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Delta Gold Raises £1.79 Million for Sensing, Communications and Working Capital
Delta Gold says it raised £1.79 million to fund sensing and communications work, potential UK university collaborations and general working capital. Its announcement also sets out proposed share admission details, while a separate release d
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£1.79 million for research and other costs
Delta Gold Technologies raised £1.79 million on 26 October to support quantum sensing and communications work, potential future collaborations with UK universities and general working capital. The university projects it is expanding have not yet produced a device. The company says research at Penn State and the University of Toronto remains at an early stage, working toward an optical quantum sensor and a topological quantum spin sensor. It also says none of its four patent applications has yet been granted.
The fundraising announcement followed the company’s separate disclosure that both university programmes would add dedicated sensing and communications work. Delta develops intellectual property based on nanoscale gold and other materials, rather than selling quantum sensors today. The financing therefore supports research and corporate costs while commercial products remain a stated goal, not a current offering.
Share-percentage figures do not match
The company agreed to issue 1,627,272 ordinary shares at 110 pence each. The shares have a nominal value of 0.2 pence apiece. Delta’s fundraising announcement says they represent 2.46% of enlarged issued share capital. It also says the total after admission will be 67,679,063 shares; comparing the new-share count with that total gives approximately 2.40%, so the disclosed figures do not match. The company did not disclose how much of the £1.79 million it plans to allocate to each of its stated uses.
An application will be made for the new shares to be admitted to the Access segment of the Aquis Growth Market, with admission expected on or around 29 October 2026. The shares will rank equally with the company’s existing ordinary shares.
Penn State and Toronto draw on separate budgets
The parallel programme announcement gives more detail on the research plans, while distinguishing them from the new financing. At Penn State, sensing and communications work join an existing US$6 million, six-year programme. Delta says a magnetic-field instrument costing US$500,000 will be bought from the programme’s 2026 budget to study changing fields around gold nanoclusters; planned experiments also examine possible navigation uses.
At Toronto, the company approved a C$500,000 budget amendment for equipment to fabricate atomic layers and microscopy to measure their outputs. Delta says the equipment will be funded from the paid-up budget under its existing C$3 million university commitment, of which C$2 million has been paid. The announcements do not say that the £1.79 million raise pays for either university’s specified equipment.
“Because our technology sits at the very root of quantum systems, it has potential in communications and networking, quantum sensing including navigation, and quantum computing.”
R. Michael Jones, CEO of Delta Gold, said
Licensing targets remain ahead
Delta says its Penn State work has generated three full patent applications and its Toronto work one provisional application; all are pending and in examination. Its stated timeline targets signing the first intellectual-property end-users in 2027 and licensing IP from 2028, while the company explicitly describes those dates as targets rather than commitments.
After admission, Delta expects 67,679,063 ordinary shares to carry its total voting rights. The expected 29 October listing date and that enlarged share count mark the next near-term steps for the financing; the research programme’s next test is whether its university work can move from experiments toward working sensors.