WISeKey Extends Commitment Term of its CHF 50 Million Equity Financing with Yorkville until February 2023; Increases Amount Available Under the Short-term Unsecured Loan Facility

WISeKey Extends Commitment Term of its CHF 50 Million Equity Financing with Yorkville until February 2023; Increases Amount Available Under the Short-term Unsecured Loan Facility

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ZUG, Switzerland – WISeKey International Holding Ltd (“WISeKey”) (SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading Swiss cybersecurity and IoT company, today announced that a fund managed by Yorkville Advisors Global, LLC (“Yorkville”) has agreed to extend the commitment term under the CHF 50 million Standby Equity Distribution Agreement (SEDA) from three to five years, ending February 2023.

Yorkville has further agreed to make available, subject to certain conditions, a short-term unsecured loan facility in an aggregate amount of USD 4 million. The USD 4.0 million loan facility replaces the existing USD 3.5 million facility signed in October 2018; the funds drawn under the previous facility will be rolled over into the new facility. Yorkville has the right to convert the outstanding loan amount or any portion thereof into Class B Shares. The initial conversion price, subject to customary adjustments, is CHF 3.00.

About WISeKey

WISeKey (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.).  WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment before it happens.

Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides 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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