RE: Report is out28 Sep 2023 13:27
The Company successfully raised £4,056,250 (before expenses) through the allotment and issue of 162,250,000 new ordinary shares at 2.5 pence per share during the period to 30 June 2023 and a further $830,000 (£668,000) through the allotment and issue of 11,066,667 Ordinary Shares, after the period end. These proceeds were raised in order to facilitate the progression of the Company's HEMO-CAR-T product candidate into clinical trials and to enable the Company to continue development of product candidates for the treatment of viral infections based on its CBR platform.
Substantial funding will be required by the Company during the clinical trial phase and further funding will be sought by the Company prior to the commencement of the Phase I clinical trials.
At 20m mCap(roughly where it is now) "Substantial Funding" for me does not suggest 1-3m here and there. The market IMO is closed in terms of raising anything even remotely close what is required whilst the SP is down here and any suggestion that Vlad can fund clinical trials based on highly dilutive placings is just pie in the sky. Even the last RNS with the initial investment of 1% @6p, that was just enough to get the CMO started. IMO thats the goal for Vlad, raised just enough to get the CH lifted, they have enough for a few months and considering they said "Start trials in 2023" thats good enough.
I have bought another 100k in the dip, IMO it will be seen as too good an oppertunity by many to miss, yes the RNS was not fantastic, but it gives very clear indications that good times are not that far away.
Anyway, obviously I cannot say that Vlad WONT raise in a public placing before getting to that point, only that I believe he wont need to and given how successful he was with Prevail he will once again look to institutional investment at a premium. But time will tell.