Crunchfish announces outcome in rights issue
The board of directors of Crunchfish AB (“Crunchfish” or the “Company”) today announces the outcome of the rights issue that was announced on September 20, 2024 (the “Rights Issue”). In total, 5,695,372 units, corresponding to approximately 29 percent of the Rights Issue, were subscribed for by exercise of unit rights, and 91,931 units, corresponding to approximately 0.5 percent of the Rights Issue, were subscribed for without unit rights. In addition, 3,143,731 units, corresponding to approximately 16 percent of the Rights Issue, were subscribed for by guarantors. The Rights Issue was thus subscribed for to approximately 45 percent and Crunchfish will thereby initially receive approximately SEK 26 million before issue-related costs and before set-off of the loan from Corespring Invest AB entered in September 2024. In the event of exercise of warrants series TO 10 and TO 11 that are issued, Crunchfish may receive additional proceeds in February 2025 and May 2025, respectively.
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Outcome
The final outcome of the Rights Issue, in which the subscription period ended on November 20, 2024, shows that a total of 5,695,372 units were subscribed for by exercise of unit rights, corresponding to approximately 29 percent of the Rights Issue, and 91,931 units were subscribed for without unit rights, corresponding to approximately 0.5 percent of the Rights Issue. In addition, 3,143,731 units, corresponding to approximately 16 percent of the Rights Issue, were subscribed for by guarantors. The Rights Issue was thus subscribed for to approximately 45 percent and Crunchfish will thereby initially receive approximately SEK 26 million before issue-related costs and before set-off of the loan from Corespring Invest AB entered in September 2024 of SEK 5.0 million. In the event of exercise of warrants series TO 10 and TO 11 that are issued, Crunchfish may receive additional proceeds in February 2025 and May 2025, respectively.
Each unit consists of two (2) shares, one (1) warrant series TO 10 and one (1) warrant series TO 11.
Each warrant series TO 10 entitle the right to subscribe for one (1) new share in the Company, during the period from and including 14 February, 2025 to and including 28 February, 2025 against cash payment where the subscription price is set at 70 percent of the volume-weighted average price for the Company’s share on Nasdaq First North during the period from and including 28 January, 2025 to and including 10 February, 2025, however, not more than SEK 1.88 and not less than the quota value of SEK 0.046.
Each warrant series TO 11 entitle the right to subscribe for one (1) new share in the Company, during the period from and including 16 May, 2025 to and including 30 May, 2025 against cash payment where the subscription price is set at 70 percent of the volume-weighted average price for the Company's share on Nasdaq First North during the period from and including 29 April, 2025 to and including 12 May, 2025, however, not more than SEK 2.17 and not less than the quota value of SEK 0.046.
The warrants are intended to be admitted to trading on Nasdaq First North after final registration of the Rights Issue with the Swedish Companies Registration Office.
Allocation notice
Allocation of units subscribed for without unit rights has been made in accordance with the allocation principles described in the prospectus that has been prepared in connection with the Rights Issue and published by the Company on 1 November 2024 (the “Prospectus”). Notification regarding allocation will be made by posting a contract note to each subscriber. Allocated units shall be paid for in accordance with the instructions in the contract note.
Changes in the number of shares and share capital
Through the rights issue, the number of shares in the Company will initially increase with 17,862,068 shares, from 39,646,906 shares to 57,508,974 shares, and the share capital will initially increase by SEK 821,655.128, from SEK 1,823,757.676 to SEK 2,645,412.804.
In the event all warrants series TO 10 are fully exercised to subscribe for new shares in the Company, the number of shares will increase by an additional 8,931,034 shares to a total of 66,440,008 shares and the share capital will increase by an additional SEK 410,827.564 to SEK 3,056,240.368.
In the event all warrants series TO 11 are fully exercised to subscribe for new shares in the Company, the number of shares will increase by an additional 8,931,034 shares to a total of 75,371,042 shares and the share capital will increase by an additional SEK 410,827.564 to SEK 3,467,067.932.
Trading in BTU
Trading in Paid Subscribed Units (Sw. “BTU”) is currently conducted on Nasdaq First North Growth Market and will end when the Rights Issue has been registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Sw. Bolagsverket). Registration with the Swedish Companies Registration Office is expected to take place around week 49, 2023.
Advisors
Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is financial advisor and Setterwalls Advokatbyrå AB is legal advisor to Crunchfish in connection with the Rights Issue. Nordic Issuing AB acts as issuing agent in connection with the Rights Issue.
For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com
The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 11:30 CET on November 22nd, 2024.
About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a deep tech company developing a device-agnostic generic trusted client application platform for offline payments, tokenized card payments as well as other mobile client / server systems. Crunchfish has been listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.
Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.
Important information
The information in this press release does not contain or constitute an offer to acquire, subscribe or otherwise trade in shares, warrants or other securities in Crunchfish. No action has been taken and measures will not be taken to permit a public offering in any jurisdictions other than Sweden. Any invitation to the persons concerned to subscribe for units in Crunchfish has only been made through the Prospectus that Crunchfish published on 1 November 2024 on Crunchfish’s website, www.crunchfish.com. The approval of the Prospectus by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority shall not be regarded as an approval of the shares or any other securities. This release is however not a prospectus in accordance with the definition in the Prospectus Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (“Prospectus Regulation”) and this announcement does not identify or suggest, or purport to identify or suggest, the risks (direct or indirect) that may be associated with an investment in shares, warrants or other securities in Crunchfish. In order for investors to fully understand the potential risks and benefits associated with a decision to participate in the Rights Issue, any investment decision should only be made based on the information in the Prospectus. Thus, investors are encouraged to review the Prospectus in its entirety.
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