VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 23, 2024 – CubicFarm® Systems Corp. (“CubicFarms” or the “Company”) (TSXV: CUB), a leading local chain agricultural technology company, today announces a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”) of units (the “Units”) of the Company.
Further to the Company’s price reservation form dated April 2, 2024, and the Company’s notice letter dated April 3, 2024, the TSX Venture Exchange conditionally accepted the Company’s proposed private placement of up to 5,000,000 Units of the Company. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Common Share“) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (the “Warrants“). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Common Share of the Company at an exercise price of C$0.25 (the “Exercise Price“) per Common Share for a period of 24 months from the date of issuance.
On May 23, 2024, pursuant to the Private Placement, the Company has issued 2,875,000 Units at a price of C$0.20 (the “Offering Price“) per Unit for gross proceeds of C$575,000. The Company intends to use the proceeds of the Private Placement for general working capital.
The securities offered in the Private Placement are subject to a four month and a day transfer restriction from the date of issuance expiring on September 24, 2024, in addition to such other restrictions as may apply under applicable securities laws of jurisdictions outside Canada.
Pursuant to the Private Placement, John de Jonge (the “Investor”) is an insider of the Company by virtue of being the interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Investor participated in the Private Placement by purchasing 500,000 Units and, accordingly, this purchase constitutes a related party transaction as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Securityholders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”). The Company is exempt from the formal valuation and minority approval requirement under MI 61-101 as the fair market value of the insider’s participation in the Private Placement does not exceed more than 25% of the market capitalization of the Company, as set forth in Sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101. The Company has not filed a material change report more than twenty-one (21) days before the closing date of the Private Placement, as the details of the Private Placement were not finalized until May 23, 2024, and the Company wished to close the Private Placement as soon as practicable.
Completion of the Private Placement remains subject to the receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
About HydroGreen
HydroGreen’s Automated Vertical Pastures™ technology utilizes a unique process to sprout grains, such as barley and wheat, in a controlled environment with minimal use of land, labour and water. HydroGreen’s fully automated indoor growing technology performs all growing functions including seeding, watering, lighting, harvesting, and re-seeding—all with the push of a button—to deliver nutritious fresh forage for livestock without the typical investment in fertilizer, chemicals, fuel, field equipment, and transportation. Automated Vertical Pastures™ not only provide superior nutritious feed to benefit the animal but also enable significant environmental benefits to the farm.
About CubicFarms
CubicFarms is a leading local chain agricultural technology company developing and deploying technology to feed a changing world. Its proprietary ag-tech solutions enable growers to produce high quality, predictable produce and fresh livestock feed with HydroGreen Nutrition Technology, a division of CubicFarm Systems Corp. The CubicFarms™ system contains patented technology for growing leafy greens and other crops onsite, indoors, all year round. CubicFarms provides an efficient, localized food supply solution that benefits our people, planet, and economy.
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Forward looking and other cautionary statements
Certain statements in this release constitute “forward-looking statements” or “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including, without limitation, statements with respect to the use of funds of the Private Placement and the receipt of regulatory approvals. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors and assumptions which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of CubicFarm Systems Corp., or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information, including, without limitation, risks related to the ability and time frame within which the Company will execute and implement the Consolidation, the Company’s ability to raise additional funding, the Company’s ongoing or future litigation, the Company’s ability to establish, maintain and defend intellectual property rights in the Company’s products, product liability claims, insurance and recalls, the Company’s manufacturing operations, the manufacturing capacity of third-party manufacturers for the Company’s products, including risks of supply interruptions impacting the Company’s ability to manufacture its own products and the other factors disclosed under “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form for the year ended December 31, 2022, and those risks described in other documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the prospectus. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as “intend”, “expect”, “believe”, “plan”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “scheduled”, “forecast”, “predict”, and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events, or results “may”, “can”, “could”, “would”, “might”, or “will” be taken, occur, or be achieved.
These statements reflect the Company’s current expectations regarding future events, performance, and results and speak only as of the date of this news release. Consequently, there can be no assurances that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Except as required by securities disclosure laws and regulations applicable to the Company, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements if the Company’s expectations regarding future events, performance, or results change.