Startups  May 15, 2019

Fort Collins biomedical startup acquires Neocart assets

FORT COLLINS — A Fort Collins startup that aims to develop technologies that address the continuum of health care for specific types of human disease has added a new technology that it hopes will form the basis of its platform.

Medavate Corp., based at 3003 E. Harmony Road, Suite 410A, signed an agreement May 8 to acquire “substantially all” of the assets related to the Neocart regenerative-knee treatment from Histogenics Corp. (Nasdaq: HSGX), a troubled Boston-based company that is being absorbed into Ocugen Inc., based in Malvern, Pa.

Medavate will pay $6.5 million for the technology, conditional on approval by Histogenics shareholders…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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