Smart Eye has completed a directed share issue of approximately SEK 200 million
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The Board of Directors of Smart Eye has, based on the authorisation given by the Company’s Annual General Meeting that was held on 15 May 2019, resolved on a directed share issue of 1,972,041 new shares (corresponding to approximately 15.0 per cent of the total number of outstanding shares and votes in the Company) at a subscription price of SEK 101.50 per share (the “Issue”), which means that the Company receives SEK 200,162,161.50 before transaction costs. The subscription price in the Issue has been determined through an accelerated bookbuilding procedure and corresponds to a discount of 1.6 percent compared to the closing price on Nasdaq First North on 21 May 2019. Första AP-fonden becomes a new large shareholder in Smart Eye after being allocated 1,000,000 shares, corresponding to just above half of the Issue, and consequently becomes the third largest shareholder with 6.6 per cent of the shares and the votes after the Issue. Five large Nordic institutions, including Första AP-fonden, were in total allocated approximately 75 per cent of the Issue.
The Board of Directors of Smart Eye has decided to deviate from the preferential right to ensure the most time and cost-effective financing of the continued scale-up of the organisation and the development of the offering towards the Chinese market, so that the Company can cover its financing needs until the obtained and potential additional customers begin to generate sufficiently large revenues to cover the Company’s costs.
The Issue entails a dilution of approximately 13.0 percent of the share capital in relation to the number of shares in Smart Eye after the Issue, through an increase in the number of outstanding shares by 1,972,041 from 13,146,943 to 15,118,984 and a share capital increase by SEK 197,204.10 from SEK 1,314,694.30 to SEK 1,511,898.40.
Several large shareholders, e.g. Chairman Anders Jöfelt, Board Member Mats Krantz and CEO Martin Krantz, have entered into lock-up agreements to, subject to customary exceptions, not sell shares in Smart Eye for a period of 180 calendar days after the settlement date. Furthermore, the Company has agreed to a commitment, with customary exceptions, not to carry out any additional future share issuances for a period of 90 calendar days after the settlement date.
Carnegie Investment Bank (publ) acted as sole bookrunner and Advokatfirman Vinge acted as legal adviser in connection with the Issue.
For more information, please contact:
Martin Krantz, CEO Smart Eye AB
Telephone: +46 70-329 26 98
Email: martin.krantz@smarteye.se
Anders Lyrheden, CFO Smart Eye AB
Telefon: +46 70-320 96 95
Email: anders.lyrheden@smarteye.se
This is information that Smart Eye AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, on 22 May 2019 at 08:00 CET.
About Smart Eye
Since 1999 Smart Eye has been engaged in development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of eye tracking technology that understands, supports and predicts a person’s intentions and actions. By carefully studying eye, facial and head movement, our technology can draw conclusions about a person’s awareness and mental state.
Today our eye tracking technology is used in the next generation of cars and is helping the automotive industry take an important step towards safer and more environment-friendly transport solutions. In the research field, Smart Eye’s solutions are providing new opportunities in complicated and real situations, and are paving the way for new insights in the aerospace, aviation and defence industries as well as in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, medicine and academic research.
Smart Eye’s head offices are in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the company also has offices in Detroit, Michigan (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Chongqing (China). In addition to these offices of its own, Smart Eye also has partners, retailers and distributors in several locations in Europe, the USA and APAC. Smart Eye’s solutions are used around the world by more than 700 partners and customers, leading research teams, brands and laboratories, including the US Air Force, NASA, BMW, Lockheed Martin, Audi, Boeing, Volvo and GM, to name a few.
Smart Eye’s business is organised in two business areas, Research Instruments and Automotive Solutions. In Research Instruments, Smart Eye provides advanced eye tracking systems for measuring and analysing human behaviour. In Automotive Solutions, the company provides eye tracking software for integration in vehicles.
For more information please visit: http://smarteye.ai
Smart Eye is listed on Nasdaq First North. Erik Penser is Certified Adviser and can be reached at +46-8-463 8000 or certifiedadviser@penser.se.
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