VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Glance Technologies Inc. (CSE:GET) (OTCQB:GLNNF) (FKT:GJT) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed the previously announced bought deal public offering (the "Offering") of 3,684,000 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of C$3.00 per Unit (the “Offering Price”) pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. and PI Financial Corp. as co-lead underwriters, (together, the “Underwriters”) for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $11,052,000. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters have been granted an over-allotment option that may be exercised for a period of 30 days from the closing of the Offering to purchase 552,600 additional Units at the Offering Price.

Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (each, a “Unit Share”) and one unit purchase warrant (each, a “Unit Warrant”). Each Unit Warrant is exercisable into one unit (each, a “Subsequent Unit”) at an exercise price of $3.84 per Subsequent Unit for a period of 12 months following the closing of the Offering.  Each Subsequent Unit consists of one common share of the Company (each, a “Subsequent Unit Share”) and one common share purchase warrant (each, a “Share Warrant”) exercisable at an exercise price of $5.00 per common share (“Common Share”) for a period of 24 months following the closing of the Offering. Both the Unit Warrants and the Share Warrants are transferable by the holders thereof. 

In consideration for the services provided by the Underwriters and pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters received a cash commission equal to 7% of the gross proceeds raised under the Offering and Units equal to 7% of the total number of Units sold under the Offering.

Glance now has over $17,400,000 cash in the bank to pursue its business goals.

About Glance Technologies Inc.

Glance Technologies owns and operates Glance Pay, a streamlined payment system that revolutionizes how smartphone users choose where to dine, order goods and services, make payments, access digital receipts, redeem digital deals, earn great rewards & interact with merchants. Glance is building a valuable network of merchants and consumers, and offers targeted in-app marketing, geo targeted digital coupons, social media marketing, customer feedback, in-merchant messaging and custom rewards programs. The Glance Pay mobile payment system consists of proprietary technology, which includes user apps available for free downloads in IOS (Apple) and Android formats, merchant manager apps, a large scale technology hosting environment with sophisticated anti-fraud technology and lightning fast payment processing.

Glance Pay has entered into significant licensing agreements to access the cannabis, fitness and wellness, foreign student and tourist markets through Cannapay Financial Inc., Active Pay Distribution Inc. and Euro Asia Pay Holdings Inc.

Glance Pay is building a network of international advisors and developing a cryptocurrency which will offer reward elements for use on its platform.

For more information about Glance, please go to www.glance.tech or contact:

Christina Rao

Vice President, Investor Relations (604) 723-7480

investors@glancepay.com 

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

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