Bidstack Group PLC Market speculation regarding proposed fundraising (2736X)
April 26 2019 - 6:29AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMBIDS
RNS Number : 2736X
Bidstack Group PLC
26 April 2019
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26 April 2019
Bidstack Group PLC ("Bidstack or "the Company")
Market speculation regarding a proposed fundraising
The Directors of Bidstack Group PLC (AIM: BIDS.L), the native
in-game advertising group, note recent market speculation regarding
a proposed equity fundraising by the Company.
The Company confirms that it is considering raising funds by way
of a placing of new ordinary shares to support its growth. This
follows indications of interest from a number of potential
investors.
As stated in the Company's recent Annual Report and Accounts,
the Company is experiencing high levels of interest in its business
model from games publishers, developers and other leading
technology businesses.
The Group's strategic challenge is about speed and execution.
What Bidstack is doing now has never been done before, giving us a
first mover advantage in the commercialisation of programmatic
native in-game advertising.
The Board is exploring the investment opportunity with which it
has been presented to ensure that Bidstack has the resources,
connections and personnel required to maximise the considerable
commercial opportunity currently available to it.
The new funds, if raised, would be used to:
-- Accelerate the Group's technical development curve to address some of the significant new opportunities opening up for Bidstack;
-- Significantly grow the size of the Company's technical
development team and hire developers who can code in languages such
as unity and react native and have expertise with technologies
which Bidstack does not currently use, including blockchain, to
access more games and connect with more significant DSPs and to
give it the resource to interact with some of the world's largest
games companies and publishers;
-- Accelerate the Company's "land grab" by giving it increased
resource to deal with and sign up more and bigger games;
-- Accelerate our marketing efforts to major brands including
creating a network of Bidstack approved digital marketing agencies;
and
-- Raise Bidstack's profile and credibility in both the gaming
and programmatic digital advertising communities including setting
up representative offices on the US West Coast and in Asia (most
likely Singapore).
There can be no certainty that any fundraising will proceed.
However, the Directors are encouraged by the indications of support
for both the Company and the proposed fundraising from both new and
existing shareholders.
Further announcements will be made as appropriate.
ENDS
Contacts
Bidstack Group PLC
James Draper, CEO +44 (0) 7850 341 885
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nomad)
Mark Brady/Neil Baldwin/James Keeshan +44 (0) 203 368 3550
Peterhouse Capital Limited (Broker)
Eran Zucker/Lucy Williams/Duncan Vasey +44 (0) 20 7409 0930
Alma PR
Josh Royston/Sam Modlin +44 (0) 203 405 0205
Notes to editors
Bidstack is an advertising technology company which provides
dynamic, targeted and automated native in-game advertising for the
global video games industry across multiple platforms. Its
proprietary API technology is capable of inserting adverts into
natural advertising space within video games across multiple video
games platforms (mobile, PC and console).
Bidstack's customers are games publishers and developers and
advertising agencies, brands and programmatic advertising
platforms. Bidstack contracts exclusive access to the native
in-game advertising space within video games from their developers
or publishers and sells that advertising space either direct to
specific brands and their agencies or through programmatic
advertising platforms.
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