Warrantee Inc. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering
July 27 2023 - 11:30AM
Warrantee Inc. (Nasdaq: WRNT) (the “Company” or “Warrantee”), a
Japanese marketing and market research technology company, today
announced the closing of its initial public offering (the
“Offering”) of 2,400,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) at a
public offering price of US$4.00 per ADS. Each ADS represents one
common share of the Company. The ADSs began trading on the Nasdaq
Capital Market on July 25, 2023 under the ticker symbol “WRNT.”
Prime Number Capital LLC acted as the sole book
runner for the Offering. Spartan Capital Securities, LLC acted as
the selected dealer for the Offering. Hunter Taubman Fischer &
Li LLC acted as U.S. counsel to the Company, and Winston &
Strawn LLP acted as U.S. counsel to Prime Number Capital LLC in
connection with the Offering.
The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of
US$9.60 million from the Offering, before deducting underwriting
discounts and other related expenses. In addition, the Company has
granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an
additional 360,000 ADSs at the public offering price, less
underwriting discounts.
Proceeds from the Offering will be used for i)
hiring additional employees including sales, marketing, and
administrative personnel; ii) conducting promotional activities,
including outbound marketing and expansion of agency network
referrals; iii) general advertising and promotion, associated with
expanding corporate sponsors and attracting participant users for
the Company’s campaigns; and iv) working capital and other general
corporate purposes.
A registration statement on Form F-1 relating to
the Offering was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) (File Number: 333-272367), as amended, and
was declared effective by the SEC on June 30, 2023. The offering
was made only by means of a final prospectus. Copies of the final
prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from Prime
Number Capital LLC by email at info@pncps.com. In addition, copies
of the final prospectus relating to the Offering may be obtained
via the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
This press release does not constitute an offer
to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the
Company’s securities, nor shall such securities be offered or sold
in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption
from registration, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or
sale of any of the Company’s securities in any state or
jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
About Warrantee
Inc.
Founded in Japan in 2013, Warrantee is a
Japanese marketing and market research technology company that
helps corporate sponsors unlock value through targeted marketing
campaigns while providing its corporate sponsors’ potential
customers who participate in its campaigns with extended warranty
coverage on durables or certain healthcare benefits sponsored by
its corporate sponsors. Warrantee focuses on developing a suite of
specialized marketing and market research services and these
services are designed to collect and leverage targeted and
specialty data of its corporate sponsors’ potential customers to
provide proprietary market insights to its corporate sponsors and
promote the sales of their products. At the core of Warrantee’s
current business of providing marketing campaign services is its
trinity model, which connects three stakeholders: corporate
sponsors, campaign participants, whom Warrantee also refers to as
users, and Warrantee, and is designed to benefit all three
stakeholders. For more information, please visit the Company’s
website: https://warrantee.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this announcement are
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on
the Company’s current expectations and projections about future
events that the Company believes may affect its financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial
needs. Investors can find many (but not all) of these statements by
the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “believe,”
“expect,” “could,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “estimate,”
“continue,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “target,” “goal,” or
other similar expressions in this prospectus. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events
or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be
required by law. Although the Company believes that the
expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are
reasonable, it cannot assure you that such expectations will turn
out to be correct, and the Company cautions investors that actual
results may differ materially from the anticipated results and
encourages investors to review other factors that may affect its
future results in the Company’s registration statement and other
filings with the SEC.
For investor and media inquiries, please
contact:
Warrantee Inc.
Investor Relations Department
Email: info@warrantee.co.jp
Ascent Investors Relations LLC
Tina Xiao
Phone: +1 917-609-0333
Email: tina.xiao@ascent-ir.com
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