18 July 2025
Cel AI PLC
("Cel AI" or "the Company")
Completion of Fundraising and PDMR holdings
Cel AI Plc (LSE: CLAI), the AI agent deployment platform with a strategic Bitcoin treasury focus, is pleased to announce, further to its announcement of 30 June 2025, the Company has now completed its Fundraising following the passing of resolutions at the General Meeting held yesterday.
Accordingly, the Company will issue 5,000,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the share capital of the Company ("New Shares") pursuant to the Placing and Subscriptions. The Company will apply for admission of the New Shares to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange upon publication of a secondary prospectus approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (as the competent authority).
Total voting rights
Following the Fundraising, the Company's total issued ordinary share capital will comprise 5,752,423,611 ordinary shares of £0.001 each, with each share carrying one vote. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.
Bitcoin Treasury Transaction
The Company continues its Bitcoin strategy and its current holding in Bitcoin is 5.2803802 BTC.
Olivia Edwards, Executive Chair of Cel AI, commented:
"The completion of this £10 million fundraising is a major milestone for Cel AI as we scale decentralised AI infrastructure and strengthen our digital asset reserves. This capital extends our operational capacity and reinforces our dual-engine model-combining AI agent deployment with Bitcoin treasury growth. Our recent Bittensor subnet acquisition and Bitcoin purchases are early examples of this strategy in motion, and we're focused on scaling both to drive long-term shareholder value."
Defined terms used but not defined in this announcement have the meanings set out in the announcement released by the Company on 27 June 2025 and 30 June 2025.
Enquiries:
| Cel AI | |
| Director Olivia Edwards |
via FSCF |
| First Sentinel Corporate Finance (FSCF) | |
| Financial Adviser Brian Stockbridge |
+44 7858 888 007 |
| OAK Securities | |
| Corporate Broker Jerry Keen / Calvin Man | +44 20 3973 3678 / +44 7432 270007 jerry.keen@oak-securities.com calvin.man@oak-securities.com |
| 1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Olivia Edwards | ||||
| 2. | Reason for the Notification | |||||
| a) | Position/status | Director | ||||
| b) | Initial notification / Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| 3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | Cel AI plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800IXPX4Z2MKX2U28 | ||||
| 4. | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
| a) | Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument | Ordinary Shares | ||||
| | Identification Code | GB00BK964W87 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Purchase of Ordinary Shares | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information: · Aggregated volume · Price |
125,000,000 £250,000 | ||||
| e) | Date of the transaction | 18 July 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of the Transaction | Outside a trading venue | ||||
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