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Nature of the Business
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Nature of the Business  
Nature of the Business

Note 2. Nature of the Business

Cryoport serves the life sciences industry as a provider of integrated temperature-controlled supply chain solutions supporting the biopharma/pharma, animal health, and reproductive medicine markets. Our mission is to support life and health worldwide and we are continuously developing, implementing, and leveraging our supply chain platform, which is designed to deliver comprehensive, unparalleled, highly differentiated temperature-controlled logistics, packaging, storage, cryogenic systems, informatics, and related services for life science products, regenerative medicine, cellular therapies, and treatments that require unique, specialized cold chain management.

On October 1, 2020, the Company completed both the acquisition of MVE Biological Solutions (the “MVE Acquisition”) and the acquisition of CRYOPDP (the “CRYOPDP Acquisition”). In addition, in the second quarter of 2021, the Company completed the acquisitions of Critical Transport Solutions Australia (CTSA) in Australia and F-airGate in Belgium to further enhance CRYOPDP’s existing global temperature-controlled supply chain capabilities in the APAC (Asia-Pacific) and EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) regions. Also, in April 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of Cell&Co BioServices (Cell&Co) in Clermont-Ferrand, France (See Note 4).

Subsequent to quarter end, in July 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of Polar Expres in Madrid, Spain which provides temperature-controlled logistics solutions dedicated to the life sciences industry and Cell Matters in Liège, Belgium which provides cryo-process optimization, cryoprocessing, and cryopreservation solutions to the life sciences industry (See Note 15).

The Company is a Nevada corporation and its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market exchange under the ticker symbol “CYRX.”