TORONTO, July 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. ('POET' or the 'Corporation') (TSXV: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), a leader in the design and implementation of highly-integrated optical engines and light sources for artificial intelligence networks, is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced non-brokered public offering of an aggregate 5,000,000 units of the Corporation (the 'Units') at a price of US$5.00 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds to the Corporation of US$25,000,000 (the 'Offering'). Each Unit is comprised of one common share of the Corporation (each, a 'Common Share') and one common share purchase warrant of the Corporation (each whole common share purchase warrant, a 'Warrant'), with each Warrant being exercisable to acquire one Common Share at an exercise price of C$8.16 for a period of five years from the date of issuance.