in this Section 2.1, in the event the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly (i) inform each of the holders thereof and use its commercially reasonable efforts to file amendments to the Shelf Registration as required by the Commission and/or (ii) withdraw the Shelf Registration and file a new registration statement (a “New Registration Statement”), on Form S-3, or if Form S-3 is not then available to the Company for such registration statement, on such other form available

 

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to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment or New Registration Statement, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with any publicly-available written or oral guidance, comments, requirements or requests of the Commission staff (the “SEC Guidance”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation of the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used commercially reasonable efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all or a greater number of Registrable Securities), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities to register a lesser amount of Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced on a pro rata basis based on the total number of Registrable Securities held by the Holders. In the event the Company amends the Shelf Registration or files a New Registration Statement, as the case may be, under clauses (i) or (ii) above, the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Shelf Registration, as amended, or the New Registration Statement.

2.2 Piggyback Registration.

2.2.1 Piggyback Rights. If (but without any obligation to do so) the Company proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected by the Company for holders of capital stock other than the Holders), or a Demanding Holder in accordance with Section 2.1.4 proposes to conduct a registered offer of, or conduct a registered offering of, any of its stock under the Securities Act in connection with the public offering of such securities solely for cash, or any of its equity securities, or securities or other obligations exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into equity securities (other than a registration relating solely to the sale of securities to participants in a Company stock plan or a transaction covered by Rule 145 under the Securities Act, a registration in which the only stock being registered is Common Stock issuable upon conversion of debt securities which are also being registered, or any registration on any form which does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a registration statement covering the sale of the Registrable Securities), then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed offering to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities (collectively, the “Piggyback Holders”) as soon as practicable but not less than six (6) days before the anticipated filing date of such Registration Statement or, in the case of an Underwritten Offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used for marketing such offering, which notice shall (A) describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such offering, the intended method(s) of distribution, and the name of the proposed managing Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, in such offering, and (B) offer to all of the Piggyback Holders the opportunity to include in such registered offering such number of Registrable Securities as such Piggyback Holders may request in writing within four (4) days after receipt of such written notice (such registered offering, a “Piggyback Registration”). Subject to Section 2.2.2, the Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be included in such Piggyback Registration and, if applicable, shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of such Piggyback Registration to permit the

 

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Registrable Securities requested by the Piggyback Holders pursuant to this Section 2.2.1 to be included therein on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such registered offering and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. The inclusion of any Piggyback Holder’s Registrable Securities in a Piggyback Registration shall be subject to such Piggyback Holder’s agreement to enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering.

2.2.2 Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering that is to be a Piggyback Registration (other than an Underwritten Shelf Takedown), in good faith, advises the Company and the Piggyback Holders participating in the Piggyback Registration in writing that the dollar amount or number of shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration or a registered offering has been demanded pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with persons other than the Piggyback Holders hereunder and (ii) the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, as to which registration has been requested pursuant to Section 2.2, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

(i) If the Registration is initiated and undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration, subject to the terms of the Lock-Up Agreement applicable to such Holder, (A) first, the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Piggyback Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2.1 (pro rata based on the respective then-ownership of Registrable Securities of each Piggyback Holder that has requested to be included in such Registration), which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggyback registration rights of other shareholders of the Company, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; or

(ii) If the Registration is pursuant to a request by persons other than the Piggyback Holders, then the Company shall include in any such Registration (A) first, the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, of such requesting persons, other than the Piggyback Holders, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Piggyback Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2.2.1 (pro rata based on the respective then-ownership of Registrable Securities of each Piggyback Holder that has requested to be included in such Registration) which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (D) fourth, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C), the shares of Common Stock or any other equity securities, if any, for the account of other persons that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights of such persons, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.2.2, in the event a Demanding Holder (i) has submitted notice for a bona fide Underwritten Shelf Takedown and all sales pursuant to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to Section 2.1 have not been effected in accordance with the applicable plan of distribution and (ii) has not submitted a Withdrawal Notice prior to such time that the Company has given written notice of a Piggyback Registration to all Piggyback Holders pursuant to Section 2.2, then any reduction in the number of Registrable Securities to be offered in such offering shall be determined in accordance with Section 2.1.5, instead of this Section 2.2.2.

2.2.3 Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities (other than a Demanding Holder, whose right to withdraw from an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, and related obligations, shall be governed by Section 2.1.6) shall have the right to withdraw from a Piggyback Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of his, her or its intention to withdraw from such Piggyback Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to such Piggyback Registration or, in the case of a Piggyback Registration pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement with respect to such Piggyback Registration used for marketing such transaction. The Company (whether on its own good faith determination or as the result of a request for withdrawal by persons or entities pursuant to separate written contractual obligations) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in connection with a Piggyback Registration (which, in no circumstance, shall include a Shelf) at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement (other than Section 2.1.6), the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.2.3.

2.2.4 Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, subject to Section 2.1.6, any Piggyback Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown under Section 2.1.4 hereof.

2.3 Market Stand-off. In connection with any Underwritten Offering of equity securities of the Company (other than a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering), if requested by the managing Underwriters, each Holder that is an executive officer, director or Holder in excess of five percent (5%) of the outstanding Common Stock (and for which it is customary for such a Holder to agree to a lock-up) agrees that it shall not Transfer any shares of Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company (other than those included in such offering pursuant to this Agreement), without the prior written consent of the Company, during the ninety (90)-day period (or such shorter time agreed to by the managing Underwriters) beginning on the date of pricing of such offering, except as expressly permitted by such lock-up agreement or in the event the managing Underwriters otherwise agree by written consent. Each such Holder agrees to execute a customary lock-up agreement in favor of the Underwriters to such effect (in each case on substantially the same terms and conditions as all such Holders).

 

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2.4 Block Trades; Other Coordinated Offerings.

2.4.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article II, but subject to Section 3.4, at any time and from time to time when an effective Shelf is on file with the Commission, if a Demanding Holder wishes to engage in (a) an underwritten registered offering not involving a “roadshow,” an offer commonly known as a “block trade” (a “Block Trade”) or (b) an “at the market” or similar registered offering through a broker, sales agent or distribution agent, whether as agent or principal, (an “Other Coordinated Offering”), in each case, with an anticipated aggregate offering price of, either (x) at least $25 million or (y) all remaining Registrable Securities held by the Demanding Holder, then such Demanding Holder only needs to notify the Company of the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering at least five (5) business days prior to the day such offering is to commence and the Company shall as expeditiously as possible use its commercially reasonable efforts to facilitate such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering; provided that the Demanding Holders representing a majority of the Registrable Securities wishing to engage in the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall use commercially reasonable efforts to work with the Company and any Underwriters, brokers, sales agents or placement agents prior to making such request in order to facilitate preparation of the registration statement, prospectus and other offering documentation related to the Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement is intended to limit a Holder’s ability to engage in broker-initiated or similar trades that are not underwritten offerings.

2.4.2 Prior to the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement used in connection with a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering, a majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall have the right to submit a Withdrawal Notice to the Company, the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) and any brokers, sale agents or placement agents (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering prior to its withdrawal under this Section 2.4.2.

2.4.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Section 2.2 shall not apply to a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering initiated by a Demanding Holder pursuant to this Agreement.

2.4.4 The Demanding Holders representing a majority of the Registrable Securities wishing to engage in a Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering shall have the right to select the Underwriters and any brokers, sale agents or placement agents (if any) for such Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering (in each case, which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks).

2.4.5 A Holder in the aggregate may demand no more than two (2) Block Trades or Other Coordinated Offerings pursuant to this Section 2.4 in any twelve (12) month period. For the avoidance of doubt, any Block Trade or Other Coordinated Offering effected pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall not be counted as a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to Section 2.1.4 hereof.

 

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2.4.6 Distributions; Direct Ownership. In the event that the Sponsor distributes all of its Registrable Securities to its members, such members will be treated as the Sponsor under this agreement; provided, however, that if (i) such member acquires less than one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the then total outstanding Registrable Securities following such distribution and (ii) such Registrable Securities are eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144, then such member shall not be treated as the Sponsor under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, such members of the Sponsor, taken as a whole, shall not be entitled to rights in excess of those conferred on the Sponsor, as if the Sponsor remained a single entity party to this Agreement.

ARTICLE III

COMPANY PROCEDURES

3.1 General Procedures. In connection with any Shelf and/or Shelf Takedown, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof (and including all manners of distribution in such Registration Statement as Holders may reasonably request in connection with the filing of such Registration Statement and as permitted by law, including distribution of Registrable Securities to a Holder’s members, securityholders or partners), and pursuant thereto the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible:

3.1.1 prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable a Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective, or file a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement, until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have ceased to be Registrable Securities;

3.1.2 prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and such supplements to the Prospectus, as may be reasonably requested by any Holder or as may be required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company or by the Securities Act or rules and regulations thereunder to keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are sold in accordance with the intended plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus and either (i) any underwriter overallotment option has terminated by its terms or (ii) the underwriters have advised the Company that they will not exercise such option or any remaining portion thereof;

3.1.3 prior to filing a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriters, if any, and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration, and such Holders’ legal counsel, copies of such Registration Statement as proposed to be filed, each amendment and supplement to such Registration Statement (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary Prospectus), and such other documents as the Underwriters and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or the legal counsel for any such Holders may request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holders;

 

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3.1.4 prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities, use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement under such securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in light of their intended plan of distribution) may request (or provide evidence satisfactory to such Holders that the Registrable Securities are exempt from such registration or qualification) and (ii) take such action necessary to cause such Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or advisable to enable the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify or take any action to which it would be subject to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then otherwise so subject;

3.1.5 cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each national securities exchange on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed;

3.1.6 provide a transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, and registrar for all such Registrable Securities no later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

3.1.7 advise each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement, promptly after the Company receives notice thereof, of the time when such registration statement has been declared effective or a supplement to any Prospectus forming a part of such registration statement has been filed;

3.1.8 advise each seller of such Registrable Securities, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such stop order should be issued;

3.1.9 at least five (5) days prior to the filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus (or such shorter period of time as may be (a) necessary in order to comply with the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, as applicable or (b) advisable in order to reduce the number of days that sales are suspended pursuant to Section 3.4), furnish a copy thereof to each seller of such Registrable Securities or its counsel (excluding any exhibits thereto and any filing made under the Exchange Act that is to be incorporated by reference therein);

3.1.10 notify the Holders at any time when a Prospectus relating to such Registration Statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes a Misstatement, and then to correct such Misstatement as set forth in Section 3.4;

 

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3.1.11 in the event of an Underwritten Offering, a Block Trade, an Other Coordinated Offering, or sale by a broker, placement agent or sales agent pursuant to such Registration, permit a representative selected by a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders, the Underwriters or other financial institutions facilitating such Underwritten Offering, Block Trade, Other Coordinated Offering or other sale pursuant to such Registration, if any, and any attorney, consultant or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter to participate, at each such person’s or entity’s own expense, in the preparation of the Registration Statement, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, Underwriter, financial institution, attorney, consultant or accountant in connection with the Registration; provided, however, that such representatives, Underwriters or financial institutions agree to confidentiality arrangements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information;

3.1.12 obtain a “cold comfort” letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Offering, a Block Trade, an Other Coordinated Offering or sale by a broker, placement agent or sales agent pursuant to such Registration (subject to such broker, placement agent or sales agent providing such certification or representation reasonably requested by the Company’s independent registered public accountants and the Company’s counsel) in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by “cold comfort” letters as the managing Underwriter, or the broker placement agent, or sales agent of such offering or sale, may reasonably request, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

3.1.13 in the event of an Underwritten Offering, a Block Trade, an Other Coordinated Offering or sale by a broker, placement agent or sales agent pursuant to such Registration, on the date the Registrable Securities are delivered for sale pursuant to such Registration, obtain an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the participating Holders, the broker, placement agents or sales agent, if any and the Underwriters, if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the participating Holders, broker, placement agent, sales agent or Underwriter may reasonably request and as are customarily included in such opinions and negative assurance letters;

3.1.14 in the event of any Underwritten Offering, a Block Trade, an Other Coordinated Offering or sale by a broker, placement agent or sales agent pursuant to such Registration, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting or other purchase or sales agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter or the broker, placement agent or sales agent of such offering or sale;

3.1.15 make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least twelve (12) months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full fiscal quarter after the effective date of the Registration Statement which satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any successor rule then in effect);

 

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3.1.16 with respect to an Underwritten Offering pursuant to Section 2.1.4, use its commercially reasonable efforts to make available senior executives of the Company to participate in customary “road show” presentations that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter in such Underwritten Offering; and

3.1.17 otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the participating Holders, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, in connection with such Registration.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to provide any documents or information to an Underwriter or broker, sales agent or placement agent if such Underwriter or broker, sales agent or placement agent has not then been named with respect to the applicable Underwritten Offering or other offering involving a registration as an Underwriter or broker, sales agent or placement agent, as applicable.

3.2 Registration Expenses. The Registration Expenses of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company. It is acknowledged by the Holders that the Holders selling any Registrable Securities in an offering shall bear all incremental selling expenses relating to the sale of Registrable Securities, such as Underwriters’ commissions and discounts, brokerage fees, Underwriter marketing costs and, other than as set forth in the definition of “Registration Expenses,” all fees and expenses of any legal counsel representing the Holders.

3.3 Requirements for Participation in Registration Statement in Offerings. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if any Holder does not provide the Company with its requested Holder Information, the Company may exclude such Holder’s Registrable Securities from the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus if the Company determines, based on the advice of counsel, that such information is necessary to effect the registration and such Holder continues thereafter to withhold such information. No person or entity may participate in any Underwritten Offering or other offering for equity securities of the Company pursuant to a Registration initiated by the Company hereunder unless such person or entity (i) agrees to sell such person’s or entity’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting, sales, distribution or placement arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements, underwriting or other agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting, sales, distribution or placement arrangements. The exclusion of a Holder’s Registrable Securities as a result of this Section 3.3 shall not affect the registration of the other Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration.

3.4 Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure; Restrictions on Registration Rights.

3.4.1 Upon receipt of written notice from the Company that a Registration Statement or Prospectus contains a Misstatement, each of the Holders shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities until it has received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus correcting the Misstatement (it being understood that the Company hereby covenants to prepare and file such supplement or amendment as soon as practicable after the time of such notice), or until it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed.

 

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3.4.2 If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration at any time would (a) require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure, (b) require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control or (b) in the good faith judgment of the Board, be seriously detrimental to the Company and its holders of capital stock and it is therefore essential to defer such filing, initial effectiveness or continued use at such time, the Company shall have the right, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders (which notice shall not specify the nature of the event giving rise to such delay or suspension), delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose. In the event the Company exercises its rights under this Section 3.4.2, the Holders agree to suspend, immediately upon their receipt of the notice referred to above, their use of the Prospectus relating to any Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities until such Holder receives written notice from the Company that such sales or offers of Registrable Securities may be resumed, and in each case maintain the confidentiality of such notice and its contents.

3.4.3 During the period starting with the date ninety (90) days prior to the Company’s good faith estimate of the date of the filing of, and ending on a date ninety (90) days after the effective date of, a Company-initiated Registration and provided that the Company continues to actively employ, in good faith, all reasonable efforts to maintain the effectiveness of the applicable Shelf Registration Statement, or if, pursuant to Section 2.1.4, Holders have requested an Underwritten Shelf Takedown and the Company and Holders are unable to obtain the commitment of underwriters to firmly underwrite such offering, the Company may, on not more than three (3) occasions upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay any other registered offering pursuant to Section 2.1.4 or 2.4 for not more than sixty (60) consecutive calendar days or more than ninety (90) total calendar days in each case during any twelve (12)-month period.

3.5 Reporting Obligations3.6 . As long as any Holder shall own Registrable Securities, the Company, at all times while it shall be a reporting company under the Exchange Act, covenants to file timely (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and to promptly furnish the Holders upon request with true and complete copies of all such filings; provided that any documents publicly filed or furnished with the Commission pursuant to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System shall be deemed to have been furnished or delivered to the Holders pursuant to this Section 3.5. The Company further covenants that it shall use commercially reasonable efforts take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Securities held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(i) of the Securities Act or Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule then in effect). Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written certification of a duly authorized officer as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

 

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ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

4.1 Indemnification.

4.1.1 The Company agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, each Holder of Registrable Securities, its officers, managers, directors, controlled affiliates, and agents and each person or entity who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act), against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented outside attorneys’ fees) caused by, resulting from, arising out of, or based on any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in or incorporated by reference in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the case of the Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein. The Company shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers and directors and each person or entity who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to the indemnification of the Holder.

4.1.2 In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such Holder shall furnish (or cause to be furnished) to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (the “Holder Information”) and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify the Company and its controlled affiliates and each of their respective directors, officers and agents and each person or entity who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented outside attorneys’ fees) caused by, resulting from, arising out of, or based on any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained or incorporated by reference in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein in the case of the Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement is contained in (or not contained in, in the case of an omission) any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by or on behalf of such Holder expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the obligation to indemnify shall be several, not joint and several, among such Holders of Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Holder of Registrable Securities shall be in proportion to and limited to the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. The Holders of Registrable Securities shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers, directors and each person or entity who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to indemnification of the Company.

 

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4.1.3 Any person or entity entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s or entity’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not materially prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement includes a statement or admission of fault and culpability on the part of such indemnified party or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

4.1.4 The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person or entity of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities. The Company and each Holder of Registrable Securities participating in an offering also agrees to make such provisions as are reasonably requested by any indemnified party for contribution to such party in the event the Company’s or such Holder’s indemnification is unavailable for any reason.

4.1.5 If the indemnification provided under Section 4.1 from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and out-of-pocket expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and out-of-pocket expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by (or not made by, in the case of an omission), or relates to information supplied by (or not supplied by in the case of an omission), such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 above, any legal or other fees, charges or out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or proceeding. The parties

 

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hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1.5 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation, which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this Section 4.1.5. No person or entity guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this Section 4.1.5 from any person or entity who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

5.1 Notices. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given (i) when personally delivered (or, if delivery is refused, upon presentment) or received by email (with confirmation of transmission) prior to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on a business day and, if otherwise, on the next business day, (ii) one (1) business day following sending by reputable overnight express courier (charges prepaid), or (iii) three (3) calendar days following mailing by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to: [Public Company Name], 645 Harrison St., Floor 4, San Francisco, CA 94107, Attention: Legal Department, Email: legal@planet.com, and, if to any Holder, at such Holder’s address, electronic mail address or facsimile number as set forth in the Company’s books and records. Any party may change its address for notice at any time and from time to time by written notice to the other parties hereto, and such change of address shall become effective thirty (30) days after delivery of such notice as provided in this Section 5.1.

5.2 Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

5.2.1 This Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company in whole or in part.

5.2.2 Subject to Section 5.2.4 and Section 5.2.5, this Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of a Holder hereunder may be assigned in whole or in part to such Holder’s Permitted Transferees; provided, that, with respect to the Planet Holders, the Founders, and DMY Holders, the rights hereunder that are personal to such Holders may not be assigned or delegated in whole or in part, except that (x) each of the Planet Holders shall be permitted to transfer its rights hereunder as the Planet Holders to one or more affiliates or any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of such Planet Holder (each such affiliate, a “Planet Related Party”) (it being understood that no such transfer shall reduce any rights of such Planet Holder or such transferees) and (y) each of the DMY Holders shall be permitted to transfer their respective rights hereunder as the DMY Holders to one or more of their respective affiliates or any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of the DMY Holders (each such affiliate, a “dMY Related Party,” and, together with Planet Related Parties, a “Related Party”) (it being understood that no such transfer shall reduce any rights of the DMY Holders or such transferees), and the DMY Holders shall be permitted to assign rights to Permitted Transferees; provided, further, that with respect to any Holder, the rights set forth in Sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4 shall not transfer to a Related Party or a Permitted Transferee if (i) such Related Party or Permitted Transferee acquires less than one quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the then outstanding Registrable Securities and (ii) such

 

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Registrable Securities are eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144. For the avoidance of doubt, any rights applicable to the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock may be transferred or assigned in whole or in part solely to the extent permitted under the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company in effect at the time of such transfer or assignment.

5.2.3 This Agreement and the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and its successors and the permitted assigns of the Holders, which shall include Permitted Transferees.

5.2.4 This Agreement shall not confer any rights or benefits on any persons or entities that are not parties hereto, other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement and Section 5.2.

5.2.5 No assignment by any party hereto of such party’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder shall be binding upon or obligate the Company unless and until the Company shall have received (i) written notice of such assignment as provided in Section 5.1 hereof and (ii) the written agreement of the assignee, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement (which may be accomplished by an addendum or certificate of joinder to this Agreement). Any transfer or assignment made other than as provided in this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.

5.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts (including facsimile or PDF counterparts), each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which need be produced. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.

5.4 Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT (1) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND (2) THE VENUE FOR ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK COUNTY, AND ANY STATE APPELLATE COURT THEREFROM WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK COUNTY, OR IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.

 

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5.5 TRIAL BY JURY. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND, THEREFORE, EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT TO ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT.

5.6 Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of (a) the Company and (b) the Holders of a majority of the total Registrable Securities, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof shall also require the written consent of the Sponsor so long as the DMY Holders and their respective affiliates or its or their Permitted Transferees hold, in the aggregate, at least one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, for purposes of this provision, any shares of Class B Common Stock in the definition of “Common Stock”); provided, further, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof shall also require the written consent of each Planet Holder so long as such Planet Holder and its affiliates or their Permitted Transferees hold, in the aggregate, at least one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, for purposes of this provision, any shares of Class B Common Stock in the definition of “Common Stock”); and provided, further, that any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of the shares of capital stock of the Company, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected. A provision that has terminated with respect to a party shall not require any consent of such party (and such party’s Common Stock shall not be considered in computing any percentages) with respect to amending or modifying such provision. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

5.7 Other Registration Rights. Other than (i) the Third Party Investor Stockholders who have registration rights with respect to their Investor Shares pursuant to their respective Subscription Agreements and (ii) as provided in the Warrant Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2021, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Company represents and warrants that no person or entity, other than a Holder of Registrable Securities, has any right to require the Company to register any securities of the Company for sale or to include such securities of the Company in any Registration Statement filed by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or for the account of any other person or entity. For so long as (a) the DMY Holders and their respective affiliates hold, in the aggregate, at least one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, for purposes of this provision, any shares of Class B Common Stock in the definition of “Common Stock”), the Company hereby agrees and covenants that it will not grant rights to register any Common Stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for Common Stock) pursuant to the Securities Act that are more favorable, pari passu or senior to those granted to the Holders hereunder except pursuant to Section 5.10 (such rights “Competing Registration Rights”) without the prior written

 

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consent of the Sponsor, and (b) a Planet Holder and its affiliates hold, in the aggregate, at least one (1%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, for purposes of this provision, any shares of Class B Common Stock in the definition of “Common Stock”), the Company hereby agrees and covenants that it will not grant Competing Registration Rights without the prior written consent of such Planet Holder. Further, the Company represents and warrants that this Agreement supersedes any other registration rights agreement or agreement with similar terms and conditions and in the event of a conflict between any such agreement or agreements and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail.

5.8 Term. This Agreement shall terminate with respect to any Holder on the earlier of (a) (i) with respect to the Vesting Shares, the fifth anniversary of the later of the vesting of such Vesting Shares and the expiration of the Lock-Up Period with respect to such Vesting Shares, (ii) with respect to any Vesting Warrants and any shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of any Vesting Warrants, the fifth anniversary of the vesting of such Vesting Warrants, and (iii) with respect to all other Registrable Securities, the fifth anniversary of the date of the expiration of the applicable Lock-Up Period or (b) on the date that such Holder no longer holds any Registrable Securities.

5.9 Holder Information. Each Holder agrees, if requested in writing, to represent to the Company the total number of Registrable Securities held by such Holder in order for the Company to make determinations hereunder.

5.10 Additional Holders; Joinder. In addition to persons or entities who may become Holders pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof, subject to the prior written consent of each of the DMY Holders and each Planet Holder (in each case, so long as such Holder and its affiliates hold, in the aggregate, at least one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company (including, for purposes of this provision, any shares of Class B Common Stock in the definition of “Common Stock”)), the Company may make any person or entity who acquires Common Stock or rights to acquire Common Stock after the date hereof a party to this Agreement (each such person or entity, an “Additional Holder”) by obtaining an executed joinder to this Agreement from such Additional Holder in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto (a “Joinder”). Such Joinder shall specify the rights and obligations of the applicable Additional Holder under this Agreement. Upon the execution and delivery and subject to the terms of a Joinder by such Additional Holder, the Common Stock of the Company then owned, or underlying any rights then owned, by such Additional Holder (the “Additional Holder Common Stock”) shall be Registrable Securities to the extent provided herein and therein and such Additional Holder shall be a Holder under this Agreement with respect to such Additional Holder Common Stock.

5.11 Severability. It is the desire and intent of the parties that the provisions of this Agreement be enforced to the fullest extent permissible under the laws and public policies applied in each jurisdiction in which enforcement is sought. Accordingly, if any particular provision of this Agreement shall be adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, prohibited or unenforceable for any reason, such provision, as to such jurisdiction, shall be ineffective, without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such provision could be more narrowly drawn so as not to be invalid, prohibited or unenforceable in such jurisdiction, it shall, as to such jurisdiction, be so narrowly drawn, without invalidating the remaining provisions of this Agreement or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

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5.12 Entire Agreement; Restatement. This Agreement constitutes the full and entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings relating to such subject matter. Upon the Closing, the Original RRA shall no longer be of any force or effect.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
[PUBCO]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
SPONSOR:
dMY Sponsor IV, LLC
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:
SPONSOR PRINCIPALS:
By:  

 

  Name: Niccolo de Masi
By:  

 

  Name: Harry L. You
DMY INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS:
By:  

 

  Name: Darla Anderson
By:  

 

  Name: Francesca Luthi

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]


By:  

 

  Name: Charles E. Werth
PLANET HOLDERS:
[Entity Planet Holders]
a [•]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

[Individual Planet Stockholders]

[Signature Page to Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement]

Exhibit 10.6

LOCKUP AGREEMENT

[Form for Sponsor and SPAC D&O]

This Lockup Agreement is dated as of [•], 202[•] and is between [PUBCO]1, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (f/k/a dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV), dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), each of the stockholder parties identified on Exhibit A hereto and the other Persons who enter into a joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B2 hereto with the Company in order to become a “Stockholder Party” for purposes of this Agreement (collectively, the “Stockholder Parties”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Merger Agreement (as defined below).

BACKGROUND:

WHEREAS, the Stockholder Parties own or will own equity interests in the Company;

WHEREAS, the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Second Merger Sub”), and Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, pursuant to which, among other transactions, First Merger Sub merged with and into Planet, with Planet continuing on as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “First Merger”)], and, immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, Planet merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), all on the terms and conditions set forth therein;

WHEREAS, each Acquiror Director is a member of the Sponsor and, immediately prior to the Closing, the Sponsor holds all Class B Common Stock, which were converted into Class A Common Stock at the Closing; and

WHEREAS, in connection with the Mergers, the parties hereto wish to set forth herein certain understandings between such parties with respect to restrictions on the transfer of equity interests in the Company.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

 

1 

Note to Draft: Name of public company to be determined.

2 

Note to Draft: Exhibit B to be executed by all recipients of founder shares that are distributed by the Sponsor post-Closing and prior to the end of the Lock-up Period that are affiliates of the executive officers and directors of dMY listed on Exhibit A. Exhibit C to be executed by all other recipients of founder shares that are distributed by the Sponsor post-Closing and prior to the end of the Lock-up Period.


ARTICLE I

INTRODUCTORY MATTERS

1.1 Defined Terms. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere herein, the following terms have the following meanings when used herein with initial capital letters:

Acquiror Director” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(i).

Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.7.

Affiliate” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act.

Agreement” means this Lockup Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

Blackout Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(ii).

Blackout-Related Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c).

Change of Control” means any transaction or series of transactions (A) the result of which is that a Person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of Persons (other than the Founders, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries), has direct or indirect beneficial ownership of securities (or rights convertible or exchangeable into securities) representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of or economic rights or interests in the then-outstanding equity securities of the Company, (B) constituting a merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination, however effected, following which either (1) the members of the Board of Directors of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the company surviving the combination or (2) the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not continue to represent or are not converted into fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person resulting from such combination, or (C) the result of which is (i) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (as appearing in its most recent balance sheet), or assets of the Company generating all or substantially all of the gross revenues or net income (as appearing in its most recent income statement), to any Person or (ii) that shares of Class A Common Stock are delisted from the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such shares of Class A Common Stock are then traded prior to the consummation of such transaction(s).

Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, following the consummation of the Mergers.

Class B Common Stock” means the Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, prior to the consummation of the Mergers.

Closing Date” means the closing date of the Mergers.

 

 

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Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the same may be amended from time to time.

Excluded Shares” mean (a) any shares of Class A Common Stock purchased pursuant to a Subscription Agreement, (b) the Acquiror Warrants, (c) any shares of Class A Common Stock issued pursuant to the exercise of any Acquiror Warrant and (d) any shares of Class A Common Stock acquired in the open market or otherwise from a Person other than a Stockholder Party.

First Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

First Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Immediate Family” means with respect to any Person, such Person’s spouse or partner (or former spouse or former partner), ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) or spouse of a descendant of such Person, brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) and inter vivos or testamentary trusts of which only such Person and his spouse, ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption), brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) are beneficiaries.

Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.1(a).

Insider Trading Policy” means the insider trading policy or equivalent policy of the Company, as amended from time to time.

Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(v).

Lock-up” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

Lock-up Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iii).

Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger” means the Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger or the Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger, as applicable.

Lock-up Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(vi).

Mergers” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Merger Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Permitted Transferees” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(vii).

Planet” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2(f).

Requesting Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(b).

 

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Sale Price” means the price per share of Class A Common Stock paid or payable to the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a Change of Control. If and to the extent the price paid per share includes any escrows, holdbacks, deferred purchase price, earnouts or other contingent consideration, the Board of Directors of Acquiror shall determine the price paid per share of Class A Common Stock in such Change of Control in good faith, including the affirmative vote of the director appointed by Sponsor pursuant to Section 7.6 of the Merger Agreement if he is then on the Board of Directors of Acquiror. If and to the extent such price is payable in whole or in part in the form of consideration other than cash, the price for such non-cash consideration shall be (a) equal to the total value attributed to such non-cash consideration as determined in the transaction documents entered into in connection with such Change of Control, or (b) if no such transaction documents exist or no method for determining such value is contemplated therein, (i) with respect to any securities, (A) the average of the closing prices of the sales of such securities on the principal securities exchange on which such securities are then listed, averaged over a period of 20 Trading Days preceding the date of the consummation of such Change of Control, or (B) if the information contemplated by the preceding clause (A) is not practically available, then the fair market value of such securities as of the date of valuation as determined in accordance with the succeeding clause (ii), and (ii) with respect to any other non-cash assets, the fair market value thereof as of the date of valuation, as determined by an independent, nationally recognized investment banking firm mutually selected by the Company and the Sponsor and engaged at the cost of the Company, on the basis of an orderly sale to a willing, unaffiliated buyer in an arm’s-length transaction without giving effect to any minority or liquidity discount.

Sale Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(a).

Second Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Second Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Sponsor” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iv).

Sponsor Vesting Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a).

Stockholder Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Subscription Agreement” means a Subscription Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and between a person listed on Annex I of the Acquiror Disclosure Letter and the Company.

Trading Day” means any day on which shares of Class A Common Stock are actually traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which shares of Class A Common Stock are then traded.

Transfer” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(viii).

Vesting Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1.

 

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Vesting Warrants” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1.

1.2 Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “including” (and with correlative meaning “include”) means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding or succeeding such term and shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation”; (b) “or” is disjunctive but not exclusive, (c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular, and (d) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section references are to sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. Consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

ARTICLE II

LOCKUP

2.1 Lockup.

(a) Subject to the exclusions in Section 2.1(b), each Stockholder Party agrees not to Transfer any Lock-up Shares until the end of the Lock-up Period (the “Lock-up”).

(b) Each Stockholder Party or any of its Permitted Transferees may Transfer any Lock-up Shares it holds during the Lock-up Period (i) to any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of such Stockholder Party, any Affiliates of such Stockholder Party or any related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such Persons or their respective Affiliates, or to any other Stockholder Party; (ii) by gift to a charitable organization; (iii) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s Immediate Family or to a trust, the primary beneficiaries of which are one or more members of the individual’s Immediate Family or an Affiliate of such Person, or, in the case of a trust, Transfer to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or the estate of a beneficiary of such trust; (iv) in the case of an individual, by will or other testamentary document or device or by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (v) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (vi) with the Company’s and the Sponsor’s prior written consent; (vii) to a nominee or custodian of any Person to which a Transfer would be permissible under any of the preceding clauses (i) through (vi); (viii) in connection with any bona fide mortgage, encumbrance or pledge to a financial institution in connection with any bona fide loan or debt transaction or enforcement thereunder, including foreclosure thereof; (ix) to the Company; (x) forfeitures of Lock-up Shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements upon the vesting of equity-based awards granted pursuant to an equity incentive plan; (xi) in connection with a liquidation, merger, stock exchange, reorganization, tender offer or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares Common Stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the Closing Date; or (xii) to the extent required by any legal or regulatory order; provided that in each case of clauses (i)–(vii), if the transferee is not another Stockholder Party, such Transfer shall be subject to prior receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in this Section 2.1, to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if the Lock-up Period, excluding in connection with a Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger, is scheduled to end during such Blackout Period or within five Trading Days prior to the commencement of a Blackout Period, the Lock-up Period shall end ten Trading Days prior to the commencement of the Blackout Period (the “Blackout-Related Release”). The Company shall announce the date of the expected Blackout-Related Release through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Blackout-Related Release.

(d) For purposes of this Section 2.1:

(i) The term “Acquiror Director” means each of Darla Anderson, Francesca Luthi, Niccolo de Masi, Harry You and Charles E. Wert.

(ii) The term “Blackout Period” means a broadly applicable and regularly scheduled period during which trading in the Company’s securities would not be permitted under the Insider Trading Policy.

(iii) The term “Lock-up Period” means (A) with respect to the Lock-up Shares held by the Sponsor and attributable to the Acquiror Directors (as set forth on Exhibit A hereto), the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (1) the date that is 18 months after the Closing Date and (2) the Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date, and (B) with respect to all the other Lock-up Shares held by the Sponsor that are not attributable to the Acquiror Directors or by any other recipients that are not Affiliates of the Acquiror Directors following the Closing Date, the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (1) the date that is 12 months after the Closing Date and (2) the Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that a definitive agreement that contemplates a Change of Control is entered into after the Closing, the Lock-up Period for any Lock-up Shares shall automatically terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such Change of Control. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lock-up Shares referred to in the foregoing clause (A) shall be subject to Lock-up from and after the date that is 18 months after the Closing Date and no Lock-up Shares referred to in the foregoing clause (B) shall be subject to Lock-up from and after the date that is 12 months after the Closing Date.

(iv) The term “Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date” means, (x) with respect to the Lock-up Shares attributable to Harry You and Niccolo de Masi as set forth on Exhibit A only, the date on which the last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $15.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period commencing at least 330 days after the Closing Date and (y) with respect to the Lock-up Shares attributable to Darla Anderson, Francesca Luthi and Charles E. Wert as set forth on Exhibit A

 

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only, the date on which the last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period commencing at least 330 days after the Closing Date (as applicable, the “Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger”); provided, however, that to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if at the time of any Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date, the Company is in such Blackout Period, the actual date of the Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date shall be delayed until immediately prior to the opening of trading on the second Trading Day following the end of the Blackout Period; provided, further, that the Company shall announce the date of the expected Sponsor and Director Lock-up Period Early Release Date through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Sponsor and Director Lock-Up Period Early Release Date.

(v) The term “Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date” means the date on which the last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period commencing at least 150 days after the Closing Date (the “Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger”); provided, however, that to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if at the time of any Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date, the Company is in such Blackout Period, the actual date of the Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date shall be delayed until immediately prior to the opening of trading on the second Trading Day following the end of the Blackout Period; provided, further, that the Company shall announce the date of the expected Investor Lock-up Period Early Release Date through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Investor Lock-Up Period Early Release Date.

(vi) The term “Lock-up Shares” means (A) with respect to any Stockholder Party that is an Acquiror Director and such Acquiror Director’s respective Permitted Transferees, 5,950,000 shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Sponsor immediately following the Closing that are converted from the Class B Common Stock held by the Sponsor immediately prior to the Closing attributable to such Acquiror Director; and (B) with respect to the Sponsor and its Permitted Transferees, 8,625,000 shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Sponsor immediately following the Closing that are converted from 8,625,000 shares of Class B Common Stock held by the Sponsor immediately prior to the Closing, in each case of the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), other than any Excluded Shares. For clarity, Exhibit A sets forth the number of Lock-up Shares attributable to each Acquiror Director and the Sponsor.

 

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(vii) The term “Permitted Transferees” means, prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any Person to whom such Stockholder Party or any other Permitted Transferee of such Stockholder Party is permitted to Transfer such shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Section 2.1(b).

(viii) The term “Transfer” means the (A) sale of, public offer to sell, entry into a contract or agreement to sell, hypothecation or pledge of, grant of any option to purchase or otherwise disposition of or agreement to dispose of, in each case, directly or indirectly, or establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position with respect to, any security, (B) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, or (C) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (A) or (B).

(e) Each Stockholder Party shall be permitted to enter into a trading plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act during the applicable Lock-up Period so long as no Transfers of such Stockholder Party’s shares of Class A Common Stock in contravention of this Section 2.1 are effected prior to the expiration of the applicable Lock-up Period.

(f) Each Stockholder Party also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the Transfer of any Lock-up Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions and to the addition of a legend to such Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares describing the foregoing restrictions.

(g) For the avoidance of doubt, each Stockholder Party shall retain all of its rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Lock-up Shares during the Lock-up Period, including the right to vote any Lock-up Shares and any dividends declared on the Lock-up Shares.

ARTICLE III

VESTING OF FOUNDER SHARES

3.1 General. The Sponsor agrees that, effective upon the Closing, 862,500 shares of Class A Common Stock (the “Vesting Shares”) and 2,966,667 of the warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock (the “Vesting Warrants”), in each case, held by the Sponsor immediately following the Closing”) shall be unvested and shall be subject to the vesting and forfeiture provisions set forth in this ARTICLE III. In addition to, and without limiting, any restrictions on Transfers set forth in ARTICLE II with respect to the Vesting Shares, the Sponsor agrees that it shall not Transfer any unvested Vesting Shares or unvested Vesting Warrants prior to the date such Vesting Shares or Vesting Warrants, as applicable, become vested pursuant to this ARTICLE III.

 

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3.2 Vesting.

(a) The Vesting Shares and Vesting Warrants shall be subject to vesting from and after the Closing through and until the date that is five years after the Closing Date (the “Sponsor Vesting Period”) as follows:

(i) 25% of the Vesting Shares and 25% of the Vesting Warrants shall vest and cease to be subject to forfeiture if at any time during the Sponsor Vesting Period: (x) the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $15.00 for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period; or (y) the Company consummates a Change of Control which results in any of its stockholders having the right to exchange such Person’s shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $15.00 per share;

(ii) 25% of the Vesting Shares and 25% of the Vesting Warrants shall vest and cease to be subject to forfeiture if at any time during the Sponsor Vesting Period: (x) the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $17.00 for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period; or (y) the Company consummates a Change of Control which results in any of its stockholders having the right to exchange such Person’s shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $17.00 per share;

(iii) 25% of the Vesting Shares and 25% of the Vesting Warrants shall vest and cease to be subject to forfeiture if at any time during the Sponsor Vesting Period: (x) the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $19.00 for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period; or (y) the Company consummates a Change of Control which results in any of its stockholders having the right to exchange such Person’s shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $19.00 per share; and

(iv) 25% of the Vesting Shares and 25% of the Vesting Warrants shall vest and cease to be subject to forfeiture if at any time during the Sponsor Vesting Period: (x) the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $21.00 for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period; or (y) the Company consummates a Change of Control which results in any of its stockholders having the right to exchange such Person’s shares for cash, securities or other property having a Sale Price of at least $21.00 per share.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the vesting condition applicable to more than one of Section 3.2(a)(i), Section 3.2(a)(ii), Section 3.2(a)(iii) or Section 3.2(a)(iv) have been satisfied at any time, then all of the Vesting Shares and Vesting Warrants subject to such satisfied vesting condition will immediately vest and no longer be subject to the forfeiture provided in this ARTICLE III.

(b) Any Vesting Shares or Vesting Warrants that remain unvested on the first Business Day after the conclusion of the Sponsor Vesting Period shall be forfeited by the Sponsor to the Company, without any consideration for such Transfer and, thereafter, the Sponsor shall cease to have any right, title or interest in and to such forfeited Vesting Shares or Vesting Warrants.

 

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(c) The trading price of the Class A Common Stock referenced in each of Section 3.2(a)(i), Section 3.2(a)(ii), Section 3.2(a)(iii) or Section 3.2(a)(iv) and the per share consideration with respect to any Change of Control referenced in each of Section 3.2(a)(i), Section 3.2(a)(ii), Section 3.2(a)(iii) or Section 3.2(a)(iv) shall be equitably adjusted for any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend (including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible into shares of Class A Common Stock), reorganization, recapitalization, reclassification, combination, merger, sale or exchange of shares or other like change with respect to shares of Class A Common Stock, occurring on or after the date hereof and prior to the time of any vesting of any Vesting Shares or Vesting Warrants.

(d) Each of the Stockholder Parties party hereto agrees that, in addition to any legend imposed by applicable securities laws, the Vesting Shares and Vesting Warrants shall, concurrently with the Closing, have the restrictive legend (and stop transfer orders shall be placed against the transfer thereof with the Company’s transfer agent) affixed to them as set forth below:

THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREIN ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND CERTAIN OTHER AGREEMENTS, INCLUDING VESTING OR FORFEITURE, IN EACH CASE, AS SET FORTH IN THE LOCK-UP AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF [•], BY AND AMONG [PUBCO], DMY SPONSOR IV, LLC AND THE OTHER PARTIES SIGNATORIES THERETO AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS INSTRUCTION OF THE COMPANY. A COPY OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED UPON WRITTEN REQUEST TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION

4.1 Indemnification.

(a) For a period of six years after the Closing Date, the Company will indemnify, exonerate and hold harmless the Sponsor from and against any and all actions, causes of action, suits, claims, liabilities, losses, damages and costs and out-of-pocket expenses in connection therewith (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) (“Indemnified Liabilities”) incurred by the Sponsor before, on or after the date of this Agreement, arising out of any third party action, cause of action, suit, litigation, investigation, inquiry, arbitration or claim directly relating to the Transaction which names the Sponsor as a defendant (or co-defendant) arising from the Sponsor’s ownership of equity securities of the Company or its control or ability to influence the Company; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to any liabilities to the extent arising out of any breach by the Sponsor of this Agreement or any other agreement between the Sponsor, on the one hand, and the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other hand.

 

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(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing paragraph, the Company shall not be liable for Indemnified Liabilities in excess of $4 million pursuant to the foregoing paragraph. For the avoidance of doubt, the rights of the Sponsor to indemnification pursuant to the foregoing paragraph will be in addition to any other rights the Sponsor may have under any other agreement or instrument to which the Sponsor is or becomes a party or is or otherwise becomes a beneficiary or under Law.

ARTICLE V

GENERAL PROVISIONS

5.1 Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service, or (iv) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iv), solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), addressed as follows:

If to the Company, to:

[PUBCO]

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attention: Laura Malinasky, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email: legal@planet.com

with a copy (not constituting notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn: Josh Dubofsky

         Saad Khanani

E-mail: Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

         Saad.Khanani@lw.com

If to any Stockholder Party, to such address indicated on the Company’s records with respect to such Stockholder Party or to such other address or addresses as such Stockholder Party may from time to time designate in writing.

5.2 Amendment; Waiver.

(a) The terms and provisions of this Agreement may be amended or modified in whole or in part only by a duly authorized agreement in writing executed by the Company, the Sponsor and the Stockholder Parties holding a majority of the shares then held by the Stockholder Parties in the aggregate as to which this Agreement has not been terminated.

 

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(b) Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither the failure nor delay on the part of any party hereto to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any other right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence.

(c) No party shall be deemed to have waived any claim arising out of this Agreement, or any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement, unless the waiver of such claim, right, remedy, power or privilege is expressly set forth in a written instrument duly executed and delivered on behalf of such party; and any such waiver shall not be applicable or have any effect except in the specific instance in which it is given.

(d) The Company and any other party hereto may unilaterally waive any of its rights hereunder in a signed writing delivered to (i) in the case of a waiver by the Company, the applicable Stockholder Parties and (ii) in the case of a waiver by a Stockholder Party, the Company.

(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision herein that would (i) adversely affect any Stockholder Party, or (ii) disproportionately affect any Stockholder Party as compared to any other Stockholder Party, in each case, will not bind any such Stockholder Party without such Stockholder Party’s prior written approval.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the Company waives, releases, terminates, shortens, or otherwise amends or modifies the restrictions in this Agreement as to any Stockholder Party(ies) or in any other lock-up agreement entered into in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement as to any stockholders party thereto (a “Release”), then the Release shall apply pro rata and on the same terms to the Lock-up of each Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares hereunder (and, for the avoidance of doubt, without regard to any difference between the Lock-Up Period and the lock-up period subject to the Release) and the provisions of Section 2.1 shall be deemed immediately and automatically waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified, as the case may be, without further action of the parties. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 2.1 shall not be deemed waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified if any such waiver, release, termination, shortening, amendment or modification would further obligate or is otherwise adverse to the holders of Lock-up Shares hereunder (unless such Stockholder Party so consents).

5.3 Further Assurances.

(a) The parties hereto will sign such further documents, cause such meetings to be held, resolutions passed, exercise their votes and do and perform and cause to be done such further acts and things necessary, proper or advisable in order to give full effect to this Agreement and every provision hereof.

 

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(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, subject to the Transfer restrictions set forth herein, upon written request from a Stockholder Party (or such Person’s Permitted Transferee, as applicable) (the “Requesting Person”) regarding a proposed Transfer of any shares of Class A Common Stock or any Acquiror Common Warrants held by the Sponsor immediately after the Closing (including any shares of Class A Common Stock issuable from such Acquiror Common Warrants) (the “Sale Securities”), the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to: (i) if the Requesting Person is subject to the Insider Trading Policy, promptly (in any event, within one (2) Trading Days following such written request) inform the Requesting Person of the Company’s decision (together with the reasons for such trade not being cleared, if applicable) on pre-clearance of the proposed Transfer under the Insider Trading Policy, and (ii) promptly instruct the Company’s transfer agent to remove any restrictive legends applicable to the Sale Securities being Transferred, cause the Company’s legal counsel to deliver any legal opinions to its transfer agent required for such Transfer and otherwise cause its transfer agent to permit the Transfer of such Sale Securities (A) if the Requesting Person is not subject to the Insider Trading Policy, within one (2) Trading Days following such written request from the Requesting Person and (B) if the Requesting Person is subject to the Insider Trading Policy, unless the Company informs the Requesting Person that the proposed Transfer is prohibited by the Insider Trading Policy pursuant to the preceding clause (i) of this Section 5.3(b), within two (2) Trading Days following such written request from the Requesting Person.

5.4 Assignment. No party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any part hereof without the prior written consent of the other parties; provided that a Stockholder Party may assign this Agreement to a Permitted Transferee solely in connection with a Transfer permitted by this Agreement, subject to the receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto by the Permitted Transferee. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. Any attempted assignment in violation of the terms of this Section 5.4 shall be null and void, ab initio.

5.5 Third Parties. Nothing expressed or implied in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to confer upon or give any person, other than the parties hereto, any right or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement, as a third party beneficiary or otherwise.

5.6 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT, AND ALL CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT SUCH PRINCIPLES OR RULES WOULD REQUIRE OR PERMIT THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

5.7 Jurisdiction. Any claim, action, suit, assessment, arbitration or proceeding (an “Action”) based upon, arising out of or related to this Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, to the extent such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware), or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and each of the parties irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in any such Action, waives any objection it may now or hereafter have to personal jurisdiction, venue or to convenience of forum, agrees that all claims in respect of the Action shall be heard and

 

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determined only in any such court, and agrees not to bring any Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any other court. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of any party to serve process in any manner permitted by law, or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction, in each case, to enforce judgments obtained in any Action brought pursuant to this Section 5.7.

5.8 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (II) EACH SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (III) EACH SUCH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) EACH SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 5.8.

5.9 Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage for which monetary damages, even if available, would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that the parties do not perform their obligations under the provisions of this Agreement (including failing to take such actions as are required of them hereunder to consummate this Agreement) in accordance with its specified terms or otherwise breach such provisions. The parties acknowledge and agree that (a) the parties shall be entitled to seek an injunction, specific performance, or other equitable relief, to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, without proof of damages, prior to the valid termination of this Agreement, and (b) the right of specific enforcement is an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and without that right, none of the parties would have entered into this Agreement. Each party agrees that it will not oppose the granting of specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that the other parties have an adequate remedy at law or that an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at law or equity. The parties acknowledge and agree that any party seeking an injunction to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in accordance with this Section 5.9 shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such injunction.

5.10 Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise set forth herein, this Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and supersede any other agreements, whether written or oral, that may have been made or entered into by or among any of the parties hereto relating to the transactions contemplated hereby. No representations, warranties, covenants, understandings, agreements, oral or otherwise, relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement exist between the parties except as expressly set forth or referenced in this Agreement. Notwithstanding

 

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the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of the Company or any of the Stockholder Parties under any other agreement between any of the Stockholder Parties and the Company, and nothing in any other agreement, certificate or instrument shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of any of the Stockholder Parties or the Company under this Agreement.

5.11 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The parties further agree that if any provision contained herein is, to any extent, held invalid or unenforceable in any respect under the laws governing this Agreement, they shall take any actions necessary to render the remaining provisions of this Agreement valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law and, to the extent necessary, shall amend or otherwise modify this Agreement to replace any provision contained herein that is held invalid or unenforceable with a valid and enforceable provision giving effect to the intent of the parties.

5.12 Captions; Counterparts. The captions in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in two (2) or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

5.13 Several Liability. The liability of any Stockholder Party hereunder is several (and not joint). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in no event will any Stockholder Party be liable for any other Stockholder Party’s breach of such other Stockholder Party’s representations, warranties or obligations under this Agreement.

5.14 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall be valid and enforceable as of the date of this Agreement and may not be revoked by any party hereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Lockup Agreement on the day and year first above written.

 

[PUBCO]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]


        [STOCKHOLDER PARTY]
By:  

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

 

Exhibit 10.7

LOCKUP AGREEMENT

[Form for Company Founders]

This Lockup Agreement is dated as of [•], 202[•] and is between [PUBCO]1, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (f/k/a dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV), dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), each of the stockholder parties identified on Exhibit A hereto and the other Persons who enter into a joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto with the Company in order to become a “Stockholder Party” for purposes of this Agreement (the foregoing Persons other than the Sponsor collectively, the “Stockholder Parties”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Merger Agreement (as defined below).

BACKGROUND:

WHEREAS, the Stockholder Parties own or will own equity interests in the Company;

WHEREAS, the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Second Merger Sub”), and Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, pursuant to which, among other transactions, First Merger Sub merged with and into Planet, with Planet continuing on as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “First Merger”), and, immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, Planet merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), all on the terms and conditions set forth therein;

WHEREAS, in connection with the Mergers, the parties hereto wish to set forth herein certain understandings between such parties with respect to restrictions on transfer of equity interests in the Company.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

INTRODUCTORY MATTERS

1.1 Defined Terms. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere herein, the following terms have the following meanings when used herein with initial capital letters:

Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.7.

 

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Note to Draft: Name of public company to be determined.


Affiliate” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act.

Agreement” means this Lockup Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

Blackout Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(i).

Blackout-Related Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c).

Change of Control” means any transaction or series of transactions (A) the result of which is that a Person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of Persons (other than the Founders, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries), has direct or indirect beneficial ownership of securities (or rights convertible or exchangeable into securities) representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of or economic rights or interests in the then-outstanding equity securities of the Company, (B) constituting a merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination, however effected, following which either (1) the members of the Board of Directors of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the company surviving the combination or (2) the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not continue to represent or are not converted into fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person resulting from such combination, or (C) the result of which is (i) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (as appearing in its most recent balance sheet), or assets of the Company generating all or substantially all of the gross revenues or net income (as appearing in its most recent income statement), to any Person or (ii) that shares of Class A Common Stock are delisted from the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such shares of Class A Common Stock are then traded prior to the consummation of such transaction(s).

Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, following the consummation of the Mergers.

Class B Common Stock” means the Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, following the consummation of the Mergers.

Closing Date” means the closing date of the Mergers.

Common Stock” means the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock, as applicable.

Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

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Excluded Shares” mean any Class A Common Stock acquired in the open market or otherwise from a Person other than a stockholder of Planet immediately prior to the Closing.

First Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

First Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Immediate Family” means with respect to any Person, such Person’s spouse or partner (or former spouse or former partner), ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) or spouse of a descendant of such Person, brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) and inter vivos or testamentary trusts of which only such Person and his spouse, ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption), brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) are beneficiaries.

Insider Trading Policy” means the insider trading policy or equivalent policy of the Company, as amended from time to time.

Lock-up” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

Lock-up Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(ii).

Lock-up Period Early Release Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iii).

Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iii).

Lock-up Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iv).

Mergers” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Merger Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Permitted Transferees” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(v).

Planet” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(f).

Second Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Second Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Sponsor” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Stockholder Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Trading Day” means any day on which shares of Common Stock are actually traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which shares of Common Stock are then traded.

 

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Transfer” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(vi).

1.2 Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “including” (and with correlative meaning “include”) means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding or succeeding such term and shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation”; (b) “or” is disjunctive but not exclusive, (c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular, and (d) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section references are to sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. Consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

ARTICLE II

LOCKUP

2.1 Lockup.

(a) Subject to the exclusions in Section 2.1(b), each Stockholder Party agrees not to Transfer any Lock-up Shares until the end of the Lock-up Period (the “Lock-up”).

(b) Each Stockholder Party or any of its Permitted Transferees may Transfer any Lock-up Shares it holds during the Lock-up Period (i) to any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of such Stockholder Party, any Affiliates of such Stockholder Party or any related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such Persons or their respective Affiliates, or to any other Stockholder Party; (ii) by gift to a charitable organization; (iii) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s Immediate Family or to a trust, the primary beneficiaries of which are one or more members of the individual’s Immediate Family or an Affiliate of such Person, or, in the case of a trust, Transfer to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or the estate of a beneficiary of such trust; (iv) in the case of an individual, by will or other testamentary document or device or by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (v) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (vi) with the Company’s and the Sponsor’s prior written consent; (vii) to a nominee or custodian of any Person to which a Transfer would be permissible under any of the preceding clauses (i) through (vi); (viii) in connection with any bona fide mortgage, encumbrance or pledge to a financial institution in connection with any bona fide loan or debt transaction or enforcement thereunder, including foreclosure thereof; (ix) to the Company; (x) forfeitures of Lock-up Shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements upon the vesting of equity-based awards granted pursuant to an equity incentive plan; (xi) in connection with a liquidation, merger, stock exchange, reorganization, tender offer or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares Common Stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the Closing Date; or (xii) to the extent required by any legal or regulatory order; provided that in each case of clauses (i)–(vii), if the transferee is not another Stockholder Party, such Transfer shall be subject to prior receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

 

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(c) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in this Section 2.1, to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if the Lock-up Period, excluding in connection with a Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger, is scheduled to end during such Blackout Period or within five Trading Days prior to the commencement of a Blackout Period, the Lock-up Period shall end ten Trading Days prior to the commencement of the Blackout Period (the “Blackout-Related Release”). The Company shall announce the date of the expected Blackout-Related Release through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Blackout-Related Release.

(d) For purposes of this Section 2.1:

(i) The term “Blackout Period” means a broadly applicable and regularly scheduled period during which trading in the Company’s securities would not be permitted under the Insider Trading Policy.

(ii) The term “Lock-up Period” means the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (A) the date that is 18 months after the Closing Date and (B) the Lock-up Period Early Release Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that a definitive agreement that contemplates a Change of Control is entered into after the Closing, the Lock-up Period for any Lock-up Shares shall automatically terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such Change of Control. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lock-up Shares shall be subject to Lock-up from and after the date that is 18 months after the Closing Date.

(iii) The term “Lock-up Period Early Release Date” means the date on which the last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $15.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period commencing at least 330 days after the Closing Date (the “Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger”); provided, however, that to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if at the time of any Lock-up Period Early Release Date, the Company is in such Blackout Period, the actual date of the Lock-up Period Early Release Date shall be delayed until immediately prior to the opening of trading on the second Trading Day following the end of the Blackout Period; provided, further, that the Company shall announce the date of the expected Lock-up Period Early Release Date through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Lock-Up Period Early Release Date.

(iv) The term “Lock-up Shares” means, with respect to any Stockholder Party and such Stockholder Party’s Permitted Transferees, (A) the shares of Common Stock held by such Person immediately following the Closing and (B) the shares of Common Stock issuable to such Person upon the settlement or exercise of restricted stock units, stock options or other equity awards outstanding as of immediately following the Closing in respect of awards of Common Stock, in each case of the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), other than any Excluded Shares.

 

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(v) The term “Permitted Transferees” means, prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any Person to whom such Stockholder Party or any other Permitted Transferee of such Stockholder Party is permitted to Transfer such shares of Common Stock pursuant to Section 2.1(b).

(vi) The term “Transfer” means the (A) sale of, public offer to sell, entry into a contract or agreement to sell, hypothecation or pledge of, grant of any option to purchase or otherwise disposition of or agreement to dispose of, in each case, directly or indirectly, or establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position with respect to, any security, (B) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise, or (C) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (A) or (B). A “Transfer” does not include the conversion of shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock into shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock.

(e) Each Stockholder Party shall be permitted to enter into a trading plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act during the applicable Lock-up Period so long as no Transfers of such Stockholder Party’s shares of Common Stock in contravention of this Section 2.1 are effected prior to the expiration of the applicable Lock-up Period.

(f) Each Stockholder Party also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the Transfer of any Lock-up Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions and to the addition of a legend to such Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares describing the foregoing restrictions.

(g) For the avoidance of doubt, each Stockholder Party shall retain all of its rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Lock-up Shares during the Lock-up Period, including the right to vote any Lock-up Shares and any dividends declared on the Lock-up Shares.

ARTICLE III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

3.1 Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service, or (iv) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iv), solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), addressed as follows:

 

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If to the Company, to:

[PUBCO]

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attention: Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email: legal@planet.com

with a copy (not constituting notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn:     Josh Dubofsky

 Saad Khanani

E-mail: Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

 Saad.Khanani@lw.com

If to any Stockholder Party, to such address indicated on the Company’s records with respect to such Stockholder Party or to such other address or addresses as such Stockholder Party may from time to time designate in writing.

3.2 Amendment; Waiver. (a) The terms and provisions of this Agreement may be amended or modified in whole or in part only by a duly authorized agreement in writing executed by the Company, the Sponsor and the Stockholder Parties holding a majority of the shares then held by the Stockholder Parties in the aggregate as to which this Agreement has not been terminated.

(b) Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither the failure nor delay on the part of any party hereto to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any other right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence.

(c) No party shall be deemed to have waived any claim arising out of this Agreement, or any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement, unless the waiver of such claim, right, remedy, power or privilege is expressly set forth in a written instrument duly executed and delivered on behalf of such party; and any such waiver shall not be applicable or have any effect except in the specific instance in which it is given.

(d) The Company and any other party hereto may unilaterally waive any of its rights hereunder in a signed writing delivered to (i) in the case of a waiver by the Company or the Sponsor, the applicable Stockholder Parties and (ii) in the case of a waiver by a Stockholder Party, the Company and the Sponsor; provided that the Company shall not waive any of its rights hereunder without the Sponsor’s prior written consent.

 

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(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision herein that would (i) adversely affect any Stockholder Party, or (ii) disproportionately affect any Stockholder Party as compared to any other Stockholder Party, in each case, will not bind any such Stockholder Party without such Stockholder Party’s prior written approval.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the Company waives, releases, terminates, shortens, or otherwise amends or modifies the restrictions in this Agreement as to any Stockholder Party(ies) or in any other lock-up agreement entered into in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement as to any stockholders party thereto (a “Release”), then the Release shall apply pro rata and on the same terms to the Lock-up of each Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares hereunder (and, for the avoidance of doubt, without regard to any difference between the Lock-Up Period and the lock-up period subject to the Release) and the provisions of Section 2.1 shall be deemed immediately and automatically waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified, as the case may be, without further action of the parties. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 2.1 shall not be deemed waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified if any such waiver, release, termination, shortening, amendment or modification would further obligate or is otherwise adverse to the holders of Lock-up Shares hereunder (unless such Stockholder Party so consents).

3.3 Further Assurances. The parties hereto will sign such further documents, cause such meetings to be held, resolutions passed, exercise their votes and do and perform and cause to be done such further acts and things necessary, proper or advisable in order to give full effect to this Agreement and every provision hereof.

3.4 Assignment. No party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any part hereof without the prior written consent of the other parties; provided that a Stockholder Party may assign this Agreement to a Permitted Transferee solely in connection with a Transfer permitted by this Agreement, subject to the receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto by the Permitted Transferee. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. Any attempted assignment in violation of the terms of this Section 3.4 shall be null and void, ab initio.

3.5 Third Parties. Nothing expressed or implied in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to confer upon or give any person, other than the parties hereto, any right or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement, as a third party beneficiary or otherwise.

3.6 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT, AND ALL CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT SUCH PRINCIPLES OR RULES WOULD REQUIRE OR PERMIT THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

 

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3.7 Jurisdiction. Any claim, action, suit, assessment, arbitration or proceeding (an “Action”) based upon, arising out of or related to this Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, to the extent such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware), or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and each of the parties irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in any such Action, waives any objection it may now or hereafter have to personal jurisdiction, venue or to convenience of forum, agrees that all claims in respect of the Action shall be heard and determined only in any such court, and agrees not to bring any Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any other court. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of any party to serve process in any manner permitted by law, or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction, in each case, to enforce judgments obtained in any Action brought pursuant to this Section 3.7.

3.8 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (II) EACH SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (III) EACH SUCH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) EACH SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 3.8.

3.9 Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage for which monetary damages, even if available, would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that the parties do not perform their obligations under the provisions of this Agreement (including failing to take such actions as are required of them hereunder to consummate this Agreement) in accordance with its specified terms or otherwise breach such provisions. The parties acknowledge and agree that (a) the parties shall be entitled to seek an injunction, specific performance, or other equitable relief, to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, without proof of damages, prior to the valid termination of this Agreement, and (b) the right of specific enforcement is an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and without that right, none of the parties would have entered into this Agreement. Each party agrees that it will not oppose the granting of specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that the other parties have an

 

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adequate remedy at law or that an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at law or equity. The parties acknowledge and agree that any party seeking an injunction to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in accordance with this Section 3.9 shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such injunction.

3.10 Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise set forth herein, this Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and supersede any other agreements, whether written or oral, that may have been made or entered into by or among any of the parties hereto relating to the transactions contemplated hereby. No representations, warranties, covenants, understandings, agreements, oral or otherwise, relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement exist between the parties except as expressly set forth or referenced in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of the Company or any of the Stockholder Parties under any other agreement between any of the Stockholder Parties and the Company, and nothing in any other agreement, certificate or instrument shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of any of the Stockholder Parties or the Company under this Agreement.

3.11 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The parties further agree that if any provision contained herein is, to any extent, held invalid or unenforceable in any respect under the laws governing this Agreement, they shall take any actions necessary to render the remaining provisions of this Agreement valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law and, to the extent necessary, shall amend or otherwise modify this Agreement to replace any provision contained herein that is held invalid or unenforceable with a valid and enforceable provision giving effect to the intent of the parties.

3.12 Captions; Counterparts. The captions in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in two (2) or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

3.13 Several Liability. The liability of any Stockholder Party hereunder is several (and not joint). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in no event will any Stockholder Party be liable for any other Stockholder Party’s breach of such other Stockholder Party’s representations, warranties or obligations under this Agreement.

3.14 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall be valid and enforceable as of the date of this Agreement and may not be revoked by any party hereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Lockup Agreement on the day and year first above written.

 

[PUBCO]
By:  

 

Name:
Title:

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]


[STOCKHOLDER PARTY]
By:  

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]


[SPONSOR]
By:  

 

 

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

Exhibit 10.8

LOCKUP AGREEMENT

[Form for Company D&Os, 5% Holders (other than Founders)]

This Lockup Agreement is dated as of [🌑], 202[•] and is between [PUBCO]1, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) (f/k/a dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV), dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), each of the stockholder parties identified on Exhibit A hereto and the other Persons who enter into a joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto with the Company in order to become a “Stockholder Party” for purposes of this Agreement (the foregoing Persons other than the Sponsor collectively, the “Stockholder Parties”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Merger Agreement (as defined below).

BACKGROUND:

WHEREAS, the Stockholder Parties own or will own equity interests in the Company;

WHEREAS, the Company, Photon Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“First Merger Sub”), Photon Merger Sub Two, LLC a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (“Second Merger Sub”), and Planet Labs Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Planet”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as amended or modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of July 7, 2021, pursuant to which, among other transactions, First Merger Sub merged with and into Planet, with Planet continuing on as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “First Merger”), and, immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, Planet merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing on as the surviving entity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Second Merger” and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”), all on the terms and conditions set forth therein;

WHEREAS, in connection with the Mergers, the parties hereto wish to set forth herein certain understandings between such parties with respect to restrictions on the transfer of equity interests in the Company.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

INTRODUCTORY MATTERS

1.1 Defined Terms. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere herein, the following terms have the following meanings when used herein with initial capital letters:

Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.7.

 

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Note to Draft: Name of public company to be determined.


Affiliate” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act.

Agreement” means this Lockup Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

Blackout Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(i).

Blackout-Related Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c).

Change of Control” means any transaction or series of transactions (A) the result of which is that a Person or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of Persons (other than the Founders, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective Subsidiaries), has direct or indirect beneficial ownership of securities (or rights convertible or exchangeable into securities) representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of or economic rights or interests in the then-outstanding equity securities of the Company, (B) constituting a merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination, however effected, following which either (1) the members of the Board of Directors of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the company surviving the combination or (2) the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination do not continue to represent or are not converted into fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Person resulting from such combination, or (C) the result of which is (i) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (as appearing in its most recent balance sheet), or assets of the Company generating all or substantially all of the gross revenues or net income (as appearing in its most recent income statement), to any Person or (ii) that shares of Class A Common Stock are delisted from the principal securities exchange or securities market on which such shares of Class A Common Stock are then traded prior to the consummation of such transaction(s).

Class A Common Stock” means the Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, following the consummation of the Mergers.

Class B Common Stock” means the Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company, following the consummation of the Mergers.

Closing Date” means the closing date of the Mergers.

Common Stock” means the Class A Common Stock and the Class B Common Stock, as applicable.

Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

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Excluded Shares” mean (a) any shares purchased pursuant to a Subscription Agreement and (b) any Class A Common Stock acquired in the open market or otherwise from a Person other than a stockholder of Planet immediately prior to the Closing.

First Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

First Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Immediate Family” means with respect to any Person, such Person’s spouse or partner (or former spouse or former partner), ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) or spouse of a descendant of such Person, brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) and inter vivos or testamentary trusts of which only such Person and his spouse, ancestors, descendants (whether by blood, marriage or adoption), brothers and sisters (whether by blood, marriage or adoption) are beneficiaries.

Insider Trading Policy” means the insider trading policy or equivalent policy of the Company, as amended from time to time.

Lock-up” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

Lock-up Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(ii).

Lock-up Period Early Release Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iii).

Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iii).

Lock-up Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(iv).

Mergers” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Merger Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Permitted Transferees” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(v).

Planet” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(f).

Second Merger” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Second Merger Sub” has the meaning set forth in the Background.

Sponsor” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Stockholder Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Subscription Agreement” means a Subscription Agreement, dated as of July 7, 2021, by and between a Stockholder Party and the Company.

 

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Trading Day” means any day on which shares of Common Stock are actually traded on the principal securities exchange or securities market on which shares of Common Stock are then traded.

Transfer” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(d)(vi).

1.2 Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “including” (and with correlative meaning “include”) means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding or succeeding such term and shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation”; (b) “or” is disjunctive but not exclusive, (c) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular, and (d) the words “hereof”, “herein”, and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section references are to sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. Consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

ARTICLE II

LOCKUP

2.1 Lockup.

(a) Subject to the exclusions in Section 2.1(b), each Stockholder Party agrees not to Transfer any Lock-up Shares until the end of the Lock-up Period (the “Lock-up”).

(b) Each Stockholder Party or any of its Permitted Transferees may Transfer any Lock-up Shares it holds during the Lock-up Period (i) to any direct or indirect partners, members or equity holders of such Stockholder Party, any Affiliates of such Stockholder Party or any related investment funds or vehicles controlled or managed by such Persons or their respective Affiliates, or to any other Stockholder Party; (ii) by gift to a charitable organization; (iii) in the case of an individual, by gift to a member of the individual’s Immediate Family or to a trust, the primary beneficiaries of which are one or more members of the individual’s Immediate Family or an Affiliate of such Person, or, in the case of a trust, Transfer to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or the estate of a beneficiary of such trust; (iv) in the case of an individual, by will or other testamentary document or device or by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (v) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (vi) with the Company’s and the Sponsor’s prior written consent; (vii) to a nominee or custodian of any Person to which a Transfer would be permissible under any of the preceding clauses (i) through (vi); (viii) in connection with any bona fide mortgage, encumbrance or pledge to a financial institution in connection with any bona fide loan or debt transaction or enforcement thereunder, including foreclosure thereof; (ix) to the Company; (x) forfeitures of Lock-up Shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements upon the vesting of equity-based awards granted pursuant to an equity incentive plan; (xi) in connection with a liquidation, merger, stock exchange, reorganization, tender offer or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares Common Stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent

 

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to the Closing Date; or (xii) to the extent required by any legal or regulatory order; provided that in each case of clauses (i)–(vii), if the transferee is not another Stockholder Party, such Transfer shall be subject to prior receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in this Section 2.1, to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if the Lock-up Period, excluding in connection with a Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger, is scheduled to end during such Blackout Period or within five Trading Days prior to the commencement of a Blackout Period, the Lock-up Period shall end ten Trading Days prior to the commencement of the Blackout Period (the “Blackout-Related Release”). The Company shall announce the date of the expected Blackout-Related Release through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Blackout-Related Release.

(d) For purposes of this Section 2.1:

(i) The term “Blackout Period” means a broadly applicable and regularly scheduled period during which trading in the Company’s securities would not be permitted under the Insider Trading Policy.

(ii) The term “Lock-up Period” means the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (A) the date that is 12 months after the Closing Date and (B) the Lock-up Period Early Release Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that a definitive agreement that contemplates a Change of Control is entered into after the Closing, the Lock-up Period for any Lock-up Shares shall automatically terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such Change of Control. For the avoidance of doubt, no Lock-up Shares shall be subject to Lock-up from and after the date that is 12 months after the Closing Date.

(iii) The term “Lock-up Period Early Release Date” means the date on which the last reported sale price of the Class A Common Stock reported by Bloomberg (or if not available, by another authoritative source) equals or exceeds $12.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) for any 20 Trading Days within any 30-Trading Day period commencing at least 150 days after the Closing Date (the “Lock-up Period Early Release Trigger”); provided, however, that to the extent that the holder of Lock-Up Shares is subject to stock trading restrictions during any Blackout Period pursuant to the Insider Trading Policy and if at the time of any Lock-up Period Early Release Date, the Company is in such Blackout Period, the actual date of the Lock-up Period Early Release Date shall be delayed until immediately prior to the opening of trading on the second Trading Day following the end of the Blackout Period; provided, further, that the Company shall announce the date of the expected Lock-up Period Early Release Date through a major news service, or on a Form 8-K, at least two Trading Days in advance of the Lock-Up Period Early Release Date.

 

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(iv) The term “Lock-up Shares” means, with respect to any Stockholder Party and such Stockholder Party’s Permitted Transferees, (A) the shares of Common Stock held by such Person immediately following the Closing and (B) the shares of Common Stock issuable to such Person upon the settlement or exercise of restricted stock units, stock options or other equity awards outstanding as of immediately following the Closing in respect of awards of Common Stock, in each case of the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), other than any Excluded Shares.

(v) The term “Permitted Transferees” means, prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period, any Person to whom such Stockholder Party or any other Permitted Transferee of such Stockholder Party is permitted to Transfer such shares of Common Stock pursuant to Section 2.1(b).

(vi) The term “Transfer” means the (A) sale of, public offer to sell, entry into a contract or agreement to sell, hypothecation or pledge of, grant of any option to purchase or otherwise disposition of or agreement to dispose of, in each case, directly or indirectly, or establishment or increase of a put equivalent position or liquidation with respect to or decrease of a call equivalent position with respect to, any security, (B) entry into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of any security, whether any such transaction is to be settled by delivery of such securities, in cash or otherwise or (C) public announcement of any intention to effect any transaction specified in clause (A) or (B).

(e) Each Stockholder Party shall be permitted to enter into a trading plan established in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act during the applicable Lock-up Period so long as no Transfers of such Stockholder Party’s shares of Common Stock in contravention of this Section 2.1 are effected prior to the expiration of the applicable Lock-up Period.

(f) Each Stockholder Party also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the Transfer of any Lock-up Shares except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions and to the addition of a legend to such Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares describing the foregoing restrictions.

(g) For the avoidance of doubt, each Stockholder Party shall retain all of its rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Lock-up Shares during the Lock-up Period, including the right to vote any Lock-up Shares and any dividends declared on the Lock-up Shares.

ARTICLE III

GENERAL PROVISIONS

3.1 Notices. All notices and other communications among the parties shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when delivered in person, (ii) when delivered after posting in the United States mail having been sent registered or certified mail return receipt requested, postage prepaid, (iii) when delivered by FedEx or other nationally recognized overnight delivery service, or (iv) when delivered by email (in each case in this clause (iv), solely if receipt is confirmed, but excluding any automated reply, such as an out-of-office notification), addressed as follows:

 

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If to the Company, to:

[PUBCO]

645 Harrison St., Floor 4

San Francisco, CA 94107

Attention: Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

Email: legal@planet.com

with a copy (not constituting notice) to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

140 Scott Drive

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attn: Josh Dubofsky

  Saad Khanani

E-mail: Josh.Dubofsky@lw.com

    Saad.Khanani@lw.com

If to any Stockholder Party, to such address indicated on the Company’s records with respect to such Stockholder Party or to such other address or addresses as such Stockholder Party may from time to time designate in writing.

3.2 Amendment; Waiver. (a) The terms and provisions of this Agreement may be amended or modified in whole or in part only by a duly authorized agreement in writing executed by the Company, the Sponsor and the Stockholder Parties holding a majority of the shares then held by the Stockholder Parties in the aggregate as to which this Agreement has not been terminated.

(b) Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, neither the failure nor delay on the part of any party hereto to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any other right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence.

(c) No party shall be deemed to have waived any claim arising out of this Agreement, or any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement, unless the waiver of such claim, right, remedy, power or privilege is expressly set forth in a written instrument duly executed and delivered on behalf of such party; and any such waiver shall not be applicable or have any effect except in the specific instance in which it is given.

 

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(d) The Company and any other party hereto may unilaterally waive any of its rights hereunder in a signed writing delivered to (i) in the case of a waiver by the Company or the Sponsor, the applicable Stockholder Parties and (ii) in the case of a waiver by a Stockholder Party, the Company and the Sponsor; provided that the Company shall not waive any of its rights hereunder without the Sponsor’s prior written consent.

(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision herein that would (i) adversely affect any Stockholder Party, or (ii) disproportionately affect any Stockholder Party as compared to any other Stockholder Party, in each case, will not bind any such Stockholder Party without such Stockholder Party’s prior written approval.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the Company waives, releases, terminates, shortens, or otherwise amends or modifies the restrictions in this Agreement as to any Stockholder Party(ies) or in any other lock-up agreement entered into in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement as to any stockholders party thereto (a “Release”), then the Release shall apply pro rata and on the same terms to the Lock-up of each Stockholder Party’s Lock-up Shares hereunder (and, for the avoidance of doubt, without regard to any difference between the Lock-Up Period and the lock-up period subject to the Release) and the provisions of Section 2.1 shall be deemed immediately and automatically waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified, as the case may be, without further action of the parties. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 2.1 shall not be deemed waived, released, terminated, shortened, amended or modified if any such waiver, release, termination, shortening, amendment or modification would further obligate or is otherwise adverse to the holders of Lock-up Shares hereunder (unless such Stockholder Party so consents).

3.3 Further Assurances. The parties hereto will sign such further documents, cause such meetings to be held, resolutions passed, exercise their votes and do and perform and cause to be done such further acts and things necessary, proper or advisable in order to give full effect to this Agreement and every provision hereof.

3.4 Assignment. No party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any part hereof without the prior written consent of the other parties; provided that a Stockholder Party may assign this Agreement to a Permitted Transferee solely in connection with a Transfer permitted by this Agreement, subject to the receipt by the Company of a duly executed joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto by the Permitted Transferee. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. Any attempted assignment in violation of the terms of this Section 3.4 shall be null and void, ab initio.

3.5 Third Parties. Nothing expressed or implied in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to confer upon or give any person, other than the parties hereto, any right or remedies under or by reason of this Agreement, as a third party beneficiary or otherwise.

 

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3.6 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT, AND ALL CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO PRINCIPLES OR RULES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS TO THE EXTENT SUCH PRINCIPLES OR RULES WOULD REQUIRE OR PERMIT THE APPLICATION OF LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

3.7 Jurisdiction. Any claim, action, suit, assessment, arbitration or proceeding (an “Action”) based upon, arising out of or related to this Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby, shall be brought in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, to the extent such court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the Superior Court of the State of Delaware), or, if it has or can acquire jurisdiction, in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and each of the parties irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in any such Action, waives any objection it may now or hereafter have to personal jurisdiction, venue or to convenience of forum, agrees that all claims in respect of the Action shall be heard and determined only in any such court, and agrees not to bring any Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any other court. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the right of any party to serve process in any manner permitted by law, or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any other party in any other jurisdiction, in each case, to enforce judgments obtained in any Action brought pursuant to this Section 3.7.

3.8 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (II) EACH SUCH PARTY UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER, (III) EACH SUCH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) EACH SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 3.8.

3.9 Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage for which monetary damages, even if available, would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that the parties do not perform their obligations under the provisions of this Agreement (including failing to take such actions as are required of them hereunder to consummate this Agreement) in accordance with its specified terms or otherwise breach such provisions. The parties acknowledge and agree that (a) the parties shall be entitled to seek an injunction, specific performance, or other equitable relief, to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, without proof of damages, prior to the valid termination of this Agreement, and (b) the right of specific enforcement is an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and without that right, none of the parties would

 

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have entered into this Agreement. Each party agrees that it will not oppose the granting of specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that the other parties have an adequate remedy at law or that an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at law or equity. The parties acknowledge and agree that any party seeking an injunction to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in accordance with this Section 3.9 shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such injunction.

3.10 Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise set forth herein, this Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and supersede any other agreements, whether written or oral, that may have been made or entered into by or among any of the parties hereto relating to the transactions contemplated hereby. No representations, warranties, covenants, understandings, agreements, oral or otherwise, relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement exist between the parties except as expressly set forth or referenced in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of the Company or any of the Stockholder Parties under any other agreement between any of the Stockholder Parties and the Company, and nothing in any other agreement, certificate or instrument shall limit any of the rights, remedies or obligations of any of the Stockholder Parties or the Company under this Agreement.

3.11 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. The parties further agree that if any provision contained herein is, to any extent, held invalid or unenforceable in any respect under the laws governing this Agreement, they shall take any actions necessary to render the remaining provisions of this Agreement valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law and, to the extent necessary, shall amend or otherwise modify this Agreement to replace any provision contained herein that is held invalid or unenforceable with a valid and enforceable provision giving effect to the intent of the parties.

3.12 Captions; Counterparts. The captions in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation of any provision of this Agreement. This Agreement may be executed in two (2) or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

3.13 Several Liability. The liability of any Stockholder Party hereunder is several (and not joint). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in no event will any Stockholder Party be liable for any other Stockholder Party’s breach of such other Stockholder Party’s representations, warranties or obligations under this Agreement.

3.14 Effectiveness. This Agreement shall be valid and enforceable as of the date of this Agreement and may not be revoked by any party hereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Lockup Agreement on the day and year first above written.

 

[PUBCO]
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]


[STOCKHOLDER PARTY]
By:  

                          

[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]


[SPONSOR]
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[Signature Page to Lock-Up Agreement]

Exhibit 99.1

Planet to Become Publicly Traded Company through Merger with dMY IV

 

 

Planet is an Earth data and analytics company, producing 25 terabytes of data per day from approximately 200 satellites—the largest Earth imaging satellite fleet ever

 

 

Planet’s proprietary data powers a high growth subscription business with over $100 million in revenue in FY2021 from over 600 customers across many verticals

 

 

In addition to $345 million in dMY IV’s trust account (assuming no redemptions), transaction includes $200 million fully committed PIPE led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with key participation including Koch Strategic Platforms and Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures and existing Planet investor Google

 

 

Transaction values Planet at a post-transaction equity value of approximately $2.8 billion

 

 

Planet intends to use the proceeds from the transaction to expand its operations and services to enable a more sustainable and secure planet

 

 

Business combination expected to be completed later this year

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and NEW YORK, NY July 7, 2021 – Planet Labs Inc. (“Planet”), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (NYSE: DMYQ) (“dMY IV”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Planet will become a publicly-traded company. Upon closing, the combined company will retain the Planet name and be listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “PL.” The transaction values Planet at a post-transaction equity value of approximately $2.8 billion.

Planet has a proven track record of success, generating over $100 million in revenue in its last fiscal year ended January 31, 2021, and currently serves more than 600 customers across 65 countries, for example:

 

 

In agriculture, Planet’s data helps farmers increase crop yields and revenue, decrease costs such as fertilizer use, and adopt sustainable agriculture practices.

 

 

Governmental organizations use Planet’s data to increase global security and transparency by monitoring threats, responding to emergencies, and enforcing local permitting.

 

 

In forestry, Planet’s data is used to measure and stop deforestation and to monitor sustainability initiatives.

 

 

In mapping, Planet’s imagery helps keep digital maps up to date as the world changes, whether through environmental effects or urban development.

Planet delivers a unique data set: a daily scan of Earth’s entire landmass. This data systematically and consistently documents change across the planet on a daily basis. Planet largely operates a subscription-based business model in which customers purchase proprietary data feeds. Planet views its one-to-many model as differentiated, as the data and analytics can be sold multiple times to multiple customers, enabling high profit margins.

Through this transaction, Planet will invest to accelerate its growth by further expanding into existing and new markets, as well as building additional software and machine-learning-enabled data products and solutions.

“At Planet our goal is to use space to help life on Earth. We have this huge new dataset — an image of the entire Earth landmass every day — which we serve up via a Bloomberg-like terminal for Earth data, making it simple to consume and expanding reach to potentially millions of users across dozens of verticals,” said Planet CEO and Co-founder Will Marshall. “As the world shifts to a more sustainable economy and more companies and governments set their sustainability and ESG goals, the first step in achieving these objectives is measurement. Planet’s daily, global data is foundational to making that transition. We’re excited to reach this important milestone of taking Planet public to significantly accelerate our mission, and to be doing so with dMY and other great investors.”

 

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“We believe Planet is a new kind of data company, delivering mission-critical insights and solutions to some of the world’s most influential companies and governmental organizations,” said Niccolo de Masi, CEO of dMY IV. “The Company’s daily, global dataset is impressive and we believe serves as the foundation of a rapidly growing and scalable data-as-a-service subscription business, which we believe is poised for significant growth as data increasingly becomes the fuel that powers the global economy. When you combine their visionary leadership team, talented workforce, vast dataset and transformational technology, it’s an indication that Planet is on a path to become one of the most consequential companies in a generation.”

“Global sustainability requires data and analytics for global action,” said Marc Benioff. “Planet, and its key initiatives like Carbon Mapper, deliver radical transparency on our rapidly changing climate.”

You Cannot Manage What You Cannot Measure

Planet data is critical to enabling decisions for many companies as they undergo the data-driven digital transformation. Within governments and across the broader economy, Planet’s daily information feeds are helping to define new methods to monitor resources and account for environmental assets, which is foundational for the ESG transition to enabling a sustainable economy.

Planet’s data is optimized for machine learning and delivered via a cloud-native platform, transforming the way companies and governments leverage satellite data and derived products, and delivering insights on a daily basis. This powerful dataset is collected by a fleet of about 200 satellites–the largest Earth observation satellite fleet ever–which Planet designs, builds, and operates in house. This constellation captures over 3 million images per day, covering over 300 million square kilometers and generating approximately 25 terabytes of data per day.

With this data captured and archived every day, Planet has an extensive catalogue of high-resolution Earth images–over 1,500 on average for every point on the Earth’s land mass–providing the ability to go back through time and analyze historical change as well as fuel powerful machine learning applications.

Planet’s business is enabled by “agile aerospace,” a concept for which the Company was a pioneer. This approach leads to rapidly iterating capabilities in orbit for improved solutions for customers, while dramatically lowering costs compared to traditional aerospace companies. Planet’s vertical integration of satellite design, manufacturing, and operation allows it to cost-effectively develop new data layers and quickly address emerging market requirements relative to other satellite Earth data providers. As new data sets are added, Planet’s products and services enable customers to solve more complex challenges.

Transaction Overview

The transaction values Planet at a post-transaction equity value of approximately $2.8 billion. Existing Planet stockholders will retain 77% ownership in the pro forma company and may receive up to an additional 27 million new Planet shares, depending on the performance of the share price during the five year period following the closing.

 

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Concurrently with the consummation of the transaction, additional investors have committed to participate in the proposed business combination by purchasing shares of Class A common stock of dMY IV in a private placement (the “PIPE”). The $200 million PIPE investment is led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, with participation from Koch Strategic Platforms, Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures, and Google. After paying transaction expenses and paydown of Planet’s existing debt, the balance of the $345 million in cash held in dMY IV’s trust account (assuming no redemptions), together with the approximately $200 million in PIPE proceeds, will be used to fund operations and support new and existing growth initiatives.

The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by dMY IV’s Board of Directors and Planet’s Board of Directors, is expected to close later this year, subject to approval by dMY IV’s and Planet’s stockholders and other customary closing conditions.

Management & Governance

Planet’s management team, led by CEO, Co-Founder and Chair Will Marshall and Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder and Director, Robbie Schingler, CFO/COO Ashley Johnson and President, Product and Business Strategy, Kevin Weil, will continue to lead the public company following the transaction. Additionally, dMY IV will nominate one director to serve on the board of directors of the public company following the transaction, with such director being reasonably acceptable to Planet.                

Advisors

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is acting as exclusive financial advisor to Planet. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Needham & Company, LLC are acting as financial advisors to dMY IV. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as co-lead placement agents for dMY IV in connection with the PIPE transaction. Latham & Watkins LLP is serving as legal advisor to Planet. White & Case LLP is serving as legal advisor to dMY IV.

Conference Call Information

Management of Planet and dMY IV will host an investor conference call on Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 at 8:00 am Eastern Time to discuss the proposed business combination. The call can be accessed at www.planet.com/investors and www.dmytechnology.com. The transcript of the investor conference call will be filed by dMY IV with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

In addition, dMY IV intends to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC, which will include a proxy statement/prospectus of dMY IV, and will file other documents regarding the proposed transaction with the SEC.

About Planet

Planet is a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, committed to using space to help life on Earth. Planet is driven by a mission to image the world every day, and make change visible, accessible and actionable. Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest earth observation fleet of imaging satellites, capturing and compiling data from over 3 million images per day. Planet provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software solutions to over 600 customers, comprised of the world’s leading agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance companies and government agencies, enabling users to simply and effectively derive unique value from satellite imagery.

 

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About dMY IV

dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV is a $345 million special purpose acquisition company founded by Niccolo de Masi and Harry You for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Its Class A common stock, units and warrants trade on the NYSE under the ticker symbols DMYQ, DMYQ.U and DMYQ WS, respectively. More information can be found at www.dmytechnology.com.

Important Information About the Proposed Business Combination and Where to Find It

In connection with the proposed business combination, dMY IV intends to file with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-4 (the “Registration Statement”), which will include a proxy statement/prospectus of dMY IV. dMY IV’s stockholders and other interested persons are advised to read, when available, the Registration Statement and the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus which forms a part of the Registration Statement, as well as any amendments thereto, and the effective Registration Statement and the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and documents incorporated by reference therein filed in connection with the proposed business combination, as these materials will contain important information about the parties to the definitive business combination agreement (the “Agreement”), dMY IV and the proposed business combination. When available, the definitive proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials for the proposed business combination will be mailed to stockholders of dMY IV as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed business combination and other matters as may be described in the Registration Statement. Stockholders will also be able to obtain copies of the preliminary proxy statement/prospectus, the definitive proxy statement /prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC that will be incorporated by reference therein, without charge, once available, at the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov, at dMY IV’s website at https://www.dmytechnology.com or by written request to dMY IV, at 1180 North Town Center Drive, Suite 100, Las Vegas, Nevada 89144.

Participants in the Solicitation

dMY IV, dMY Sponsor IV, LLC, Planet and their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from dMY IV’s stockholders with respect to the proposed business combination. A list of the names of those directors and executive officers and a description of their interests in dMY IV will be included in the Registration Statement to be filed by dMY IV, which will include the proxy statement/prospectus of dMY IV for the proposed business combination and be available at www.sec.gov. Additional information regarding the interests of such participants will be contained in the proxy statement for the proposed business combination when available. You may obtain free copies of these documents as described in the preceding paragraph.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the proposed transaction between dMY IV and Planet, including statements regarding the benefits of the transaction, the anticipated timing of the transaction, the services offered by Planet and the markets in which it operates. dMY IV’s and Planet’s actual results may differ from their expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,”

 

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“will,” “could,” “should,” “would,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “strategy,” “opportunity,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, dMY IV’s and Planet’s expectations with respect to future performance and anticipated financial impacts of the proposed business combination, the satisfaction of the closing conditions to the proposed business combination and the timing of the completion of the proposed business combination. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside dMY IV’s and Planet’s control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Agreement; (2) the lack of a third party valuation in determining whether the proposed transaction is fair to dMY IV’s stockholders from a financial point of view; (3) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against dMY IV and Planet following the announcement of the Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein; (4) the inability to complete the proposed business combination, including due to failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of dMY IV or Planet, certain governmental or regulatory approvals, the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount following redemption by dMY IV’s public stockholders, or satisfy other conditions to closing in the Agreement; (5) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Agreement or could otherwise cause the transaction to fail to close; (6) the impact of COVID-19 on Planet’s business and/or the ability of the parties to complete the proposed business combination; (7) the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of the combined company’s shares of Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange following the proposed business combination; (8) the risk that the proposed business combination disrupts current plans, operations, business relationships, performance and business generally as a result of the announcement and consummation of the proposed business combination; (9) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the proposed business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of Planet to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers, and retain its management and key employees; (10) costs related to the proposed business combination; (11) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (12) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the proposed transaction, and identify and realize additional opportunities; (13) the possibility that Planet or dMY IV may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (14) other risks and uncertainties indicated from time to time in the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the proposed business combination, including those under “Risk Factors” therein, and in dMY IV’s other filings with the SEC. dMY IV cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of dMY IV’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, the Registration Statement and proxy statement/prospectus discussed above and other documents filed by dMY IV from time to time with the SEC. These filings identify and address or will identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. dMY IV and Planet caution readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. dMY IV and Planet do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

 

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No Offer or Solicitation

This press release shall not constitute a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed business combination. This press release shall also not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any states or jurisdictions in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Contacts:

Planet:

Investor Contact:

Chris Genualdi

ir@planet.com

Press Contacts:

Trevor Hammond

comms@planet.com

John Christiansen/Cassandra Bujarski Sard

Verbinnen & Co

Planet-SVC@sardverb.com

dMY IV:

Investor Contact:

Harry You

dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV

harry@dmytechnology.com

(702) 781-4313

Press Contact:

ICR

dmy4@icrinc.com

 

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Exhibit 99.2 Investor Presentation July 2021 Image: South Passage, Australia – October 1, 2015 1Exhibit 99.2 Investor Presentation July 2021 Image: South Passage, Australia – October 1, 2015 1


Disclaimers About this Presentation This investor presentation (this “Presentation”) relates to a proposed business combination (the “Business Combination”) between dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (“dMY”) and Planet Labs, Inc. (the “Company”). The information contained herein does not purport to be all-inclusive and none of dMY, the Company or their respective affiliates or representatives makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information contained in this Presentation. This Presentation does not constitute (i) a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed Business Combination or (ii) an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any security of dMY, the Company, or any of their respective affiliates. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption therefrom. Forward Looking Statements Certain statements in this Presentation may be considered “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements generally relate to our current expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, strategies or projections about future events or dMY’s or the Company’s future financial or operating performance. For example, statements regarding anticipated growth in the industry in which the Company operates and anticipated growth in demand for the Company’s services, projections of the Company’s future financial results and other metrics and ownership of the combined company following the closing of the Business Combination are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “pro forma,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “project,” “strive,” “budget,” “forecast,” “expect,” “intend,” “will,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward- looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. You should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by dMY and its management, and the Company and its management, as the case may be, are inherently uncertain. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of definitive agreements with respect to the Business Combination; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against dMY, the Company, the combined company or others following the announcement of the Business Combination and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; the inability to complete the Business Combination due to the failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of dMY, to obtain financing to complete the Business Combination or to satisfy other conditions to closing; changes to the proposed structure of the Business Combination that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations or as a condition to obtaining regulatory approval of the Business Combination; the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the Business Combination; the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations of the Company as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Business Combination; the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; costs related to the Business Combination; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the possibility that the Company or the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, or competitive factors; the Company’s estimates of expenses and profitability; the evolution of the markets in which the Company competes; the ability of the Company to implement its strategic initiatives and continue to innovate its existing services; the ability of the Company to defend its intellectual property; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business; and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in dMY’s final prospectus dated March 4, 2021 relating to its initial public offering and those risk factors relating to the Company’s business identified in the appendix to this Presentation. dMY and the Company caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Nothing in this Presentation should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward- looking statements will be achieved. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Neither dMY nor the Company undertakes any duty to update these forward-looking statements. Financial Information; Non-GAAP Financial Measures The financial information and data contained in this Presentation is unaudited and does not conform to Regulation S-X. Such information and data may not be included in, may be adjusted in or may be presented differently in the registration statement to be filed by dMY relating to the Business Combination and the proxy statement/prospectus contained therein. This Presentation also includes certain financial measures not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) including non-GAAP Gross Profit, non-GAAP Gross Margin, Adjusted free cash flow, Adjusted free cash flow margin, Adjusted EBITDA and certain ratios and other metrics derived therefrom. The Company defines non-GAAP gross profit as gross profit plus stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods, and non-GAAP gross margin as the percentage of non-GAAP gross profit relative to net revenue during a given period. The Company defines Adjusted free cash flow as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and Adjusted free cash flow margin as the percentage of Adjusted free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation expense. These non-GAAP financial measures are not measures of financial performance in accordance with GAAP and may exclude items that are significant in understanding and assessing the Company’s financial results. Therefore, these measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net income, cash flows from operations or other measures of profitability, liquidity or performance under GAAP. You should be aware that the Company’s presentation of these measures may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures used by other companies. dMY and the Company believe these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. dMY and the Company believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends in and in comparing the Company’s financial measures with other similar companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors. These non-GAAP financial measures are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgments by management about which expense and income are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. This Presentation also includes certain projections of non-GAAP financial measures. Due to the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the information excluded from these projected measures, together with some of the excluded information not being ascertainable or accessible, dMY and the Company are unable to quantify certain amounts that would be required to be included in the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures without unreasonable effort. Consequently, no disclosure of estimated comparable GAAP measures is included and no reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures is included. Use of Projections This Presentation contains financial forecasts for the Company with respect to certain financial results for the Company. Neither dMY’s nor Company's independent auditors have audited, studied, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to the projections for the purpose of their inclusion in this Presentation, and accordingly, they did not express an opinion or provide any other form of assurance with respect thereto for the purpose of this Presentation. These projections are forward-looking statements and should not be relied upon as being necessarily indicative of future results. In this Presentation, certain of the above-mentioned projected information has been provided for purposes of providing comparisons with historical data. The assumptions and estimates underlying the prospective financial information are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the prospective financial information. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the prospective results are indicative of the future performance of the Company or that actual results will not differ materially from those presented in the prospective financial information. Inclusion of the prospective financial information in this Presentation should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results contained in the prospective financial information will be achieved. Industry and Market Data In this Presentation, dMY and the Company rely on and refer to certain information and statistics obtained from third-party sources which they believe to be reliable. Neither dMY nor the Company has independently verified the accuracy or completeness of any such third-party information. Some data is also based on the good faith estimates of the Company and dMY which are derived from their respective reviews of internal sources as well as the independent sources described above. This Presentation contains preliminary information only, is subject to change at any time and, is not, and should not be assumed to be, complete or to constitute all the information necessary to adequately make an informed decision regarding your engagement with Company and dMY. Trademarks This Presentation may contain trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, some of the trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights referred to in this Presentation may be listed without the TM, SM © or ® symbols, but dMY and the Company will assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, the rights of the applicable owners, if any, to these trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights. 2Disclaimers About this Presentation This investor presentation (this “Presentation”) relates to a proposed business combination (the “Business Combination”) between dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (“dMY”) and Planet Labs, Inc. (the “Company”). The information contained herein does not purport to be all-inclusive and none of dMY, the Company or their respective affiliates or representatives makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the information contained in this Presentation. This Presentation does not constitute (i) a solicitation of a proxy, consent or authorization with respect to any securities or in respect of the proposed Business Combination or (ii) an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation to purchase any security of dMY, the Company, or any of their respective affiliates. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or an exemption therefrom. Forward Looking Statements Certain statements in this Presentation may be considered “forward-looking statements” for purposes of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements generally relate to our current expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions, strategies or projections about future events or dMY’s or the Company’s future financial or operating performance. For example, statements regarding anticipated growth in the industry in which the Company operates and anticipated growth in demand for the Company’s services, projections of the Company’s future financial results and other metrics and ownership of the combined company following the closing of the Business Combination are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “pro forma,” “may,” “should,” “could,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “project,” “strive,” “budget,” “forecast,” “expect,” “intend,” “will,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward- looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. You should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. These forward-looking statements are based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by dMY and its management, and the Company and its management, as the case may be, are inherently uncertain. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to: the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of definitive agreements with respect to the Business Combination; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against dMY, the Company, the combined company or others following the announcement of the Business Combination and any definitive agreements with respect thereto; the inability to complete the Business Combination due to the failure to obtain approval of the stockholders of dMY, to obtain financing to complete the Business Combination or to satisfy other conditions to closing; changes to the proposed structure of the Business Combination that may be required or appropriate as a result of applicable laws or regulations or as a condition to obtaining regulatory approval of the Business Combination; the ability to meet stock exchange listing standards following the consummation of the Business Combination; the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations of the Company as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Business Combination; the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; costs related to the Business Combination; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the possibility that the Company or the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, or competitive factors; the Company’s estimates of expenses and profitability; the evolution of the markets in which the Company competes; the ability of the Company to implement its strategic initiatives and continue to innovate its existing services; the ability of the Company to defend its intellectual property; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business; and other risks and uncertainties set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in dMY’s final prospectus dated March 4, 2021 relating to its initial public offering and those risk factors relating to the Company’s business identified in the appendix to this Presentation. dMY and the Company caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. Nothing in this Presentation should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward- looking statements will be achieved. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Neither dMY nor the Company undertakes any duty to update these forward-looking statements. Financial Information; Non-GAAP Financial Measures The financial information and data contained in this Presentation is unaudited and does not conform to Regulation S-X. Such information and data may not be included in, may be adjusted in or may be presented differently in the registration statement to be filed by dMY relating to the Business Combination and the proxy statement/prospectus contained therein. This Presentation also includes certain financial measures not presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) including non-GAAP Gross Profit, non-GAAP Gross Margin, Adjusted free cash flow, Adjusted free cash flow margin, Adjusted EBITDA and certain ratios and other metrics derived therefrom. The Company defines non-GAAP gross profit as gross profit plus stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods, and non-GAAP gross margin as the percentage of non-GAAP gross profit relative to net revenue during a given period. The Company defines Adjusted free cash flow as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and Adjusted free cash flow margin as the percentage of Adjusted free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and stock-based compensation expense. These non-GAAP financial measures are not measures of financial performance in accordance with GAAP and may exclude items that are significant in understanding and assessing the Company’s financial results. Therefore, these measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net income, cash flows from operations or other measures of profitability, liquidity or performance under GAAP. You should be aware that the Company’s presentation of these measures may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures used by other companies. dMY and the Company believe these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to management and investors regarding certain financial and business trends relating to the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. dMY and the Company believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends in and in comparing the Company’s financial measures with other similar companies, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures to investors. These non-GAAP financial measures are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgments by management about which expense and income are excluded or included in determining these non-GAAP financial measures. This Presentation also includes certain projections of non-GAAP financial measures. Due to the high variability and difficulty in making accurate forecasts and projections of some of the information excluded from these projected measures, together with some of the excluded information not being ascertainable or accessible, dMY and the Company are unable to quantify certain amounts that would be required to be included in the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures without unreasonable effort. Consequently, no disclosure of estimated comparable GAAP measures is included and no reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures is included. Use of Projections This Presentation contains financial forecasts for the Company with respect to certain financial results for the Company. Neither dMY’s nor Company's independent auditors have audited, studied, reviewed, compiled or performed any procedures with respect to the projections for the purpose of their inclusion in this Presentation, and accordingly, they did not express an opinion or provide any other form of assurance with respect thereto for the purpose of this Presentation. These projections are forward-looking statements and should not be relied upon as being necessarily indicative of future results. In this Presentation, certain of the above-mentioned projected information has been provided for purposes of providing comparisons with historical data. The assumptions and estimates underlying the prospective financial information are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic and competitive risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the prospective financial information. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the prospective results are indicative of the future performance of the Company or that actual results will not differ materially from those presented in the prospective financial information. Inclusion of the prospective financial information in this Presentation should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results contained in the prospective financial information will be achieved. Industry and Market Data In this Presentation, dMY and the Company rely on and refer to certain information and statistics obtained from third-party sources which they believe to be reliable. Neither dMY nor the Company has independently verified the accuracy or completeness of any such third-party information. Some data is also based on the good faith estimates of the Company and dMY which are derived from their respective reviews of internal sources as well as the independent sources described above. This Presentation contains preliminary information only, is subject to change at any time and, is not, and should not be assumed to be, complete or to constitute all the information necessary to adequately make an informed decision regarding your engagement with Company and dMY. Trademarks This Presentation may contain trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, some of the trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights referred to in this Presentation may be listed without the TM, SM © or ® symbols, but dMY and the Company will assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, the rights of the applicable owners, if any, to these trademarks, service marks, trade names and copyrights. 2


Highly Differentiated dMY Technology Franchise 1 7 transactions in 13 months, deploying $2B in total capital — Former EVP, Office of Chairman of EMC — Mobile pioneer – Software & Hardware — Former President, CFO and Co-Founder — Former CEO of Glu Mobile, Monstermob of GTY and Hands-On Mobile — Former CEO of Bearing Point and CFO of — Chairman of Glu Mobile; Board of IonQ, Harry You Oracle and Accenture Niccolo De Masi Jagex, GENI & RSI Co-Chairman CEO 2 ▪ $230m in trust ▪ $276m in trust ▪ $300m in trust ▪ $345m in trust ▪ $160m PIPE ▪ $330m PIPE ▪ $350m PIPE ▪ $200m PIPE ▪ Consumer internet ▪ Sports data ▪ Quantum computing ▪ Whole earth data 1 Includes 4 SPAC IPOs and 3 PIPE announcements. 3 2 Definitive merger announced but not yet closed.Highly Differentiated dMY Technology Franchise 1 7 transactions in 13 months, deploying $2B in total capital — Former EVP, Office of Chairman of EMC — Mobile pioneer – Software & Hardware — Former President, CFO and Co-Founder — Former CEO of Glu Mobile, Monstermob of GTY and Hands-On Mobile — Former CEO of Bearing Point and CFO of — Chairman of Glu Mobile; Board of IonQ, Harry You Oracle and Accenture Niccolo De Masi Jagex, GENI & RSI Co-Chairman CEO 2 ▪ $230m in trust ▪ $276m in trust ▪ $300m in trust ▪ $345m in trust ▪ $160m PIPE ▪ $330m PIPE ▪ $350m PIPE ▪ $200m PIPE ▪ Consumer internet ▪ Sports data ▪ Quantum computing ▪ Whole earth data 1 Includes 4 SPAC IPOs and 3 PIPE announcements. 3 2 Definitive merger announced but not yet closed.


World Class Team William Marshall Chief Executive Officer, Co- Founder Kevin Weil Ashley Fieglein Johnson Robbie Schingler President, Chief Financial and Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder Product and Business Operating Officer Rosanne Saccone Kristi Erickson James Mason Chief Marketing Officer Chief People Officer Senior Vice President of Space Systems Brian Hernacki Charlie Candy Laura Malinasky Senior Vice President of Software Chief Revenue Officer Chief Legal and Compliance Officer 4World Class Team William Marshall Chief Executive Officer, Co- Founder Kevin Weil Ashley Fieglein Johnson Robbie Schingler President, Chief Financial and Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder Product and Business Operating Officer Rosanne Saccone Kristi Erickson James Mason Chief Marketing Officer Chief People Officer Senior Vice President of Space Systems Brian Hernacki Charlie Candy Laura Malinasky Senior Vice President of Software Chief Revenue Officer Chief Legal and Compliance Officer 4


Key Investment Highlights The leading provider of daily, global Earth data — 1 mission critical to the worldwide ESG transition Proven innovator in space, data and ML analytics; first 2 mover advantage – significant barriers to entry Established subscription business with multiple levers 3 to capture a massive market opportunity Attractive financial profile with strong operating leverage 4 Experienced management team with a track-record of 5 building market making businesses 5Key Investment Highlights The leading provider of daily, global Earth data — 1 mission critical to the worldwide ESG transition Proven innovator in space, data and ML analytics; first 2 mover advantage – significant barriers to entry Established subscription business with multiple levers 3 to capture a massive market opportunity Attractive financial profile with strong operating leverage 4 Experienced management team with a track-record of 5 building market making businesses 5


Planet indexes the Earth and makes it searchable, the way Google indexes the internet. What will you discover? | 6 6Planet indexes the Earth and makes it searchable, the way Google indexes the internet. What will you discover? | 6 6


Planet is ‘the Bloomberg Terminal’ for Earth Data 7 7Planet is ‘the Bloomberg Terminal’ for Earth Data 7 7


Cloud APIs & integrations AI & ML-ready MOAT 3 Proven Innovator with Data archive for ML training Multiple Compounding Moats Platform and Analytics MOAT 2 Proprietary Big Data Feedback from Faster iteration Customer use More satellites Data-enabled apps Easily add sensors Agile Space Missions Virtuous Cycle Drives MOAT 1 Competitive Differentiation 8 8Cloud APIs & integrations AI & ML-ready MOAT 3 Proven Innovator with Data archive for ML training Multiple Compounding Moats Platform and Analytics MOAT 2 Proprietary Big Data Feedback from Faster iteration Customer use More satellites Data-enabled apps Easily add sensors Agile Space Missions Virtuous Cycle Drives MOAT 1 Competitive Differentiation 8 8


Planet is Years Ahead of the Competition A Scaled Next Generation Commercial Geospatial Company Application Ecosystem Business & Beyond ML-Ready, Harmonized Data Planet Today Other New Space EO Providers Today Operational Constellation 2019-2020 Operational Satellite 2016-2018 Satellite Image ← Iterate to Improve 2014-2015 Capabilities for Mass Manufacturing & Fleet Prototype Satellite Operations → ← Iterate to Improve 2012-2013 Capabilities to be 462 satellites launched to date Operational → 30+ petabytes of Earth data ← Iterate Satellite 2010-2011 Design → 1 100% of data is ML-analyzed Massive archive for ML training First Spacecraft Design & Test → Note: This is an illustrative example of development of EO providers based on market research and Company knowledge and experience. Includes comparison against multiple North American satellite providers and several other international entrants. 9 1 ML-analyzed describes Planet’s machine learning capabilities. Planet is Years Ahead of the Competition A Scaled Next Generation Commercial Geospatial Company Application Ecosystem Business & Beyond ML-Ready, Harmonized Data Planet Today Other New Space EO Providers Today Operational Constellation 2019-2020 Operational Satellite 2016-2018 Satellite Image ← Iterate to Improve 2014-2015 Capabilities for Mass Manufacturing & Fleet Prototype Satellite Operations → ← Iterate to Improve 2012-2013 Capabilities to be 462 satellites launched to date Operational → 30+ petabytes of Earth data ← Iterate Satellite 2010-2011 Design → 1 100% of data is ML-analyzed Massive archive for ML training First Spacecraft Design & Test → Note: This is an illustrative example of development of EO providers based on market research and Company knowledge and experience. Includes comparison against multiple North American satellite providers and several other international entrants. 9 1 ML-analyzed describes Planet’s machine learning capabilities.


Planet is a One-to-Many Data Platform Daily, Global Scanning Most Frequent Cadence Largest Fleet One-to-Many Model 1 → Revolutionary → Up to 10 revisits/day → 10x competition → Uniquely Scalable Global Scale Business Metrics 62% $110M+ 90%+ 200+ ~2x 25TB FY2021A PlanetScope 3 FY2021A Revenue Recurring Satellites in Orbit Earth Land Area / Day Data Captured Daily 4 Gross Margins 73% 600+ 50M+ 100% of ACV is Customers Across 2 Detections of Data is ML-analyzed 5 6 Multi-Year Deals Multiple Verticals Note: FYE January 31st 1 Revisits/day is defined as number of times Company satellites image a particular area of interest on a given day. 2 ML-analyzed describes Planet’s machine learning capabilities. 3 Recurring contracts are defined as those that are either subscription-based or have a minimum commitment of usage. 4 PlanetScope represents 73% of FY2021A revenue. Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods. 5 10 Represents percentage of Company Annual Contract Value contracted with a term that exceeds 1 year. 6 A customer is defined as a distinct entity which has a commercial relationship with Company, i.e. subscription agreements or one-off purchases of data. As of end of period January 2021.Planet is a One-to-Many Data Platform Daily, Global Scanning Most Frequent Cadence Largest Fleet One-to-Many Model 1 → Revolutionary → Up to 10 revisits/day → 10x competition → Uniquely Scalable Global Scale Business Metrics 62% $110M+ 90%+ 200+ ~2x 25TB FY2021A PlanetScope 3 FY2021A Revenue Recurring Satellites in Orbit Earth Land Area / Day Data Captured Daily 4 Gross Margins 73% 600+ 50M+ 100% of ACV is Customers Across 2 Detections of Data is ML-analyzed 5 6 Multi-Year Deals Multiple Verticals Note: FYE January 31st 1 Revisits/day is defined as number of times Company satellites image a particular area of interest on a given day. 2 ML-analyzed describes Planet’s machine learning capabilities. 3 Recurring contracts are defined as those that are either subscription-based or have a minimum commitment of usage. 4 PlanetScope represents 73% of FY2021A revenue. Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods. 5 10 Represents percentage of Company Annual Contract Value contracted with a term that exceeds 1 year. 6 A customer is defined as a distinct entity which has a commercial relationship with Company, i.e. subscription agreements or one-off purchases of data. As of end of period January 2021.


Planet is at the Center of Two Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Economic Shifts $100 T $53 T Cumulative value Global ESG assets 1 2 created by 2025 by 2025 DIGITAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMATION Big Data & AI are unleashing a significant opportunity Planet can help countries measure their regulations, across industry; from Agriculture to Transportation to banks measure their green bonds, companies Forestry to Government, Planet delivers the data measure their ESG goals – valuing natural systems in needed to create digital efficiencies and reduce cost. the economy. 1 World Economic Forum – Digital Transformation Initiative. Estimate of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. 11 11 2 Bloomberg – ESG Assets May Hit $53 Trillion by 2025.Planet is at the Center of Two Multi-Trillion Dollar Global Economic Shifts $100 T $53 T Cumulative value Global ESG assets 1 2 created by 2025 by 2025 DIGITAL SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION TRANSFORMATION Big Data & AI are unleashing a significant opportunity Planet can help countries measure their regulations, across industry; from Agriculture to Transportation to banks measure their green bonds, companies Forestry to Government, Planet delivers the data measure their ESG goals – valuing natural systems in needed to create digital efficiencies and reduce cost. the economy. 1 World Economic Forum – Digital Transformation Initiative. Estimate of value that digitalization could create over the next decade. 11 11 2 Bloomberg – ESG Assets May Hit $53 Trillion by 2025.


Planet’s Data is Mission Critical A paper company can monitor A plane departs from a A field of crops location of interest… shows early signs of infestation… their supply chain... and track deforestation, a cause of up to and a government maintains situational and a farmer 20% of annual Greenhouse awareness and reduces conflict. saves this season’s crop yield. 1 Gas emissions . Without daily data Without daily data Without daily data Companies lack information Agriculture companies lose Governments lack situational to report important ESG revenue and competitive awareness – risking national metrics – excluding them advantage security and citizen safety. from key investor portfolios. 1 Source: Measuring Carbon Emissions from Tropical Deforestation, EDF. 12 12 12Planet’s Data is Mission Critical A paper company can monitor A plane departs from a A field of crops location of interest… shows early signs of infestation… their supply chain... and track deforestation, a cause of up to and a government maintains situational and a farmer 20% of annual Greenhouse awareness and reduces conflict. saves this season’s crop yield. 1 Gas emissions . Without daily data Without daily data Without daily data Companies lack information Agriculture companies lose Governments lack situational to report important ESG revenue and competitive awareness – risking national metrics – excluding them advantage security and citizen safety. from key investor portfolios. 1 Source: Measuring Carbon Emissions from Tropical Deforestation, EDF. 12 12 12


Established Subscription Business Across Many Large Verticals 1 Representing Annual Revenue of $110M+, Across 600+ Customers Defense & Intelligence Agriculture Civil Mapping / Internet Forestry Energy Finance Insurance • Security & Safety • Variable Rate Seeding • Permitting & Code • Topography • Depletion • Monitoring • Imagery and Signals • ESG Metrics • Vessel Monitoring / Fertilizer Enforcement Measurements • Road Detection • Spill & Disaster • Asset Monitoring • Trading Strategies • Natural Resource • Crop Yield • Environmental • Supply Chain Management • GIS • Risk Assessment • Investment Research Protection Sustainability • Directed Scouting • Disaster Management • Emergency Response • Harvest Planning Multiple Hedge Funds Google U.S. National 2 Reconnaissance Office Multiple Multinational Multiple Agriculture Crop Investment Banks Multiple Strategic Ministries of Insurance Firms Defense in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Multiple Insuretech Multiple Investment Companies Research Multiple Strategic Ministries Firms of Defense in Asia Pacific Large Automobile Large Financial Insurance Company Multiple Strategic Security & Data Provider Intelligence Agencies in Latin and South America ESG & Sustainability Relevant to All Vertical Markets 1 13 As of FY2021A. FYE January 31st. 2 Press advisory by National Reconnaissance Office regarding Planet contract. nro.govEstablished Subscription Business Across Many Large Verticals 1 Representing Annual Revenue of $110M+, Across 600+ Customers Defense & Intelligence Agriculture Civil Mapping / Internet Forestry Energy Finance Insurance • Security & Safety • Variable Rate Seeding • Permitting & Code • Topography • Depletion • Monitoring • Imagery and Signals • ESG Metrics • Vessel Monitoring / Fertilizer Enforcement Measurements • Road Detection • Spill & Disaster • Asset Monitoring • Trading Strategies • Natural Resource • Crop Yield • Environmental • Supply Chain Management • GIS • Risk Assessment • Investment Research Protection Sustainability • Directed Scouting • Disaster Management • Emergency Response • Harvest Planning Multiple Hedge Funds Google U.S. National 2 Reconnaissance Office Multiple Multinational Multiple Agriculture Crop Investment Banks Multiple Strategic Ministries of Insurance Firms Defense in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Multiple Insuretech Multiple Investment Companies Research Multiple Strategic Ministries Firms of Defense in Asia Pacific Large Automobile Large Financial Insurance Company Multiple Strategic Security & Data Provider Intelligence Agencies in Latin and South America ESG & Sustainability Relevant to All Vertical Markets 1 13 As of FY2021A. FYE January 31st. 2 Press advisory by National Reconnaissance Office regarding Planet contract. nro.gov


Planet Has a Massive Market Opportunity Defense & Intelligence Civil Government / Public Authorities $16B $29B +$75bn Agriculture Digital $11B 3 Transformation Industrial/ Supply Chain Smart Cities & Urban Planning Security & Safety (2027E) $24B Precision Agriculture Forestry +$35bn $8B Supply Chain Sustainability Air/Water Pollution Monitoring Weather Sustainability Monitoring 2 Transformation Crop (2027E) Monitoring Disease & Pest Monitoring Sustainable Finance & Carbon Footprint Insurance Management Energy & Utilities $18B +$19bn $22B Forest Management Satellite Data Asset Monitoring 1 Services Pipeline Monitoring (2027E) Carbon Footprint Risk Management Management 1 2 3 Satellite Data Services Market, Allied Market Research (Dec-2020). Geospatial Analytics Market, Allied Market Research (Nov-2020). Green Technology and Sustainability Market, Allied Market Research (Dec-2020). 14 Vertical market sizes extrapolated by Company estimates based on reports listed above. Note: Figures reflect global market size.Planet Has a Massive Market Opportunity Defense & Intelligence Civil Government / Public Authorities $16B $29B +$75bn Agriculture Digital $11B 3 Transformation Industrial/ Supply Chain Smart Cities & Urban Planning Security & Safety (2027E) $24B Precision Agriculture Forestry +$35bn $8B Supply Chain Sustainability Air/Water Pollution Monitoring Weather Sustainability Monitoring 2 Transformation Crop (2027E) Monitoring Disease & Pest Monitoring Sustainable Finance & Carbon Footprint Insurance Management Energy & Utilities $18B +$19bn $22B Forest Management Satellite Data Asset Monitoring 1 Services Pipeline Monitoring (2027E) Carbon Footprint Risk Management Management 1 2 3 Satellite Data Services Market, Allied Market Research (Dec-2020). Geospatial Analytics Market, Allied Market Research (Nov-2020). Green Technology and Sustainability Market, Allied Market Research (Dec-2020). 14 Vertical market sizes extrapolated by Company estimates based on reports listed above. Note: Figures reflect global market size.


Simplifying Earth Data with ML to Deliver High Value in One Platform... Crop Infestation Permitting Building Damage Wildfire Risk Illegal Logging Construction Vessel Detection Detection Enforcement Detection Mitigation Road Detection Monitoring Land Cover Analytics Object Summary Change Applications Solutions Classification Models/Workflows Detection Statistics Detection rd ▪ Automated data processing ▪ Data fusion with 3 party data sets ▪ Computer vision for color-correction ▪ Multi-modal data enhancement ▪ Harmonized time series ▪ On-demand in the cloud and via API 15Simplifying Earth Data with ML to Deliver High Value in One Platform... Crop Infestation Permitting Building Damage Wildfire Risk Illegal Logging Construction Vessel Detection Detection Enforcement Detection Mitigation Road Detection Monitoring Land Cover Analytics Object Summary Change Applications Solutions Classification Models/Workflows Detection Statistics Detection rd ▪ Automated data processing ▪ Data fusion with 3 party data sets ▪ Computer vision for color-correction ▪ Multi-modal data enhancement ▪ Harmonized time series ▪ On-demand in the cloud and via API 15


Multiple Levers for Growth Scaling in Expansion into Establish New Sensors Existing Verticals New Platform & Data Sets Verticals Ecosystem Through investment in sales, marketing and Through software Create a robust apps Meet market demand software solutions solutions that move ecosystem with new proprietary up the stack data Additional Advanced Predictive Enable Long-Tail Fusion of Novel Strategic Analytics and Adoption Data Sets Acquisitions Growth Vectors Modeling With simple consumer- To combine new products To accelerate Not Factored Into To deliver customer value like tools for any user and capabilities with all the above Our Model and apps ecosystem synergistic impact by forecasting future outcomes 16Multiple Levers for Growth Scaling in Expansion into Establish New Sensors Existing Verticals New Platform & Data Sets Verticals Ecosystem Through investment in sales, marketing and Through software Create a robust apps Meet market demand software solutions solutions that move ecosystem with new proprietary up the stack data Additional Advanced Predictive Enable Long-Tail Fusion of Novel Strategic Analytics and Adoption Data Sets Acquisitions Growth Vectors Modeling With simple consumer- To combine new products To accelerate Not Factored Into To deliver customer value like tools for any user and capabilities with all the above Our Model and apps ecosystem synergistic impact by forecasting future outcomes 16


Compelling Subscription KPIs 90%+ 1 Recurring Predictable Subscription and Usage-Based Model 70%+ 2 Multi-Year Deals Long Term Multi-Year Contracts 110%+ Track Record of Upsell Expansion Net Dollar Retention Rate Diverse Customer Base Across Multiple Verticals 600+ Customers Across Multiple Markets st Note: FYE January 31 Business metrics as of FY2021. 17 1 Recurring contracts are defined as those that are either subscription-based or have a minimum commitment of usage. 2 Defined as contracts with term lengths longer than 1 year.Compelling Subscription KPIs 90%+ 1 Recurring Predictable Subscription and Usage-Based Model 70%+ 2 Multi-Year Deals Long Term Multi-Year Contracts 110%+ Track Record of Upsell Expansion Net Dollar Retention Rate Diverse Customer Base Across Multiple Verticals 600+ Customers Across Multiple Markets st Note: FYE January 31 Business metrics as of FY2021. 17 1 Recurring contracts are defined as those that are either subscription-based or have a minimum commitment of usage. 2 Defined as contracts with term lengths longer than 1 year.


Strong Growth Over the Last 5 Years… 1 Consolidated Revenue ACV Breakdown ($ in millions) st Fiscal Year Ended January 31 By Revenue Type $ 113 Recurring Other $ 96 92% $ 73 $ 66 By Deal Length $ 43 > 1 Year ≤ 1 Year 73% CY2016A CY2017A CY2018A FY2020A FY2021A Note: Fiscal year changed from December 31st to January 31st in 2019. 1 Annual Contract Value (ACV) is the total amount of value that a customer has agreed to pay for in a 12 month period as of the measurement date. For short-term contracts (<12 months), ACV is equal to total contract value. Usage-based ACV has committed contract minimums. 18 Reflects FY2021A figures. 27% CAGRStrong Growth Over the Last 5 Years… 1 Consolidated Revenue ACV Breakdown ($ in millions) st Fiscal Year Ended January 31 By Revenue Type $ 113 Recurring Other $ 96 92% $ 73 $ 66 By Deal Length $ 43 > 1 Year ≤ 1 Year 73% CY2016A CY2017A CY2018A FY2020A FY2021A Note: Fiscal year changed from December 31st to January 31st in 2019. 1 Annual Contract Value (ACV) is the total amount of value that a customer has agreed to pay for in a 12 month period as of the measurement date. For short-term contracts (<12 months), ACV is equal to total contract value. Usage-based ACV has committed contract minimums. 18 Reflects FY2021A figures. 27% CAGR


Highly Diversified and Differentiated Revenue Base Revenue by Vertical Today Tomorrow (FY2021A) (FY2026E) Revenue $113mm Revenue $693mm 1 Education & Research Commercial Forestry <$5mm 3% 3% Revenue Other Agriculture 4% 14% Mapping 23% Agriculture 6% 25% ISV, BI & Analytics 7% Mapping 17% Finance & Insurance 10% Civil Civil 17% 24% Energy & Defense & Infrastructure Intelligence 10% Defense & Intelligence 22% 15% st 19 Note: FYE January 31 1 Includes Energy & Infrastructure, Education & Research, Commercial Forestry, Finance & Insurance, ISV, BI & Analytics.Highly Diversified and Differentiated Revenue Base Revenue by Vertical Today Tomorrow (FY2021A) (FY2026E) Revenue $113mm Revenue $693mm 1 Education & Research Commercial Forestry <$5mm 3% 3% Revenue Other Agriculture 4% 14% Mapping 23% Agriculture 6% 25% ISV, BI & Analytics 7% Mapping 17% Finance & Insurance 10% Civil Civil 17% 24% Energy & Defense & Infrastructure Intelligence 10% Defense & Intelligence 22% 15% st 19 Note: FYE January 31 1 Includes Energy & Infrastructure, Education & Research, Commercial Forestry, Finance & Insurance, ISV, BI & Analytics.


Strong Pipeline for Near-Term Growth 1 Potential Upside Further upside potential driven by strategics and higher close rates on sales pipeline $ 250 A Based on 112% net $ 206 $ 191 retention rate, which $ 200 excludes significant upside C opportunity for expansion within existing customers $ 150 $ 130 B Based on ~20% close rate B A on pipeline of business $ 100 Q2’22E ACV of Upside to model based on C $130mm demonstrates strong momentum from high visibility to $ 50 strategic discussions FY2022E revenue $ 0 Strategic FY2023E + FY2022E Net Federal International Agriculture / Other FY2023E Partners Strategic Retention & Civil Government Fusion Commercial Partner Upside st 20 Note: FYE January 31 1 References existing Planet pipeline for period shown Revenue ($ in millions)Strong Pipeline for Near-Term Growth 1 Potential Upside Further upside potential driven by strategics and higher close rates on sales pipeline $ 250 A Based on 112% net $ 206 $ 191 retention rate, which $ 200 excludes significant upside C opportunity for expansion within existing customers $ 150 $ 130 B Based on ~20% close rate B A on pipeline of business $ 100 Q2’22E ACV of Upside to model based on C $130mm demonstrates strong momentum from high visibility to $ 50 strategic discussions FY2022E revenue $ 0 Strategic FY2023E + FY2022E Net Federal International Agriculture / Other FY2023E Partners Strategic Retention & Civil Government Fusion Commercial Partner Upside st 20 Note: FYE January 31 1 References existing Planet pipeline for period shown Revenue ($ in millions)


Multiple Levers to Accelerate Revenue $ 300 $ 289 $ 250 B A Grow Customer Success headcount by ~2x to drive $ 200 customer retention and 65% of FY2022E revenue from upsell committed contracts $ 150 $ 130 B Grow Software Engineering Increase Sales Account Executives headcount by ~2x and by ~2.5x A $ 100 develop wide distribution of Increase Marketing spend by ~2x new products such as Data Fusion $ 50 $ 0 FY2022E Expand within Land Customers in Capture New Verticals + FY2024E Existing Customers Core Verticals Move Up Data Stack st Note: FYE January 31 21 “Land Customers in Core Verticals” represents gaining new customers in core verticals of agriculture, government and mapping. “Capture New Verticals + Move up Software Stack” represents gaining new customers in less mature verticals such as Energy & Infrastructure, E&R +Impact, Commercial Forestry, Finance & Insurance, and ISV, BI & Analytics (“Independent Software Vendor, Business Intelligence and Analytics”). Revenue ($ in millions)Multiple Levers to Accelerate Revenue $ 300 $ 289 $ 250 B A Grow Customer Success headcount by ~2x to drive $ 200 customer retention and 65% of FY2022E revenue from upsell committed contracts $ 150 $ 130 B Grow Software Engineering Increase Sales Account Executives headcount by ~2x and by ~2.5x A $ 100 develop wide distribution of Increase Marketing spend by ~2x new products such as Data Fusion $ 50 $ 0 FY2022E Expand within Land Customers in Capture New Verticals + FY2024E Existing Customers Core Verticals Move Up Data Stack st Note: FYE January 31 21 “Land Customers in Core Verticals” represents gaining new customers in core verticals of agriculture, government and mapping. “Capture New Verticals + Move up Software Stack” represents gaining new customers in less mature verticals such as Energy & Infrastructure, E&R +Impact, Commercial Forestry, Finance & Insurance, and ISV, BI & Analytics (“Independent Software Vendor, Business Intelligence and Analytics”). Revenue ($ in millions)


…And a Path to Significant Scale with Compelling Unit Economics Consolidated Revenue ($ in millions) $693 $449 A $289 $191 A $130 65% of FY2022E revenue $113 from committed contracts FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E PlanetScope (~73% of B FY2021A Revenue) had 1 Gross Profit gross margins of ($ in millions) 74% ~62% in FY2021A $515 (including Depreciation & 70% Amortization) B 62% $314 50% 40% $180 24% $95 $52 $27 FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E 22 Note: FYE January 31st. 1 Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods. 44% CAGR…And a Path to Significant Scale with Compelling Unit Economics Consolidated Revenue ($ in millions) $693 $449 A $289 $191 A $130 65% of FY2022E revenue $113 from committed contracts FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E PlanetScope (~73% of B FY2021A Revenue) had 1 Gross Profit gross margins of ($ in millions) 74% ~62% in FY2021A $515 (including Depreciation & 70% Amortization) B 62% $314 50% 40% $180 24% $95 $52 $27 FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E 22 Note: FYE January 31st. 1 Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods. 44% CAGR


Clear Path to Profitability and Robust Cash Flow Generation 1 Adjusted EBITDA Unaudited, ($ in millions) 27% A $ 187 15% $ 67 (9%) (28%) (20%) (3%) Transaction proceeds fund A growth investments $(11) $(10) $(36) through Adjusted EBITDA $(39) breakeven FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E 2 Significant FCF generation B Adjusted Free Cash Flow B driven by one-to-many Unaudited, ($ in millions) business model and 20% revenue scale relative to $ 140 maintenance capex for 5% constellation (36%) (42%) (30%) (15%) $ 24 $(41) $(43) $(55) $(58) FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E Note: FYE January 31st. 23 1 Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP metric defined as gross profit less operating expenses, add back stock-based compensation and depreciation & amortization, and EBITDA margin as the percentage of EBITDA relative to net revenue during a given period. 2 Adjusted Free Cash Flow defined as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and Adjusted free cash flow margin as the percentage of Adjusted free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period.Clear Path to Profitability and Robust Cash Flow Generation 1 Adjusted EBITDA Unaudited, ($ in millions) 27% A $ 187 15% $ 67 (9%) (28%) (20%) (3%) Transaction proceeds fund A growth investments $(11) $(10) $(36) through Adjusted EBITDA $(39) breakeven FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E 2 Significant FCF generation B Adjusted Free Cash Flow B driven by one-to-many Unaudited, ($ in millions) business model and 20% revenue scale relative to $ 140 maintenance capex for 5% constellation (36%) (42%) (30%) (15%) $ 24 $(41) $(43) $(55) $(58) FY2021A FY2022E FY2023E FY2024E FY2025E FY2026E Note: FYE January 31st. 23 1 Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP metric defined as gross profit less operating expenses, add back stock-based compensation and depreciation & amortization, and EBITDA margin as the percentage of EBITDA relative to net revenue during a given period. 2 Adjusted Free Cash Flow defined as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and Adjusted free cash flow margin as the percentage of Adjusted free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period.


A Business Model with Strong Operating Leverage 1 Description Commentary Long-Term Target ▪ Cloud Hosting Costs ▪ Low incremental cost to serve a data 15-20% ▪ Mission Operations Teams subscription model COGS ▪ Technical Support ▪ Self-serve model drives high gross ▪ Professional Services margins ▪ Spacecraft & Engineering Operations ▪ R&D investments in tools for enhanced 16-19% ▪ Software Development & Data Science data insights and analytics ▪ Space investments in new ESG data R&D sets and ML-readiness ▪ Sales (Direct & Channel) ▪ Scalable model through platform 24-27% ▪ Marketing ecosystem ▪ Customer Success ▪ Multi-year subscription model drives S&M high Customer Lifetime Value ▪ Corporate Functions (Finance, HR, ▪ Scales with absorption of public 6-9% Legal, Regulatory) company costs ▪ Overhead allocated across departments G&A ▪ Space Capex includes Bill of Materials, ▪ Agile approach drives manufacturing 5-8% manufacturing, and launch ground efficiency and reduced Bill of Materials stations (non-leased) costs Capex ▪ Leasehold improvements ▪ Satellite payback period <1 year 2 Long-Term FCF Margin: 20-35% 1 24 Represents expense as a percentage of revenue. 2 Free Cash Flow defined as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and free cash flow margin as the percentage of free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period.A Business Model with Strong Operating Leverage 1 Description Commentary Long-Term Target ▪ Cloud Hosting Costs ▪ Low incremental cost to serve a data 15-20% ▪ Mission Operations Teams subscription model COGS ▪ Technical Support ▪ Self-serve model drives high gross ▪ Professional Services margins ▪ Spacecraft & Engineering Operations ▪ R&D investments in tools for enhanced 16-19% ▪ Software Development & Data Science data insights and analytics ▪ Space investments in new ESG data R&D sets and ML-readiness ▪ Sales (Direct & Channel) ▪ Scalable model through platform 24-27% ▪ Marketing ecosystem ▪ Customer Success ▪ Multi-year subscription model drives S&M high Customer Lifetime Value ▪ Corporate Functions (Finance, HR, ▪ Scales with absorption of public 6-9% Legal, Regulatory) company costs ▪ Overhead allocated across departments G&A ▪ Space Capex includes Bill of Materials, ▪ Agile approach drives manufacturing 5-8% manufacturing, and launch ground efficiency and reduced Bill of Materials stations (non-leased) costs Capex ▪ Leasehold improvements ▪ Satellite payback period <1 year 2 Long-Term FCF Margin: 20-35% 1 24 Represents expense as a percentage of revenue. 2 Free Cash Flow defined as Adjusted EBITDA less capital expenditures, and free cash flow margin as the percentage of free cash flow relative to net revenue during a given period.


Valuation Overview Image: Shallow Seas, Bahamas – February 4, 2016 25Valuation Overview Image: Shallow Seas, Bahamas – February 4, 2016 25


Proposed Transaction Summary Pro Forma Valuation ($ in millions, except per share amounts) Share Price $ 10.00 Key Transaction Terms Pro Forma Shares Outstanding 276 § Pro forma enterprise value of $2,250mm Equity Value $ 2,758 1 Pro Forma Net Debt / (Cash) (508) § Existing Planet shareholders will retain 77% ownership in the pro forma company Enterprise Value $ 2,250 § Net proceeds of $434mm (after transaction expenses and paydown of 3 Sources existing debt) will go to the balance sheet 2 dMY IV Shares to Planet Existing Shareholders $ 2,135 7 dMY IV Cash Held in Trust 345 Illustrative Pro Forma Ownership PIPE Investment 200 PIPE Investors dMY Shareholders Total Sources $ 2,680 20.0mm, 7.3% 34.5mm, 12.5% Uses 8 3 dMY Sponsor Cash to Balance Sheet $ 434 7.8mm, 2.8% 4 Existing Planet Paydown of Existing Debt 71 9 Shareholders 5 Equity to Planet Existing Investors 2,135 213.5mm, 77.4% 6 Estimated Transaction Expenses 40 1 Pro Forma Net Debt / (Cash) includes pre-transaction cash of $74mm and cash proceeds of $434mm from the transaction. Total Uses $ 2,680 2 Represents 213.5mm pro forma shares owned by Planet existing shareholders valued at $10.00 / share. Excludes unvested equity awards. 3 $20 million of potential Planet transaction expenses expected to be paid out from the cash to balance sheet. Such transaction expenses could be higher than anticipated. 4 Includes $65mm of debt and $6mm of repayment fees. Debt repayment excludes convertible debt, which is treated as equity. At the proposed transaction value, all convertible notes are anticipated to convert to common stock of Planet immediately prior to the closing of the DeSPAC at a 20% discount to the consideration per share received by existing Planet equity, and are included in Existing Planet Shareholders share count. 5 Determined using treasury stock method. Will not be subject to any adjustments to purchase price based on cash, debt and debt-like items or working capital. 6 Excludes $20mm of potential Planet transaction expenses expected to be paid out upon closing of the merger. Such transaction expenses could be higher than anticipated.. 7 Assumes no redemptions from dMY IV’s existing public shareholders. Assumes PIPE shares are issued at a price of $10.00. Excludes unvested equity awards, the impact of dMY IV’s warrants (public or private) and 10% LTIP and 2.5% ESPP to be created as part of deSPAC. 8 Based on 7.8mm founder shares at $10.00. Excludes 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $15.00 price per share, 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $17.00 price per share, 0.22mm th founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $19.00 price per share, and 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $21.00 price per share any time prior to or as of the 5 anniversary of the closing of the transactions. Excludes 5.93mm Private Placement Warrants held by dMY Sponsor IV, 2.97mm of which will be subject to the same earnout as described above. The remaining Private Placement Warrants have a strike price of $11.50. A small group of investors, including one of dMY Technology Group's independent directors, contributed to dMY’s sponsor approximately 55% of the risk capital for an interest in the sponsor corresponding to approximately 30% of the sponsor’s founder shares. 9 Excludes 27mm of earnout shares subject to the same earnout conditions as described above for the sponsor founder shares. 26 Note: Founders will be issued “high vote” shares with 20:1 voting power. Shares owned by Planet Founders and Directors & Officers of dMY will proportionally be subject to an 18-month lock-up with potential for early release after 12 months if certain conditions are met; shares owned by 5% shareholders of Planet (other than Founders), go-forward Directors & Officers of Planet and other investors in dMY Sponsor subject to a 12-month lock-up with potential for early release after 6 months if certain conditions are met.Proposed Transaction Summary Pro Forma Valuation ($ in millions, except per share amounts) Share Price $ 10.00 Key Transaction Terms Pro Forma Shares Outstanding 276 § Pro forma enterprise value of $2,250mm Equity Value $ 2,758 1 Pro Forma Net Debt / (Cash) (508) § Existing Planet shareholders will retain 77% ownership in the pro forma company Enterprise Value $ 2,250 § Net proceeds of $434mm (after transaction expenses and paydown of 3 Sources existing debt) will go to the balance sheet 2 dMY IV Shares to Planet Existing Shareholders $ 2,135 7 dMY IV Cash Held in Trust 345 Illustrative Pro Forma Ownership PIPE Investment 200 PIPE Investors dMY Shareholders Total Sources $ 2,680 20.0mm, 7.3% 34.5mm, 12.5% Uses 8 3 dMY Sponsor Cash to Balance Sheet $ 434 7.8mm, 2.8% 4 Existing Planet Paydown of Existing Debt 71 9 Shareholders 5 Equity to Planet Existing Investors 2,135 213.5mm, 77.4% 6 Estimated Transaction Expenses 40 1 Pro Forma Net Debt / (Cash) includes pre-transaction cash of $74mm and cash proceeds of $434mm from the transaction. Total Uses $ 2,680 2 Represents 213.5mm pro forma shares owned by Planet existing shareholders valued at $10.00 / share. Excludes unvested equity awards. 3 $20 million of potential Planet transaction expenses expected to be paid out from the cash to balance sheet. Such transaction expenses could be higher than anticipated. 4 Includes $65mm of debt and $6mm of repayment fees. Debt repayment excludes convertible debt, which is treated as equity. At the proposed transaction value, all convertible notes are anticipated to convert to common stock of Planet immediately prior to the closing of the DeSPAC at a 20% discount to the consideration per share received by existing Planet equity, and are included in Existing Planet Shareholders share count. 5 Determined using treasury stock method. Will not be subject to any adjustments to purchase price based on cash, debt and debt-like items or working capital. 6 Excludes $20mm of potential Planet transaction expenses expected to be paid out upon closing of the merger. Such transaction expenses could be higher than anticipated.. 7 Assumes no redemptions from dMY IV’s existing public shareholders. Assumes PIPE shares are issued at a price of $10.00. Excludes unvested equity awards, the impact of dMY IV’s warrants (public or private) and 10% LTIP and 2.5% ESPP to be created as part of deSPAC. 8 Based on 7.8mm founder shares at $10.00. Excludes 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $15.00 price per share, 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $17.00 price per share, 0.22mm th founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $19.00 price per share, and 0.22mm founder shares subject to earnout based on achievement of $21.00 price per share any time prior to or as of the 5 anniversary of the closing of the transactions. Excludes 5.93mm Private Placement Warrants held by dMY Sponsor IV, 2.97mm of which will be subject to the same earnout as described above. The remaining Private Placement Warrants have a strike price of $11.50. A small group of investors, including one of dMY Technology Group's independent directors, contributed to dMY’s sponsor approximately 55% of the risk capital for an interest in the sponsor corresponding to approximately 30% of the sponsor’s founder shares. 9 Excludes 27mm of earnout shares subject to the same earnout conditions as described above for the sponsor founder shares. 26 Note: Founders will be issued “high vote” shares with 20:1 voting power. Shares owned by Planet Founders and Directors & Officers of dMY will proportionally be subject to an 18-month lock-up with potential for early release after 12 months if certain conditions are met; shares owned by 5% shareholders of Planet (other than Founders), go-forward Directors & Officers of Planet and other investors in dMY Sponsor subject to a 12-month lock-up with potential for early release after 6 months if certain conditions are met.


Identifying the Competitive Universe Planet is Unique and Category-Creating Data Analytics & Infrastructure Peers § Similar long-term growth and margin profile § Predictable, recurring business models § Operating in large, underserved markets § Competitive moats associated with platform and technology capabilities 27Identifying the Competitive Universe Planet is Unique and Category-Creating Data Analytics & Infrastructure Peers § Similar long-term growth and margin profile § Predictable, recurring business models § Operating in large, underserved markets § Competitive moats associated with platform and technology capabilities 27


Operational Benchmarking CY2021E – CY2024E Revenue CAGR Median: 32% 51% 39% 37% 34% 32% 29% 24% 24% CY2023E Gross Margin Median: 77% 88% 80% 78% 77% 75% 73% 1 62% 57% Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 28 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). 1 Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods.Operational Benchmarking CY2021E – CY2024E Revenue CAGR Median: 32% 51% 39% 37% 34% 32% 29% 24% 24% CY2023E Gross Margin Median: 77% 88% 80% 78% 77% 75% 73% 1 62% 57% Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 28 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). 1 Gross Profit used to calculate gross margin reflects non-GAAP Gross Profit relative to net revenue. Non-GAAP Gross Profit includes Depreciation & Amortization costs and adds back stock-based compensation classified as cost of goods.


Valuation Benchmarking EV / CY2022E Revenue Median: 27x 42x 31x 29x 27x 26x 25x 20x 12x 1 Growth Adjusted EV / CY2022E Revenue Median: 0.95x 1.35x 1.10x 0.96x 0.95x 0.88x 0.82x 0.64x 0.24x Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 29 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). Planet multiples based on pro forma Enterprise Value of $2,250mm. 1 Calculated as EV / Revenue multiple divided by (CY2021E-CY2023E Revenue CAGR * 100). Valuation Benchmarking EV / CY2022E Revenue Median: 27x 42x 31x 29x 27x 26x 25x 20x 12x 1 Growth Adjusted EV / CY2022E Revenue Median: 0.95x 1.35x 1.10x 0.96x 0.95x 0.88x 0.82x 0.64x 0.24x Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 29 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). Planet multiples based on pro forma Enterprise Value of $2,250mm. 1 Calculated as EV / Revenue multiple divided by (CY2021E-CY2023E Revenue CAGR * 100).


Valuation Benchmarking EV / CY2023E Revenue Median: 22x 33x 24x 22x 22x 21x 19x 15x 8x 1 Growth Adjusted EV / CY2023E Revenue Median: 0.65x 1.09x 0.94x 0.82x 0.65x 0.65x 0.55x 0.43x 0.15x Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 30 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). Planet multiples based on pro forma Enterprise Value of $2,250mm. 1 Calculated as EV / Revenue multiple divided by (CY2022E-CY2024E Revenue CAGR * 100). Valuation Benchmarking EV / CY2023E Revenue Median: 22x 33x 24x 22x 22x 21x 19x 15x 8x 1 Growth Adjusted EV / CY2023E Revenue Median: 0.65x 1.09x 0.94x 0.82x 0.65x 0.65x 0.55x 0.43x 0.15x Data Analytics & Infrastructure Source: Company filings, Wall Street Research, Management Estimates, IBES estimates; market data as of 22-Jun-2021 st 30 Note: Peer estimates calendarized to December year end, Planet projections reflect FY metrics (FYE January 31 ). Planet multiples based on pro forma Enterprise Value of $2,250mm. 1 Calculated as EV / Revenue multiple divided by (CY2022E-CY2024E Revenue CAGR * 100).


Appendix Image: Lake Tuborg, Canada – May 30, 2015 31Appendix Image: Lake Tuborg, Canada – May 30, 2015 31


Driving Results for Customers Case Study – Agriculture Goal: Help farmers optimize input and build a stronger business CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Obtain granular visibility Detect problems, prescribe Farmers spent less time in of the field to make the actions and track progress the field scouting, saw less right decisions in a timely with PlanetScope crop damage and manner Monitoring reduced input costs 32 32Driving Results for Customers Case Study – Agriculture Goal: Help farmers optimize input and build a stronger business CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Obtain granular visibility Detect problems, prescribe Farmers spent less time in of the field to make the actions and track progress the field scouting, saw less right decisions in a timely with PlanetScope crop damage and manner Monitoring reduced input costs 32 32


Driving Results for Customers Case Study – State Government New Mexico State Land Office Goal: Help with Permit Enforcement, Compliance & Land Reclamation CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Enforce regulations cross 9 Track leased and to-be- Discovered 53 trespasses million acres of surface leased land with PlanetScope and generated >30% ROI land Monitoring & Analytics 33 33Driving Results for Customers Case Study – State Government New Mexico State Land Office Goal: Help with Permit Enforcement, Compliance & Land Reclamation CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Enforce regulations cross 9 Track leased and to-be- Discovered 53 trespasses million acres of surface leased land with PlanetScope and generated >30% ROI land Monitoring & Analytics 33 33


Driving Results for Customers Case Study – Government Goal: Protect global forest ecosystems CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Identify and track Provide Monthly Basemaps 4k+ users in 120 deforestation across the imaging of tropics spanning countries leveraging world’s tropical forests across insights to reduce 70+ countries deforestation 34 34Driving Results for Customers Case Study – Government Goal: Protect global forest ecosystems CHALLENGE ACTION RESULTS Identify and track Provide Monthly Basemaps 4k+ users in 120 deforestation across the imaging of tropics spanning countries leveraging world’s tropical forests across insights to reduce 70+ countries deforestation 34 34


EVER GIVEN • Suez Canal, Egypt • March 28, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 35EVER GIVEN • Suez Canal, Egypt • March 28, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 35


SPACEX STARSHIP SN9 & SN10 • Boca Chica, Texas • February 2, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 36SPACEX STARSHIP SN9 & SN10 • Boca Chica, Texas • February 2, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 36


LACTEAR DAIRY • Córdoba, Argentina • March 10, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 37LACTEAR DAIRY • Córdoba, Argentina • March 10, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 37


TANK FARM • Freeport, Bahamas • February 3, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 38TANK FARM • Freeport, Bahamas • February 3, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 38


FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO • RGB • Iceland • March 26, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 39FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO • RGB • Iceland • March 26, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 39


FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO • NRG • Iceland • March 26, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 40FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO • NRG • Iceland • March 26, 2021 • SkySat 0.5m 40


NEOM • Tabuk Saudi Arabia • October 25, 2019 • PlanetScope 3M 41NEOM • Tabuk Saudi Arabia • October 25, 2019 • PlanetScope 3M 41


NEOM • Tabuk, Saudi Arabia • March 8, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 42NEOM • Tabuk, Saudi Arabia • March 8, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 42


CHIRIBIQUETE NATIONAL PARK • Colombia • January 16, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 43CHIRIBIQUETE NATIONAL PARK • Colombia • January 16, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 43


SNOW • Austin, Texas • February 7, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 44SNOW • Austin, Texas • February 7, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 44


MOFFETT FIELD • Mountain View, CA • March 27, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 45MOFFETT FIELD • Mountain View, CA • March 27, 2021 • PlanetScope 3M 45


BUILDINGS & FLOOD RISK• Bangui, Central African Republic • 2019 46BUILDINGS & FLOOD RISK• Bangui, Central African Republic • 2019 46


BUILDINGS & FLOOD RISK• Bangui, Central African Republic • 2019 47BUILDINGS & FLOOD RISK• Bangui, Central African Republic • 2019 47


ROAD & BUILDING DETECTIONS• Cairo, Egypt • February 2021 48ROAD & BUILDING DETECTIONS• Cairo, Egypt • February 2021 48


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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financials ($ in millions) Non-GAAP Gross Profit Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Free Cash Flow FY2021A FY2021A Gross Profit $ 26 Net Income (Loss) $ (127) 1 (+) Stock-Based Compensation 1 (+) Taxes 1 Non-GAAP Gross Profit $ 27 (+) Net Interest and Other Income 39 (+) Depreciation & Amortization 62 (+) Stock-Based Compensation 14 Adjusted EBITDA $ (11) (-) Capex (30) Adjusted Free Cash Flow $ (41) Note: FYE January 31st. 50 1 Reflects stock-based compensation classified under cost of goods. Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financials ($ in millions) Non-GAAP Gross Profit Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Free Cash Flow FY2021A FY2021A Gross Profit $ 26 Net Income (Loss) $ (127) 1 (+) Stock-Based Compensation 1 (+) Taxes 1 Non-GAAP Gross Profit $ 27 (+) Net Interest and Other Income 39 (+) Depreciation & Amortization 62 (+) Stock-Based Compensation 14 Adjusted EBITDA $ (11) (-) Capex (30) Adjusted Free Cash Flow $ (41) Note: FYE January 31st. 50 1 Reflects stock-based compensation classified under cost of goods.


Risk Factors Summary All references below to “we,” “us” or “our” refer to the business of Planet Labs Inc. (the “Company”). The risks described below summarize certain of the risks related to the Company’s business but are not intended to reflect all risks the Company faces or relating to an investment in the Company. A more extensive discussion of these risks will be disclosed in future documents filed or furnished by the Company and/or dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (“dMY Technology Group”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) following execution of definitive agreements in connection with the proposed transactions between the Company and dMY Technology Group. Risks Related to our Business and Industry § Limited insurance coverage and availability may prevent us from obtaining insurance to cover all risks of loss. § We have a limited history of operating at our current scale and under our current strategy, which makes it difficult to predict our future operating results, and we may not § Our projections are subject to significant risks, assumptions, estimates and uncertainties. As a result, our projected revenues, gross profit Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted achieve our expected operating results in the future. operating profit, and Adjusted Free Cash Flow may differ materially from our expectations. § We have a history of operating losses and we anticipate our operating expenses will increase substantially in the foreseeable future. As a result, we may not achieve or § Our quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business. sustain profitability in the future. Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Data Security and Privacy § Our daily scan of the Earth is a data set that has not existed before. If the market for our products and services built upon this data set fails to grow as we expect, or if § If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, the value of our brand and other intangible assets may be diminished, and our business may be adversely affected. our current customers or prospective customers fail to adopt our platform, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. § We may be, in the future, party to intellectual property rights claims and other litigation which are expensive to support, and if resolved adversely, could have a § There is increasing competition from commercial entities and governments in our markets, and if we do not compete effectively, our business, financial condition and significant impact on us. results of operations could be harmed. § If we use open source software inconsistent with our policies and procedures or the license terms applicable to such software, we could be subject to demands to § Our international operations create business and economic risks that could impact our financial results. release material portions of our source code, legal expenses, damages, or costly remediation or disruption to our business. § If we or our third-party service providers experience, or are unable to protect against, cyber-attacks, ransomware, security incidents, or security breaches, or if Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory, Accounting, and Tax Matters unauthorized parties otherwise obtain access to our customers’ data, our data, or our platform, then our platform may be perceived as not being secure, we may § We operate in a highly regulated industry and government regulations may adversely affect our ability to sell our services, may increase the expense of such services or become unable to meet our service level commitments, our reputation may be harmed, demand for our platform and products may be reduced, and we may incur otherwise limit our ability to operate or grow our business. significant liabilities or additional expenses which may not be covered by existing cyber insurance. § We are subject to the requirements of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual for the facility security clearance of our subsidiary, Planet Labs § Interruption or failure of our infrastructure, or loss of our data storage, could hurt our ability to effectively perform our daily operations and provide our products and Federal, Inc., which is a prerequisite to our ability to perform services requiring classified personnel for the U.S. government. services, which could damage our reputation and harm our operating results. § We are subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and similar laws, and non-compliance with such laws can subject us to criminal and/or civil liability § We process, store and use personal information and other data, which subjects us to governmental regulation and other legal obligations related to privacy, and any and harm our business. failure to comply with such obligations could harm our business. § Failure to comply with governmental laws and regulations could harm our business. § We may experience a number of issues such as delayed launches, we may suffer launch failures, our satellites may fail to reach their planned orbital locations, the cost § Our policies regarding customer confidential information and support for individual privacy and civil liberties could cause us to experience adverse business and of satellite launches may significantly increase and or satellite launch providers may not have sufficient capacity. An y such issue could result in the loss of our satellites reputational consequences. or cause significant delays in their deployment, which could harm our business, prospects, financial condition an d results of operations. § We could be subject to changes in tax rates or the adoption of new tax legislation, whether in or out of the United States, or could otherwise have exposure to additional § We may experience a failure of ground operations infrastructure, interference with our satellite signals or geomagnetic solar storms that impair the performance of our tax liabilities, which could harm our business. satellites, which could harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. § Our results of operations may be harmed if we are required to collect sales and use, gross receipts, value-added, or similar taxes for our products in jurisdictions where § Our satellites may not be able to capture Earth images due to weather, natural disasters or other external factors, or as a result of constellation of satellites having we have not historically done so. restrained capacity. § We may not be able to utilize a significant portion of our net operating loss, which could adversely affect our potential profitability. § If we are unable to develop and release product and service enhancements and new products and services to respond to rapid technological change, or to develop new § Our customers may fail to pay us in accordance with the terms of their agreements, necessitating action by us to compel payment. designs and technologies for our satellites, in a timely and cost-effective manner, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. § Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. § Our business depends, in part, on sales to large enterprises and U.S. and foreign governmental entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and risks that may § If our judgments or estimates relating to our critical accounting policies are based on assumptions that change or prove to be incorrect, our results of operations could make our sales cycle, forecasting processes, and deployment processes more difficult to predict, require greater time and expense or negatively impact our business. fall below expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price. § The competitive position of our products depends in part on their ability to operate with third-party products and services, and if we are not successful in maintaining and Additional Risks Related to Ownership of Planet Common Stock Following the Business Combination and Planet Operating as a Public Company expanding the compatibility of our products with such third-party products and services, our business, financial position, and operating condition and results of § The price of Planet’s common stock and warrants may be volatile. operations could be harmed. § The SEC has recently issued guidance on the accounting treatment of warrants. Such guidance may require us to restate or revise our financial statements, make new § If our satellites fail to operate as intended, our ability to collect imagery and market our products and services successfully could be materially and adversely affected. SEC filings or file amendments to existing filings or amend certain provisions of our warrant agreement. § Our revenue, results of operations and reputation may be negatively impacted if our products fail to meet contractual requirements or our products contain defects or fail § We have broad discretion in how we use the net proceeds from the Business Combination, and we may not use them effectively. to operate in the expected manner. § If securities or industry analysts either do not publish research about us, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, our business, or our market, or, if such § We are partially dependent on resellers of our imagery for a portion of our revenue. If these resellers fail to market or sell our products and services successfully, our analysts change their recommendations regarding our common stock adversely, the trading price or trading volume of our common stock could decline. business would be harmed. § We do not intend to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future. § Downturns or volatility in general economic conditions, including as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic or any other outbreak of an infectious disease, could § We may be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention. have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity. § Future resales of common stock after the consummation of the Business Combination may cause the market price of our securities to drop significantly, even if our § Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may be harmed if we are unable to sell our existing and new customers multiple of our data business is doing well. solutions. § The obligations associated with being a public company will involve significant expenses and will require significant resources and management attention, which may § We depend on a limited number of suppliers for critical supplies and services, for research, development, manufacturing and launch of our satellites, which could in turn divert from Planet’s business operations. harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. The loss of any one or more of these suppliers or their failure to supply us with the § If Planet fails to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting at a reasonable assurance level, Planet may not be able to accurately report Planet’s financial necessary supplies or services on a timely basis could cause delays in our research, development or satellite manufacturing and adversely affect our business. results, which could have a material adverse effect on Planet’s operations, investor confidence in Planet’s business and the trading prices of Planet’s securities. § We may be unable to establish supply relationships for necessary components and may be required to develop alternative relationships with different component § Compliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate the Business Combination, require substantial financial and suppliers, which could delay the introduction of our products, increase the costs for components more than anticipated, and negatively impact our business. management resources and increase the time and costs of completing a business combination. § The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have materially affected how we and our customers, vendors, and partners are operating our businesses, and the § We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available duration and extent to which this will negatively impact our future business and operations, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows remain uncertain. to emerging growth companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public § We have limited experience with respect to determining the optimal prices and pricing structures for our products and services which may impact our financial results. companies. § The loss of one or more of our key personnel, or our failure to attract, hire, retain and train other highly qualified personnel in the future, could harm our business, § The dual class structure of our post-Business Combination common stock will have the effect of concentrating voting power with New Planet’s Chief Executive Officer financial condition and results of operations. and Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, which will limit an investor’s ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change § We believe our long-term value as a company will be greater if we focus on growth, which may negatively impact our profitability. in control. § Failure to effectively develop and expand our sales and marketing capabilities could harm our ability to increase our customer base and achieve broader market § We cannot predict the impact New Planet’s dual class structure may have on the stock price of New Planet Class A common stock. acceptance of our products and platform. § Delaware law and provisions in our post-Business Combination amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a § We have substantial customer concentration, with a limited number of customers accounting for a substantial portion of our revenues and accounts receivable. takeover proposal more difficult. § Our business is capital intensive and we may not be able to raise adequate capital to finance our business strategies, or we may be able to do so only on terms that § Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of significantly restrict our ability to operate our business, and as a result raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. money available to us. § Our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition, our ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, our ability to operate our business, our ability § Our post-Business Combination amended and restated certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive to react to changes in the economy or our industry and our ability to pay our debts and could divert our cash flow from operations for debt payments. forum for certain types of actions and proceedings and the federal district courts as the sole and exclusive forum for other types of actions and proceedings, in each § We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, seasonality in our business and fluctuations in our operating results due to usage-based contracts. case, that may be initiated by New Planet’s stockholders, which could limit New Planet’s stockholders’ ability to obtain what such stockholders believe to be a favorable § We may face exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. judicial forum for disputes with New Planet or New Planet’s directors, officers or other employees. § We rely upon third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure to host our products. Any disruption in the operations of these third-party providers, limitations on § Following the Business Combination, we will operate as a Delaware public benefit corporation. As a public benefit corporation, we cannot provide any assurance that we capacity or interference with our use could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. will achieve our public benefit purpose. § Our business depends on a strong brand. If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our ability to retain or expand our base of customers will be impaired § As a public benefit corporation, our focus on a specific public benefit purpose and producing a positive effect for society may negatively impact our financial and our business and operating results will be harmed. performance. § If we cannot maintain our company culture as we grow, our success and our business and competitive position may be harmed. § Our directors have a fiduciary duty to consider not only our stockholders' interests, but also our specific public benefit and the interests of other stakeholders affected by § Our past and future acquisitions will require significant management attention. Our acquisitions could disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value or adversely affect our actions. If a conflict between such interests arises, there is no guarantee such a conflict would be resolved in favor of our stockholders. our operating results. § As a Delaware public benefit corporation, we may be subject to increased derivative litigation concerning our duty to balance stockholder and public benefit interest, the 51§ Issues in the use of artificial intelligence, including machine learning and computer vision (together, “AI”), in our geospatial data and analytics platforms may result in occurrence of which may have an adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations. reputational harm or liability.Risk Factors Summary All references below to “we,” “us” or “our” refer to the business of Planet Labs Inc. (the “Company”). The risks described below summarize certain of the risks related to the Company’s business but are not intended to reflect all risks the Company faces or relating to an investment in the Company. A more extensive discussion of these risks will be disclosed in future documents filed or furnished by the Company and/or dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV (“dMY Technology Group”) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) following execution of definitive agreements in connection with the proposed transactions between the Company and dMY Technology Group. Risks Related to our Business and Industry § Limited insurance coverage and availability may prevent us from obtaining insurance to cover all risks of loss. § We have a limited history of operating at our current scale and under our current strategy, which makes it difficult to predict our future operating results, and we may not § Our projections are subject to significant risks, assumptions, estimates and uncertainties. As a result, our projected revenues, gross profit Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted achieve our expected operating results in the future. operating profit, and Adjusted Free Cash Flow may differ materially from our expectations. § We have a history of operating losses and we anticipate our operating expenses will increase substantially in the foreseeable future. As a result, we may not achieve or § Our quarterly results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business. sustain profitability in the future. Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Data Security and Privacy § Our daily scan of the Earth is a data set that has not existed before. If the market for our products and services built upon this data set fails to grow as we expect, or if § If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, the value of our brand and other intangible assets may be diminished, and our business may be adversely affected. our current customers or prospective customers fail to adopt our platform, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. § We may be, in the future, party to intellectual property rights claims and other litigation which are expensive to support, and if resolved adversely, could have a § There is increasing competition from commercial entities and governments in our markets, and if we do not compete effectively, our business, financial condition and significant impact on us. results of operations could be harmed. § If we use open source software inconsistent with our policies and procedures or the license terms applicable to such software, we could be subject to demands to § Our international operations create business and economic risks that could impact our financial results. release material portions of our source code, legal expenses, damages, or costly remediation or disruption to our business. § If we or our third-party service providers experience, or are unable to protect against, cyber-attacks, ransomware, security incidents, or security breaches, or if Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory, Accounting, and Tax Matters unauthorized parties otherwise obtain access to our customers’ data, our data, or our platform, then our platform may be perceived as not being secure, we may § We operate in a highly regulated industry and government regulations may adversely affect our ability to sell our services, may increase the expense of such services or become unable to meet our service level commitments, our reputation may be harmed, demand for our platform and products may be reduced, and we may incur otherwise limit our ability to operate or grow our business. significant liabilities or additional expenses which may not be covered by existing cyber insurance. § We are subject to the requirements of the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual for the facility security clearance of our subsidiary, Planet Labs § Interruption or failure of our infrastructure, or loss of our data storage, could hurt our ability to effectively perform our daily operations and provide our products and Federal, Inc., which is a prerequisite to our ability to perform services requiring classified personnel for the U.S. government. services, which could damage our reputation and harm our operating results. § We are subject to anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and similar laws, and non-compliance with such laws can subject us to criminal and/or civil liability § We process, store and use personal information and other data, which subjects us to governmental regulation and other legal obligations related to privacy, and any and harm our business. failure to comply with such obligations could harm our business. § Failure to comply with governmental laws and regulations could harm our business. § We may experience a number of issues such as delayed launches, we may suffer launch failures, our satellites may fail to reach their planned orbital locations, the cost § Our policies regarding customer confidential information and support for individual privacy and civil liberties could cause us to experience adverse business and of satellite launches may significantly increase and or satellite launch providers may not have sufficient capacity. An y such issue could result in the loss of our satellites reputational consequences. or cause significant delays in their deployment, which could harm our business, prospects, financial condition an d results of operations. § We could be subject to changes in tax rates or the adoption of new tax legislation, whether in or out of the United States, or could otherwise have exposure to additional § We may experience a failure of ground operations infrastructure, interference with our satellite signals or geomagnetic solar storms that impair the performance of our tax liabilities, which could harm our business. satellites, which could harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. § Our results of operations may be harmed if we are required to collect sales and use, gross receipts, value-added, or similar taxes for our products in jurisdictions where § Our satellites may not be able to capture Earth images due to weather, natural disasters or other external factors, or as a result of constellation of satellites having we have not historically done so. restrained capacity. § We may not be able to utilize a significant portion of our net operating loss, which could adversely affect our potential profitability. § If we are unable to develop and release product and service enhancements and new products and services to respond to rapid technological change, or to develop new § Our customers may fail to pay us in accordance with the terms of their agreements, necessitating action by us to compel payment. designs and technologies for our satellites, in a timely and cost-effective manner, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed. § Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. § Our business depends, in part, on sales to large enterprises and U.S. and foreign governmental entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and risks that may § If our judgments or estimates relating to our critical accounting policies are based on assumptions that change or prove to be incorrect, our results of operations could make our sales cycle, forecasting processes, and deployment processes more difficult to predict, require greater time and expense or negatively impact our business. fall below expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in our stock price. § The competitive position of our products depends in part on their ability to operate with third-party products and services, and if we are not successful in maintaining and Additional Risks Related to Ownership of Planet Common Stock Following the Business Combination and Planet Operating as a Public Company expanding the compatibility of our products with such third-party products and services, our business, financial position, and operating condition and results of § The price of Planet’s common stock and warrants may be volatile. operations could be harmed. § The SEC has recently issued guidance on the accounting treatment of warrants. Such guidance may require us to restate or revise our financial statements, make new § If our satellites fail to operate as intended, our ability to collect imagery and market our products and services successfully could be materially and adversely affected. SEC filings or file amendments to existing filings or amend certain provisions of our warrant agreement. § Our revenue, results of operations and reputation may be negatively impacted if our products fail to meet contractual requirements or our products contain defects or fail § We have broad discretion in how we use the net proceeds from the Business Combination, and we may not use them effectively. to operate in the expected manner. § If securities or industry analysts either do not publish research about us, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about us, our business, or our market, or, if such § We are partially dependent on resellers of our imagery for a portion of our revenue. If these resellers fail to market or sell our products and services successfully, our analysts change their recommendations regarding our common stock adversely, the trading price or trading volume of our common stock could decline. business would be harmed. § We do not intend to pay cash dividends for the foreseeable future. § Downturns or volatility in general economic conditions, including as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic or any other outbreak of an infectious disease, could § We may be subject to securities litigation, which is expensive and could divert management attention. have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity. § Future resales of common stock after the consummation of the Business Combination may cause the market price of our securities to drop significantly, even if our § Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may be harmed if we are unable to sell our existing and new customers multiple of our data business is doing well. solutions. § The obligations associated with being a public company will involve significant expenses and will require significant resources and management attention, which may § We depend on a limited number of suppliers for critical supplies and services, for research, development, manufacturing and launch of our satellites, which could in turn divert from Planet’s business operations. harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations. The loss of any one or more of these suppliers or their failure to supply us with the § If Planet fails to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting at a reasonable assurance level, Planet may not be able to accurately report Planet’s financial necessary supplies or services on a timely basis could cause delays in our research, development or satellite manufacturing and adversely affect our business. results, which could have a material adverse effect on Planet’s operations, investor confidence in Planet’s business and the trading prices of Planet’s securities. § We may be unable to establish supply relationships for necessary components and may be required to develop alternative relationships with different component § Compliance obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may make it more difficult for us to effectuate the Business Combination, require substantial financial and suppliers, which could delay the introduction of our products, increase the costs for components more than anticipated, and negatively impact our business. management resources and increase the time and costs of completing a business combination. § The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have materially affected how we and our customers, vendors, and partners are operating our businesses, and the § We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and if we take advantage of certain exemptions from disclosure requirements available duration and extent to which this will negatively impact our future business and operations, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows remain uncertain. to emerging growth companies, this could make our securities less attractive to investors and may make it more difficult to compare our performance with other public § We have limited experience with respect to determining the optimal prices and pricing structures for our products and services which may impact our financial results. companies. § The loss of one or more of our key personnel, or our failure to attract, hire, retain and train other highly qualified personnel in the future, could harm our business, § The dual class structure of our post-Business Combination common stock will have the effect of concentrating voting power with New Planet’s Chief Executive Officer financial condition and results of operations. and Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, which will limit an investor’s ability to influence the outcome of important transactions, including a change § We believe our long-term value as a company will be greater if we focus on growth, which may negatively impact our profitability. in control. § Failure to effectively develop and expand our sales and marketing capabilities could harm our ability to increase our customer base and achieve broader market § We cannot predict the impact New Planet’s dual class structure may have on the stock price of New Planet Class A common stock. acceptance of our products and platform. § Delaware law and provisions in our post-Business Combination amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make a § We have substantial customer concentration, with a limited number of customers accounting for a substantial portion of our revenues and accounts receivable. takeover proposal more difficult. § Our business is capital intensive and we may not be able to raise adequate capital to finance our business strategies, or we may be able to do so only on terms that § Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of significantly restrict our ability to operate our business, and as a result raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. money available to us. § Our indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition, our ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, our ability to operate our business, our ability § Our post-Business Combination amended and restated certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive to react to changes in the economy or our industry and our ability to pay our debts and could divert our cash flow from operations for debt payments. forum for certain types of actions and proceedings and the federal district courts as the sole and exclusive forum for other types of actions and proceedings, in each § We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, seasonality in our business and fluctuations in our operating results due to usage-based contracts. case, that may be initiated by New Planet’s stockholders, which could limit New Planet’s stockholders’ ability to obtain what such stockholders believe to be a favorable § We may face exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. judicial forum for disputes with New Planet or New Planet’s directors, officers or other employees. § We rely upon third-party providers of cloud-based infrastructure to host our products. Any disruption in the operations of these third-party providers, limitations on § Following the Business Combination, we will operate as a Delaware public benefit corporation. As a public benefit corporation, we cannot provide any assurance that we capacity or interference with our use could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. will achieve our public benefit purpose. § Our business depends on a strong brand. If we are not able to maintain and enhance our brand, our ability to retain or expand our base of customers will be impaired § As a public benefit corporation, our focus on a specific public benefit purpose and producing a positive effect for society may negatively impact our financial and our business and operating results will be harmed. performance. § If we cannot maintain our company culture as we grow, our success and our business and competitive position may be harmed. § Our directors have a fiduciary duty to consider not only our stockholders' interests, but also our specific public benefit and the interests of other stakeholders affected by § Our past and future acquisitions will require significant management attention. Our acquisitions could disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value or adversely affect our actions. If a conflict between such interests arises, there is no guarantee such a conflict would be resolved in favor of our stockholders. our operating results. § As a Delaware public benefit corporation, we may be subject to increased derivative litigation concerning our duty to balance stockholder and public benefit interest, the 51§ Issues in the use of artificial intelligence, including machine learning and computer vision (together, “AI”), in our geospatial data and analytics platforms may result in occurrence of which may have an adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations. reputational harm or liability.

Exhibit 99.3

Operator:

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Planet and dMY IV Conference Call. We appreciate everyone joining us today.

The information discussed today is qualified in its entirety by the information contained in the Form 8-K, including the exhibits thereto, that is being filed by dMY IV today with the SEC, which may be accessed on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In conjunction with today’s discussion we will be referring to an investor presentation, a copy of which is being filed as an exhibit to the aforementioned Form 8-K. You are encouraged to carefully review the disclaimers included therein. Please note that this call has been prerecorded and so a Q&A session will not be conducted as part of today’s presentation. Before we begin, I would like to note that this call may contain forward-looking statements, including dMY IV’s and Planet’s expectations of future financial and business performance and conditions, the industry outlook and the timing and completion of the transaction. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and they are not guarantees of performance. You are encouraged to read the Form 8-K and the accompanying press release and investor presentation, as well as dMY IV’s other filings with the SEC for a discussion of the risks that can affect the business combination and the business of Planet after completion of the proposed transaction. Hosting today’s call is Niccolo de Masi, CEO of dMY IV. With that we will turn the call over to Niccolo.

Niccolo de Masi:

Hello, and welcome to the dMY IV Planet PIPE roadshow presentation. My name is Niccolo de Masi, and I am the CEO of dMY Technology. This is our fifth aggregate SPAC IPO for the dMY founders. We will begin today’s presentation with a sponsor perspective. dMY is tremendously impressed by Planet’s market leadership position, as well as its management team, unique technology, and high barriers to entry. On all of these dimensions, we think Planet is an A+ company, and we are proud to be sponsoring them onto the NYSE.

Founded by our CEO, Will Marshall, Planet is a differentiated cloud data company underpinned by about a decade of pioneering agile aerospace, and a vertically integrated engineering stack. In our view, Planet is a market leader whose data is mission critical to numerous industries ranging from agriculture to government, from forestry to finance, and many many more. By virtue of its first mover initiative, we estimate Planet has a five to seven year lead over any other player. We base this perspective on what we believe to be the development status of current known competitors. Needless to say, five to seven years is a significant strategic lead for any student of the technology industry.

Now moving on the transaction itself, the dMY IV Trust has $345 million in it. We’re adding a good sized PIPE to this with strong participation from strategic investors, and existing customers. Virtually all of this cash is going onto the balance sheet to fund growth. Based on Planet’s current estimates, Planet anticipates becoming profitable sometime in the fiscal year ending January 31, 2025. This transaction will help Planet continue and accelerate its go-to-market expansion. Planet believes it does not need to add new satellites to its fleet beyond ordinary course replacement. As such, Planet anticipates its go-forward investments will focus on opportunities with compelling ROI, such as increasing the size and breadth of its salesforce. It is now my pleasure to hand over the presentation to Will Marshall.


Will Marshall:

Thanks Niccolo, and hello everyone. About a decade ago, we formed Planet with a mission to image the whole world every day and make change visible, accessible, and actionable.

We recognize the huge value Earth observation could deliver in providing people with the tools to address massive global changes that were occurring on a daily basis. Yet the satellite imagery in the market was not sufficient for the speed at which change was happening across the planet. The industry also had a very adverse risk posture, which led to building expensive bespoke satellites. All told, there was a large opportunity in the market, which we formed Planet to address.

By 2017, Planet was producing a daily scan of the Earth’s surface. As of today, we’ve amassed over 1,500 images for each location on the Earth’s landmass, an immense dataset, documenting change on our planet, and enabling us to train machine learning algorithms on this data. We believe that data is the new oil, as it powers myriad industries, and Planet has accumulated a vast proprietary data set. There are above-the-sky barriers to entry to replicate our scanning, and it is simply impossible to go back in time to recreate the data archive.

Planet’s platform is focused on providing solutions to real world problems; it includes imagery and insights and machine learning to empower companies, governments, and communities around the world to make timely decisions about our evolving world.

There are three things I’d like you to take away from the call today.

First Planet is a data company, we have approximately 200 satellites in orbit. We have one fleet with over 150 satellites, which image the entire Earth’s landmass every day at three to four meter resolution. We further have another 21 higher resolution satellites that image any particular place at 50 centimeter resolution. In sum, this gathers a completely differentiated data set [that is] unique to the industry. We believe Planet provides mission critical data that is 100% optimized for machine learning and ready for analytics to deliver actionable insights to our customers.

Second, our business is largely based on a subscription model. We sell data feeds to our customers. We can provide any one of those feeds to many users. So it is a one-to-many model. And the incremental costs of selling to each additional customer is very small, thus enabling us to provide high growth and high margins, trends we expect to continue to improve over time.

Thirdly, our data and analytics are foundational to two multi-trillion dollar global trends. First, the digital transformation and second, the sustainability transformation of the global economy.


These trends represent a market opportunity for Planet that we estimate to be over $100 billion in 2027. As these trends continue to play out, digital and ESG solutions will become ever more foundational to how companies and governments operate. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. Planet is positioned to provide data and analytics to companies across a vast array of industries, to governments around the world, providing them with significant value.

So let’s spend a little bit of time on the first point — our data. Zooming out for a moment to the big picture, Planet indexes the Earth and makes it searchable. This is similar to the way Google indexed the Internet, and made that searchable. How do we do this? With the largest Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites, we image the entire land mass of the Earth every day, capturing up to 300 million square kilometers per day. We then apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify objects such as roads, buildings, planes, ships, trees, etc. Thus building a database of all the objects on Earth over time.

This database is then searchable. Ultimately, this data and imagery is used to detect change at a worldwide scale — change that empowers people across many different sectors to make smarter day-to-day decisions. Of course, searching the Earth is an audacious system. And it’s completely unique today in the industry. Over the course of the last ten years, Planet’s team of leading engineers and scientists have built a highly complex system. We’ve created advanced satellite technology, and a strong data processing pipeline. I look forward to discussing our system in detail in the future. But today, I want to focus on the value that we deliver to our users.

From a user perspective, what we’ve built is a bit like a Bloomberg terminal, but for Earth data. Our data feeds feed into our customer workflows, enabling them to make real-time decisions. So this is like the Bloomberg data terminal for financial data, enabling as it does high growth and high margins. As our customers build our data into their workflows, they integrate it tightly with their products, therefore creating stickiness. These proprietary data feeds serve many industries, including financial services, but also agriculture, energy, government, forestry, mapping, and so on and so forth.

To dive into this further, I’d like to hand over to Kevin Weil, our President of Product and Business, to share much more about our customer value proposition. Kevin has been a leader in companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and brings a track record of scaling organizations in hypergrowth, monetizing data products, and disrupting old, entrenched industries. Over to you, Kevin.

Kevin Weil

Thanks, Will. I joined Planet because of this vision. And also, frankly, because I believe there’s significant upside and enterprise value as we execute on our platform software roadmap. I see strong parallels with my experience leading product at Twitter, and at Instagram, around monetizing proprietary data, and building a global ecosystem of customers, developers, and partners.


So let me talk a bit about the roadmap and then some more about customers and use cases.

As a software and product person, from my point of view, Planet has already achieved the incredible. We put hundreds of shoebox sized, cost efficient satellites in orbit, and we image the entire planet, every single day, at three to four meter resolution. The world is changing at an accelerating rate. Everyone is realizing that it matters, and Planet is the only company I see that can provide this data 365 days a year. But the even bigger opportunity where we’re seeing early momentum is in leveraging the data we collect and moving up the stack from imagery to derived data, APIs, machine learning, and time series. In short, going from imagery to analytics and solutions. These solutions all start with our proprietary data, but rather than requiring our customers and partners to build their own imagery pipelines and other infrastructure, we can build these services for them, allowing them to focus on their core business. As we do, we’re delivering value for our most sophisticated customers and partners, as well as opening up the ability to serve a much larger market.

I’ll give you an example from my past that illustrates this. When I joined Twitter in 2009, we built a product called the Twitter Firehose, which provided developers [with] access to the entire global stream of public tweets. We were essentially giving any developer access to what the world was talking about in real time. Our most sophisticated technical partners loved it. You had Google integrating tweets to answer real time search queries, for example. But many potential partners couldn’t handle hundreds of millions of tweets per day in hundreds of different languages. It turned out the way to grow that business meaningfully was to simplify our offering for customers and developers. For example, we offered easy ways for developers to pre-filter the stream of tweets, so they could access only the data that was relevant for them. For any small business, we could do things like count the number of times they were mentioned on Twitter, do sentiment analysis, connect it to their launches and marketing campaigns, and graph it on an hourly basis. These products relied on our proprietary data, but provided multiple entry points that better match customer needs, opening up the number of potential partners from thousands to millions. And that’s the transformation I’m excited about here at Planet.

So let’s look at a few use cases and customer examples. And we’ll start in agriculture. Today we serve some of the biggest names in agriculture, from Bayer to Corteva, to Syngenta and more. Just with Corteva, we help them monitor over 800,000 fields for the farmers they serve, starting with our core imagery. But it goes beyond that. Our satellites can see in the infrared, which allows them to effectively detect chlorophyll content in crops. We can measure everything from crop type to crop health to optimal planting and harvesting dates. So we go beyond basic imagery to provide farmers and agriculture companies specific vegetative growth indices, which can pinpoint exactly where a crop might be going bad, or a strip where a sprinkler has gone out, helping to maximize crop yield and ultimately revenue.

We’re also working with our largest agricultural customers on an exciting new product we call Fusion, which fuses together our daily data with other data sets along with machine learning to produce a daily, cloud-free dataset with over 10 layers of metadata. This data is being used to train machine learning models on crop health, as well as optimize application of fertilizers,


water, and tillage, which will monitor the impact of regenerative agriculture management practices on carbon storage. With each step, we move up the stack from imagery to data, APIs, machine learning, and time series. And not only that, but with each step we integrate more deeply into our customer’s workflows. And none of this is bespoke, these products can be applied across the agricultural industry.

On the government side, we directly serve multiple agencies within the US government, both in defense and intelligence, and in civil government. In addition to major governments across APAC, Latin America, and Europe, our data enables governments to do something we believe has been difficult, if not impossible to do before — to see the entire world every day, allowing them to see threats around the corner or respond to natural disasters more efficiently. They use our products for a wide variety of use cases ranging from intelligence, security, and emergency response, all the way to Humboldt County, which uses our data to monitor and help marijuana growers achieve compliance. Or the state of New Mexico Land Office, which uses our data and machine learning platform to identify new roads and development across the state.

These are just a few examples in a few categories. We serve meaningful businesses and governments across multiple verticals. While agriculture, civil government, defense, intelligence, and mapping make up the majority of our business today, we see growing opportunities in the energy, forestry, finance and insurance sectors as well, particularly as we move up the stack with machine learning and expanded datasets as I’ve been describing.

Lastly, the ESG sector is quickly becoming a prominent focus for us as companies and governments continue to put more emphasis on these underlying secular trends. Planet data can empower businesses to increase efficiency, deploy new services, and embrace their ESG responsibilities in the coming years. Our data is providing valuable insight into important social and environmental issues from monitoring natural disasters, deforestation, and enforcement of environmental compliance, to tracking refugee movements and improving border security and humanitarian aid. As one example, last year, Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment awarded an eight figure contract to Planet and two partners to use satellite imagery and supportive efforts to stop deforestation and save the world’s tropical forests. That program now has over 4,000 users and 120 countries that are leveraging our data for this important cause. If it’s not already clear, I see a meaningful commercial and ESG opportunity at Planet and I’m very excited about our future. I’ll pass it back to Will now to talk a little bit more about Planet’s technology as well as our growth plans.

Will Marshall

Thanks, Kevin. So let me share a bit about how Planet’s technology stack is differentiated and how we believe our lead in the market will increase over time. We see Planet as being light years ahead of the competition in both space and data terms and we will continue to widen that lead. We’ve established multiple barriers to entry across three critical moats.

First, Planet is a pioneer of what we like to call “agile aerospace” — that is, rapidly iterating satellites as is done in Agile Software, releasing early and often, but for the space domain.


We’ve completed 33 successful rocket launches and with every launch, we put new advanced technology into orbit, enabling new datasets in every single case. Now new datasets feeds into our second moat. Because the more data we have, the more value we can extract as we fuse data together. Fused data are always greater in value than the sum of their constituent data. And our proprietary data archive captured over the last 10 years is impossible for anyone to replace.

Finally, our third moat is our platform —the more users Planet has, the more insights we gain into what users want, what they’re looking for, where they’re looking, what questions they are asking and improve our product to be the best in market. This moat is also compounding. Each of these moats reinforces one another into a virtuous cycle that widens our leading position in the market. These significant barriers to entry are already built today, and we believe we’re several steps ahead of the competition.

Before I turn over to Ashley to talk more about the financials, I want to touch on what this transaction means for Planet. We believe we have found the right long-term partner in dMY. They understand our value proposition and view our partnership with our team through a long term lens with a goal of helping us to create a sustainable, enduring business. In terms of proceeds, we plan to use the capital raised primarily to firstly, build out our sales and marketing efforts, and secondly, to grow our software and machine learning teams to go up the stack per Kevin’s remarks. On the sales side, we’ve been able to achieve what we have today, with only about 30 quota carrying sales people all around the world, which we believe is far too little given the market opportunity. As we continue to grow, particularly as we increase our focus on data and analytics, we need to continue to build our team and build out our capabilities to coordinate to ensure that we meet increased demand for our product.

It’s also worth mentioning that we see a meaningful opportunity in M&A. There are a lot of smaller companies with meaningful expertise in our space. We view Planet as the natural aggregator and we believe that there’s a lot of opportunity to create more value through bringing on the right teams. This can drive upside to our plan. I’ll now turn it over to Ashley, our CFO and COO, to provide some color on the business and financials.

Ashley Johnson

Thanks. As Will mentioned, we sell our data on a one-to-many basis with a low incremental cost to serve each additional customer we bring on to our platform. Most of our business consists of revenue from the sale of data subscription contracts, and minimum commitment usage-based contracts. Combined, these revenue streams provide us with recurring revenue contracts that make up over 90% of our book of business. Over 70% of our book of business comprised of multi-year contracts as of the end of fiscal year 2021.

We employ a land and expand go-to-market model with the goal of delivering increasing value to our customers and generating more revenue with each customer over time by expanding the scope of services we offer. We use net dollar retention rate to measure our ability to retain and grow revenue generating from our existing customers. For the year ended January 31st, 2021, our net dollar retention rate was approximately 113%.


Today we have over 600 customers around the world and across vertical markets, including agriculture, civil government, defense and intelligence, mapping, forestry, energy, finance, and insurance. We believe our efficient cost structure and one-to-many subscription business model enables us to democratize access to geospatial data for customers of all sizes and across vertical markets. This is reflected in our end of period customer count, which grew to approximately 620 customers by the end of fiscal year 2021, representing approximately 40% year-over-year growth. Our end of period customer count has grown quarter-over-quarter for every quarter in the prior two years as customers consistently recognize the value we deliver.

Looking at our historical growth rate, we’ve delivered a 27% compound annual revenue growth rate over the last five years. Our growth rate has been strong in spite of the pullbacks of investments in our global sales organization put into place last year in response to COVID-19. We’re now hiring aggressively and plan to more than double our sales force to be in a position to respond to all of the demand we’re seeing in the market.

Today we have a diverse customer base with 24% of our fiscal 2021 revenue coming from civil government, 23% from agriculture customers, 22% from defense and intelligence, 17% from mapping, and the remaining 14% coming from a variety of different vertical markets. Looking to the future, we expect our customers base to diversify into verticals such as energy, finance, insurance, and forestry, as Kevin highlighted earlier. We expect to expand into these verticals by making our data more digestible and accessible to non-technical business users, and to build solutions to address more use cases and expand our addressable market. In addition, to expand our reach with customers, we intend to partner with independent software vendors, solution providers, and business intelligence and analytics providers, who are building vertical market specific solutions on top of our platform.

We have clear levers to drive growth from fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2024, which we do not see as dependent on breakthrough in technology, or a future market inflection. We simply need to invest more behind what we already do today, which is to renew and expand our existing customer accounts, land new customers in our core vertical markets, agriculture, government, and mapping, and expand our analytic solutions to grow our presence in the emerging vertical markets of finance, insurance, energy, and forestry.

We expect to be able to drive our top line growth by investing in our sales, customer success, marketing, and software engineering teams. To go into more detail, we seek to expand our contracts with existing customers by roughly doubling our customer success teams, enabling us to improve customer retention and accelerate our time to upsell.

We expect to increase our sales account executive headcount by two and a half times in the next two years, allowing us to continue to gain traction in our core vertical markets, while having broader coverage in geographic and vertical markets to accelerate pipeline growth. We also plan to significantly increase marketing spend to support awareness of the Planet brand and solutions, as well as to grow our sales pipeline.


While we already have a presence in many emerging vertical markets, we believe that by moving up the data stack, we’ll be able to address the needs of a greater number of customers, particularly non-technical business users. To do this, we anticipate roughly doubling our software engineering headcount, allowing us to move rapidly up the data stack and bring new products to market that enhance the value of our data and make it easier to consume, such as our data fusion solutions. With these investments, we expect to increase our revenue growth rate to a 44% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. As our revenue grows, given our low costs to serve each incremental customer, we believe we can significantly expand gross margins, which we measure inclusive of depreciation and amortization. We forecast gross margins to be in the mid-70s by fiscal year 2026, which is calendar year 2025.

With the proceeds raised in this transaction, we believe we will have sufficient capital to fund our growth investments through breakeven on an adjusted EBITDA basis, and that we will be able to drive significant free cash flow as the capital investment to maintain our current fleet of satellites reduces as a percentage of revenue over the next several years. We achieve a high return on investment for each satellite launched, and with our one-to-many business model, we believe that this is a business that has significant operating leverage at scale. I’ll turn it back over to Will for closing comments.

Will Marshall

Thanks, Ashley. That concludes our remarks for today. I’ll simply close by saying how excited we are to partner with dMY as we take this first step, an important milestone towards being a public company. With the new capital and other resources that it brings, we’re excited for this next phase and we look forward to continuing this dialogue with you all going forward. Thank you very much.

Exhibit 99.4

A decade ago out of a Silicon valley garage, Planet began its stellar journey.

Dr. Will Marhsall (CEO): “We’ve always had the goal of empowering humanity with imagery of the planet, taken on a more frequent basis.”

To achieve that, we’d have to act differently. Agile aerospace, as we called it, meant doing away with bulky billion-dollar satellites, with long drawn out launch cycles. Instead, we’d design and build our own tiny inexpensive Earth imaging powerhouses, delivering data on demand.

WM: “And now we’re at the point where we can image the entire Earth every single day. And it’s a new capability that humanity has never had before.”

Our constellation of nearly 200 Earth observation satellites currently orbiting Earth is the largest ever. And we’ve amassed a 10 year archive of proprietary data that grows by 15 terabytes every day, creating a search engine for the planet.

WM: “Google indexed what’s on the internet and made it searchable. We’re indexing what’s on the Earth and making it searchable.”

To unlock the value in this vast data set, we’ve spent a decade building out a platform that uses machine learning to make the data easy to consume. And it allows us to combine information and data to deliver ever greater capabilities to our customers’ ever evolving needs.

Kevin Weil (President, Business and Product): “Businesses today operate faster than ever before. Last month’s data is no longer sufficient. Last week’s data is no longer sufficient. You need today’s data.”

All of this innovation has resulted in significant barriers to entry, which place Planet miles ahead of the competition.

Michael Bloomberg (United Nations, Special Envoy on Climate Ambitions & Solutions): “This is just going to get better and more ubiquitous all the time. And there’s a market for it. And Planet is a company that’s really at the forefront of all of this.”

And our subscription-based business model is unique for the industry allowing Planet to serve data to multiple users across a variety of industries.

Ashley Johnson (CFO): “Historically, the way that the industry worked is you had very big, very expensive satellites that only the very wealthiest of countries, wealthiest of companies could afford to task and get an image of what might be transpiring at a point in time. And in a very specific place. Planet is different because we’ve taken the approach of, we want to create a dataset that can apply to any industry and any company, any government of any size.”

KW: “We operate at very high margin because we’re already capturing the entire Earth every single day. The cost of serving each new customer is very low.”

Little wonder then than our data is deployed across a staggering array of applications from farmers seeking higher crop yields to governments needing visibility into urban development and many other applications for businesses that simply demand mission critical insights.

Dr. Matt McCabe (Professor of Water & Food Security, King Abdullah University): “[We’ve] been doing research on precision agriculture and the promise of precision agriculture. Planet realizes that promise.”

Sella Nevo (Google): “We rely on Planet SkySat imagery to produce elevation maps that allow us to know how floods are going to move across the flood plain. So that way we know who’s in danger and what do they can go to be safe.”


Dr. Hannah Kerner (NASA Harvest): “Planet data is really revolutionary to our industry. Where never before have we been able to get this daily imagery everywhere on the globe. Not only in the major food producing countries where we might have national capacity for earth observation already, but we have this everywhere.”

The market opportunity for Planet daily data is enormous and it comes at a time when its urgency cannot be overstated. The Earth is changing more quickly than ever, and in ways that are dramatically disrupting economies, society, and the environment.

KW: “Planet’s opportunity is massive. We sit at the center of two of the most important multi-trillion dollar trends in the world today, digital transformation and sustainability. They affect every company in every industry and every government around the world.”

Planet has built a Bloomberg-like terminal for Earth data. The world’s first web geo platform, empowering organizations to make informed decisions and navigate these economic shifts. Come join us as we work to change the future.

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Exhibit 99.5

Consolidated Financial Statements

Planet Labs Inc.

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

With Report of Independent Auditor


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Planet Labs Inc.

Contents

 

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements as of January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

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Report of Independent Auditor

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Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 31, 2021 and 2020

     3  

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

     4  

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended January  31, 2021 and 2020

     6–7  

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

     8–49  

 


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Report of Independent Auditors

The Board of Directors

Planet Labs Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Planet Labs Inc., which comprise the consolidated balance sheets as of January 31, 2021 and 2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes to the consolidated financial statements.

Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements

Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles; this includes the design, implementation and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free of material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s Responsibility

Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

Opinion

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Planet Labs Inc. at January 31, 2021 and 2020, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

The Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company has incurred recurring net losses and negative cash flows from operations, and management has stated that substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s evaluation of the events and conditions and management’s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 2. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter.

 

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Planet Labs Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 

 

     January 31,  
(in thousands, except share and par value amounts)    2021     2020  

Assets

    

Current assets

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 71,183     $ 21,678  

Accounts receivable, net

     47,110       27,726  

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     7,134       10,918  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     125,427       60,322  

Property and equipment, net

     159,855       186,595  

Capitalized internal-use software, net

     11,994       14,492  

Goodwill

     88,393       88,393  

Intangible assets, net

     5,673       7,500  

Restricted cash, non-current

     4,982       4,485  

Other non-current assets

     2,984       1,203  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 399,308     $ 362,990  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

    

Current liabilities

    

Accounts payable

   $ 1,446     $ 2,115  

Accrued and other current liabilities (1)

     30,195       18,756  

Deferred revenue (1)

     57,570       35,690  

Convertible notes

     8,244       10,804  

Preferred stock warrant liability

     11,359       3,849  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     108,814       71,214  

Debt, net of discount

     62,644       46,656  

Convertible notes (1)

     92,968       —    

Deferred revenue (1)

     15,122       21,026  

Deferred hosting costs (1)

     7,971       —    

Deferred rent

     2,991       5,009  

Other non-current liabilities

     1,287       1,448  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     291,797       145,353  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)

    

Convertible preferred stock $0.00002 par value, 105,000,000 shares authorized, 85,682,990 shares issued and outstanding, $696,415 aggregate liquidation preference at January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively (1)

   $ 2     $ 2  

Common stock, $0.00002 par value, 155,000,000 and 15,000,000 Class A and Class B shares authorized, respectively

     1       1  

14,876,627 and 13,785,927 Class A shares issued and outstanding at January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, 13,811,878 Class B shares issued and outstanding at January 31, 2021 and 2020

    

Additional paid-in capital

     745,644       728,943  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     1,769       1,493  

Accumulated deficit

     (639,905     (512,802
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     107,511       217,637  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 399,308     $ 362,990  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) 

Balance includes related-party transactions entered into with Google, LLC (“Google”). See Note 11.

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Planet Labs Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

 

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)    2021     2020  

Revenue (1)

   $ 113,168     $ 95,736  

Cost of revenue (1)

     87,383       102,393  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross margin

     25,785       (6,657

Operating expenses

    

Research and development (1)

     43,825       37,871  

Sales and marketing

     37,268       34,913  

General and administrative

     32,134       27,019  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     113,227       99,803  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (87,442     (106,460
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Debt extinguishment gain (loss)

     673       (11,529

Interest expense

     (9,447     (6,946

Change in fair value of convertible notes and warrant liabilities

     (30,053     207  

Other income(expense), net

     239       1,144  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other expense, net

     (38,588     (17,124
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before provision for income taxes

     (126,030     (123,584

Provision for income taxes

     1,073       130  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (127,103   $ (123,714
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other comprehensive loss

    

Foreign currency translation adjustment, net of tax

     276       217  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (126,827   $ (123,497
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

   $ (4.40   $ (4.42
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Basic and diluted weighted-average common shares outstanding used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

     28,863,607       27,981,802  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) 

Balance includes related-party transactions entered into with Google. See Note 11.

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Planet Labs Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

     Convertible
Preferred Stock
     Common Stock      Additional
Paid-in
Capital
     Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive

Income
     Accumulated
Deficit
    Total
Stockholders’
Equity
 
 
(in thousands, except share amounts)    Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  

Balances at February 1, 2019

     83,960,040      $ 2        27,485,895      $ 1      $ 693,644      $ 1,276      $ (389,088   $ 305,835  

Issuance of Series D convertible preferred stock

     695,630        —          —          —          10,000        —          —         10,000  

Issuance of Series D convertible preferred stock in consideration for net assets acquired

     1,027,320        —          —          —          14,772        —          —         14,772  

Issuance of Class A common stock warrants

     —          —          —          —          4,235        —          —         4,235  

Issuance of Class A common stock from the exercise of common stock options

     —          —          111,910        —          264        —          —         264  

Stock-based compensation

     —          —          —          —          6,028        —          —         6,028  

Change in translation

     —          —          —          —          —          217        —         217  

Net loss

     —          —          —          —          —          —          (123,714     (123,714
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balances at January 31, 2020

     85,682,990        2        27,597,805        1        728,943        1,493        (512,802     217,637  

Issuance of Class A common stock warrants

     —          —          —          —          1,624        —          —         1,624  

Issuance of Class A common stock from the exercise of common stock options

     —          —          1,090,700        —          539        —          —         539  

Stock-based compensation

     —          —          —          —          14,538        —          —         14,538  

Change in translation

     —          —          —          —          —          276        —         276  

Net loss

     —          —          —          —          —          —          (127,103     (127,103
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balances at January 31, 2021

     85,682,990      $ 2        28,688,505      $ 1      $ 745,644      $ 1,769      $ (639,905   $ 107,511  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

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Planet Labs Inc.

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

 

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021     2020  

Operating activities

    

Net loss

   $ (127,103   $ (123,714

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities

    

Depreciation and amortization

     62,212       77,629  

Stock-based compensation, net of capitalized cost of $526 and $957, respectively

     14,012       5,071  

Provision for doubtful accounts

     823       649  

Change in fair value of convertible notes and warrant liabilities

     30,053       (207

Debt extinguishment (gain) loss

     (673     11,529  

Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs

     2,750       1,392  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities

    

Accounts receivable

     (19,932     8,959  

Prepaid expenses and other assets

     2,617       12,942  

Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities

     11,033       3,071  

Deferred revenue

     14,433       (27,286

Deferred hosting cost

     7,971       —    

Deferred rent

     (2,223     (3,722
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities

     (4,027     (33,687
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Investing activities

    

Purchases of property and equipment

     (26,096     (16,665

Capitalized internal-use software

     (4,030     (7,436

Business acquisition, net of cash acquired

     —         (2,457

Other

     (674     (614
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (30,800     (27,172
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Financing activities

    

Proceeds from the exercise of common stock options

     539       264  

Proceeds from issuance of convertible preferred stock, net

     —         10,000  

Principal payment of long-term debt

     —         (51,176

Proceeds from issuance of debt and common stock warrants, net of issuance costs

     14,862       49,640  

Principal payment of convertible notes

     (2,586     —    

Proceeds from issuance of convertible notes and preferred stock warrant

     71,125       —    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     83,940       8,728  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

     (312     (38
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

     48,801       (52,169

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period

     27,739       79,908  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period

   $ 76,540     $ 27,739  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

 

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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

 

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information

     

Cash paid for interest

   $ 6,554      $ 5,544  

Cash paid for income tax

     1,084        —    

Supplemental disclosures of noncash investing and financing activities

     

Convertible preferred stock issued for acquisition of business

     —          14,772  

Exchange of convertible notes

     —          10,963  

Accrued purchase of property and equipment

     522        637  

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

1.

Organization

Planet Labs Inc. (including its subsidiaries or the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on December 28, 2010. The Company was originally incorporated as Cosmogia Inc., and the name was subsequently changed to Planet Labs Inc. on June 24, 2013. The Company was founded to design, construct, and launch constellations of satellites with the intent of providing high cadence geospatial data delivered to customers via an online platform. During 2015 the Company acquired certain entities of the Black Bridge Corporation Group (“BlackBridge”). In April 2017, the Company completed the acquisition of Terra Bella Technologies Inc. (“Terra Bella”). The acquisition of Black Bridge provided the Company downstream knowledge and global reach, while the acquisition of Terra Bella added high-resolution imagery capabilities to the Company’s fleet. In March 2019, to accelerate the adoption of commercial geospatial information services, the Company completed its acquisition of Boundless Spatial, Inc. (“Boundless”) and subsequently changed the Boundless name to Planet Labs Federal Inc. on March 11, 2019 (Note 5).

The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with operations throughout the United States (“U.S.”), Canada, Asia and Europe. The Company has wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries in Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, Singapore and the Netherlands.

 

2.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“U.S. GAAP”).

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Planet Labs Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation. The Company’s fiscal year end is January 31.

Liquidity and Going Concern

The Company has prepared its consolidated financial statements assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. Since its inception, the Company has incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operations. As of January 31, 2021, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $639.9 million. For the year ended January 31, 2021, the Company incurred a net loss before income tax of $126.0 million and had net cash outflows from operations of $4.0 million. The Company expects to incur additional operating losses and negative cash flows from operations as it continues to expand its commercial operations and research and development programs. As of January 31, 2021, the Company had $71.2 million of cash and cash equivalents.

As further discussed in Note 8, as of January 31, 2021, the Company had $77.2 million aggregate principal amount of convertible notes outstanding (the “2020 Convertible Notes” and “Tranche B”), of which approximately $71.1 million has a maturity date of June 22, 2022 and $6.0 million has no stated maturity date. In addition, the Company has $67.0 million of indebtedness to Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) and Hercules Capital Inc (“Hercules”) with a maturity date of June 21, 2022 (the “SVB & Hercules Loan”). The SVB and Hercules Loan also contains a “springing maturity” provision, which accelerates the maturity date for repayment of the loan, including interest and fees to March 23, 2022, if the outstanding 2020 Convertible Notes have not converted into equity securities by such date.

Because the Company has historically generated net losses and negative cash flows from operations, it may be unable to refinance its debt or raise sufficient capital to cause the conversion of its outstanding 2020 Convertible Notes into equity securities prior to the springing maturity condition coming into effect. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

As discussed in Note 16, the Company entered into a letter of intent to complete a business combination with a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), which would result in the SPAC acquiring 100% of the Company’s outstanding equity interests. In addition to the cash resources made available through the business combination, the Company anticipates additional financing will be made available to the Company through a Private Investment in Public Equity (“PIPE”) offering, which is expected to close concurrently with the business combination. Management intends to use a portion of these proceeds to repay all of the outstanding amounts due under the SVB & Hercules Loan.

There can be no assurance that the business combination, the PIPE offering and the subsequent debt repayment will be completed as currently contemplated, or at all. To the extent additional capital is not obtained through the business combination and PIPE offering, management will be required to obtain additional capital through the sale of debt or equity, or other arrangements. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to raise additional capital when needed or under acceptable terms. The sale of additional equity may dilute existing stockholders and newly issued shares may contain senior rights and preferences compared to currently outstanding ordinary shares. Any future debt may contain covenants and limit the Company’s ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to stockholders. If the Company is unable to obtain additional financing, operations may be scaled back or discontinued. These consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. The significant estimates and assumptions that affect the Company’s consolidated financial statements include, but are not limited to, the useful lives of property and equipment, capitalized internal-use software and intangible assets, allowance for doubtful accounts, estimates related to revenue recognition, including the assessment of performance obligations within a contract and the determination of standalone selling price (“SSP”) for each performance obligation, the fair value of common stock and other assumptions used to measure stock-based compensation, the fair value of convertible notes and preferred stock warrants, the fair value of assets acquired, and liabilities assumed from business combinations, the impairment of long-lived assets and goodwill, the recognition, measurement and valuation of current and deferred income taxes and uncertain tax positions, and contingencies.

These estimates and assumptions are based on management’s best estimates and judgment. Management regularly evaluates its estimates and assumptions using historical experience and other factors; however, due to the inherent uncertainties in making estimates, actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences may be material to the consolidated financial statements.

Due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic (“COVID-19” or “COVID-19 pandemic”), there is ongoing uncertainty and disruption in the global economy and financial markets. The Company is not aware of any specific event or circumstance that would require an update to its estimates or assumptions or a revision of the carrying value of its assets or liabilities. These estimates and assumptions may change in the future, as new events occur and additional information is obtained.

Cash and Cash Equivalents and Restricted cash

Cash and cash equivalents include interest-bearing bank deposits, money market funds and other highly liquid investments with maturities of 90 days or less at the date of purchase.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The Company had restricted cash of $5.4 million as of January 31, 2021, which consisted of a collateral money market account for the Company’s headquarters and other domestic office operating leases of $4.3 million, performance guarantees required for the Company’s foreign sales activities of $0.9 million, and $0.2 million in deposits related to the Company’s foreign operations.

A reconciliation of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents in the Consolidated Balance Sheets to total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash in the Consolidated Statements of cash flows as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 is as follows:

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 71,183      $ 21,678  

Restricted cash, current

     375        1,576  

Restricted cash, non-current

     4,982        4,485  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash

   $ 76,540      $ 27,739  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Restricted cash of $0.4 million and $1.6 million is included in prepaid expenses and other current assets as of January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Accounts receivable include amounts billed and billable to customers for services or products provided as of the end of the applicable period and do not bear interest. Accounts receivable are stated net of an estimated allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company reviews accounts receivable regularly and makes estimates for the allowance for doubtful accounts when it is probable that an amount is uncollectible. If it is deemed certain that an amount is uncollectible, the amount is written-off. In evaluating the Company’s ability to collect outstanding receivables, the Company considers many factors, including the age of the balance, the customer’s payment history, creditworthiness, and current economic trends, including considerations for the impact of COVID-19. The change in the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts is as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Balance, beginning of year

   $ 843      $ 5,300  

Charges

     823        649  

Write-offs

     (619      (4,702

Other

     168        (404
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Balance, end of year

   $ 1,215      $ 843  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Fair Value Measurement

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an “exit price”), in the principal or most advantageous market for that asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.

The Company measures fair value based on a three-level hierarchy of inputs, maximizing the use of observable inputs, where available, and minimizing the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. A financial instrument’s level within the three-level hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three-level hierarchy of inputs is as follows:

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

Level 1: Observable inputs such as unadjusted, quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date;

Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; and

Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. These inputs are based on the Company’s own assumptions about current market conditions and require significant management judgment or estimation.

The Company’s assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis consist of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accrued liabilities, preferred stock warrant liabilities and convertible notes. The fair value of cash, cash equivalents and accrued liabilities approximate the stated carrying value, due to the short time to maturity. The carrying amount of the Company’s outstanding debt approximates fair value as the debt bears a floating rate that approximates the market interest rate. The Company’s convertible notes and preferred stock warrant liability, where the values are based on valuation techniques that require inputs that are both unobservable and are significant to the overall fair value measurement, are classified as Level 3 under the fair value hierarchy. The fair value of these Level 3 financial liabilities is determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies or similar techniques for which the determination of fair value requires significant management judgment or estimation (Note 4). The Company measures certain non-financial assets including property and equipment, and other intangible assets at fair value on a non-recurring basis in periods after initial measurement in circumstances when the fair value of such assets are impaired below their recorded cost. As of January 31, 2021 and 2020 there were no material non-financial assets recorded at fair value.

Fair Value Option

The Company has elected the fair value option to account for its convertible notes. The Company records the convertible notes at fair value with changes in fair value recorded on the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss (Note 4). The primary reason for electing the fair value option is for simplification and cost-benefit considerations of accounting for the convertible notes at fair value versus bifurcation of the embedded derivatives. As a result of applying the fair value option, direct costs and fees related to the convertible notes were expensed as incurred and were not deferred.

Concentration of Credit Risk and Other Risks and Uncertainties

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. By their nature, all such financial instruments involve risks, including the credit risk of nonperformance by counterparties. The Company’s cash and cash equivalents are deposited in checking and money market accounts with financial institutions in the U.S. and checking accounts with financial institutions in Canada, Germany, and Singapore that management believes are of high credit quality. The Company generally does not require collateral to support the obligations of the counterparties and deposits at banks may, at times, be in excess of federal or national insured limits or deposit-guarantee limits in each of the respective countries. The Company has not experienced material losses on its deposits of cash and cash equivalents. The maximum amount of loss at January 31, 2021 that the Company would incur if parties to cash and money market funds failed completely to perform according to the terms of the contracts is $70.5 million.

Accounts receivables are typically unsecured and are derived from revenue earned from customers across various countries. For the year ended January 31, 2021, three customers accounted for 12%, 10% and 10%, of revenue. For the year ended January 31, 2020, one customer accounted for 13% of revenue. As of January 31, 2021, three customers accounted for 32%, 18%, and 12% of accounts receivable, respectively. As of January 31, 2020, one customer accounted for 50% of accounts receivable.

 

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The Company’s products require continued approval from the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) and other international regulatory agencies for the Company to continue its operations. There can be no assurance that the Company’s products will continue to receive the necessary approvals or that its operations will be supported by the U.S. government or other governments. If the Company was denied such approvals, if such approvals were delayed, or if the U.S. government’s or other governments’ policies change, these events may have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position and results of operations.

The Company contracts with certain third-party service providers to launch satellites. Service providers who provide these services are limited. The inability of launch service providers to contract with the Company could materially impact future operating results.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization. Repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. Significant improvements that extend the useful life or add functionality to property and equipment are capitalized. Depreciation is computed once an asset is placed in service using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the asset, which is as follows:

 

     Estimated useful life  
     (in years)  

Computer equipment and purchased software

     3  

Office furniture, equipment and fixtures

     5  

Satellites

     2.5 to 9  

Ground stations and ground station equipment

     3 to 10  

Leasehold improvements

     lesser of useful life or term of lease  

Costs directly associated with design, construction, launch, and commissioning of satellites and systems are capitalized when the design and operation of the satellites and systems is at a sufficiently advanced stage such that the Company believes that recovery of the costs through future cash inflows is probable. The Company capitalizes material, labor and launch costs (including integration and launch insurance costs) that are incurred and necessary for the satellites to be placed into service. The Company depreciates the cost of a satellite over its estimated useful life, using the straight-line method of depreciation, once it is placed into service, which is when the Company determines that the satellites are providing imagery that meets the required quality specifications for sale to its customers.

The estimated useful life over which the Company depreciates a satellite is determined once the satellite has been placed into service. The initial determination of the satellite’s useful life involves the consideration of multiple factors, including design life, random part failure probabilities, expected component degradation and cycle life, fuel consumption (where applicable), and experience with satellite parts, vendors and similar assets.

At least annually, or more frequently, should facts and circumstances indicate a need, the Company performs an assessment of the remaining useful lives of its property and equipment including its satellites. The assessment for satellites evaluates satellite usage data, remaining fuel (where applicable), operational stresses and other factors that may impact the satellite’s expected useful life.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

For the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized an additional $0.7 million and $2.5 million, respectively, in depreciation expense as a result of retirement of certain satellites.

Capitalized Internal-Use Software Development Costs

Costs directly attributable to the development of internal-use software are capitalized when the preliminary design of the software is completed, management has committed funding to proceed with the development and confirmed adequate probability that the project will be completed and the software will function as intended. Capitalization is discontinued when the project is substantially completed and ready for its intended use. The Company capitalizes labor costs that are incurred and necessary for the software to be placed into service and any interest costs apportioned to the project, if material. The Company amortizes capitalized internal-use software development costs, once it is placed into service, over its estimated useful life using the straight-line method, which is generally one to three years based on management’s determination of the duration of time during which the related software will be in use and contributing to the Company’s cash flows.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

The carrying amount of long-lived assets and finite-lived intangible assets to be held and used in the business are reviewed for impairment annually or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable. Impairment indicators include, among other conditions, cash flow deficits, historic or anticipated declines in revenue or operating profit or material adverse changes in the business climate that indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may be impaired. When impairment indicators are present, the recoverability of the asset is measured by comparing the carrying value of the asset to the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. This evaluation is performed at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities, or an asset group. If the carrying amount of the asset or asset group is not recoverable, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of each long-lived asset or asset group exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group. No events or changes in circumstances indicated the carrying amounts of the Company’s long-lived assets may not be recoverable during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Business Combinations

The Company accounts for its business combinations using the acquisition accounting method, which requires it to determine the fair value of net assets acquired, including intangible assets and related goodwill. The Company identifies and attributes fair values and estimated lives to the intangible assets acquired and allocates the total cost of an acquisition to the underlying net assets based on their respective estimated fair values. Determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed requires management’s judgment and involves the use of significant estimates, including projections of future cash inflows and outflows, discount rates, asset lives and market multiples. There are different valuation models for each component, the selection of which requires considerable judgment. These determinations will affect the amount of amortization expense recognized in future periods. The Company bases its fair value estimates on assumptions it believes are reasonable but recognizes that the assumptions are inherently uncertain. Acquisition-related costs are accounted for as expenses in the period in which they are incurred. The operating results of the acquired business are reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of the acquisition date.

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net assets acquired in a business combination. Goodwill is not subject to amortization and is tested for impairment at least annually, during the fourth quarter of each fiscal year or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired. In assessing goodwill for impairment, the Company first assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is necessary to perform the

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

quantitative goodwill impairment test. In the qualitative assessment, the Company considers factors including economic conditions, industry and market conditions and developments, overall financial performance and other relevant entity-specific events in determining whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than the carrying amount. Should the Company conclude that it is more likely than not that the recorded goodwill amounts have been impaired, the Company would perform a quantitative impairment test. Goodwill impairment exists when a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value. Significant judgment is applied when goodwill is assessed for impairment. No goodwill impairment was recorded during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets with finite useful lives are carried at cost, net of accumulated amortization and impairment, where applicable. Amortization is recorded over the estimated useful lives of the assets on a straight-line basis as follows:

 

     Estimated useful life  
     (in years)  

Developed technology

     5  

Imagery library

     3  

Customer relationships

     5  

Trade names and other

     5 to 7  

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“Topic 606”). Under Topic 606, the Company recognizes revenue under the core principle to depict the transfer of control to the Company’s customers in an amount reflecting the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled. In order to achieve that core principle, the Company applies the following five-step approach: (1) identify the contract with a customer, (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (3) determine the transaction price, (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract and (5) recognize revenue when a performance obligation is satisfied.

The Company derives its revenue principally from licensing rights to use imagery that is delivered digitally through its online platform in addition to providing related services. Imagery licensing agreements vary by contract, however, generally they have annual or multi-year contractual terms. The licenses are generally purchased on a subscription basis, whereby a customer pays for access to the Company’s imagery that may be downloaded over a specific period of time, or, on a transactional basis, whereby the customer pays for individual content licenses at the time of download. The Company’s imagery licensing agreements and service agreements are generally non-cancelable and do not contain refund-type provisions.

At contract inception, the Company assesses the product offerings in its contracts to identify performance obligations that are distinct. A performance obligation is distinct when it is separately identifiable from other items in a bundled package and if a customer can benefit from it on its own or with other resources that are readily available to the customer. To identify the performance obligations, the Company considers all of the product offerings promised in the contract.

Imagery licensing arrangements generally provide customers with the right to access imagery through the Company’s platform, download content on a limited or unlimited basis over the contractual period depending on the terms of the applicable contract, or provide both the right to access imagery and download content. The access to imagery through the Company’s online platform and the ability to download such imagery represent two separate performance obligations.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

As such, a portion of the total contract consideration related to access to continuously updated imagery content is recognized ratably over the term of the contract when updated imagery is transferred to the licensee in line with when the content is made available to the customer.

The portion of the contractual consideration related to the download of existing or archive imagery content is recognized as revenue at the commencement of the contract when control of the imagery is transferred. The portion of the contractual consideration related to the download of monitoring imagery content is recognized over the term of the contract utilizing a usage-based model during the contract period.

When the Company’s contracts with customers contain more than a single performance obligation, management allocates the total contract consideration to each performance obligation on a relative SSP basis. The SSP is the price at which the Company would sell a promised product or service separately to a customer. Judgment is required to determine the SSP for each distinct performance obligation. The Company determines SSP by considering its overall pricing practices and market conditions, including the Company’s discounting practices, the size and volume of the Company’s transactions, the customer demographic, price lists, historical sales, contract prices and customer relationships.

The Company also provides other services to customers, including professional services such as training, analytical services, research and development services to third parties, and other value-added activities related to imagery products. These revenues are recognized as the services are rendered, on a proportional performance basis for fixed price contracts or ratably over the contract term for subscription professional services contracts. Training revenues are recognized as the services are performed.

The Company recognizes revenue on a gross basis. The Company is the principal in the transaction as it is the party responsible for the performance obligation and it controls the product or service before transferring it to the customer.

The transaction price is the total amount of consideration that the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for the product offerings in a contract. The prices of imagery licensing and other services are generally fixed at contract inception and therefore, the Company’s contracts do not contain a significant amount of variable consideration. From time to time, the Company may enter into contracts with its customers that provide a form of variable consideration, including a revenue share arrangement. For these arrangements, the Company estimates the variable consideration at the contract inception based on the most likely amount in a range of possible outcomes. The estimate of variable consideration is reassessed on a quarterly basis.

The Company typically bills in advance either quarterly or annually for contacts with terms of one year or longer. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded in accounts receivable and in deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the underlying performance obligations have been satisfied. Advance payments from customers have been categorized as current or non-current deferred revenue based on the expected performance date. The Company applied the practical expedient in Topic 606 and did not evaluate contracts of one year or less for the existence of a significant financing component. The financing component of multi-year contracts were not significant.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue consists of employee-related costs of performing account and data provisioning, customer support, satellite and engineering operations, as well as the costs of operating and retrieving information from the satellites, processing and storing the data retrieved, third party imagery expenses, depreciation of satellites and ground stations, and the amortization of

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

capitalized internal-use software related to creating imagery provided to customers. Cost of revenue from professional services consists primarily of employee-related costs associated with providing these services, including costs paid to subcontractors and certain third-party fees. Employee-related costs include salaries, benefits, bonuses and stock-based compensation.

Research and Development Expenditures

Research and development expenditures primarily include personnel- related expenses for employees and consultants, hardware costs, supplies costs, contractor fees and administrative expenses. Employee-related costs include salaries, benefits, bonuses and stock-based compensation. Expenses classified as research and development are expensed as incurred and attributable to advancing technology research, platform and infrastructure development and the research and development of new product iteration.

The Company continues to iterate its satellites and operations for optimal efficiency and function. Satellite costs associated with the design, manufacture, launch, and commissioning of experimental satellites or other space related research and development activities are expensed as incurred.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing expenditures primarily include costs incurred to market and distribute the Company’s products. Such costs include advertising and conferences, sales commissions, salaries, benefits and stock based compensation for the Company’s sales and marketing personnel and sales office expenses. Sales and marketing expenses are expensed as incurred.

General and Administrative

General and administrative expenses include personnel-related expenses and facilities-related costs primarily for its executive, finance, accounting, legal and human resources functions. General and administrative expenses also include fees for professional services principally comprised of legal, audit, tax, and insurance, as well as executive management expenses. General and administrative costs are expensed as incurred.

Leases

Leases are reviewed and classified as capital or operating at their inception. For operating leases, the Company records rent expense on a straight-line basis over the noncancelable lease term and records the difference between the rent paid and the recognition of rent expense as a deferred rent asset or liability. Rent escalation, rent abatement, or other concessions, such as rent holidays, and landlord or tenant incentives or allowances, are recorded as deferred rent and amortized over the remaining lease term.

Income Taxes

The Company is subject to income taxes in the U.S. and various foreign jurisdictions and uses estimates in determining its provisions for income taxes.

The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and net operating loss carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets where it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The Company recognizes and measures uncertain tax positions in accordance with ASC 740, Income Taxes, which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement process for recording uncertain tax positions taken, or expected to be taken in a tax return, in the consolidated financial statements. The Company accrues for the estimated amount of taxes for uncertain tax positions if it is more likely than not that the Company would be required to pay such additional taxes. An uncertain tax position will not be recognized if it has a less than 50% likelihood of being sustained.

The global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) provisions of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act impose a tax on foreign income in excess of a deemed return on tangible assets of foreign corporation. The Company elects to treat any potential GILTI inclusions as a period cost.

Common Stock Valuations

The Company has historically granted stock options at an exercise price equal to the fair value as determined by the Board of Directors on the date of grant. Given the absence of a public market for the Company’s common stock, the Board of Directors of the Company estimated the fair value of its common stock at the time of each grant of an equity-based award. The Board of Directors of the Company utilized various valuation methodologies in accordance with the framework of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Technical Practice Aid, Valuation of Privately Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, to estimate the fair value of its common stock. These estimates and assumptions include numerous objective and subjective factors to determine the fair value of the Company’s common stock at each grant date, including the following factors:

 

   

relevant precedent transactions including the Company’s capital transactions;

 

   

the liquidation preferences, rights, preferences, and privileges of the Company’s convertible preferred stock relative to the common stock;

 

   

the Company’s actual operating and financial performance;

 

   

the Company’s current business conditions and projections;

 

   

the Company’s stage of development;

 

   

the likelihood and timing of achieving a liquidity event for the common stock underlying the stock options, such as an initial public offering, given prevailing market conditions;

 

   

any adjustment necessary to recognize a lack of marketability of the common stock underlying the granted options;

 

   

the market performance of comparable publicly traded companies; and

 

   

U.S. and global capital market conditions.

If different assumptions had been made, equity-based compensation expense, net income, and net income per common share could have been significantly different.

Stock-Based Compensation

The Company accounts for stock-based compensation expense in accordance with the fair value recognition and measurement provisions of U.S. GAAP, which require compensation cost for the grant-date fair value of stock-based awards to be recognized over the requisite service period. The Company determines the fair value of stock-based awards granted or modified, using appropriate valuation techniques. The Company recognizes forfeitures as they occur.

The Company grants certain awards, primarily options, that vest based upon a service condition. The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair value of the stock options granted. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the input of highly subjective assumptions, including the fair value of the underlying common stock, the expected term of the option, the expected volatility of the price of the common stock, risk-free interest rates, and the expected dividend yield of the common stock. The assumptions used to determine the fair value of the option awards represent management’s best estimates. These estimates involve inherent uncertainties and the application of management’s judgment. The Company records stock-based compensation expense for stock options on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally four years.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The fair value of the Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) is the fair value of the underlying stock at the measurement date. For awards that are subject to both time-based service and performance conditions (including liquidity events), no expense is recognized until it is probable that the vesting criteria would be met. Stock-based compensation expense for awards with performance and other vesting criteria is recognized as expense under an accelerated graded vesting model.

Preferred Stock Warrants

The Company has preferred stock warrants which are exercisable for Series B and Series D convertible preferred stock. The Company’s convertible preferred stock is classified as permanent equity, as redemption is solely within control of the Company. The Company evaluated the Series B and Series D Preferred Stock warrants under ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity, and concluded the Series B and Series D preferred stock warrants do not meet the criteria to be classified in stockholders’ equity. Specifically, the settlement provisions of the Series B and certain Series D preferred stock warrants meet the criteria for liability classification as the number of shares to be issued was not fixed at the time of issuance. Certain other Series D preferred stock warrants meet the criteria for liability classification as certain terms of the warrants preclude them from being indexed to the Company’s stock. As such, the Series B preferred stock warrants and Series D preferred stock warrants are recognized as liabilities and recorded at fair value. The change in fair value of the Series B and Series D preferred stock warrants is recognized at each reporting date in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. See Note 4 for a discussion of the fair value methodology and assumptions and Note 8 for details of the terms of the Series B and Series D preferred stock warrants.

Foreign Currency Transactions and Translation

The Company’s reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of the Company’s subsidiaries has been determined to be either the U.S. dollar, Euro or Canadian dollar as the case may be. Revenue and expenses of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries, with a functional currency of either Euro or Canadian dollar, are translated into U.S. dollars using the monthly average exchange rates prevailing during the period. The assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rate in effect at the balance sheet date. Translation adjustments are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss within stockholders’ equity.

Transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are recorded based on the exchange rates at the time of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities are subject to remeasurement at the exchange rate in effect at the balance sheet date, with subsequent changes in exchange rates resulting in transaction gains or losses, which are included within Other income (expense), net in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss. Foreign currency gain (loss) was $0.3 million and ($0.3) million for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Segments

Operating segments are defined as components of an entity for which separate financial information is available and that is regularly reviewed by the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) in deciding how to allocate resources to an individual segment and in assessing performance. The Company’s CODM is its Chief Executive Officer. The Company has determined that it operates in one operating segment and one reportable segment, as the CODM reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of making operating decisions, allocating resources, and evaluating financial performance.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

See Note 3, Revenue, for revenue by geographic region. See Note 6, Balance Sheet Components, for long-lived assets by geographic region.

Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders

Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is presented in conformity with the two-class method required for participating securities. The Company considers all series of its convertible preferred stock to be participating securities. Net loss is attributed to common stockholders and participating securities based on their participation rights. Net loss attributable to common stockholders is not allocated to the convertible preferred stock as the holders of the convertible preferred stock do not have a contractual obligation to share in any losses.

Basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is the same for Class A and Class B shares of common stock because they are entitled to the same liquidation and dividend rights. Basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by dividing the net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock and weighted-average number of Class A common stock warrants outstanding during the period. Class A common stock warrants are not contingently exercisable and the common stock of the Company will be issued for little or no consideration, as such the shares underlying the Class A Common Stock Warrants are considered outstanding in the denominator in the calculation of basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders from the issuance date of the Class A Common Stock Warrants.

Diluted loss per share attributable to common stockholders adjusts basic loss per share for the potentially dilutive impact of convertible preferred stock, convertible notes, stock options, restricted stock units and warrants. For the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, all potentially dilutive securities are antidilutive and accordingly, basic net loss per share equals diluted net loss per share.

Emerging Growth Company

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (‘‘JOBS Act’’) allows an emerging growth company (‘‘EGC’’) to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to 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, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding 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 allows emerging growth companies to delay adoption of new or revised accounting pronouncements applicable to public companies until such pronouncements are applicable to private companies. The Company is an EGC and has elected to use the extended transition period under the JOBS Act until the earlier of the date that it is (i) no longer an EGC or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opts out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result, the financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with the new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates. The adoption dates discussed below, within the Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements section, reflect this election.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2018-13—Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework—Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement. Under the new guidance, the amendments on changes in unrealized gains and losses, the range and weighted average of significant unobservable inputs used to develop Level 3 fair value measurements, and the narrative description of measurement uncertainty should be applied prospectively for only the most recent interim or annual period presented in the initial fiscal year of adoption. All other amendments should be applied retrospectively to all periods presented upon their effective date. The Company adopted this guidance as of February 1, 2020.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract (ASU 2018-15), which clarifies the accounting for implementation costs in cloud computing arrangements. The Company adopted this guidance as of February 1, 2021, with no material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In November 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-18, Collaborative Arrangements (Topic 808): Clarifying the Interaction between Topic 808 and Topic 606, which amends ASC 808 to clarify when transactions between participants in a collaborative arrangement under ASC 808 are within the scope of the FASB’s new revenue standard, ASU 2014-09 (codified in ASC 606). The Company adopted this guidance as of February 1, 2021, with no material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Adopted

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases, which was codified with its subsequent amendments as ASC 842. ASC 842 requires an entity to recognize a right-of-use asset and lease liability for all leases with terms of more than 12 months. Recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses will depend on classification as a finance or operating lease. The amendments in this update also require certain quantitative and qualitative disclosures about leasing arrangements. The standard allows for two methods of adoption to recognize and measure leases: retrospectively to each prior period presented in the financial statements with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented or retrospectively at the beginning of the period of adoption with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the beginning of the period in which the guidance is first applied. The adoption methods both include a number of optional practical expedients that entities may elect to apply. These practical expedients relate to the identification and classification of leases that commenced before the effective date, initial direct costs for leases that commenced before the effective date, and the ability to use hindsight in evaluating lessee options to extend or terminate a lease or to purchase the underlying asset. An entity that elects to apply the practical expedients will, in effect, continue to account for leases that commence before the effective date in accordance with previous U.S. GAAP unless the lease is modified, except that lessees are required to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for all operating leases based on the present value of the remaining minimum rental payments that were tracked and disclosed under previous U.S. GAAP. The updated guidance is expected to be effective for the Company for the year ending January 31, 2023, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. The Company expects that the adoption will result in the recognition of right-of-use assets and lease liabilities that were not previously recognized, which will increase total assets and liabilities on the Company’s balance sheet.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which was codified with its subsequent amendments as ASC 326. ASC 326 seeks to provide financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments, including trade receivables, and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. The amendments require an entity to replace the incurred loss impairment methodology in current U.S. GAAP with a methodology that reflects current expected credit losses and requires consideration of a broader range of reasonable and supportable information to inform credit loss estimates. The updated guidance is expected to be effective for the Company on February 1, 2022 and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, a new accounting standard update to simplify the measurement of goodwill by eliminating the Step 2 impairment test. Step 2 measures a goodwill impairment loss by comparing the implied fair value of a reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill. The new guidance requires an entity to compare the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount and recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value. Additionally, an entity should consider income tax effects from any tax deductible goodwill on the carrying amount of the reporting unit when measuring the goodwill impairment loss, if applicable. The standard is expected to be effective for the Company on February 1, 2023, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity. This standard simplifies the accounting for convertible debt instruments by removing the separation models for convertible debt with a cash conversion feature, as well as convertible instruments with a beneficial conversion feature. As a result, entities will account for a convertible debt instrument wholly as debt, unless certain other conditions are met. The elimination of these models will reduce non-cash interest expense for entities that have issued a convertible instrument that was within the scope of those models before the adoption of ASU 2020-06. Additionally, ASU 2020-06 requires the application of the if- converted method for calculating diluted earnings per share, and precludes the use of the treasury stock method for certain debt instruments. The standard is expected to be effective for the Company on February 1, 2024, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which eliminates certain exceptions related to the approach for intraperiod tax allocation, the methodology for calculating income taxes in an interim period and the recognition of deferred tax liabilities for outside basis differences. It also clarifies and simplifies other aspects of the accounting for income taxes. The standard is expected to be effective for the Company on February 1, 2022, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

3.

Revenue

Deferred Revenue

Deferred revenue activity consisted of the following:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Deferred revenue- beginning of period

   $ 56,716      $ 78,344  

Additions

     118,131        62,931  

Revenue recognized

     (102,155      (84,559
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred revenue- end of period

   $ 72,692      $ 56,716  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

During the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized revenue of $34.7 million and $35.1 million, respectively, that had been included in deferred revenue as of January 31, 2020 and February 1, 2019, respectively.

Remaining Performance Obligations

The Company often enters into multi-year imagery licensing arrangements with its customers, whereby the Company generally invoices the amount for the first year of the contract at signing followed by subsequent annual invoices at the anniversary of each year. Remaining performance obligations represent the amount of contracted future revenue that has not yet been recognized, which includes both deferred revenue and non-cancelable contracted revenue that will be invoiced and recognized in revenue in future periods. The Company’s remaining performance obligations were $145.4 million as of January 31, 2021, which consists of both deferred revenue of $72.7 million and non-cancelable contracted revenue that will be invoiced in future periods of $72.7 million. The Company expects to recognize approximately 59% of the remaining performance obligation over the next 12 months, approximately 82% of the remaining obligation over the next 24 months, and the remainder thereafter.

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following table disaggregates revenue by major geographic region:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

United States

   $ 61,471      $ 54,857  

Canada

     15,910        16,678  

Rest of world

     35,787        24,201  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenue

   $ 113,168      $ 95,736  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

No single country other than the U.S. and Canada accounted for more than 10% of revenue for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Costs to Obtain and Fulfill a Contract

Commissions paid to the Company’s direct sales force are considered incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. Accordingly, commissions are capitalized when incurred and amortized to sales and marketing expense over the period of benefit from the underlying contracts.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The period of benefit from the underlying contract is consistent with the timing of transfer to the performance obligations to which the capitalized costs relate, and is generally consistent with the contract term.

During the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company deferred $3.0 million and $0.3 million of commission expenditures to be amortized in future periods. The Company’s amortization of commission expenditures was $1.9 million and $1.3 million for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of January 31, 2021 and 2020, deferred commissions consisted of the following:

 

     January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Deferred commission, current

   $ 1,030      $ 1,534  

Deferred commission, non-current

     1,697        102  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred commission

   $ 2,727      $ 1,636  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The current portion of deferred commissions are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets on the consolidated balance sheets. The non-current portion of deferred commissions are included in other non-current assets on the consolidated balance sheets.

 

4.

Fair Value of Financial Assets and Liabilities

Assets and liabilities recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their respective fair values.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The following table sets forth the Company’s financial instruments that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis for recognition or disclosure purposes as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 by level within the fair value hierarchy. Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and considers factors specific to the asset or liability.

 

     January 31, 2021  
(in thousands)    Level 1      Level 2      Level 3  

Assets

        

Cash equivalents: money market funds

   $ 50,449      $ —        $ —    

Restricted cash: money market funds

     5,165        —          —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 55,614      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

        

Convertible notes

   $ —        $ —        $ 101,212  

Preferred stock warrant liability

     —          —          11,359  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   $ —        $ —        $ 112,571  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
     January 31, 2020  
(in thousands)    Level 1      Level 2      Level 3  

Assets

        

Cash equivalents: money market funds

   $ 13,991      $ —        $ —    

Restricted cash: money market funds

     5,886        —          —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 19,877      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

        

Convertible notes

   $ —        $ —        $ 10,804  

Preferred stock warrant liability

     —          —          3,849  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   $ —        $ —        $ 14,653  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The fair value of the Company’s money market funds is based on quoted active market prices for the funds and is determined using the market approach. There were no realized or unrealized gains or losses on money market funds as of January 31, 2021 and 2020.

The Company measures its convertible notes and preferred stock warrants at fair value based on significant inputs not observable in the market, which causes them to be classified as a Level 3 measurement within the fair value hierarchy. These valuations use assumptions and estimates the Company believes would be made by a market participant in making the same valuation. The Company assess these assumptions and estimates on an on-going basis as additional data impacting the assumptions and estimates are obtained. Changes in the fair value of the convertible notes and preferred stock warrants related to updated assumptions and estimates are recognized within the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss.

The fair value of the convertible notes and preferred stock warrants may change significantly as additional data is obtained, impacting the Company’s assumptions regarding probabilities of outcomes used to estimate the fair value of the liabilities. In evaluating this information, considerable judgment is required to interpret the data used to develop the assumptions and

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

estimates. The estimates of fair value may not be indicative of the amounts that could be realized in a current market exchange. Accordingly, the use of different market assumptions and/or different valuation techniques may have a material effect on the estimated fair value amounts, and such changes could materially impact the Company’s results of operations in future periods.

Level 3 Disclosures

The following table provides quantitative information associated with the fair value measurements of the Company’s Level 3 inputs:

 

     Fair Value as of
January 31, 2021
    

Valuation Technique

  

Unobservable Input
Description

   Input
     (in thousands)                 

Convertible Notes

   $ 101,212      Probability-weighted    Estimated time to liquidation    0.2-.5 years
         Volatility    35.0%
         Discount Yield    16.0%
         Risk-free interest rate    0.1%

Preferred Stock Warrant Liability

     11,359      Option Pricing Method    Term    0.5-1.75 years
         Volatility    60%
         Discount for lack of marketability    10%- 17%
     Fair Value as of
January 31, 2020
    

Valuation Technique

  

Unobservable Input
Description

   Input
     (in thousands)                 

Convertible Notes

   $ 10,804      Probability-weighted    Estimated time to liquidation    2.0 years
         Discount Yield    27.6%
         Risk-free interest rate    1.6%

Preferred Stock Warrant Liability

     3,849      Option Pricing Method    Term    2.0 years
         Volatility    60.0%
         Discount for lack of marketability    25.0%
         Risk-free interest rate    1.6%

The fair value of the convertible notes as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 was estimated using a probability- weighted hybrid method combining (i) an option pricing model, and (ii) a discounted cash flow analysis. The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the Company’s convertible note are the estimated time to liquidation, volatility, discount yield and risk-free interest rates. Significant changes in the estimated time to liquidation, volatility and discount yield would result in significantly lower or higher fair value measurement, respectively.

The fair value of the preferred stock warrant liability as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 was estimated using an option pricing model. The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the Company’s preferred stock warrant liabilities are volatility, term and discount for lack of marketability. Significant changes in the volatility would result in significantly lower or higher fair value measurement, respectively.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The following table presents changes in Level 3 liabilities measured at fair value for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020:

 

(in thousands)    Convertible
Notes
     Preferred Stock
Warrant Liability
 

Fair value, February 1, 2019

   $ —        $ 3,897  

Issuance

     10,963        —    

Change in fair value

     (159      (48
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Fair value at end of year, January 31, 2020

     10,804        3,849  

Issuance

     68,529        2,596  

Extinguishment

     (3,260      —    

Change in fair value

     25,139        4,914  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Fair value at end of year, January 31, 2021

   $ 101,212      $ 11,359  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

For the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the changes in fair value of the convertible notes resulted from an adjustment to the remaining period to the expected outcome and changes to the overall enterprise valuation. For the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the changes in the fair value of the preferred stock warrant liability resulted from a change to the estimated fair value of preferred stock and overall enterprise valuation.

 

5.

Business Combination

On March 11, 2019, the Company acquired all outstanding stock of Boundless, a geospatial software solution company and changed the Boundless name to Planet Labs Federal Inc. (“Planet Federal”) as of the acquisition date. The purpose of the acquisition was to allow the Company to accelerate the adoption by government and enterprise customers of commercial geospatial information services. Pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreement for the transaction, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Boundless for total purchase consideration of $17.2 million, consisting of $2.5 million in cash, net of cash received and $14.8 million in Series D convertible preferred stock valued at $14.38 per share.

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition:

 

(in thousands)    March 11, 2019  

Net Assets Acquired

  

Goodwill

   $ 13,296  

Identifiable intangible assets acquired

  

Customer relationships

     2,680  

Developed technology

     1,270  

Trade name and other

     1,480  

Other assets, net

     36  

Property and equipment

     70  

Net working capital acquired, net of cash acquired

     (1,603
  

 

 

 

Total purchase consideration

   $ 17,229  
  

 

 

 

Identifiable intangible assets were measured at fair value, primarily using the royalty method under the income approach, which requires the Company to estimate a reasonable royalty rate, identify relevant projected revenue and expenses and select an appropriate discount rate.

The goodwill primarily represents the value expected from the synergies created through the operational enhancement benefits and competitive advantage resulting from the integration of Boundless into the Planet Labs group. Goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes.

The Company incurred acquisition-related costs associated with this transaction of approximately $1.1 million, $0.2 million of which are included in general and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the year ended January 31, 2020.

Pro forma information has not been presented as the impact of Boundless’ operating results to the Company for periods prior to its acquisition would not have been material.

The Company’s Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, includes revenue of $1.4 million and $4.3 million, respectively, and net income from operations of $0.4 million and $0.3 million, respectively, associated with Boundless.

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

6.

Balance Sheet Components

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net consists of the following:

 

     January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Satellites*

   $ 302,577      $ 314,097  

Leasehold improvements

     15,630        15,537  

Ground stations and ground station equipment

     12,560        12,196  

Office furniture, equipment and fixtures

     4,995        4,909  

Computer equipment and purchased software

     7,837        7,588  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total property and equipment, gross

     343,599        354,327  

Less: Accumulated depreciation

     (183,744      (167,732
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total property and equipment, net

   $ 159,855      $ 186,595  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

*

Satellites include $13.3 million and $48.8 million of satellites in process and not in service as of January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Interest expense associated with manufactured satellites was not material for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

The Company’s long-lived assets by geographic region are as follows:

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

United States

   $ 156,537      $ 184,973  

Rest of the world

     3,318        1,622  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total property and equipment, net

   $ 159,855      $ 186,595  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company concluded that satellites in service continue to be owned by the U.S. entity and accordingly are classified as U.S. assets in the table above. No single country other than the U.S. accounted for more than 10% of total property and equipment, net, as of January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Total depreciation expense for the year ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 was $52.7 million and $69.1 million, respectively, of which $44.2 million and $58.6 million, respectively, was depreciation expense specific to satellites.

Capitalized Internal-Use Software Development Costs

Capitalized internal-use software costs, net of accumulated amortization consists of the following:

 

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(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Capitalized internal-use software

   $ 32,425      $ 28,045  

Less: Accumulated amortization

     (20,431      (13,553
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 11,994      $ 14,492  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Interest expense associated with capitalized internal-use software costs was not material for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Amortization expense for capitalized internal-use software for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 was $7.1 million and $5.3 million, respectively.

Estimated future amortization expense of capitalized internal-use software at January 31, 2021, is as follows:

 

(in thousands)       

2022

   $ 5,193  

2023

     2,361  

2024

     2,102  

2025

     1,629  

2026

     709  
  

 

 

 
   $ 11,994  
  

 

 

 

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill and Intangible assets consist of the following:

 

     January 31, 2021      January 31, 2020  
(in thousands)    Gross
Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Foreign
Currency
Translation
    Net
Carrying
Amount
     Gross
Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Foreign
Currency
Translation
    Net
Carrying
Amount
 

Developed technology

   $ 8,070      $ (6,869   $ (9   $ 1,192      $ 8,070      $ (6,283   $ (9   $ 1,778  

Image library

     11,430        (10,203     104       1,331        10,756        (9,400     167       1,523  

Customer relationships

     3,280        (1,615     9       1,674        3,280        (1,003     8       2,285  

Trade names and other

     3,755        (2,318     39       1,476        3,695        (1,820     39       1,914  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total intangible assets

   $ 26,535      $ (21,005   $ 143     $ 5,673      $ 25,801      $ (18,506   $ 205     $ 7,500  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Goodwill

   $ 86,587      $ —       $ 1,806     $ 88,393      $ 86,587      $ —       $ 1,806     $ 88,393  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

No impairment charges were recognized related to intangible assets (including goodwill) in the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020.

Amortization expense for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 was $2.4 million and $3.2 million, respectively.

Estimated future amortization expense of intangible assets at January 31, 2021, is as follows:

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

(in thousands)       

2022

   $ 1,848  

2023

     1,579  

2024

     1,509  

2025

     367  

2026

     90  

Thereafter

     280  
  

 

 

 
   $ 5,673  
  

 

 

 

The change in the carrying amount of goodwill during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 is as follows:

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Beginning of period

   $ 88,393      $ 75,097  

Acquisition

     —          13,296  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

End of period

   $ 88,393      $ 88,393  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following:

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Prepaid tax and withholding tax receivables

   $ 1,761      $ 2,641  

Prepaid satellite launch services

     —          1,818  

Deferred commissions

     1,030        1,534  

Deposits

     667        757  

Restricted cash

     375        1,576  

Other prepayments and receivables

     3,301        2,592  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total prepaid expenses and other current assets

   $ 7,134      $ 10,918  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Other non-current assets consist of the following:

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Deferred commissions

   $ 1,697      $ 102  

Prepaid satellite launch services

     772        722  

Other non-current assets

     515        379  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total other non-current assets

   $ 2,984      $ 1,203  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Accrued and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued liabilities and other current liabilities consist of the following:

 

(in thousands)    January 31,  
   2021      2020  

Deferred R&D service liability (1)

   $ 8,208      $  

Payroll and related expenses

     3,229        2,248  

Customer payable (2)

     10,000        7,254  

Deferred hosting costs

     2,301        —    

Deferred rent

     2,215        2,183  

Accrued interest payable

     616        474  

Withholding taxes and other taxes payable

     841        1,664  

Other accruals

     2,785        4,933  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total accrued and other current liabilities

   $ 30,195      $ 18,756  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1)

In December 2020, the Company entered into a development services agreement, whereby the Company agreed to provide the technical knowledge and services to design and develop certain prototype satellites and deliver and test early data collected (the “R&D Services Agreement”). The R&D Services Agreement is unrelated to the Company’s ordinary business activities and provides for a fee of $40.2 million, to be paid to the Company as specified milestones are achieved over a three-year period. The Company has discretion in managing the activities under the R&D Services Agreement and retains all developed intellectual property. The Company has no obligation to repay any of the funds received regardless of the outcome of the development work; therefore, the arrangement is accounted for as funded research and development pursuant to ASC 730-20, Research and Development. As ASC 730-20 does not indicate the accounting model for research and development services, the Company determined the total transaction price is taken over the agreement term as a reduction of research and development expenses based on a cost incurred method. During the year ended January 31, 2021, the Company received $8.3 million under the R&D Services Agreement, of which $8.2 million is included in accrued and other current liabilities as of January 31, 2021 as the Company has not yet incurred such costs.

(2)

Customer payable reflects consideration due to a customer for a revenue share arrangement. The customer payable was estimated at the inception of the contract and accounted for as a reduction in the customer’s transaction price.

 

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7.

Commitments and Contingencies

Leases

The Company leases office space under various noncancelable operating leases with varying lease expiration dates through 2024. Certain leases contain renewal options for the Company to extend the lease term and escalation clauses.

Rent expense for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, net of sublease income of $1.3 million in each year, was $3.0 million and $3.8 million, respectively. Rent expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the non-cancelable lease term.

Future minimum lease payments under noncancelable office leases as of January 31, 2021 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)       

2022

   $ 4,867  

2023

     4,778  

2024

     1,598  

2025

     —    

2026

     —    

Thereafter

     —    
  

 

 

 

Total minimum lease payments

   $ 11,243  
  

 

 

 

Launch and Ground Station Services

The Company has purchase commitments for future satellite launch services and ground station services, including leases, to be performed by third- parties subsequent to January 31, 2021. Future purchase commitments under noncancelable launch service and ground station service contracts as of January 31, 2021 are as follows:

 

(in thousands)    Launch      Ground
Station
 

2022

   $ 1,025      $ 1,994  

2023

     —          1,773  

2024

     —          579  

2025

     —          416  

2026

     —          226  

Thereafter

     —          60  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total purchase commitments

   $ 1,025      $ 5,048  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Other

The Company has minimum purchase commitments for hosting services from Google through February 19, 2027. Future minimum purchase commitments under the noncancelable hosting service agreement as of January 31, 2021 is as follows:

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

(in thousands)       

2022

   $ 4,400  

2023

     16,300  

2024

     19,000  

2025

     20,700  

2026

     22,500  

Thereafter

     25,600  
  

 

 

 

Total purchase commitments

   $ 108,500  
  

 

 

 

Contingencies

The Company is not a party to any material legal proceedings and is not aware of any pending or threatened claims, individually or in the aggregate, that are expected to have a material adverse impact on its consolidated financial statements as of each reporting period. From time to time however, the Company may have certain contingent liabilities that arise in the ordinary course of business activities including events arising from revenue contracts entered into by the Company. The Company accrues a liability for such matters when it is probable that future expenditures will be made and such expenditures can be reasonably estimated.

Indemnification

The Company enters into standard indemnification arrangements in the ordinary course of business. Pursuant to these arrangements, the Company indemnifies, holds harmless, and agrees to reimburse the indemnified parties for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party, in connection with any trade secret, copyright, patent, or other intellectual property infringement claim by any third-party with respect to its technology. The term of these indemnification agreements is generally perpetual after the execution of the agreement. The Company has not incurred costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification agreements. In the event that one or more of these matters were to result in a claim against the Company, an adverse outcome, including a judgment or settlement, may cause a material adverse effect on the Company’s future business, operating results or financial condition. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these contracts due to the limited history of prior indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement.

The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers that may require the Company to indemnify them against liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers, other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct of the individual.

To date, we have not incurred any material costs, and have not accrued any liabilities in the consolidated financial statements as a result of these provisions.

 

8.

Debt, Convertible Notes, and Warrants

Venture Loans

In November 2014, the Company entered into a secured term loan agreement with Venture Lending & Leasing, Inc. (“Venture”), an affiliate of Western Technology Investment, for a $25.0 million loan with an interest rate of 11.0% per annum (the prime rate plus 7.75%, minimum of 11.0%). The Company drew the full amount under the loan agreement, which was fully repaid in March 2019. Loan fees associated with entering into the agreement were not material.

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

In connection with the loan, the Company issued warrants to Venture for the purchase of up to 497,010 shares of Series B convertible preferred stock . The terms and conditions of the warrants are dependent upon future rounds of preferred financing for which the exercise price is either the price per share of the Company’s Series B convertible preferred stock issued (Note 10), or the price for preferred stock in subsequent fundraising rounds, at Venture’s option (the price payable is subject to adjustment for certain events such as the subdivision or combination of common stock, if dividends are declared by the Company, or if there is a change of control of the Company). The warrants may be exercised by Venture at any time until March 1, 2025, unless all other preferred stock issued by the Company has been converted into common stock, in which case the warrants automatically convert into common stock at a price not less than $14.3754 per share. Venture is also able to exercise the warrants on a cashless or “net issuance” basis in return for a reduced preferred stock allocation. The proceeds of the debt issuance were allocated first to the warrants based on their fair value with the residual proceeds being allocated to debt. The difference between debt proceeds and the amount of those proceeds allocated to debt gave rise to a debt discount of $0.6 million which is being amortized as interest expense over the term of the loan using the effective interest method.

In May 2017, the Company entered into two additional secured term loan agreements (“2017 loans”) with Venture for loan amounts of $25.0 million each. Each loan bore an interest rate of 11.0% per annum. The Company drew down $25.0 million ($12.5 million from each of the two 2017 loans) in May 2017 which matures in November 2021, with the remaining $25.0 million ($12.5 million from each of the two 2017 loans) which matures in August 2022 drawn down in February 2018. Loan fees associated with entering into the agreement were not material.

Under the terms of the 2017 loan agreements, the Company was required to make majority interest-only payments until May 2019 (with nominal amounts for principal repayments) for the first $25.0 million that was drawn down in May 2017 and majority interest-only payments until February 2020 (with nominal amounts for principal repayments) for the remaining $25.0 million that was drawn in February 2018. Material repayment of the principal amount outstanding for the first $25.0 million drawn was to begin in June 2019, payable in thirty monthly installments; and repayment of the remaining $25.0 million drawn was to begin in March 2020, also payable in thirty monthly installments.

In connection with the 2017 loans, the Company issued warrants to Venture for the purchase of up to 243,470 and 243,470 shares of Series D convertible preferred stock for the loan amounts drawn in 2018 and 2017, respectively. The terms and conditions of the warrants are dependent upon future rounds of preferred equity financing for which the exercise price is either the price per share of the Company’s Series D convertible preferred stock issued (Note 10), or the price for preferred stock in subsequent fundraising rounds, at Venture’s option (the price payable is subject to adjustment for certain events such as the subdivision or combination of common stock, if dividends are declared by the Company, or if there is a change of control of the Company). The warrants may be exercised by Venture at any time until April 1, 2028, unless all other preferred stock issued by the Company has been converted into common stock, in which case the warrants automatically convert into common stock at a price not less than $14.3754 per share. Venture is also able to exercise the warrants on a cashless or “net issuance” basis in return for a reduced preferred stock allocation. The proceeds of debt issuance were allocated first to the warrants based on their fair value with the residual proceeds being allocated to debt. The difference between debt proceeds and the amount of those proceeds allocated to debt gave rise to a debt discount of $0.6 million and $0.6 million for the amounts drawn in 2018 and 2017, respectively (which is being amortized as interest expense over the terms of the 2017 loans using the effective interest method).

Borrowings under the loans from Venture were collateralized by certain assets of the Company, including its internally developed technology. The Venture loan agreements included customary events of default including failure to pay amounts due, breaches of covenants and warranties, certain judgments and judicial actions against the Company, material adverse effect events, cross default and insolvency. If an event of default occurs, Venture could require immediate repayment of all amounts due.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

In June 2019, the Company paid the remaining $49.0 million of outstanding balance of the 2017 loans from Venture in cash. In connection with the repayment, the Company issued subordinated debt to Venture (“Tranche B”, see below) representing a prepayment penalty, with a nominal value and a fair value of the debt upon issuance of $8.6 million and $11.0 million, respectively. As a result, the Company recognized $11.5 million of debt extinguishment loss, representing the unamortized debt discount balance of $0.5 million, as well as the fair value of the subordinated debt of $11.0 million and the amount was included in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss for the year ended January 31, 2020.

Venture Loan Amendment

On June 21, 2019, the Company amended the 2017 loan Agreements with the Venture (“Amendment”). Under the Amendment, the 2017 loans were bifurcated into two tranches: Tranche A, in an amount of $49.0 million, representing the remaining principal amount of the 2017 loans; and Tranche B, in an amount of $8.6 million, representing the 2017 loans prepayment penalty. Tranche A was paid in full upon the execution of the Amendment. Tranche B, consisting of two separate subordinated contract liability instruments of $4.3 million each (“Tranche B”), remained outstanding. The Tranche B loans bear no interest, have no maturity date or prepayment schedule, and are subordinate to SVB & Hercules Loan (defined below) for any enforcement of a security interest or lien. At the option of the lenders, the Tranche B loans can be converted into Series D convertible preferred stock at any time. In addition, the Tranche B loans include conversion features conditioned on future rounds of preferred equity financing, and bridge financing. The Company cannot prepay the Tranche B loans. The Tranche B loans shall become due and payable in full upon an Acceleration Event (as defined in the Tranche B loans), which includes an event of default, a change in control, an initial public offering and liquidity event. The Tranche B loans also include optional prepayment and conversion features contingent upon additional debt issuance by the Company. The Tranche B loans were classified as a current liability and initially measured at a fair value of $10.9 million at the issuance (Note 4) and are subsequently marked to market.

During the year ended January 31, 2021, the Company repaid $2.6 million of the Venture Tranche B and recognized debt extinguishment gain of $0.7 million, which represents a difference between the par amount of the repaid principle of the Venture Tranche B and the respective fair value upon repayment.

SVB & Hercules Loan

On June 21, 2019, the Company entered into a Credit Agreement with SVB and Hercules for a $50 million secured loan with an interest rate of 11.0% per annum (the prime rate plus 5.5%, minimum of 11.0%). The loan matures in June 2022. With the proceeds, the Company paid back $49.0 million of senior secured debt (the 2017 loans above). In connection with the loan, the Company issued warrants to the lenders and their affiliates for the purchase of 685,320 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock with an exercise price of $0.00002 per share with an expiration date of June 2029. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company is required to make interest-only payments until the maturity date of June 21, 2022. This maturity date is subject to a springing maturity condition, whereby, if 91 days prior to the June 21, 2022 maturity date of the 2020 Convertible Notes, the outstanding 2020 Convertible Notes have not been converted into equity securities, the SVB & Hercules Loan will become due and payable, including interest and fees.

The Company incurred $0.3 million of loan fees associated with its entry into the agreement and accrued $1.5 million of final loan fees payable upon maturity. The proceeds of debt issuance were allocated between debt and the warrants based on their relative fair value. The difference between debt proceeds and the amount of those proceeds allocated to debt gave rise to a debt discount of $4.2 million. The discount amount due to the warrant of $4.2 million along with the total loan fees of $1.8 million is being amortized as interest expense through maturity using the effective interest method.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

On June 5, 2020, the Company obtained an additional $15 million secured loan from SVB and Hercules. The loan bears an interest rate of 11.0% per annum and matures on June 21, 2022, or 91 days prior to the maturity date of the 2020 Convertible Notes, described below, if the outstanding 2020 Convertible Notes have not been converted into equity securities. With the proceeds, the Company paid back $2.6 million, or 30% of the face value of Venture Tranche B. In connection with the loan, the Company issued warrants to the lenders and their affiliates for the purchase 250,780 shares of Class A common stock of the Company with an expiration date of June 2030.

The proceeds of debt issuance were allocated between debt and the warrants based on their relative fair value. The difference between debt proceeds and the amount of those proceeds allocated to debt gave rise to a debt discount of $1.6 million. The discount amount due to the warrant of $1.6 million along with the total loan fees of $0.6 million is being amortized as interest expense through maturity using the effective interest method.

2020 Convertible Notes

During the year ended January 31, 2021, the Company entered into Stock Purchase Warrant Agreement and Convertible Promissory Note Agreements with certain investors, (the “2020 Convertible Notes”). The 2020 Convertible Notes bear interest at a rate of 6.0% per annum, that compounds quarterly and matures on June 22, 2022. The principal amount of 2020 Convertible Notes issued is $71.1 million in aggregate. The Company issued warrants for the purchase of Series D convertible preferred stock, equal to 20% of the original principal amount of the notes, with an exercise price of $14.37544. The warrants expire on the tenth anniversary of the date of issuance. The number of shares of Series D convertible preferred stock issuable under the warrants is 989,528 in aggregate.

The 2020 Convertible Notes contain automatic conversion features in the event of the closing of the Company’s next sale of preferred stock occurring on or prior to the 2020 Convertible Notes’ maturity date resulting in gross proceeds in excess of at least $75.0 million, (the “Next Equity Financing”). Upon closing of a Next Equity Financing, all outstanding principal and accrued interest under the 2020 Convertible Notes will automatically convert at a conversion price equal to the lesser of (i) 80% of the per share price received from investors in the Next Equity Financing and (ii) $2.5 billion divided by the Company’s capitalization (the “Capped Price”), immediately prior to the closing of the Next Equity Financing.

The 2020 Convertible Notes also contain an optional conversion feature upon an equity financing by the Company which does not constitute a Next Equity Financing (a “Non-Qualified Financing Conversion”). In the event of a Non-Qualified Financing Conversion, the 2020 Convertible Notes will be convertible at the option of the holder, into a series of capital stock issued in the Non-Qualified Financing at a conversion price equal to the lesser of (i) 80% of the per share price received from investors in the Non-Qualified Financing and (ii) the Capped Price.

In the event of a Change of Control, as defined in the 2020 Convertible Note agreement, prior to repayment in full and prior to the Next Equity Financing, at the option of the holder, either (i) the Company shall pay 200% of the then outstanding principal accrued interest, or (ii) shall convert into common stock of the Company at a conversion price equal to the Capped Price immediately prior to the closing of the Change of Control.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

The Credit Agreement with SVB & Hercules requires the Company to deliver audited financial statements that do not contain an explanatory paragraph regarding “going concern”. The Company executed a letter with SVB & Hercules in which SVB & Hercules have agreed to waive any purported breach of the debt agreement with respect to the Company’s delivery of audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2021. As of January 31, 2021, the Company is in compliance with, or had received appropriate waivers for, the covenants associated with each of the Company’s debt and credit facilities.

A summary of the Company’s debt balance and outstanding convertible notes as of January 31, 2021 is as follows:

 

     Net Carrying Value      Principal      Contractual        
     Current      Long-term      Balance      Interest Rate     Maturity Date  
            (in thousands)                      

Venture Tranche B

   $ 8,244        —        $ 6,035        —         n/a  

2020 Convertible Notes

     —        $ 92,968      $ 71,125        6     6/22/2022  

SVB & Hercules Loan

     —        $ 62,644      $ 66,950        11     6/21/2022  

The following table presents the interest expense related to the contractual interest coupon, the amortization of debt issuance costs, the amortization of debt discounts and loss (gain) on extinguishment of debt:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Contractual interest coupon

   $ 6,697      $ 5,554  

Amortization of debt issuance costs

     811        402  

Amortization of debt discounts

     1,939        990  

Debt extinguishment (gain) loss

     (673      11,529  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total interest expense and extinguishment (gain) loss

   $ 8,774      $ 18,475  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Future minimum loan principal and interest payments on the Company’s debt due per fiscal year are as follows:

 

(in thousands)       

2022

   $ 6,659  

2023

     140,629  

2024

     —    

2025

     —    

2026

     —    

Total loan principal and interest payments

     147,288  

Add: Venture Tranche B, principal balance

     6,035  

Add : Change in fair value of liabilities

     26,648  

Less: Amount representing interest, discount accretion and warrant issued

     (16,115
  

 

 

 

Net carrying value of debt

   $ 163,856  
  

 

 

 

A summary of warrants issued in connection with the above transactions and outstanding as of January 31, 2021 is as follows:

 

     Number of
Warrants
Outstanding
     Number of
Warrants
Exercisable
     Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Term (in
Years)
 

Warrants to purchase Class A Common Stock

     936,100        936,100      $ 0.004        8.65  

Warrants to purchase Series B Convertible Preferred Stock

     497,010        497,010      $ 5.030        4.08  

Warrants to purchase Series D Convertible Preferred Stock

     1,476,468        1,476,468      $ 14.375        8.52  

 

9.

Common Stock

Common stockholders are entitled to dividends when and if declared by the Board of Directors, subject to the prior rights of the convertible preferred stockholders. As of January 31, 2021, no dividends have been declared. The holders of the Class A Common Stock and the holders of the Class B Common Stock at all times vote together as one class on all matters. Each holder of shares of Class B Common Stock, which are held by the Company’s founders, is entitled to 10 votes for each share of Class B Common Stock, and each holder of shares of Class A Common Stock is entitled to 1 vote for each share of Class A Common Stock.

On August 12, 2019, the Company effected a five-for-one stock split of its common stock and convertible preferred stock. All share and related per share information has been retroactively adjusted to reflect the stock split in these consolidated financial statements.

 

10.

Preferred Stock

The Company has authorized 105,000,000 shares of preferred stock at January 31, 2021 and 2020.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

Convertible preferred stock (“preferred stock”) outstanding at January 31, 2021 and 2020, consists of the following (in thousands, except for shares and per share amounts):

 

Series

   Shares
Authorized
     Shares
Issued and
Outstanding
     Per Share
Liquidation
Preference
     Aggregate
Liquidation
Preference
     Proceeds Net
of Issuance
Costs
 

A

     30,000,000        26,072,555      $ 0.7871      $ 20,522      $ 13,218  

B

     15,000,000        10,314,505        5.0301        51,883        51,792  

C

     14,436,335        13,756,905        9.1989        126,549        126,232  

C prime

     5,563,665        4,024,175        11.0387        44,422        44,422  

D

     40,000,000        31,514,850        14.3754        453,039        178,384  
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 
     105,000,000        85,682,990         $ 696,415      $ 414,048  
  

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

The rights, preferences, and privileges of the preferred stock are as follows:

Voting

The holders of preferred stock are entitled to vote on all matters on which common stockholders are entitled to vote. Holders of preferred stock and common stock vote together as a single class, not as separate classes. Each holder of preferred stock is entitled to the number of votes equal to the number of common stock shares into which the shares held by such holder are convertible.

Dividends

The holders of shares of Series A, B, C, C prime and D preferred stock are entitled to receive dividends at the rates of $0.062970, $0.402405, $0.735914, $0.883096 and $1.150035 per annum for each share of preferred stock, respectively. Such dividends are payable when and if declared by the Board of Directors, and are noncumulative.

The holders of Series D preferred stock shall be entitled to receive dividends prior to and in preference to any payment of any dividend on Series C prime and C preferred stock, Series B preferred stock, Series A preferred stock and on common stock.

The holders of Series C prime and C preferred stock shall be entitled to receive dividends prior to and in preference to any payment of any dividend on Series B preferred stock, Series A preferred stock and common stock. Series B preferred stock shall be entitled to receive dividends prior to and in preference to any payment of any dividend on Series A preferred stock and common stock. Series A preferred stock shall be entitled to receive dividends prior to and in preference to any payment of any dividend on common stock.

After payment of dividends to the holders of the Series A and B preferred stock, any additional dividends shall be distributed among the holders of common stock pro rata based on the number of shares of common stock then held by each holder (assuming conversion of all preferred stock into common stock). No dividends have been declared by the Board of Directors from inception through January 31, 2021.

 

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Conversion

Each share of preferred stock is convertible, at the option of the holder, at any time after the date of issuance of such share, into such number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Class A Common Stock as is determined by dividing the applicable original issue price by the conversion price applicable to such share in effect on the date the certificate is surrendered for conversion. The conversion price per share for the shares of Series A, B, C, C prime and D preferred stock shall initially be $0.7871, $5.0301, $9.1989, $11.0387 and $14.3754 per share. Each such conversion price may be subject to adjustment.

Each share of preferred stock shall automatically be converted into shares of Class A Common Stock at the then effective conversion price applicable for such share immediately prior to the closing of the sale of the Company’s Common Stock to the public in a firm commitment, underwritten public offering registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), other than a registration relating solely to a transaction under Rule 145 under the Securities Act (or any successor thereto) or to an employee benefit plan of the Company, at a price per share to the public of not less than $14.3754 (as adjusted for any stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations, recapitalizations, or similar events with respect to such shares) that results in gross offering proceeds (before deduction of the underwriters’ discounts and expenses) to the Company of not less than $150 million whereby the Common Stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Stock Market, or American Stock Exchange (or any successor exchanges thereto).

Redemption

The shares of preferred stock are not redeemable at the option of the holders.

Specifically, certain holders of preferred stock are entitled to elect (subject to specified ownership conditions outlined in the Company’s articles of incorporation) in aggregate four directors (the “Preferred Directors”). The holders of the majority of the voting power of the Company’s Common Stock are entitled to elect four directors (the “Common Directors”) and of those Common Directors, the Company’s founders are entitled to appoint two in the aggregate (the “Founder Common Directors”). A majority of Common Directors and a majority of the Preferred Directors are entitled to elect the remaining director (the “Independent Remaining Director”).

As described above, each holder of shares of Class B Common Stock, which are held by the Company’s founders, is entitled to 10 votes for each share of Class B Common Stock. The holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock vote together on all decisions to be made by the holders of Common Stock. The combined voting power of the Company’s founders provide the founders with the ability to appoint the two remaining Common Directors.

As of January 31, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors is comprised of seven directors, including three Preferred Directors, three Common Directors (including the two Founder Common Directors) and one Independent Director. Every member of the Board of Directors is entitled to one vote on matters, however, the two Founder Common Directors are entitled to two votes. The Company’s founders control five out of nine votes and control the actions of the Company’s Board of Directors.

Liquidation

In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, either voluntary or involuntary, the holders of Series D, C prime and C preferred stock will receive, in preference to the holders of Series B, then to the holders of Series A, and last to the common stock holders an amount per share equal to the combined issuance costs of $14.3754, $11.0387 and $9.1989 per share, plus any accrued but unpaid dividends, respectively. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of Series D, C prime and C preferred stock, the holders of Series B preferred stock will receive, in preference to the holders of Series A preferred stock and holders of common stock, an amount per share equal to the original issue price of $5.0301 per share, plus any

 

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accrued but unpaid dividends. After payment of the liquidation preference to the holders of Series D, C prime, C and B preferred stock, the holders of Series A preferred stock will receive, in preference to the holders of common stock, an amount per share equal to the original issue price of $0.7871 per share, plus any accrued but unpaid dividends. After payment of the liquidation preference to holders of Series D, C prime, C, B and A preferred stock, the remaining assets of the Company are available for distribution on a pro rata basis to the holders of Series A common stock, on an as if converted basis. To the extent that holders of the Series D, C prime, C, B and A preferred stock have received an aggregate of $14.3754 , $11.0387, $9.1989 , $5.0301 and $0.7871 per share, respectively, plus any accrued but unpaid dividends, any remaining assets will be distributed solely to the holders of common stock.

 

11.

Related Party Transactions

As of January 31, 2021, Google, LLC (“Google”) owned greater than 10% of the Company’s common equivalent shares through its total investment of 18,633,305 shares in Series D preferred stock.

In March 2020, Google purchased $10.0 million of 2020 Convertible Notes (Note 8). Upon issuance of the 2020 Convertible Note to Google, the Company also issued warrants to Google for the purchase of 139,126 shares of Series D preferred stock. As of January 31, 2021, the outstanding principal and accrued interest associated with the 2020 Convertible Notes held by Google was $10.5 million, included in Convertible notes, non-current, on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.

In 2017, the Company and Google entered into a 5 year content license agreement under which Google licensed content covering Google’s specified areas of interest. The contract automatically renews for one additional year if the parties fail to fulfill their respective obligations at the end of year 5. As of January 31, 2021 and 2020, the deferred revenue balance associated with the content license agreement was $20.8 million and $32.3 million, respectively. For the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recognized revenue of $11.5 million and $8.1 million, respectively, related to the content license agreement.

In addition, the Company purchases hosting and other services from Google, of which $10.3 million is deferred as of January 31, 2021. The Company recorded hosting expense of $13.1 million and $10.9 million during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. As of January 31, 2020, the Company’s accounts payable and accrued liabilities balance included $1.0 million related to hosting and other services provided by Google. As of January 31, 2021, no amounts were due for such services. See Note 7 for future Google hosting purchase commitments as of January 31, 2021. On June 28, 2021, the Company amended the terms of its hosting and service arrangement with Google, see Note 16.

 

12.

Stock Incentive Plans

In December 2011, the Company adopted the 2011 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan provides for the granting of stock options and RSUs to employees, consultants, and advisors of the Company. Options granted under the Plan may be either incentive stock options (“ISO”) or nonqualified stock options (“NSO”). ISOs may be granted only to Company employees including officers and directors who are also employees. NSOs may be granted to Company employees, consultants, and advisors. As of January 31, 2021, 821,818 shares of common stock are reserved for future issuance under the Plan.

Options under the Plan have a contractual life for periods of up to ten years (or five years if granted to a 10% stockholder). Options granted generally vest over four years.

 

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A summary of stock option activity under the Plan is as follows:

 

     Options Outstanding  
                         Aggregate  
           Weighted      Weighted      Intrinsic  
           Average      Average      Value  
     Number of     Exercise      Remaining      (in  
     Options     Price      Term (Years)      thousands)  

Balances at February 1, 2019

     15,684,075     $ 3.42        7.07     

Exercised

     (111,910     2.36        

Granted

     6,876,680       6.01        

Forfeited

     (2,355,113     4.71        
  

 

 

         

Balances at January 31, 2020

     20,093,732       4.16        7.13     

Exercised

     (1,090,700     0.49        

Granted

     8,000,619       6.19        

Forfeited

     (1,382,714     5.45        
  

 

 

         

Balances at January 31, 2021

     25,620,937     $ 4.88        7.21      $ 80,964  

Vested and exercisable

     15,849,747     $ 4.14        6.15      $ 61,882  

The intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020, was $6.1 million and $0.4 million, respectively.

A summary of options outstanding and exercisable by price at January 31, 2021 are as follows:

 

      Options Outstanding     Options Exercisable  
            Weighted           Weighted  
            Average           Average  
            Remaining           Remaining  
      Number of     Contractual     Number of     Contractual  

Exercise Price

    Options     Life (in Years)     Options     Life (in Years)  
$ 0.00002       48,995       0.64       48,995       0.64  
  0.014       187,500       0.79       187,500       0.79  
  0.070       25,000       1.46       25,000       1.46  
  0.106       545,050       2.58       545,050       2.58  
  0.856       2,218,795       3.57       2,218,795       3.57  
  2.768       1,426,495       4.25       1,426,495       4.25  
  3.102       1,445,855       4.73       1,445,855       4.73  
  3.560       1,629,030       5.21       1,629,030       5.21  
  5.234       203,765       6.01       203,765       6.01  
  5.650       2,334,810       6.40       2,125,470       6.39  
  5.846       1,802,595       7.59       1,164,672       7.57  
  6.006       5,907,345       8.52       2,283,987       8.50  
  6.190       7,845,702       9.4       2,545,133       9.26  
 

 

 

     

 

 

   
    25,620,937         15,849,747    
 

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

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The weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 was $2.83 and $2.51 per share, respectively. As of January 31, 2021, total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options were $22.5 million. These costs are expected to be recognized over a period of approximately 2.78 years.

The fair value of shares vested during the year ended January 31, 2021 was $10.2 million. The fair value of the employee stock options granted during the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020 was estimated using the following assumptions:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
     2021      2020  

Weighted-average expected term (years)

     5.02 - 6.76        5.08 - 6.83  

Expected volatility

     42.45% - 44.71%        38.13% - 39.85%  

Risk-free interest rate

     0.31% - 0.52%        1.67% - 2.54%  

Dividend yield

     —          —    

The expected term of stock options represents the weighted-average period the stock options are expected to remain outstanding. The Company uses the simplified method to determine its expected term because it does not have sufficient historical information to develop reasonable expectations about future exercise patterns and post-vesting employment termination behavior. As the Company is privately held and there has been no public market for its common stock to date, the expected volatility is based on the average historical stock price volatility of comparable publicly-traded companies in its industry peer group. The risk-free rate assumption is based on the U.S. Treasury instruments whose term was consistent with the expected term of the Company’s stock options. The expected dividend assumption is based on the Company’s history and expectation of dividend payouts.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense related to options granted to employees and nonemployees was recognized as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Cost of revenue

   $ 843      $ 788  

Research and development

     4,109        2,754  

Sales and marketing

     1,687        1,234  

General and administrative

     7,899        1,252  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total expense

     14,538        6,028  

Capitalized internal-use software development costs

     (526      (957
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total stock-based compensation expense

   $ 14,012      $ 5,071  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Restricted Stock Units

A summary of RSU activity under the Plan is as follows:

 

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     Number of
RSUs
     Weighted
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
 

Balances at February 1, 2019

     803,430      $ 5.985  

Vested

     —          —    

Granted

     587,500        6.109  

Forfeited

     (450,000      6.041  
  

 

 

    

Balances at January 31, 2020

     940,930      $ 6.036  

Vested

     —          —    

Granted

     200,000        6.470  

Forfeited

     (55,320      5.984  
  

 

 

    

Balances at January 31, 2021

     1,085,610      $ 6.091  
  

 

 

    

An RSU will vest on the first date upon which both the service-based requirement and the liquidity event requirement are satisfied. Service-based requirement generally requires four years continuous service from a vesting commencement date. The liquidity event requirement will be satisfied as to any then outstanding RSUs on the first to occur of: (1) a change of control where the consideration paid for the Company’s Common Stock is cash, equity securities that are publicly traded, or a combination of both (such Change of Control, a “Qualifying Change of Control”); or (2) the effective date of an IPO (together, a “Liquidity Event”). In order for the liquidity event requirement to be satisfied, the Liquidity Event must occur on or before the seven year anniversary of the date of grant (the “Liquidity Event Deadline”). No RSUs will vest, and no shares allocated to the RSUs shall be issued, unless a Liquidity Event occurs on or before the Liquidity Event Deadline. As such, there were no RSUs vested as at January 31, 2020 and 2021, and no stock-based compensation expense related to RSUs was recognized for the years ended January 31, 2021 and 2020. As of January 31, 2021, there was approximately $6.6 million of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to RSUs, of which, approximately $3.2 million related to RSUs which had met the service-based condition and would be recognized upon a Liquidity Event.

 

13.

Income Taxes

The components of the loss before income taxes are as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Domestic

   $ (127,599    $ (123,760

Foreign

     1,569        176  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total loss before income taxes

   $ (126,030    $ (123,584
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The provision for (benefit from) income taxes consists of the following (in thousands):

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Current

     

Federal

   $ —        $ —    

State

     23        29  

Foreign

     1,095        500  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current tax provision

     1,118        529  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred

     

Federal

     60        —    

State

     30        —    

Foreign

     (135      (399
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax benefit

     (45      (399
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Income tax provision

   $ 1,073      $ 130  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

A reconciliation between the U.S. federal statutory income tax and the Company’s effective tax rates as a percentage of loss before income taxes is as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
     2021     2020  

Provision computed at federal statutory rate

     21.0     21.0

States taxes, net of federal benefit

     2.4       2.4  

Foreign rate differential

     (0.8     (1.0

Revaluation gain/loss

     (5.0     0.1  

Tax credits

     2.3       2.0  

Change in valuation allowance

     (21.3     (23.9

Other

     0.5       (0.7
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effective tax rate

     (0.9 )%      (0.1 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Deferred tax assets

     

Net operating loss carryforwards

   $ 92,570      $ 78,452  

Tax Credit carryforwards

     17,679        14,772  

Stock-based compensation

     4,013        3,033  

Deferred revenue

     5,239        10,356  

Excess interest expense

     6,799        4,253  

Other

     4,826        4,040  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax assets

     131,126        114,906  

Valuation allowance

     (126,270      (102,758
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax assets

     4,856        12,148  

Deferred tax liabilities

     

Property and equipment

            (6,816

Intangible assets

     (4,432      (4,953
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

     (4,432      (11,769
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

   $ 424      $ 379  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company had deferred tax assets of $131.1 million and $114.9 million before valuation allowances as of January 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The Company assesses the realizability of its deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some or all of its deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company evaluates all available positive and negative evidence such as past operating results, future reversals of existing deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, as well as prudent and feasible tax-planning strategies. Management believes that it is more likely than not that the majority of U.S. and foreign deferred tax assets will not be realized. Accordingly, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets in these jurisdictions.

The net change in the total valuation allowance is as follows:

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Valuation allowance, beginning of year

   $ 102,758      $ 73,155  

Change in valuation allowance

     23,512        29,603  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Valuation allowance, end of year

   $ 126,270      $ 102,758  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company considers the undistributed earnings of its foreign subsidiaries permanently reinvested in foreign operations and has not provided for U.S. income taxes on such earnings. As of January 31, 2021, the Company’s unremitted earnings from its foreign subsidiaries were $1.4 million and the corresponding unrecognized deferred U.S. income tax liability is not material.

 

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Years Ended January 31, 2021 and 2020

 

 

As of January 31, 2021, the Company had approximately $384.8 million of federal, $163.2 million of state and $1.3 million of foreign net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards available to offset future taxable income, which will expire in varying amounts beginning in 2022. An insignificant amount of NOL and credits carryforwards may be subject to annual limitations under Internal Revenue Code Section 382.

As of January 31, 2021, the Company had approximately $13.7 million of federal and $9.8 million of California research and development credit carryforwards available to reduce future taxable liability. The federal credit carryforwards will expire beginning in 2032 and California credits can be carried forward indefinitely.

The Company’s unrecognized tax benefits are as follows:

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
(in thousands)    2021      2020  

Beginning of year

   $ 3,918      $ 3,234  

Additions based on tax positions related to the current year

     796        684  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 4,714      $ 3,918  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of January 31, 2021, the Company had no unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate. The Company’s policy is to include interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits within the provision for taxes. The Company determined that no accrual for interest and penalties was required as of January 31, 2021 and 2020 and no such expenses were incurred in the years presented.

The Company does not anticipate the total amounts of unrecognized tax benefits to significantly increase or decrease in the next twelve months.

The Company files U.S. federal, various state and foreign income tax returns. The Company is not currently under audit by any taxing authorities. All tax years remain open to examination by taxing jurisdictions to which the Company is subject.

 

14.

Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Stockholders

The Company computes earnings (loss) per share of the Class A common stock and Class B common stock using the two-class method required for participating securities. Basic and diluted earnings per share are the same for each class of common stock because they are entitled to the same liquidation and dividend rights. The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted loss per Class A common stock and Class B common stock (amounts in thousands, except share and per share amounts):

 

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     Year Ended January 31,  
     2021      2020  

Numerator:

     

Net loss attributable to common stockholders

   $ (127,103    $ (123,714

Denominator:

     

Basic and diluted weighted-average common shares outstanding used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

     28,863,607        27,981,802  

Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

   $ (4.40    $ (4.42

Basic and diluted earnings per share was the same for each period presented as the inclusion of all potential Class A common stock and Class B common stock outstanding would have been anti-dilutive.

The following table presents the potential common stock outstanding that was excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share of common stock as of the periods presented because including them would have been antidilutive:

 

 

     Year Ended January 31,  
     2021      2020  

Convertible Preferred Stock

     85,682,990        85,682,990  

Warrants to purchase Series B Convertible Preferred Stock

     497,010        497,010  

Warrants to purchase Series D Convertible Preferred Stock

     1,476,468        486,940  

Convertible notes

     4,742,818        599,548  

Common stock options

     25,620,937        20,093,732  

Restricted Stock Units

     1,085,610        940,930  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     119,105,833        108,301,150  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

15.

Defined Contribution Plan

The Company sponsors a defined-contribution savings plan under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, covering substantially all full-time U.S. employees. Participating employees may contribute a percentage of their qualifying annual compensation up to the annual Internal Revenue Service contribution limit. The 401(k) Plan was adopted in 2013. Since the inception of the plan, the Company has not matched employee contributions.

 

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16.

Subsequent Events

The Company considers events or transactions that occur after the balance sheet date but before the financial statements are issued to provide additional evidence relative to certain estimates or to identify matters that require additional disclosure. Subsequent events have been evaluated through June 30, 2021, the date the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued.

Business combination

In April 2021, the Company entered into a letter of intent with a SPAC, with respect to a potential business combination between the Company and the SPAC. The letter of intent was subsequently amended in May 2021 (the “Amended LOI”). The Amended LOI contemplates the acquisition of 100% of the outstanding equity interests of the Company in exchange for shares of common stock of the SPAC, at an enterprise valuation of the Company of approximately $3.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments. The Amended LOI also contemplates, among other things, a PIPE financing of approximately $400.0 million conditioned upon the consummation of the business combination. The proposed business combination will result in the Company becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of a publicly traded company on the NYSE. The execution of a definitive business combination agreement is subject to, among other things, completion of negotiations, completed due diligence and final approval of the SPAC’s and the Company’s Board of Directors.

Litigation settlement

In May 2021, the Company entered into a legal settlement agreement related to alleged claims brought forth by a customer. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the Company agreed to pay $10.0 million. The legal settlement is accrued as a customer payable in the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of January 31, 2021 (Note 6).

Contract amendments

On June 28, 2021, the Company amended the terms of its hosting agreement with Google. The amendment, among other things, increases the aggregate purchase commitments to $193.0 million. The amended agreement commences on August 1, 2021 and extends through January 31, 2028.

 

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