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April 7, 2025

 

VIA EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

Attention: Nicholas O’Leary

 

Attention: Aliya Ishmukhamedova
  Jeff Kauten
  Claire DeLabar
  Robert Littlepage

 

  Re: Aether Holdings, Inc.
    Registration Statement on Form S-1
    Initially filed December 30, 2024, as amended
    File No. 333-284081

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), we, as representatives of the underwriters of the proposed initial public offering of securities of Aether Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), hereby join the Company’s request that the effective date of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1 be accelerated so that it will be declared effective at 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, or at such later time as the Company or its counsel may orally request via telephone call to the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Pursuant to Rule 460 under the Securities Act, we, as representatives of the underwriters, wish to advise you that there will be distributed to each underwriter, who is reasonably anticipated to participate in the distribution of the security, as many copies of the proposed form of preliminary prospectus as appears to be reasonable to secure adequate distribution of the preliminary prospectus.

 

The undersigned advise that they have complied and will continue to comply, and that they have been informed by the participating underwriters that they have complied with and will continue to comply, with the requirements of Rule 15c2-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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  Very truly yours,
     
  The Benchmark Company, LLC
     
  By: /s/ Michael S. Jacobs
  Name: Michael S. Jacobs
  Title: Head of Equity Capital Markets

 

  Axiom Capital Management, Inc.
     
  By: /s/Liam Dalton
  Name: Liam Dalton
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

cc: Richard A. Friedman, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
  Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP