ClearSign Technologies Corporation Announces Closing of $9.3 Million Public Offering and Concurrent Private Placement of Common Stock and Warrants

TULSA, Okla., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSign Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: CLIR) ("ClearSign" or the "Company"), an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and safety while dramatically reducing emissions, today announced the closing of an underwritten public offering of 4,620,760 shares of its common stock and redeemable warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 4,620,760 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $0.91 per share and $0.01 per accompanying warrant. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.05 per share, are exercisable immediately upon issuance and redeemable upon certain conditions and will expire five years following the date of issuance.

In a private placement completed concurrently with the public offering, ClearSign issued to an accredited investor an aggregate of 2,249,763 shares of common stock, pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 3,155,642 shares of common stock and redeemable warrants to purchase up to 8,108,106 shares of common stock. The offering prices in the private placement were $0.91 per share and $0.01 per redeemable warrants, or $0.9099 per pre-funded warrant and $0.01 per redeemable warrants, as applicable. The pre-funded warrants issued in the private placement are exercisable immediately at a nominal exercise price of $0.0001. The redeemable warrants issued in the private placement will be exercisable at an exercise price of $1.05 per share, will be exercisable beginning six months after issuance, redeemable upon certain conditions and expire five years from the date of issuance.

Public Ventures, LLC acted as the sole book-running manager for the public offering and as a placement agent for the private placement.

Gross proceeds from the public and private offering were approximately $9.3 million, excluding underwriting and placement agent discounts and commissions and other offering-related expenses.

ClearSign intends to use the net proceeds from the offerings for working capital, research and development, marketing and sales, and general corporate purposes.

The securities in the public offering were offered pursuant to a prospectus supplement and an accompanying base prospectus forming part of a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-265967), which was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and became effective on August 12, 2022. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to the public offering was filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus may be obtained for free by contacting Public Ventures, LLC, 14135 Midway Rd, Suite G-150, Addison, TX, 75001, by email at [email protected] or by telephone at (945) 262-9010.

The private placement was conducted pursuant to the exemption from registration provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act of 1933 and/or Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

About ClearSign Technologies Corporation

ClearSign Technologies Corporation designs and develops products and technologies for the purpose of improving key performance characteristics of industrial and commercial systems, including operational performance, energy efficiency, emission reduction, safety and overall cost-effectiveness. Our patented technologies, embedded in established OEM products as ClearSign Core^™ and ClearSign Eye^™ and other sensing configurations, enhance the performance of combustion systems and fuel safety systems in a broad range of markets, including the energy (upstream oil production and down-stream refining), commercial/industrial boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries. For more information, please visit www.clearsign.com.

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SOURCE ClearSign Technologies Corporation