Rua receives capital from existing shareholders
7th August 2025
FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Rua Bioscience receives capital from existing shareholders to support significant sales
growth
Tairawhiti, New Zealand – Rua Bioscience is pleased to announce it has secured a total of $1.2
million in new funding through a combination of equity and existing lending instruments. This
capital has been provided by several key shareholders, reflecting their continued confidence in
Rua’s vision and strategic direction.
Today, the Board resolved to issue up to 16,000,000 new ordinary shares at an issue price of
$0.03 per share. These equity securities will be issued under the company’s existing placement
capacity.
The funds raised will be used to accelerate sales growth in our key markets of Germany,
Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and support near-term working capital requirements.
This investment represents a strong endorsement of Rua’s strategy by key shareholders as we
continue to introduce our unique genetics from Te Tairawhiti to patients around the world
ENDS
The person who authorised this announcement:
Paul Naske
Chief Executive Officer
paul.naske@ruabio.com
+64 21 445154
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Corporate Action Notice
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Section 1: Issuer information (mandatory)
Name of issuer Rua Bioscience Limited
Class of Financial Product Ordinary shares
NZX ticker code RUA
ISIN (If unknown, check on NZX
website)
NZRUAE0004S1
Name of Registry Computershare Investor Services Limited
Type of corporate action
(Please mark with an X in the relevant
box/es)
Share Purchase
Plan/retail offer
Renounceable
Rights issue or
Accelerated
Offer
Capital
reconstruction
Non-
Renounceable
Rights issue or
Accelerated
Offer
Call Bonus issue
Placement X
Record date NA
Ex Date (one business day before the
Record Date)
NA
Currency NZD
External approvals required before offer
can proceed on an unconditional basis?
No
Details of approvals required NA
Section 7: Placement
(delete full section if not applicable, or mark rows as N/A if not applicable)*
Number of Equity Securities to be
issued
16,000,000
Issue price per Equity Security $0.03
Maximum dollar amount of Equity
Securities to be issued
1
$480,000
Proposed issue date 8/8/2025
1
Where the issue price per Equity Security is not fixed, and the number of Equity Securities to be issued is not known, the Issuer
should instead indicate the maximum dollar amount of Equity Securities to be issued.
2 of 3
Existing holders eligible to
participate
2
Y (limited)
Related Parties eligible to
participate
3
Y
Basis upon which participation by
existing Equity Security holders will
be determined
Placement to large existing shareholders based on
confidential discussions with a limited number of existing
investors.
Purpose(s) for which the Issuer is
issuing the Equity Securities
To fund short-term and immediate business operating
funding requirements.
Reason for placement rather than a
pro-rata rights issue or an offer
under a Share Purchase Plan in
which the Issuer’s existing Equity
Security holders would have been
eligible to participate
Due to urgency of funding requirements for working
capital and in order to facilitate a further update to all
shareholders on Rua’s broader capital raising strategy
which will allow for existing Equity Security holder
participation.
Equity Securities to be issued
subject to voluntary escrow
Nil
Number and class of Equity
Securities to be issued that will be
subject to voluntary escrow and the
date from which they will cease to
be escrowed
NA
Section 8: Lead Manager and Underwriter (mandatory)
Lead Manager(s) appointed N
Name of Lead Manager(s) NA
Fees, commission or other
consideration payable to Lead
Manager(s) for acting as lead
manager(s)
Nil
Underwritten N
Name of Underwriter(s) NA
Extent of underwriting (i.e. amount
or proportion of the offer that is
underwritten)
NA
Fees, commission or other
consideration payable to
Underwriter(s) for acting as
underwriter(s)
NA
2
Issuers should answer Y if existing shareholders are eligible to participate even if their participation is subject to satisfaction of
eligibility criteria applying to the placement generally, such as the offer only being made to investors in certain jurisdictions or with a
certain status, such as wholesale, sophisticated or professional investors only.
3
Issuers should answer Y if there are no restrictions on participation by Related Parties as a result of their status as Related Parties
(i.e. restrictions on participation applying to the placement generally should be disregarded).
3 of 3
Summary of significant events that
could lead to the underwriting
being terminated
NA
Section 9: Authority for this announcement (mandatory)
Name of person authorised to make this
announcement
Paul Naske
Contact person for this announcement Paul Naske
Contact phone number 021 445 154
Contact email address paul.naske@ruabio.com
Date of release through MAP 7/8/2025
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