GMHI Gores Metropoulos Inc

SCHEDULE 13D

CUSIP No. 550424 105

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SCHEDULE 13D

Item 1. Security and Issuer

This Schedule 13D relates to Class A Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share and Class B Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (collectively, the “Common Stock”), of Luminar Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The principal executive offices of the Company are located at 2603 Discovery Drive, Suite 100, Orlando, Florida 32826.

Item 2. Identity and Background

(a) This Schedule 13D is being filed by Austin Russell (the “Reporting Person”).

(b) The Reporting Person’s address is 2603 Discovery Drive, Suite 100, Orlando, Florida 32826.

(c) The Reporting Person is the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company.

(d) During the last five years, the Reporting Person has not been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).

(e) During the last five years, the Reporting Person was not a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws, or finding any violation with respect to such laws.

(f) The Reporting Person is a citizen of the United States of America.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds

All of the shares of the Common Stock to which this Schedule 13D relates were acquired by the Reporting Person pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 24, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company (f/k/a Gores Metropoulos, Inc.), Dawn Merger Sub, Inc. (“First Merger Sub”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, Dawn Merger Sub II, LLC (“Second Merger Sub”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, and Luminar Holdco, LLC (f/k/a Luminar Technologies, Inc.) (“Legacy Luminar”). Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, First Merger Sub merged with and into Legacy Luminar, with Legacy Luminar continuing as the surviving corporation (the “First Merger”), and immediately following the First Merger and as part of the same overall transaction as the First Merger, Legacy Luminar merged with and into Second Merger Sub, with Second Merger Sub continuing as the surviving entity as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, under the new name Luminar Holdco, LLC (the “Mergers” and collectively with the other transactions described in the Merger Agreement, the “Transactions”). The Transactions closed on December 2, 2020 (the “Closing Date”).

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Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, 7,711,738 shares of Class B Common Stock of Legacy Luminar held by the Reporting Person were converted into the right to receive 105,118,203 shares of Class B Common Stock of the Company, effective as of the Closing Date.

Item 4. Purpose of the Transaction

The Reporting Person acquired 105,118,203 shares of Class B Common Stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement. The information contained in Item 3 of this Schedule 13D is incorporated herein by reference.

The Reporting Person serves as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company. Accordingly, the Reporting Person may have influence over the corporate activities of the Company, including activities that may relate to items described in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of this Schedule 13D.

Except as described in this Schedule 13D, the Reporting Person does not have any present plans or proposals that relate to or would result in any of the actions described in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D. The Reporting Person reserves the right to formulate plans and/or proposals and to take such actions with respect to his investment in the Company, including any or all of the actions set forth in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D.

Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer

(a) — (b) The Reporting Person has beneficial ownership of 105,118,203 shares of the Common Stock. The percentage of beneficial ownership is approximately 32.5% of the outstanding shares of the Common Stock. The percentage of the Common Stock is based on 323,936,240 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the Closing Date as reported in the Form 8-K.

The Reporting Person has the sole power to dispose or direct the disposition of all shares of the Common Stock that the Reporting Person beneficially owned as of December 2, 2020.

(c) Except as described in Item 3, the Reporting Person has not effected any transactions in the Common Stock in the past 60 days.

(d) — (e) Not applicable.

Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer

Voting Agreement – In connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Reporting Person entered into a voting agreement, dated as of August 24, 2020, with the Company (the “Voting Agreement”). Under the Voting Agreement, the Reporting Person agreed that, following the consummation of the business combination, solely if he is involuntarily terminated from his position as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and as a result of his conviction of, or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to, a felony that has a material negative impact on the Company, at any meeting of the stockholders of the Company at which directors are to be elected following the consummation of the business combination, the Reporting Person, or any of his permitted successors or assigns, will not vote more than 10% of the Class B Common Stock he or they beneficially own in any director election.

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Lock-Up Agreements – In connection with the Transactions, the Company and certain stockholders of each of the Company and Legacy Luminar, including the Reporting Person (collectively, the “Holders”), entered into Lockup Agreements. The Lockup Agreements provide for the securities of the Company held by the Holders to be locked up for a period of time following the Closing Date, subject to certain exceptions. The Reporting Person agreed (i) to a 180-day lock-up period (the “Lockup Period”) for his shares of Class B Common Stock held as of the Closing Date (the “Lockup Shares”) and (ii) after the 180th day and until the date that is 910 days after the Closing Date (the “Extended Lock-up Period”), the Reporting Person agreed not to sell more than 25% of his Lock-Up Shares in any six-month period.

Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement – In connection with the closing of the business combination, the Company, the Reporting Person and certain other stockholders (the “RRA Holders”) entered into an Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2020 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company agreed to file a registration statement to register the resale of certain securities of the Company held by the RRA Holders within 30 days after the Closing Date. In addition, the RRA Holders are entitled to make up to six demands for registration, excluding short form demands, that the Company register shares of Common Stock held by these parties. The Registration Rights Agreement also provides customary “piggy-back” registration rights to such stockholders.

This summary is qualified by the actual terms of the Merger Agreement, the Voting Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Lockup Agreement, copies of which are attached as exhibits to this Schedule 13D and are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 7. Material to be Filed as Exhibits.

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SIGNATURE

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I hereby certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Date: February 16, 2021

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