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17 Mars 2023  

Tekcapital Plc

("Tekcapital", la "Société" ou le "Groupe")

Portfolio Company Update: Guident Ltd

Tekcapital Plc (AIM: TEK), (OTCQB: TEKCF), the UK intellectual property investment group focused on transforming university technologies into valuable products that can improve people's lives, is pleased to provide a progress report on Guident Ltd. ("Guident").

Guident is developing remote monitoring and control software to improve safety of autonomous vehicles and land-based delivery devices. Guident's software will incorporate artificial intelligence and advanced network technologies to minimize signal latency and help improve the safety of autonomous vehicles.

Since the start of 2023, Guident has enjoyed greater commercial traction and its sales pipeline grow as a result of meetings with new strategic partners and prospective customers. A strategic workshop also took place where Guident agreed on the R&D roadmap for 2023, including a newly defined order process and product names for the Remote Monitoring and Control Center solution (RMCC) and the Regenerative Shock Absorber (RSA) and its components.

Guident will shortly deploy its RMCC service for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) and expects the first Purchase Order from the contract shortly.  Management visited JTA in February 2023 which resulted in defined actions for the deployment of Guident's proprietary teleoperation solution by May 2023.

CMRC

As announced on 17 Februry 2023, Guident signed a letter of intent with Auve Tech a developer and manufacturer of autonomous transportation systems . Guident's management team also visited Auve Tech with a view to deploying  turn-key solutions consisting of Guident's teleoperation software being included with Auve Tech's level-4 Autonomous vehicles to potential customers in the US, Europe, and Asia. 

Meeting Auve Tech Leadership Team in Estonia 2023

Auve Tech Autonomous Level-4 Shuttle

The Company is also finalizing its contract with the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC) to provide AV shuttle services, together with its partners. Guident's will update the market on the successful execution of this project in due course.

BRIC Campus and Proposed Autonomous Shuttle Route Map

Lastly,  Guident has partnered with Novelsat to provide space connectivity for AVs under the Space Florida project. Space Florida was created to strengthen Florida's position as a global leader in aerospace research, investment, exploration, and commerce by leveraging NASA's research ecosystem. We believe that such connectivity would further enhance Guident's competitive advantage by adding an always available, low earth orbit monitoring solution, for its remote monitoring and control centres.

LEO Satellites to be Used by Guident for System Redundancy

Le Marché

Selon Étude de marché Triton ^"Le marché de la livraison de véhicules autonomes AV du dernier kilomètre devrait atteindre 41.7 milliards de dollars d'ici 2028 avec un TCAC de 19 %. Sans contact ou "sans contact" la livraison est très demandée depuis le covid 19 et Guident pense que cette demande accrue accélérera le déploiement de drones de livraison terrestres pour les piétons, la nourriture et les médicaments afin d'améliorer leur disponibilité et de réduire les coûts de ces livraisons.

À propos de Tekcapital plc

Tekcapital crée de la valeur en investissant dans de nouvelles découvertes développées par les universités qui peuvent améliorer la vie des gens et fournit une gamme de services de transfert de technologie pour aider les organisations à évaluer et à commercialiser de nouvelles technologies. Tekcapital est cotée sur le marché AIM de la Bourse de Londres (AIM : symbole TEK) et a son siège au Royaume-Uni. Pour plus d'informations, s'il vous plaît visitez www.tekcapital.com.

LEI : 213800GOJTOV19FIFZ85

Tekcapital owns 100% of the share capital of Guident Ltd. Guident Ltd owns approximately 91% of Guident Corp., its US subsidiary.

Pour plus d'informations, s'il vous plaît contacter:

Tim Thompson/Andrea Seymour/Fergus Mellon

Énoncés prospectifs

This press release is for informational purposes only. The information herein does not constitute investment advice nor an offer to invest and may contain statements related to our future business and financial performance and future events or developments involving Guident or Tekcapital that may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by words such as "expect," "look forward to," "anticipate" "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "estimate," "will," "project" or words of similar meaning. We ay also make forward-looking statements in other reports, in presentations, in material delivered to customers, stakeholders and in press releases. In addition, our representatives may from time to time make oral forward-looking statements. Such statements may be based on the current expectations and certain assumptions of Guident' and/or Tekcapital's management. Please note that these are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and factors, including, but not limited to those described in various disclosures. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialise, or should underlying expectations not occur or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results, performance or achievements of Guident or Tekcapital may vary materially from those described explicitly or implicitly in the relevant forward-looking statement. Neither Guident nor Tekcapital intends, nor assumes any obligation, to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of developments which differ from those anticipated.