Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path

12:54pm PDT - July 2nd, 2020    david price - TechCrunch

Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said Thursday it has struck a deal to merge with special-purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., with a market value of…