Sceptre Ventures Provides an Update on SmartShare Acquisition

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Vancouver, BC / The Newswire / September 17, 2018: Sceptre Ventures Inc. (“Sceptre) (SVP.H-TSXV) provides an update of its proposed acquisition (“the Acquisition”) of all the issued and outstanding common shares of SmartShare Solutions Inc. (“SmartShare”), which Acquisition is intended to serve as Sceptre’s Qualifying Transaction in accordance with the Exchange’s Capital Pool Policy 2.4.

 

Sceptre is using best efforts to satisfy the conditions precedent to closing the Acquisition, including the concurrent arm’s length non-brokered private placement offering (the Financing“).  

 

Details of the Acquisition and related transactions are disclosed in Sceptre’s Filing Statement and in previously issued news releases dated September 28, 2016, December 14, 2016, April 12, 2017, January 26, 2018 and April 27, 2018, and May 17, 2018, all of which have been filed with regulators and are available for viewing on the SEDAR website (www.sedar.com) under Sceptre’s issuer profile.

 

There can be no assurance that the Acquisition and the Financing will be completed as proposed or at all or as to if, or when, final Exchange acceptance of the Acquisition and the Financing and will be received.

 

About SmartShare Solutions Inc.

SmartShare Solutions Inc., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, OpenSpot Parking Inc., has developed an app-based payment processing technology for use in the shared parking industry that seamlessly allows drivers to reserve and pay for parking in the shared parking industry.  SmartShare utilizes mobile hosted applications to carry out its business and it is the core asset for SmartShare. The technology utilizes an electronic core application for mobile phones that enables both parking space owners and consumers to securely and conveniently access, book and supply local parking and make and receive real time payments to facilitate shared parking commerce. By enabling a “shared parking economy”, SmartShare’s technology lets owners rent out and monetize their private parking spaces to other people by unlocking parking spaces that never existed before in urban and outlying areas. The technology has been in development and beta-tested since August 2015.  See www.garageapp.co and www.openspot.ca.

 

About Sceptre Ventures Inc.

Sceptre Ventures Inc. is a Capital Pool Company (“CPC”) within the meaning of the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange and has not commenced commercial operations and has no assets other than cash. Sceptre is currently engaged in identifying and evaluating businesses and assets with a view to completing a Qualifying Transaction under the Exchange’s CPC policy.

 

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Forward Looking Statements:

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Completion of the Acquisition is subject to a number of conditions, including but not limited to, Exchange acceptance and if applicable pursuant to Exchange Requirements, majority of the minority shareholder approval. Where applicable, the transaction cannot close until the required shareholder approval is obtained. There can be no assurance that the transaction will be completed as proposed or at all.

 

Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the management information circular or filing statement to be prepared in connection with the transaction, any information released or received with respect to the Acquisition may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon. Trading in the securities of a capital pool company should be considered highly speculative.

 

The TSX Venture Exchange Inc. has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed transaction and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.       

 

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.

 

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