Mississauga, ON Canada and Sacramento, CA USA (May 1, 2024) TheNewswire – Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (the “Company” or “BVT”) (CSE: BEE) (OTCQB: BEVVF) (CVE:BEE) announces that further to the news release dated April 23, 2024, it has closed the previously announced debt settlement and issued  11,037,485 Common shares at a price of $0.035 per Common share (the “Settlement Shares”), to fully settle outstanding debts owed to a creditor (the “Creditor”) in the amount of $386,312.

 

All securities issued pursuant to the debt settlement are subject to a statutory hold period that will expire on August 31, 2024, in accordance with applicable securities laws.

 

The Company also announces that is has drawn down the 3rd tranche of $100,000 in secured promissory notes (the “Notes”) from the previously announced Loan Agreement dated December 11, 2023 and it has issued 2,600,000 Common shares at a price of $0.05 per Common share. The conversion of the Notes into Common shares included a 10% repayment penalty fee and a 20% facilitation fee payable to the noteholders. The Common shares issued in satisfaction of the Notes were issued in accordance to NI 45-106 section 2.42(1) and are free trading from issuance.

 

The Company has also issued an aggregate of 3,539,625 restricted share units (the “RSUs”) to employees and consultants pursuant to the Company’s restricted share unit plan (the “RSU Plan”). A portion of the RSUs will vest immediately with the remaining RSUs vesting four months from the date of issuance. Each RSU shall entitle the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company by delivering a notice of acquisition to the Company in accordance with the RSU Plan. In accordance with the RSU Plan, the RSUs were priced at $0.05 which was above the closing market price on April 30, 2024. The RSUs were awarded to employees and consultants who have agreed to restructure their compensation and receive RSUs in lieu of certain cash payments for future services. All of the noted RSUs remain subject to the Company receiving shareholder approval of its RSU plan at its annual general and special meeting which is being re-scheduled for early July 2024.

 

About Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.

 

BVT, an agriculture technology company, is a market disruptor with a significant global market opportunity in the $240 billion crop protection and fertilizer market. BVT has pioneered a natural precision agriculture system that replaces chemical pesticides and wasteful plant protection product spray applications by delivering biological pesticide alternatives to crops using commercially grown bees. BVT's award-winning technology, precision vectoring, is completely harmless to bees and allows minute amounts of naturally-derived pesticides (called biologicals) to be delivered directly to blooms, providing improved crop protection and yield results than traditional chemical pesticides - and improving the health of the soil, the microbiome and the environment. Currently, BVT has over 55 granted patents, many more patents pending in all major agricultural countries worldwide and has US EPA registration of its Vectorite™ with CR-7 (EPA Registration No. 90641-2) for sale as a registered biological fungicide for use on the labeled crops.

 

Additional information can be viewed at the Company’s website www.beevt.com. To receive regular news updates from the Company, subscribe at www.beevt.com/newsletter.

 

BVT Company Contact:

Ashish Malik, President & CEO, BVT

info@beevt.com

 

BVT Investor Contacts:

Babak Pedram

Virtus Advisory Group
Tel: 416-995-8651
bpedram@virtusadvisory.com

 

The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release. The CSE does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking information" as such term is defined in applicable Canadian securities legislation. The words "may", "would", "could", "should", "potential", "will", "seek", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" and similar expressions as they relate to the Company, “annual revenue potential”, are intended to identify forward-looking information. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking information. Such statements reflect the Company’s current views and intentions with respect to future events, and current information available to the Company, and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including: planted acres, selling price of competitive chemical pesticides and the US to Canadian dollar exchange rate. Material factors or assumptions were applied in providing forward-looking information. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking information to vary from those described herein should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize. These factors include changes in law, competition, litigation, the ability to implement business strategies and pursue business opportunities, state of the capital markets, the availability of funds and resources to pursue operations, new technologies, the ability to protect intellectual property rights, the ability to obtain patent protection for products, third-party intellectual property infringement claims, regulatory changes affecting products, failing research and development activities, the ability to reach and sustain profitability, dependence on business and technical experts, the ability to effectively manage business operations and growth, issuance of debt, dilution of existing securities, volatility of publicly traded securities, potential conflicts of interest, unlikelihood of dividend payments, the potential costs stemming from defending third-party intellectual property infringement claims, the ability to secure relationships with manufacturers and purchasers, as well as general economic, market and business conditions, as well as those risk factors discussed or referred to in the Company’s Filing Statement dated August 14,2020, filed with the CSE and securities regulatory authorities in certain provinces of Canada and available at www.sedar.com. Should any factor affect the Company in an unexpected manner, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, the actual results or events may differ materially from the results or events predicted. Any such forward-looking information is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Moreover, the Company does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such forward-looking information. The forward-looking information included in this press release is made as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, other than as required by applicable law. All figures are in Canadian dollars.