VLDR Velodyne Lidar Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 10, 2023

Registration No. 333-262657

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE

AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO:

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-262657

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.

5521 Hellyer Avenue

San Jose, California 95138

(669) 275-2251

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Angus Pacala

Chief Executive Officer

Ouster, Inc.

350 Treat Avenue

San Francisco, California 94110

(415) 949-0108

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

With copies to:

Drew Capurro

Latham & Watkins LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

(714) 540-1235

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) filed by Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), deregisters all securities remaining unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-262657) (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 11, 2022, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 filed with the SEC on May 6, 2022.

On February 10, 2023, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of November 4, 2022, by and among the Registrant, Ouster, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ouster”), Oban Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Ouster (“Merger Sub I”), and Oban Merger Sub II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Ouster (“Merger Sub II”), Merger Sub I was merged with and into the Registrant (the “First Merger”), with the Registrant surviving the First Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Ouster (the “Surviving Corporation”). As soon as practicable following the First Merger, the Surviving Corporation merged with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving as a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Ouster (the “Second Merger”, and together with the First Merger, the “Mergers”). Following the Second Merger, the Surviving Corporation was renamed “Velodyne, LLC”.

In connection with the closing of the Mergers, the offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities that were registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof.

The foregoing description of the Mergers, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 7, 2022.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on this 10th day of February, 2023.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.