Wave Systems To Complete $4.4 Million Offering
Lee, MA – February 16 , 2006 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX – www.wave.com), a developer of trusted computing solutions and services, announced today that it has agreed upon an issuance of $4,466,500 million of its Class A common stock to accredited investors. Pursuant to the financing, Wave Systems has agreed to sell 8,348,598 shares of Class A common stock at a price of $0.535 per share as well as warrants to purchase 1,550,868 shares of the company's common stock within six months at an exercise price of $0.72 per share. If exercised in their entirety, the warrants would generate an additional $1,116,625 in gross proceeds to Wave. The transaction is anticipated to close today and is intended to fund Wave Systems' ongoing operations and general corporate overhead. The transaction is being done under Wave Systems' $25 million shelf registration statement which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 13, 2006.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities of Wave Systems Corp.
About Wave Systems Corp.
Wave provides software to help solve critical enterprise PC security challenges such as strong authentication, data protection, network access control and the management of these enterprise functions. Wave is a pioneer in hardware-based PC security and a founding member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a consortium of nearly 140 PC industry leaders that forged open standards for hardware security. Wave’s EMBASSY® line of client- and server-side software leverages and manages the security functions of the TCG’s industry standard hardware security chip, the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). TPMs are included on tens of millions of PCs and are standard equipment on many enterprise-class PCs shipping today. Using TPMs and Wave software, enterprises can substantially and cost-effectively strengthen their current security solutions. For more information about Wave and its solutions, visit http://www.wave.com.
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