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Wearable Devices Ltd. Announces a Warrant Inducement Transaction for $2.4 Million in Gross Proceeds

Published August 06, 2025 at 07:43 PM

Yokneam Illit, Israel, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wearable Devices Ltd. (the “Company” or “Wearable Devices”) (Nasdaq: WLDS, WLDSW), an award-winning pioneer in artificial intelligence (“AI”)-based wearable gesture control technology, today announced its entry into a warrant inducement agreement with an existing institutional investor of the Company for the immediate exercise of warrants to purchase up to 1,661,000 of its ordinary shares (the “Existing Warrants”) at an exercise price of $1.45 per share for gross cash proceeds of approximately $2.4 million, before deducting fees and other transaction expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the warrant inducement transaction for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

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