ROCKETFUEL BLOCKCHAIN COMPLETES PRIVATE PLACEMENT


Las Vegas, Nevada, May 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RocketFuel Blockchain, Inc. (OTC: RKFL) (“RocketFuel” or the “Company”), a developer of blockchain-based privacy protection technologies, today announced the completion of a $500,000 private placement with a private group of strategic investors. The financing also provided for the grant of a one-year common stock purchase warrant exercisable into 1,500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock.

Gert Funk, the Company’s CEO, stated, “This financing arrangement is pivotal in continuing the execution of both our short- and long-term strategic plans. The initial tranche of $500,000 provides us the working capital to continue the development of our core blockchain-based technologies and to support our recently announced strategic partnership which should generate near-term revenues. The follow-on funding anticipated from the exercise of the associated warrants will provide the resources necessary to build our technology team to continue product innovation and to establish a sales and marketing team to penetrate the target market to drive revenues and future profitability. We are grateful to our new investors who expressed confidence in our business plan and understood the value of what we believe to be unique and cutting-edge technology.”

About RocketFuel Blockchain, Inc.

RocketFuel Blockchain Inc. is developing blockchain-based technologies to bring highly efficient check-out and privacy protection solutions to eCommerce and brick and mortar merchants and their customers.

The blockchain technologies developed by RocketFuel are designed to focus on enhanced customer privacy protection eliminating the risk of data breach while increasing the speed, the security and the ease of use. RocketFuel believes that users of its technologies will be able to enjoy seamless check-out and forget about the clunky cart paradigm of the past. We also believe merchants will be able to implement new impulse buying schemes and generate new sales channels that may be unavailable in present day eCommerce sites. More information about RocketFuel is available at: www.rocketfuelblockchain.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

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For further information contact:

Henrik Rouf
Phone +1 310.666.0750
Email: press@rocketfuelblockchain.com