CyberCatch Announces Signing of Definitive Agreement for Datavault AI to Acquire the Company in All-Cash Transaction

CyberCatch Announces Signing of Definitive Agreement for Datavault AI to Acquire the Company in All-Cash Transaction

Vancouver, British Columbia and San Diego, California--(Newsfile Corp. - August 17, 2026) - CyberCatch Holdings, Inc. (TSXV: CYBE) (OTCQB: CYBHF), a cybersecurity company offering a patented, AI-enabled platform for continuous compliance and cyber risk mitigation, ("CyberCatch" or the "Company") is pleased to announce signing of a definitive arrangement agreement (the "Definitive Agreement") with Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ: DVLT) ("DataVault AI"), a provider of data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset ("RWA") tokenization technologies, to acquire 100% of CyberCatch in an all-cash transaction structured as a court-approved plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) (the "Arrangement").

Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Definitive Agreement, DataVault AI will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares in the capital of the Company ("CyberCatch Shares") for USD $94,500,000 in cash, which, after adjusting for all outstanding dilutive securities of CyberCatch on a cashless-exercise basis, transaction expenses and liabilities, is equal to approximately USD $3.22 per CyberCatch Share.

The transaction is subject to risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, the acquiror’s financing resources to fund the transaction by the time of closing, and full details of the Definitive Agreement will be included in a management information circular along with the risks, anticipated to be issued in early September 2026 timeframe and the transaction is subject to shareholder and TSXV approval, as more fully described in the Transaction Overview section of this news release.

Upon closing, subject to various closing conditions as further discussed herein, CyberCatch is expected to operate as a subsidiary of DataVault AI from San Diego, California, with CyberCatch founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer Sai Huda serving as President of the subsidiary and reporting to Nathaniel T. Bradley, CEO of DataVault AI.

Strategic Rationale The combination is positioned at the intersection of two of cybersecurity's largest secular markets. According to Gartner (2025), worldwide end-user spending on information security was projected to reach $213 billion in 2025, underscoring the scale of the market CyberCatch's platform is expected to serve within DataVault AI's SanQtum-secured edge ecosystem.

Threat actors are increasingly using AI to breach networks and deploy ransomware within minutes of first contact. According to CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report, AI-enabled adversary attacks rose 89% year-over-year in 2025, and the average eCrime breakout time, the time from initial intrusion to data exfiltration, fell to 29 minutes, a 65% increase in adversary speed compared to 2024.

The combination is also positioned for the post-quantum security era. Google has set 2029 as its internal deadline to migrate authentication systems to quantum-resistant cryptography, and separate Google Quantum AI research has found that the qubit threshold required to break widely used elliptic curve cryptography is an order of magnitude lower than previously estimated, suggesting the timeline for a cryptographically relevant quantum computer may be shorter than previously assumed.

CyberCatch is converting its patent-pending, multi-authority, attribute-based encryption with revocation ("MARS-MABE") technology to attain quantum resistance, and combining MARS-MABE with continuous agentic AI penetration testing is expected to create a next-generation cybersecurity stack applicable across healthcare, defense, manufacturing, financial services, and energy.

About CyberCatch's Platform and Leadership CyberCatch's patented, AI-enabled continuous cybersecurity compliance and risk mitigation platform uses generative AI to confirm that all legally required controls are in place and to calculate a Cyber Hygiene Score, and uses agentic AI to continuously simulate threat-actor tactics, t...