Poet Technologies Inc 6-K, filed Feb 23, 2024
Poet Technologies Inc. (POET)
About this 6-K
Poet Technologies Inc filed this 6-K on February 23, 2024.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of February 2024
Commission File Number: 000-55135
POET TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
120 Eglinton Avenue East, Ste 1107
Toronto, Ontario, M4P 1E2, Canada
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F [ X ] Form 40-F [ ]
On February 20, 2024, the Registrant issued a press release, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
(c) Exhibit 99.1. Press release dated February 20, 2024
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| POET TECHNOLOGIES INC. | ||
| (Registrant) | ||
| Date: February 20, 2024 | /s/ THOMAS MIKA | |
| Thomas Mika | ||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
EXHIBIT 99.1
POET Technologies Announces the Grant of Stock Options
TORONTO, Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; NASDAQ: POET), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™, Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and light sources for the data center, tele-communication and artificial intelligence markets, today announced that the board of directors of the Company has granted 765,000 stock options to purchase common shares to officers, other employees and consultants of the Company . The stock option grant includes the award of 420,000 stock options to officers of the Company, 220,000 to other employees and 125,000 to consultants.
The stock options granted to officers and employees have an exercise price of C$1.79, being the closing price of the Company’s stock on the TSXV on February 15, 2024, are exercisable for 10 years following the grant and will fully vest on February 16, 2025. The stock options granted consultants are performance based and will vest when certain performance milestones are met.
About POET Technologies Inc.
POET is a design and development company offering integration solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™, a novel platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single multi-chip module using advanced wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques and packaging methods. POET’s Optical Interposer eliminates costly components and labor-intensive assembly, alignment, burn-in and testing methods employed in conventional photonics. The cost-efficient integration scheme and scalability of the POET Optical Interposer brings value to any device or system that integrates electronics and photonics, including some of the highest growth areas of computing, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles and high-speed networking for cloud service providers and data centers. POET is headquartered in Toronto, with operations in Allentown, PA, Shenzhen, China and Singapore. More information may be obtained at www.poet-technologies.com.
Contacts:
| Media Relations Contact: Adrian Brijbassi adrian.brijbassi@poet-technologies.com | Company Contact: Thomas R. Mika, EVP & CFO tm@poet-technologies.com |
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
120 Eglinton Avenue, East, Suite 1107, Toronto, ON, M4P 1E2- Tel: 416-368-9411 - Fax: 416-322-5075.