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

• The providing is being absolutely subscribed by two new basic funding managers 
• Firm’s pro-forma money place anticipated to be in extra of US$300 million following closing

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 information heart, tele-communication and synthetic intelligence markets, right now introduced that it has entered into securities buy agreements with institutional buyers for the acquisition and sale of 20,689,655 widespread shares in an oversubscribed registered direct providing. The providing is anticipated to lead to gross proceeds of roughly US$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 situations.

Contributors within the providing embody two new basic funding managers.

The Firm intends to make use of the online proceeds from this funding for company growth, together with focused acquisitions, scaling up of R&D, acceleration of the sunshine supply enterprise, increasing operations, and common 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 singularly elegant answer to connectivity challenges at every stage of AI infrastructure, from chip-to-chip knowledge communications to knowledge switch inside the datacenter to the cellular networks that ship that knowledge to customers”, stated Dr. Suresh Venkatesan, Government Chairman & Chief Government Officer of POET. “In every of those areas, we rework info bottlenecks into knowledge highways by marrying what is feasible in silicon to what’s highly effective in mild. This extra funding by two main international funding funds provides immeasurably to POET’s capacity to ship superior photonic options. With over US$300 million in money, we are able to speed up our pursuit of focused acquisitions, improve our capabilities and expertise, vertically combine our merchandise to enhance price and efficiency, and broaden operations to pursue income alternatives throughout the board, bringing long-term worth to shareholders.”

This providing is being made in the US solely pursuant to a shelf registration assertion on Kind F-10 (File No. 333-280553) beforehand filed with the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (the “SEC”) and declared efficient on September 10, 2024. The providing is made solely via a prospectus complement, which might be filed with the SEC and might be accessible on the SEC’s web site positioned at http://www.sec.gov. Digital copies of the prospectus complement could also be obtained, when accessible, by contacting Titan Companions Group LLC, a division of American Capital Companions, LLC, 4 World Commerce Middle, forty ninth Ground, New York, NY 10007, by cellphone 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 by which such provide, solicitation, or sale could be illegal previous to registration or qualification underneath the securities legal guidelines of any such state or jurisdiction.

About POET Applied sciences Inc.

POET is a design and growth firm providing high-speed optical engines, mild supply merchandise and customized optical modules to the substitute intelligence programs market and to hyperscale knowledge facilities. POET’s photonic integration options are primarily based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a novel, patented platform that permits the seamless integration of digital and photonic units right into a single chip utilizing superior wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing methods. POET’s Optical Interposer-based merchandise are decrease price, devour much less energy than comparable merchandise, are smaller in dimension and are readily scalable to excessive manufacturing volumes. Along with offering high-speed (800G, 1.6T and above) optical engines and optical modules for AI clusters and hyperscale knowledge facilities, POET has designed and produced novel mild supply merchandise for chip-to-chip knowledge communication inside and between AI servers, the following frontier for fixing bandwidth and latency issues in AI programs. POET’s Optical Interposer platform additionally solves system integration challenges throughout a broad vary of communication, computing and sensing purposes. POET is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with operations in Singapore, Penang, Malaysia and Shenzhen, China. Extra details about POET is accessible on our web site at 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 tailor-made options for publicly traded rising development corporations. Titan Companions combines experience, belief, dedication, and a forward-thinking strategy to assist shoppers obtain their strategic capital wants.

Titan Companions Contact
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4 World Commerce Middle, forty ninth Ground
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(929) 833-1246
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Cautionary Observe Concerning Ahead-Wanting Data

This information 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. Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Such statements or info are recognized with phrases akin to “anticipate”, “imagine”, “count on”, “plan”, “intend”, “potential”, “estimate”, “suggest”, “mission”, “outlook”, “foresee” or related phrases suggesting future outcomes or statements relating to any potential end result. Such statements embody, with out limitation, the Firm’s expectations with respect 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 proceeds of this providing, the Firm’s money place and being well-capitalized upon the closing of the providing and the Firm with the ability to advance its enterprise targets. Such forward-looking info or statements are primarily based on various dangers, uncertainties and assumptions which can 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 aptitude of its operations to provide merchandise on time and on the anticipated prices, the efficiency and availability of sure parts, and the success of its clients in reaching market penetration for his or her merchandise. Precise outcomes may differ materially because of various components, together with, with out limitation, the attractiveness of the Firm’s product choices, efficiency of its expertise, the efficiency of key parts, and skill of its clients to promote their merchandise into the market.

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