Auddia Submits S-4 for Merger with Thramann Holdings, Establishing McCarthy Finney as a Unified AI Platform
May 15, 2026
Auddia Inc. (NASDAQ: AUUD) (“Auddia” or the “Company”) today announced that it has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in connection with its previously announced definitive merger agreement with Thramann Holdings, LLC. Upon closing, the combined company will be renamed McCarthy Finney and will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol MCFN.
The filing of the S-4 marks a significant milestone in the Company’s transition into an AI-native platform organization designed to build, operate, and scale multiple AI-enabled businesses on a shared technical foundation.
“The S-4 filing is a major step toward creating McCarthy Finney, a purpose-built AI holding company designed from the ground up to accelerate the development of agentic AI applications across multiple industries,” said Jeff Thramann, CEO of Auddia and Founder of Thramann Holdings. “Our goal is to build a unified platform where AI workflows, engineering resources, and shared infrastructure compound across subsidiaries to create a long-term strategic advantage.” A Purpose Built AI-Native Platform
McCarthy Finney will operate four AI enabled businesses:
• LT350 – a distributed AI infrastructure company deploying a proprietary solar parking lot canopy that integrates modular battery storage and GPU cartridges into the ceiling of the canopy to turn the airspace of any parking lot into an AI datacenter
• Influence Healthcare – an AI-enabled value-based care platform designed to empower surgeon autonomy and reduce administrative burden in high-cost surgical episodes
• Voyex – an agentic AI travel platform focused on automated disruption recovery, rebooking, and multimodal itinerary management
• Auddia – an AI-driven audio platform enabling advanced content recognition, artist discovery, and ad-free AM/FM listening
Each subsidiary will leverage MF-OS, McCarthy Finney’s shared AI operating system that provides:
• Centralized AI engineering • Workflow automation tools • Cross vertical data and model learning infrastructure • Identity, permissions, and audit frameworks
A Clean Slate Approach to AI Company Building The Company believes that legacy enterprises face structural challenges in adopting AI due to entrenched hierarchies, legacy systems, and cultural resistance to automation. McCarthy Finney is designed as a clean slate alternative, enabling:
• AI-first organizational design • New role definitions aligned with agentic workflows • Unified governance and capital allocation • Cross subsidiary technical leverage
“We are building a platform where advances in one subsidiary accelerate progress in others,” Thramann said. “This is the compounding effect we believe will differentiate McCarthy Finney over time.”
Next Steps The S-4 will undergo SEC review, after which Auddia will schedule a shareholder vote to approve the merger. The Company expects the transaction to close following completion of the SEC review process and satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The Company previously completed a $12 million financing that is expected to satisfy the cash at closing requirement under the definitive merger agreement.
The McCarthy Finney S-4 Registration Statement can be found on EDGAR at this link.
About the Merger to form McCarthy Finney Auddia entered into a definitive merger agreement on February 17, 2026. The merger contemplates a business combination between Auddia Inc. and Thramann Holdings, LLC, a single member Colorado LLC. Thramann Holdings fully owns LT350, Influence Healthcare, and Voyex, three early-stage AI native operating companies. Upon merger completion, Auddia will change its name to McCarthy Finney and trade under the ticker MCFN. McCarthy Finney is an AI holding company that will deliver AI and Web3 services to its four portfolio companies: LT350, Influence Healthcare, Voyex, and Auddia.
• LT350 is a distributed AI data center company with 13 issued, 1 allowed, and 3 pending patents on a proprietary solar parking lot canopy infrastructure platform that integrates modular battery storage and GPU cartridges into the ceiling of the canopy to turn any parking lot into an AI data center. The Company aims to build the most secure, lowest latency, cost effective, and rapidly deployed network of distributed AI data centers at the edge by leveraging the use of underutilized parking lot space while strengthening the existing power infrastructure of local utilities.
• Influence Healthcare is a health-tech company leveraging AI, blockchain, and vertical integration to empower surgeons to drive adoption of value based care (VBC) to the surgical specialties. The Company’s mission is to leverage technology and value based enterprises (VBEs) to build an alternative healthcare system that minimizes the corporate practice of medicine, eliminates administrative waste, and enhances the autonomy and pay of health care providers to empower them to improve quality and return the patient physician relationship to the center of medicine.
• Voyex is a travel services platform that leverages agentic AI, an integrated fintech platform, and utilization of charter and private jet aircraft to significantly improve the travel experience. The Company aims is to alleviate the leading pain points for travelers of lengthy flight delays and cancellations.
About Auddia Inc. Auddia, through its proprietary AI platform for audio, is reinventing not only how consumers engage with AM/FM radio, podcasts, and other audio content but also how artists and labels promote their music and gain access to mainstream radio audiences. Auddia’s Discovr Radio is the first music-promotion platform to deliver artists guaranteed exposure to radio listeners. Auddia’s flagship audio superapp, called faidr, delivers multiple industry firsts, including:
• Ad-free listening on any AM/FM music station • Content skipping across any AM/FM music station • One-touch skipping of entire podcast ad breaks • Integrated artist discovery experiences
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