NASDAQ:POET News 7 October 2025 - 15 January 2026

Market Summary As of the Nov 3 pre-market, POET’s shares hovered around $6.4, up about +1% on the dayreuters.com. The stock’s rally over the last year has been dramatic – Finimize reports roughly a 101% gain in the 12 months through early October 2025, driven by AI-centric optimism and aggressive fundraisingfinimize.com. For context, POET outpaced the S&P 500 (up ~18%) handily, as investors cheered positive news on customers, industry awards and capital raises (the Oct 7 $75M placement was noted as “the largest single financing in its history”investing.com). At its peak in mid-October, POET traded near $9.4stockanalysis.com, but profit-taking following

POET’s $75 Million Bet to Scale AI Connectivity POET Technologies – a Toronto-based designer of photonic chips – has landed a $75 million cash infusion to supercharge its growth in the AI hardware arenatipranks.com. Announced on October 7, the deal was a non-brokered private placement (13.64 million new shares plus warrants) with a single institutional investor, underscoring a strong vote of confidence in POET’s technologyglobenewswire.comglobenewswire.com. The investment “marks the largest single investment in POET’s history” and boosts the company’s balance sheet to over $150 M in cash with no significant debt, according to CEO Dr. Suresh Venkatesanglobenewswire.comglobenewswire.com. “The massive growth of AI infrastructure represents an unprecedented opportunity for which POET is