SINGAPORE, Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) ("Canaan" or the "Company"), a leading high-performance computing solutions provider, today announced that it has closed the previously announced Series A-1 preferred shares financing (the "Preferred Shares Financing"), raising total gross proceeds of US$30 million.
On November 19, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement ("Securities Purchase Agreement") with an institutional investor (the "Buyer"), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Buyer 30,000 Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Shares (the "Preferred Shares") at the price of US$1,000.00 for each Preferred Share.
The foregoing description does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Company's current report on Form 6-K dated November 20, 2024 announcing the execution of the Securities Purchase Agreement.
This press release is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, which is made only by means of a prospectus supplement and related prospectus. There will be no sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation of an offer to buy or sale would be unlawful.
About Canaan Inc.
Established in 2013, Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN), is a technology company focusing on ASIC high-performance computing chip design, chip research and development, computing equipment production, and software services. Canaan has extensive experience in chip design and streamlined production in the ASIC field. In 2013, Canaan's founding team shipped to its customers the world's first batch of mining machines incorporating ASIC technology in bitcoin's history under the brand name Avalon. In 2019, Canaan completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market. To learn more about Canaan, please visit https://www.canaan.io/.
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Investor Relations Contact
Canaan Inc.
Xi Zhang
Email: IR@canaan-creative.com
ICR, LLC.
Robin Yang
Tel: +1 (347) 396-3281
Email: canaan.ir@icrinc.com
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