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Mass High
Tech - December 6, 2010
InVivo
exceeds private placement by $2.5M
Mass
High Tech
InVivo
Therapeutics today said that its previously announced $10.5 million private
placement actually brought in $13 milion with additional units being purchased
by Spencer Trask Ventures Inc., which served as placement agent and financial
advisor.
InVivo, a Cambridge
company working on a polymer-based treatment of spinal cord injuries,
announced the private placement on Oct. 27, at the same time that it reported
on a reverse merger conducted by InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (OTCBB:
NVIV), a wholly owned subsidiary of that holding company.
Each unit in the private
placement consists of one share of common stock and one warrant, with
each warrant entitling the holder to purchase one share of stock for a
five-year period at an exercise price of $1.40 per share. If all of the
warrants are exercised or called, they would yield additional total gross
proceeds of $18.2 million, according to InVivo.
The company said it
plans to use the funds to repay debt, apply to research and development,
and use in working capital and fixed asset additions.
InVivo Therapeutics
was founded in 2005 to develop technology co-invented by MIT professor
Robert Langer and Joseph P. Vacanti, who is affiliated with Massachusetts
General Hospital.
In November, InVivo
Therapeutics signed a lease to open its first manufacturing and development
facility in Medford. The company will use the facility to ramp up production
of its lead therapeutic candidate a polymer scaffolding device
to treat open wound spinal cord injuries.
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