POET Technologies Announces Pricing of US$150 Million Oversubscribed Registered Direct Offering of Common Shares

• The providing is totally underwritten by two new elementary funding managers
• The corporate’s pro-forma money place after closing is anticipated to be in extra of $300 million

TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POET Applied sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: POET) (the “Firm”), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Built-in Circuits (PICs) and light-weight sources for the info heart, telecommunications and synthetic intelligence markets, right this moment introduced that it has entered into securities buy agreements with institutional traders for the acquisition and sale of 20,689,655 shares of frequent inventory in an oversubscribed registered direct providing. The providing is anticipated to end in gross proceeds of roughly $150 million, earlier than deducting providing bills. The closing of the providing is anticipated to happen on or about October 28, 2025, topic to the satisfaction of customary closing circumstances.

Members within the providing embody two new elementary funding managers.

The corporate plans to make use of the web proceeds from this funding for enterprise improvement, together with focused acquisitions, scaling up R&D, accelerating the sunshine sources enterprise, increasing operations and basic working capital.

Titan Companions Group, a division of American Capital Companions, is performing as the only real placement agent for the providing.

“POET’s Optical Interposer platform is a uniquely elegant resolution to connectivity challenges at each degree of the AI ​​infrastructure, from chip-to-chip knowledge communications to knowledge switch inside the knowledge heart to the cellular networks that ship that knowledge to customers,” mentioned Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Government Chairman and Chief Government Officer of POET. “In every of those areas, we’re remodeling info bottlenecks into knowledge highways by combining what is feasible in silicon with what’s highly effective in gentle. This extra funding by two main world funding funds contributes immeasurably to POET’s capacity to ship cutting-edge photonic options. With greater than $300 million in money, we will speed up our pursuit of focused acquisitions, increase our develop capabilities and expertise, vertically combine our merchandise to enhance prices and efficiency, and increase operations to pursue income alternatives throughout the board, creating long-term shareholder worth.”

This providing is being made solely in the US pursuant to a registration assertion on Type F-10 (File No. 333-280553) beforehand filed with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee (the “SEC”) and declared efficient on September 10, 2024. The providing is being made solely via a prospectus complement, which might be filed with the SEC and obtainable on the SEC’s web site at on http://www.sec.gov. Digital copies of the prospectus complement, when obtainable, could also be obtained by contacting Titan Companions Group LLC, a division of American Capital Companions, LLC, 4 World Commerce Middle, forty ninth Flooring, New York, NY 10007, by phone at (929) 833-1246 or by e mail at prospectus@titanpartnersgrp.com.

This press launch shall not represent a suggestion to promote or the solicitation of a suggestion to purchase nor shall there be any sale of those securities in any state or jurisdiction during which such supply, solicitation or sale can be illegal previous to registration or qualification beneath the securities legal guidelines of any such state or jurisdiction.

About POET Applied sciences Inc.

POET is a design and improvement firm providing high-speed optical engines, gentle supply merchandise and customized optical modules to the unreal intelligence methods market and hyperscale knowledge facilities. POET’s photonic integration options are primarily based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a brand new, patented platform that permits the seamless integration of digital and photonic gadgets right into a single chip utilizing superior semiconductor manufacturing strategies on the wafer degree. POET’s Optical Interposer-based merchandise are cheaper, devour much less energy than comparable merchandise, are smaller in dimension and are simply scalable to excessive manufacturing volumes. Along with offering high-speed (800G, 1.6T and better) optical engines and optical modules for AI clusters and hyperscale knowledge facilities, POET has designed and manufactured new gentle supply merchandise for chip-to-chip knowledge communications inside and between AI servers, the subsequent frontier for fixing bandwidth and latency points in AI methods. POET’s Optical Interposer platform additionally solves gadget integration challenges in a variety of communications, computing and sensing purposes. POET is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with places of work in Singapore, Penang, Malaysia and Shenzhen, China. Extra details about POET is obtainable on our web site: http://www.poet-technologies.com

About Titan Companions

Titan Companions Group, a division of American Capital Companions, is a boutique funding financial institution specializing in custom-made options for publicly traded rising development corporations. Titan Companions combines experience, belief, dedication and a forward-thinking strategy to assist purchasers obtain their strategic capital wants.

Contact individual for Titan companions
data@titanpartnersgrp.com
4 World Commerce Middle, forty ninth ground
New York, NY 10007
(929) 833-1246
http://www.titanpartnersgrp.com

Cautionary Be aware Relating to Ahead-Wanting Data

This press launch incorporates “forward-looking info” (inside the which means of relevant Canadian securities legal guidelines) and “forward-looking statements” (inside the which means of the U.S. Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Such statements or info are recognized by phrases similar to “anticipate,” “consider,” “count on,” “plan,” “intend,” “potential,” “estimate,” “envision,” “undertaking,” “outlook,” “foresee” or related phrases suggesting future outcomes or statements a couple of doable final result. Such statements embody, with out limitation, the Firm’s expectations relating to the Firm’s merchandise, the scalability of the POET Optical Interposer and the success of the Firm’s merchandise, the Firm’s use of the proceeds from this providing, the Firm’s money place and being effectively capitalized on the closing of the providing and the Firm’s capacity to attain its enterprise targets. Such forward-looking info or statements are primarily based on quite a lot of dangers, uncertainties and assumptions that might trigger precise outcomes or different expectations to vary materially from these anticipated and which can show to be incorrect. Assumptions have been made relating to, amongst different issues, administration’s expectations relating to the dimensions of the marketplace for its merchandise, the flexibility of its operations to provide merchandise on time and at anticipated prices, the efficiency and availability of sure parts, and the success of its prospects in reaching market penetration for his or her merchandise. Precise outcomes might differ materially resulting from quite a lot of elements, together with, however not restricted to, the attractiveness of the Firm’s product choices, the efficiency of its know-how, the efficiency of key parts and the flexibility of its prospects to promote their merchandise within the market.

For extra details about these and different dangers and uncertainties, please seek the advice of the Firm’s filings on SEDAR+ at http://www.sedarplus.ca and on the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee web site at http://www.sec.gov. Though the Firm believes that the expectations mirrored within the forward-looking info or statements are cheap, potential traders within the Firm’s securities mustn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a result of the Firm can provide no assurance that such expectations will show to be appropriate. Ahead-looking info and statements contained on this press launch converse as of the date of this press launch and the Firm assumes no obligation to replace or revise these forward-looking info and statements, besides as required by relevant securities legal guidelines.
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