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at 10:31 AM on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Agreed to increase the size of the Placement.
The Company will now issue up to 14,706,000 units from the treasury of the Company, at a price of $0.85 per Unit for total gross proceeds of up to approximately $12.5 million (the “ Placement ”).
TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2021 — POET Technologies Inc. (“ POET ” or the “ Company ”) (TSX Venture: PTK; OTCQX: POETF), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets, is pleased to announce that in connection with the private placement (the “ Placement ”) announced by the Company earlier today, the Company and a syndicate of agents led by Cormark Securities Inc., and including IBK Capital Corp. and PI Financial Corp. (collectively, the “ Agents ”), have agreed to increase the size of the Placement. The Company will now issue up to 14,706,000 units (the “ Units ”) from the treasury of the Company, at a price of $0.85 per Unit (the “ Issue Price ”) for total gross proceeds of up to approximately $12.5 million (the “ Placement ”).
In addition, the Company and the Agents have also agreed that the Agents shall have an option (the “ Agents’ Option ”) to purchase up to an additional 2,941,200 Units on the same terms, exercisable up until the time of closing of the Placement, for market stabilization purposes and to cover over-allotments, if any. If the Agents’ Option is exercised in full, an additional approximately $2.5 million will be raised and the aggregate proceeds of the Placement will be up to approximately $15.0 million.
In connection with the Placement, the Company will pay a cash commission to the Agents equal to 6.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the Placement and will issue broker warrants equal to 6.0% of the number of Units sold under the Placement, each exercisable to acquire one Common Share at the Issue Price for a period of 24 months from the closing date of the Placement.
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at 9:11 AM on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Lab study to demonstrate solubility technology applied to the Ivermectin drug can be applied as a broad therapeutic to immediately treat COVID-19
Commencing lab trial in late February 2021, with results anticipated in April 2021.
Mountain Valley MD Holdings Inc.(the “Company” or “MVMD“) (CSE: MVMD) (FRA: 20MP) is pleased to announce it has executed an agreement to conduct its Bio Safety Level 4 (“BSL-4”) lab study of COVID-19 viral clearance in transgenic mice designed to prove the superiority of the Company’s solubilized Ivermectin technology versus commercially available oral form in speed and efficacy of viral clearance. The agreement was signed January 26, 2021.
“This is a very significant project for MVMD and it will clearly demonstrate how our solubility technology applied to the Ivermectin drug can be applied as a broad therapeutic to immediately treat COVID-19, as well as its role in stopping the deadly spread of future pandemics that are certain to follow,” stated Dennis Hancock, President and CEO of Mountain Valley MD. “Quicksol™ allows us to imagine a world’s first as an injectable Ivermectin format for emergency front line usage as well as a rapid dissolve tablet that is administered for prevention like vitamin C around the world.”
There are less than thirty BSL-4 facilities in the world capable of performing this study and it is not unusual for projects to take up to three years to schedule. The Company was able to demonstrate the significance of its patented solubilized Ivermectin technology through its presentation of the superior pharmacokinetic data documented from two previously completed pre-clinical trials and was granted approval by the BSL-4 facility to commence this trial in late February 2021. The study results are anticipated in April 2021.
This study will be the first of its kind ever conducted with human grade solubilized Ivermectin anywhere in the world and its design was led by the Company’s key scientific advisor, Dr. John Clements. Dr. Clements is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine and has over 35 years of experience in vaccine, immunology and infectious diseases research and development, with a distinguished scientific career focused on developing and evaluating vaccines for a wide range of infectious diseases globally.
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at 8:20 AM on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Entered into a partnership with AtmosAir Solutions of Fairfield CT. to bring its products to market in Canada, including the company’s bi-polar ionization technology that mitigates COVID-19 and other viruses, bacteria and mold in the air and on surfaces.
UPI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, VCI Controls Inc. will promote, market, and sell AtmosAir products in Ontario and Quebec.
Toronto, Ontario–(January 27, 2021) – Universal PropTech Inc. (TSXV: UPI) (“UPI” or the “Company“) announced today that is has entered into a partnership with AtmosAir Solutions of Fairfield CT. to bring its products to market in Canada, including the company’s bi-polar ionization technology that mitigates COVID-19 and other viruses, bacteria and mold in the air and on surfaces. UPI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, VCI Controls Inc. (“VCI”) will promote, market, and sell AtmosAir products in Ontario and Quebec.
“Our team is very excited to be taking this important step in our business plan with a reputable company such as AtmosAir,” said Chris Hazelton, President and CEO of UPI. “Their impressive client base is a testament to the quality of their solutions, and it is time such great technology was made readily available to our clients – existing and future. UPI is committed to seeking out the best-in-class technology solutions for our clients to fight the spread of COVID-19 whether by way of ownership, investment, licencing or master distribution arrangements. We are excited and committed to aggressively pursue schools, universities and colleges, long term care facilities and other governmental facilities to deliver results with our 40-year proven integrated HVAC and Building Controls company.”
Carlos Gendron, VP of Sales and Marketing at AtmosAir said, “Our current distribution has reached over 7,500 installations worldwide, mainly focused on United States and China. The quality of our products is evident from our roster of clients, which include marquee names involved in commercial real estate, health care, hospitals, assisted living, hotels, cruise lines, universities and sports facilities. We are pleased to work with the UPI team as we make our debut into Ontario and Quebec. VCI’s experience and long-standing track record is impressive and we look forward to showcasing our innovation in Canada with a credible partner such as UPI.”
AtmosAir products provide indoor air quality solutions that suppress airborne and surface microbials and pathogens, including coronavirus, other viruses, bacteria and mold, and reduce odors as well as unhealthy and irritating volatile organic compounds (VOCs). AtmosAir Solutions’ tested and proven air purification technology is a continuous disinfectant, removing airborne and surface contaminants from indoor spaces.
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at 7:52 AM on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
Program To Accelerate Else’s Distribution Across U.S. Retail Stores And Reach Significantly More Shelves Nationwide
Chosen for the high-profile KeHE Distributor’s Elevate program.
Program carefully curate unique brands to promote within the American retail market to maximize their growth, success and better serve market demands.
VANCOUVER, BC , Jan. 27 , 2021 – ELSE NUTRITION HOLDINGS INC. (BABY.V) (BABYF) (0YL.F) (“Else” or the “Company”) the Plant-Based baby, toddler and children nutrition company , was chosen for the high-profileKeHE Distributor’s Elevate program. The program carefully curate unique brands to promote within the American retail market to maximize their growth, success and better serve market demands.
KeHE’s Category Management team actively searches for program candidates to join this exclusive network of brands, designed not to exceed 200 at any given time. This places Else Nutrition in the company of some of the most trusted and high-potential brands emerging in the North American markets.
“We are thrilled to have our products chosen for this unique program. KeHE offers best in class distribution and via the Elevate program we will be able to increase our brand awareness and visibility across the U.S. channels served by KeHE,” said Hamutal Yitzhak , CEO and Co-Founder of Else Nutrition.
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at 4:16 PM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
As the name implies “PropTech” is a combination of two words and stands for “property technology.” As simple as that is, the implementation and importance of PropTech is anything but, which is why many companies are trying to capitalize on the rapidly growing PropTech industry, while Universal PropTech (UPI:TSXV) is actually delivering healthy building solutions developers, owners and operators across Canada.
“Our clients expect us to have the right Covid-19-fighting solutions that meet the needs of their uniquely designed facilities. Fresh-Aire UV solutions allow us to deliver a highly integrated HVAC package to fit those schools, colleges, universities, government facilities and seniors’ homes, immediately, and enable us to remain our customer’s trusted advisor in healthy buildings.”
Watch our interview with CEO Hazelton to learn about the Company’s established PropTech success, COVID-19 solution for Canadian buildings and where the Company is going.
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at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Commenced an infill auger drilling program at K4-K5 to tighten the historic auger sampling pattern
Grid decreased to 200 x 50m in order to better constrain individual gold zones
Tajiri Resources Corp. (the “Company”) (TSXV: TAJ) is pleased to provide an update to the ongoing exploration work at the Company’s 100% owned Reo Gold Property, Burkina Faso, West Africa.
After completing initial drilling of the Morley prospect where numerous hits were reported including hole MRTC0022’s 11 metres of 8.6 g/t Au including 3 metres at 30.9 g/t Au from 20 metres; the Company began power auger drilling and trenching at the K4-K5 Prospect, where historic wide spaced drill lines returned significant mineralised intersections including: 18m @ 2.5g/t; 44m @ 1.5g/t, 12m @ 5.0g/t, 4m @ 16.2g/t; 36m @ 1.3g/t, 16m @ 2.7g/t, 20m @ 1.7g/t 18m @ 2.5g/t, 20m @ 1.7g/t, 18m @ 1.6g/t 12m @ 4.1g/t. RC: 13m @ 2.2g/t, 6m @ 2.7g/t, 16m @ 2.0g/t, 10m @ 3.5g/t; 3m @ 11.5g/t, 2m @ 16.8g/t, over an area of 3 x 4km from within a larger area of gold in saprolite anomalism of approximately 9 x 4 km (see Figure 1).
Due to the massive scale of the prospect and previous wide spaced sampling programmes Tajiri commenced an infill auger drilling program at K4-K5 to tighten the historic auger sampling pattern from a 400 x 100m grid to a 200 x 50m grid in order to better constrain individual gold zones within the broad gold in saprolite anomaly and to also investigate individual larger areas of artisanal workings on 100 x 25m to 25 x 25m grid spacings on an east west grid. Because artisanal workings have largely not been sampled or drilled to date and because they potentially overly areas of significant gold mineralisation it was considered important to sample these areas and determine orientation of mineralisation prior to commencing more expensive RC / diamond drilling programs.
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at 2:23 PM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
VoPay’s payment tech platform gives Marble‘s customers an ideal solution to easily and rapidly incorporate EFT payments
simplifies the process for providing a single API integration to banking providers
Allows Marble to improve customer retention and reduce costs
Vancouver, B.C. – January 26, 2021 – Marble Financial Inc. (CSE:MRBL ); ( OTC:MRBLF); (CNSX:MRBL.CN); (“Marble” or the “Company”) a financial technology company that empowers Canadians’ toward a positive financial future, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with VoPay International Inc. (“VoPay”) to deliver its open banking payments solution with coverage for thousands of new and existing MyMarble customers.
This partnership which enables new payment options to consumers, simplifies the process for providing a single API integration to banking providers.
VoPay’s payment technology platform now provides Marble an ideal solution to enable customers to easily and rapidly incorporate electronic funds transfer (“EFT”) payments into their financial technology solutions. With VoPay’s integrated single payment API, Marble is able to improve customer retention and reduce costs, which results in rapidly expanded and streamlined payment options for MyMarble users and for the Company to expand its top-end revenue channels.
According to Payments Canada Methods and Trends (CPMT) 2020 report, EFT payments have increased and represent 61% of the total remote payments volume. This presents a growing preferred payment method by Canadians, something Marble has not been able to offer in the past.
“We are very excited about partnering with VoPay to add a new payment option to Marble’s growing customer base and revenue streams,” said Karim Nanji, CEO Marble. “VoPay is a leader in payment processing with a world-class product when it comes to speed and efficiency. Our partnership with VoPay will position Marble to support rapid growth, and together we can further support Canadians that do not have access to credit as a payment option.”
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at 12:13 PM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Affinity Metals (AFF : TSXV) discusses rational for recently acquired Carscallen Extension property. The Carscallen Extension immediately adjoins the Melkior/Kirkland Lake Gold JV Carscallen Project located approximately 6 km west of Pan American Silver’s West Timmins Mine and approximately 25 KM West of Timmins.
Affinity announced the commencement of drilling on trend with the projected extension of the Shenkman-ZamZam gold system which has been the focus of the Melkior/Kirkland Lake Gold JV.
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at 9:29 AM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Announced that its Vital Intelligence technology, originally developed for drones and now made available on devices like laptops, tablets and smartphones, has been selected by The 517 Group to design and deliver its Vital Intelligence technology to its hospitality and entertainment focused enterprises.
517 Group is a hospitality and entertainment service focused company based out of Tennessee that specializes in operations, brand management, marketing, leadership development, supply chain oversight, strategic alignment and operational best practices.
Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 26, 2021 — Draganfly Inc. (OTCQB: DFLYF) (CSE: DFLY) (FSE: 3U8) (“Draganfly” or the “Company”), an award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer, today announced that its Vital Intelligence technology, originally developed for drones and now made available on devices like laptops, tablets and smartphones, has been selected by The 517 Group to design and deliver its Vital Intelligence technology to its hospitality and entertainment focused enterprises.
The 517 Group is a hospitality and entertainment service focused company based out of Tennessee that specializes in operations, brand management, marketing, leadership development, supply chain oversight, strategic alignment and operational best practices. They serve as an operator and brand consultant to senior leadership in multiple organizations ranging from independent restaurants, large suppliers supporting national brands, as well as large multi-unit restaurant chains, including franchised organizations.
Draganfly’s Vital Intelligence technology Smart Vital assessment platform and telehealth app can automatically detect with voluntary consent body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and O2 saturation, all from a camera that takes seconds to capture the information. The technology can be deployed via a Kiosk, laptop or mobile devices like a tablets or smartphones.
“The 517 Group was looking for a solution to keep their hospitality and entertainment customers healthy and safe for employees and patrons,” said Cameron Chell, CEO of Draganfly. “We are honored to be selected to work with 517 to implement critical yet elegant solutions that are unobtrusive and effective for workplace safety.”
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at 8:43 AM on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
The two companies to jointly develop a patentable industrial scale process for Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling.
Altair International Corp. (the “Company” or “Altair”) (OTC: ATAO) is pleased to provide an update on its previously announced partnership with St-Georges Eco-Mining Corp. (CSE: SX) (OTC: SXOOF) (FSE: 85G1) (“St-Georges”) a Canadian public company engaged in the development of new Lithium extraction technologies.
On December 1, 2020 the two companies entered into a Binding agreement that would allow Altair access to St-Georges’ patent-pending Lithium processing technology for Altair’s Nevada based Stonewall project and most importantly bring together the two companies to jointly develop a patentable industrial scale process for Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling.
As the global Electric Vehicle (EV) market heats up over the coming decade, the demand for battery metals is expected to outpace current production. Even with increased energy density and charge cycles, Lithium based batteries for EVs, laptops, phones and other mobile devices will create cumulative waste challenges both in the environmental footprint of production and end-of-life LIB disposal.
Altair and St-Georges recognize that new optimized recycling technologies will offer valuable solutions to both a waste-management and battery metal supply. Selective, economic and responsible metal extraction of spent LIBs will be an integral part of the multi-billion dollar green economy and play a crucial part in the future of EV dominance of the automotive sector.
