NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Cardiovascular molecular diagnostics firm CardioDx has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to go public with an intended offering of up to $86.3 million of common stock.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm has not priced its offering yet or said how many shares it plans on offering. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Jefferies are listed as joint book-running managers on the offering, while Piper Jaffray and William Blair are co-managers.
The company plans on listing on the Nasdaq Global Market under ticker symbol "CDX."
In its Form S-1, CardioDx said that its tests provide healthcare professionals with "critical, actionable information to improve patient care and management," with an initial focus on coronary artery diseases (CAD), arrhythmia, and heart failure.
Its flagship product is the Corus CAD, a gene expression-based test for assessing non-diabetic patients who display symptoms suggestive of obstructive CAD. The test was launched in 2009 and through June 30, CardioDx delivered results for more than 40,000 tests, it said.
Corus CAD received Medicare Part B coverage in August 2012, making it a covered benefit for about 48 million Medicare beneficiaries, the company added.
In 2012, CardioDx posted $2.5 million in revenues with a net loss of $25.6 million. Through the first six months of 2013, the firm had revenues $2.9 million and a net loss of $18.4 million.
It had $46.8 million in cash, cash equivalents, and investments as of June 30, it said.
In August 2012, CardioDx raised $58 million in private financing. Before that, it raised $60 million in a financing round. In 2010, GE Healthcare invested $5 million in the company as part of a Series D financing round.
David Levison heads the firm as President and CEO. Other members of the management team include CFO Andrew Guggenhime; Chief Scientific Officer Steven Rosenberg; Chief Medical Officer Mark Monane; and Chief Commercial Officer Deborah Kilpatrick.
CardioDx is the latest in a recent string of omics-related companies who have gone public or have filed to go public in the US. Cancer Genetics, NanoString Technologies, and Foundation Medicine launched their IPOs earlier this year. Meanwhile, Veracyte, Biocept, and Evogene have filed to float.