Revenue increase for six month period of 116% year over year

Biopesticide technology receives regulatory approval for 2023 field studies

Debut of twice-as-powerful acrylamide-reducing yeast

Appointment of seasoned professional to Board

Vancouver, British Columbia – June 15, 2023 – Renaissance BioScience Corp. (“Renaissance” or the “Company”) is pleased to report on recent corporate developments. All amounts are presented in Canadian dollars unless otherwise stated:

• Renaissance’s revenue increased by 116% for the six months ended March 31, 2023, driven primarily by the following commercial developments:

1. The Company entered into a joint development agreement (“JDA”) for yeast strain optimization. This JDA brings revenue to the Company over the development period and upon successful completion, success fees based on future sales of the optimized yeast strain. This JDA is a direct result of Renaissance’s world class bioengineering capabilities and demonstrates the importance of establishing relationships with world leading companies to lead to additional revenue generating projects.

2. Increased royalties from Renaissance’s license agreements. During the six months ended March 31, 2023, two new products resulted in the majority of the increase inroyalty revenue for Renaissance and are expected to continue to drive revenue growth over the prior year for the remainder of fiscal 2023 and beyond.

• In May 2023, Renaissance’s application to the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (“PMRA”) was approved for field studies for our environmentally safe biopesticide for our first insect target, the Colorado Potato Beetle (“CPB”). CPB causes significant agricultural losses for potato growers around the world and has shown significant resistance to current pesticides, leading to a heightened need for new technologies. The studies being performed in Canada in summer of 2023 alongside other locations in the US and Europe are aimed at investigating application rates and timing, insect mortality, and overall crop protection, with a focus on maximizing the final tuber yield and quality as efficiently and at as low a cost as possible. This fieldwork is an important step forward in the Company’s biopesticide development pipeline, and the results will allow the team to expand future field trials toward formal product registration. For more detail, please refer to the Company’s recent press release (https://renaissancebioscience.com/corporate/renaissance-bioscience-s-novel-rnai-biopesticide-technology-receives-canadian-regulatory-approval-for-2023-field-studies)
• Our licensee, Kerry Group, launched Acryleast Pro acrylamide-reducing non-GMO yeast in North America, the advanced iteration of the previous version, Acryleast. Kerry notes Acryleast Pro “is the only organic-suitable baker’s yeast that effectively reduces the levels of acrylamide in a wide range of manufactured and organic food products by up to 90%. It delivers 2.2 times more enzyme activity than the first-generation product, meaning that it is much more effective and cost-efficient in lower doses. Acrylamide is a long-confirmed neurotoxin found to form in a large range of carbohydrate-rich foods that are heated and cooked (baked, fried, toasted, roasted, etc.) at temperatures above 120°C or 248°F.”. This is important as changes to acrylamide regulations are expected in 2023 with tougher directives on benchmark levels and new maximum levels to be introduced to reduce exposure to this neurotoxin and probable carcinogen. Renaissance anticipates that the adoption of this clean-label friendly yeast product in various food applications will increase due to the cost-competitiveness and ease of use, resulting in increased royalties for the Company.
• Blair Jordan joined the Company’s Board of Directors as an independent Director. Mr. Jordan has extensive management and Board experience and is currently the CEO and co-founder of HighMont Advisors Inc., a North American strategy and finance consultancy, where he specializes in advising companies undergoing transitions, including rapid growth, mergers and acquisitions and private to public events.

Looking Ahead

Renaissance’s key development and financial performance goals for both the quarter and six month period have been met and our expectation is for continuing quarter over quarter revenue growth from sales growth of existing commercial products already in distribution with our current commercial partners, the plans for new product introductions and increased distribution expansion for existing products and expected increase in joint development projects with new commercial partners. 

About Renaissance

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Renaissance is a biological engineering company, whose platform technologies are used to develop innovative, market-ready, functional microorganisms that provide sustainable solutions to a broad range of health, environmental and industrial problems. 

For more information, please visit our website at www.renaissancebioscience.com or contact:

Davona Walton, CFO

Email: dwalton@renaissancebioscience.com

Phone: 604-822-6499

Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may include forward-looking statements with respect to the Company based on management’s opinions, estimates and assumptions considering its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that management currently believes are appropriate and reasonable in the circumstances. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified using terminology such as “anticipate”, “will”, “expect”, “may”, “continue”, “could”, “estimate”, “forecast”, “plan”, “potential” and similar expressions. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof. 

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Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or to revise any forward-looking statements that are contained or incorporated in this press release. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

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