TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Dec. 4, 2017) - Revive Therapeutics Ltd. ("Revive" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RVV)(OTCQB:RVVTF), a company focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel therapies and technologies for the medical cannabis and pharmaceutical sectors, today announced an update on the development of the Artificial Intelligence ("AI") component for Revive's proposed proprietary patient-focused program dedicated to the medical cannabis industry enabled by Blockchain technology. This update follows Datametrex AI Limited ("Datametrex") (TSX VENTURE:DM)(FRANKFURT:D4G) recent announcement of Datametrex's wholly owned subsidiary, Nexalogy Environics Inc. ("Nexalogy"), entered into a license and development agreement with Revive.

Revive is aiming to incorporate Nexalogy's proprietary social data discovery solution, NexaIntelligence, to unlock the value of data related to medical cannabis collected from social media networks and internet environments such as discussion forums, blogs and news sites. Through data mining and analytics, information aggregated from independent sources on the internet will aim to provide authentic insights and uses of cannabis on a variety of medical conditions. With its unique, easy-to-understand visuals in a highly functional interface, NexaIntelligence, is able to conduct a deep analysis of the ever-growing volume of online data of medical cannabis and catch the valuable signals that lead to strategic insights and actionable intelligence.

"We are very excited about Nexalogy's NexaIntelligence social data software solution as it provides us with a proprietary data collection strategy and enables us to unlock the value of information, by artificial intelligence, currently being generated in numerous independent social networks and environments on the internet," said Fabio Chianelli, President of Revive. "We are focused on building a proprietary patient-centered platform dedicated to the medical cannabis industry that will leverage the privacy, security, and information sharing features of blockchain and the data mining, predictive and machine learning features of AI with the aim to engage, acquire, retain, and support medical cannabis patients. The AI component will provide insights, analytics and recommendations that may offer significant value to licensed producers of cannabis, healthcare professionals, and clinical researchers."

Andrew Ryu, Chairman and CEO of Datametrex added, "We are very encouraged to see our AI component provide such relevancy to Revive and the cannabis sector. This is an explosive area and we will be delivering vital data around patients."

About Datametrex AI Limited

Datametrex (TSX VENTURE:DM)(FRANKFURT:D4G) is focused on the collection of retail sales data, providing government agencies and Fortune 500 corporations with artificial intelligence technology and implementing blockchain solutions for secure data transfers. The company is planning on integrating the DataTap environment to decentralized blockchains to further authenticate and validate the data collected. To learn more about Datametrex, visit: www.datametrex.com.

About Nexalogy

Nexalogy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Datametrex AI Limited. Nexalogy AI solutions unlock valuable insights from social media data. Through its proprietary semantic clustering algorithms, it provides insights and analysis that are not available through traditional business intelligence technology. This technology makes data more relevant and is the missing link in providing actionable social media intelligence to governments and organizations all over the world. To learn more about Nexalogy, visit: www.nexalogy.com.

About Revive Therapeutics Ltd.

Revive Therapeutics Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:RVV) (OTCQB:RVVTF) is focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel therapies and technologies for the medical cannabis and pharmaceutical sectors. Additional information on Revive is available at www.ReviveThera.com.

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