Creatd Announces its Intent to Acquire Brave, and Closes $2.15 Million in Above-Market Financing
Creatd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire Brave, a healthy breakfast brand, marking its fourth acquisition under the Ventures pillar. The acquisition is expected to close soon and should be immediately accretive to revenues. Additionally, Creatd closed a private placement raising $2.15 million, with proceeds allocated to expansion initiatives, including technology development. The private placement includes convertible debentures and warrants, with the company aiming to enhance its brand portfolio and accelerate growth.
- Acquisition of Brave expected to immediately increase revenues.
- Private placement raised $2.15 million for expansion and technology development.
- Continued strategy of acquiring brands that complement existing portfolio.
- Potential dilution of existing shareholders due to the issuance of convertible debentures and warrants.
- Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the acquisition of healthy breakfast brand, Brave, which would mark Creatd's fourth consumer brand acquisition under its Ventures pillar.
- The transaction is expected to close within the coming weeks; upon closing, it is anticipated that Brave will be immediately accretive to Creatd's revenues.
- Creatd additionally announces close of private placement priced at
$2.00 , two times Friday's market close. - Proceeds from the private placement to be allocated in part toward numerous expansion initiatives outlined at the Company's recent Investor Day, including acquisitions and technology development.
NEW YORK, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), the parent company of Creatd Ventures, today announced that it has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to purchase a
Like the other brands in Creatd Ventures' portfolio–Camp, Dune, and Basis–Brave began with a creator and a problem to solve. The world was struggling with conventional breakfast options that pit nutrition against convenience. Brave was designed to break this mold, and emerged to offer consumers a better, healthier superfood breakfast.
Commented Thomas Punch, head of Creatd Ventures, "Brave has all the hallmarks of an ideal acquisition candidate for our portfolio of brands: a health and wellness consumer brand, with a subscription-oriented business model, that is meeting a growing demand among a loyal base of recurring consumers. Between our shared resource model and the audience insights leveraged from Vocal and from our brand collaborations, we believe that Creatd Ventures offers a significant value proposition for up-and-coming brands like Brave. Here, we help creators become entrepreneurs, and enable them to unlock scale while growing sustainably."
Additionally, Creatd today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements for a private placement with an aggregate principal amount of
Pursuant to the Private Placement, Creatd will also issue 1,075,000 warrants to purchase shares of common stock with an initial exercise price of
The Private Placement is expected to close on or about July 25, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Commented Creatd's Executive Chairman Jeremy Frommer, "As we have communicated, both in our newly updated Expansion Plan deck as well as in management's presentation at last week's Investor Day, a core aspect of Creatd's expansion strategy involves us continuing to pursue acquisitions that align with and complement the brands in our existing Ventures portfolio. Brave is the latest example of this strategy coming to fruition, all while we continue building out our future target pipeline, and maintain active discussions with a number of other potential candidates. Given the momentum evident across all of Creatd's business pillars, we believe our decision to take advantage of this financing opportunity was a prudent one, enabling the Company to keep its foot on the gas pedal and continue riding our rapid pace of growth."
Continued Frommer, "We would also like to remind all of Creatd's existing and prospective shareholders of our rights offering calendar, as well as the upcoming Ownership Date cutoff this Wednesday, July 27th at 4:00 PM ET. This is the deadline by which you must purchase Creatd securities in order to be considered shareholder of record as of the Record Date. I am hopeful that, as we approach the Record Date and the start of the Subscription Period, when-issued trading on the publicly tradable warrants will begin soon."
Wednesday, | Ownership Date – Securities must be acquired by market close of 4:00 PM ET in order to be considered a shareholder of record on the Record Date |
Thursday, | Ex-Right Date, CRTD & CRTDW will trade on this day without the Rights attached. |
Friday, July | Rights Offering Record Date |
Wednesday, | Subscription Period Begins – Shareholders can start subscribing or oversubscribing for the Rights Offering |
Wednesday, | Subscription Period Ends – 5:00 PM ET unless extended at the Company's sole discretion |
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Creatd, Inc. (Nasdaq CM: CRTD) is a company dedicated to unlocking creativity for creators, brands, and consumers. We accomplish this through Creatd's four business pillars: Creatd Labs, Creatd Partners, Creatd Ventures, and Creatd Studios.
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Vocal Platform: https://vocal.media;
Investor Relations Contact: ir@creatd.com
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