WISeKey places 198,298 Class B Shares

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WISeKey places 198,298 Class B Shares

Zug, Switzerland – December 07, 2017 – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN) (WISeKey” or the “Company”), a leading cybersecurity and IoT company, announced today that it has raised CHF1.0m of cash via the private placement of 198,298 newly issued Class B Shares with a strategic investor. The new Class B Shares will be issued out of the Company’s existing authorized share capital on a non-preemptive basis at a subscription price of CHF 5.04 per Class B Share, such price representing a historical volume-weighted average share price of a Class B Share on the SIX Swiss Exchange Ltd. over a representative period. The funds are intended to be used for general corporate purposes.

This transaction is part of the previously announced Tranche III private placement financing of WISeKey. The Company has previously raised CHF3.0 million of cash via a Mandatory Loan Note in Tranche I on June 24, 2016 and CHF5.4 million of cash via a Mandatory Loan Note in Tranche II on July 14, 2016.

WISeKey may raise additional cash as part of such Tranche III at then prevailing market terms in the weeks / months to come. 

About WISeKey:

WISeKey (SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying via a Virtual Platform large scale digital identity ecosystems. WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic RoT and IoT Microchips provide secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.

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