Health Care & Insurance  June 23, 2020

ArcherDX CEO: Scale the deciding factor in choosing $1.4B acquisition over going public

BOULDER — ArcherDX Inc. CEO Jason Myers said his company would have had a “white-hot” initial public offering, but opted to take a $1.4 billion takeover offer from Invitae Corp. (NYSE: NVTA) because of the potential to spread its oncology genomic testing platform to a wider base.

Jason Myers

In an interview with BizWest Tuesday morning, Myers confirmed that the San Francisco-based Invitae offered to acquire the company shortly after ArcherDX filed paperwork this month to raise up to $100 million in an…

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