# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001006837
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**Filing Date:** 2025-12
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001006837-25-000134

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 15

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251216

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251216

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251216

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** INNOVATE Corp.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001006837
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** FABRICATED STRUCTURAL METAL PRODUCTS [3440]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 541708481
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-35210
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251573391

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 295 MADISON AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** 12TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 19546631147

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 295 MADISON AVENUE
- **STREET 2:** 12TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10017

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** HC2 HOLDINGS, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20160809

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** HC2 Holdings, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20140415

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** PTGi HOLDING, INC.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20131108

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

**FORM 8-K**

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): December 16, 2025

**INNOVATE CORP.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

<u>Delaware</u> <u>001-35210</u> <u>54-1708481</u> <br> (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

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| 295 Madison Ave, 12th Fl | |
| New York, NY | 10017 |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |

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Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (212) 235-2691

Former name or former address, if changed since last report

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act**:**

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| **Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share** | **VATE** | **New York Stock Exchange** |
| **Preferred Stock Purchase Rights** | **N/A** | **New York Stock Exchange** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 8.01** | **Other Events.** |

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On December 16, 2025, the Company issued a press release titled "MediBeacon® Next Generation TGFR<sup>TM</sup> System Receives FDA Approval". A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in a filing.

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| **Item 9.01** | **Financial Statements and Exhibits.** |

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(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibits

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| **Exhibit No.**  | **Description** |
| 99.1 | <u>[Press Release dated December](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)[16](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)[, 2025, titled "MediBeacon® Next Generation](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)[T](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)[GFR](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)</u><sup>TM</sup><u>[System Receives FDA Approval"](a202512168-kxexhibit991.htm)</u> |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the inline XBRL document). |

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: December 16, 2025

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| **INNOVATE Corp.** (Registrant) | **INNOVATE Corp.** (Registrant) |
| By: | */s/ Michael J. Sena* |
|  | Name: Michael J. Sena |
|  | Title: Chief Financial Officer |

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## Exhibit 99.1

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| ![innovateforproxya.jpg](innovateforproxya.jpg) | <u>Exhibit 99.1</u> |

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**MediBeacon® Next Generation TGFR**<sup>TM</sup> **System Receives FDA Approval**

**• MediBeacon**<sup>®</sup> **TGFR**<sup>TM</sup> **System is a first-in-kind product for point of care kidney function assessment**

**• Centers of Excellence commercialization in select academic medical centers begins in early 2026**

NEW YORK, December 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- INNOVATE Corp. (NYSE: VATE) ("INNOVATE" or the "Company") announced today that MediBeacon Inc. ("MediBeacon"), a medical technology company specializing in the advancement of fluorescent tracer agents and their transdermal detection, in which INNOVATE owns a 44.7% equity interest, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the next generation MediBeacon® TGFR<sup>TM</sup> System including the latest TGFR<sup>TM</sup> Reusable Sensor.

The TGFR System enables kidney function assessment at the point of care by measuring the clearance rate of Lumitrace® (relmapirazin), a non-radioactive, non-iodinated fluorescent GFR agent. The TGFR Reusable Sensor placed on the skin measures the change in Lumitrace fluorescence intensity as a function of time.

The latest TGFR Reusable Sensor has been designed for patient comfort, ease of application, and reusability. It also lowers the cost compared to the single use TGFR Sensor previously approved by the FDA.

The TGFR System was the subject of the lead peer-reviewed article featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) in August 2025.<sup>[1]</sup> The article reviewed the first use of the transdermal GFR (tGFR) methodology in patients of various levels of kidney function across a wide range of skin colors.

MediBeacon will offer early access for specific use cases at leading academic medical centers in the United States and China. Many of these medical centers have used MediBeacon's transdermal GFR technology in preclinical research over the past 10 years. There are over 700 peer-reviewed publications and conference abstracts on preclinical use in which the tGFR methodology has been utilized.

"We look forward to including transdermal GFR in our ongoing heart failure study where renal function is a valuable consideration in patient monitoring," said Dr. Melana Yuzefpolskaya, cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia. "Validating transdermal GFR in this patient population offers the opportunity to expose clinically meaningful inaccuracies in estimated GFR (eGFR)."

The TGFR Reusable Sensor is validated for reuse via connection to a disposable adhesive ring. Transdermal assessment of Glomerular Filtration Rate or kidney function (tGFR) has been designed to be effective across the adult population without input of age, weight, sex, gender, race, or ethnicity. MediBeacon received FDA approval of an earlier TGFR System version in January 2025.

"This approval is a major step for MediBeacon to achieve its goal to improve kidney health", said Steven Hanley, CEO and Co-Founder of MediBeacon. "With this approval, we have a comprehensive, sustainable and economic technology solution to assess kidney function. We believe MediBeacon is well positioned to scale with discipline and unlock the significant market opportunity ahead in both inpatient and outpatient settings."

<sup>1</sup> Glomerular Filtrate Rate Measurement Utilizing Transdermal Detection Methodology; Dorshow, Richard B., Debreczeny, Martin P.; Goldstein, Stuart L.; Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 36(8):p 1592-1602, August 2025. DOI: 10.1681/ASN 0000000639

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MediBeacon expects to begin initial sales of the TGFR System to select academic medical centers in the first quarter of 2026 in the United States and China.

**About INNOVATE**

INNOVATE Corp. is a portfolio of best-in-class assets in three key areas of the new economy – Infrastructure, Life Sciences and Spectrum. Dedicated to stakeholder capitalism, INNOVATE employs approximately 3,100 people across its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit: www.INNOVATECorp.com.

**About MediBeacon Inc.**

MediBeacon is a medical technology company specializing in the advancement of fluorescent tracer agents and their transdermal detection. MediBeacon's use of proprietary fluorescent tracer agents coupled with transdermal detection technology focuses on providing vital and actionable measurement of organ function. MediBeacon owns over 60 granted U.S. patents and over 245 granted patents worldwide that provide extensive coverage of the MediBeacon<sup>®</sup> TGFR<sup>TM</sup> System, including Lumitrace<sup>®</sup> injection, the sensor and algorithms, as well as other strategic uses of its proprietary pyrazine platform and sensor technology. The TGFR System is approved for human use. Potential technology applications in gastroenterology, ophthalmology and surgery are in various stages of clinical development. MediBeacon is based in St. Louis, Missouri, with additional operations in Mannheim, Germany. For more information, please visit: www.medibeacon.com.

**About Lumitrace**® **(relmapirazin) injection**

Relmapirazin is a non-radioactive, non-iodinated pyrazine-based compound, which has been engineered to be inert, highly fluorescent, and have the clearance properties of a GFR tracer agent in the body. The unique photophysical characteristics of Lumitrace have been designed to enable the collection of fluorescence data via a photodetector sensor placed on the skin. Data collected by the sensor measures the change in the intensity of Lumitrace fluorescence over time and is converted into a transdermal GFR (tGFR) by proprietary algorithms. In a phase 2 investigational study mGFR deduced from Lumitrace matched that of mGFR deduced from iohexol over a range of GFR values. See the peer reviewed article published in the October 2024 issue of Kidney International by Dorshow et al.<sup>[2]</sup>

**About MediBeacon**® **TGFR**<sup>TM</sup> **System**

The MediBeacon® TGFR<sup>TM</sup> System is comprised of the TGFR<sup>TM</sup> Reusable Sensor, TGFR<sup>TM</sup> Monitor, TGFR<sup>TM</sup> Disposable Ring, and Lumitrace® (relmapirazin) injection, which together allow assessment of kidney function by measuring the clearance rate of the fluorescent agent as it leaves the body. The system records Lumitrace fluorescence intensity transdermally as a function of time via a sensor placed on the skin. The TGFR Reusable Sensor records 2.5 fluorescent readings per second and the TGFR Monitor will display the average session tGFR reading at the patient's bedside or in the outpatient setting.

FOR IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR THE TGFR SYSTEM(U.S. FDA) see ifu.medibeacon.com.

**Forward-Looking Statements**

Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements generally relate to future events, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the timing of initial sales of the TGFR<sup>TM</sup> System and scaling of those sales. You are cautioned that such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that INNOVATE's actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. All of these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may change at any time. Factors that could cause INNOVATE's actual expectations to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include risks associated with managing growth related to increased

<sup>2</sup> Clinical validation of the novel fluorescent glomerular filtration rate tracer agent relmapirazin (MB-102), Kidney International, Volume 106, Issue 4, P679-687, October 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2024.06.012

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operational size, the misuse by customers, physicians and technicians of MediBeacon's products, and the ability of MediBeacon to effectively protect its intellectual property and the impact of a failure to do so and the other factors under the heading "Risk Factors" set forth in INNOVATE's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as supplemented by INNOVATE's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Such filings are available on our website or at www.sec.gov. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are made only as of the date of this press release. INNOVATE undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent developments, events, or circumstances, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

**Investor Contact:**

Solebury Strategic Communications

Anthony Rozmus

ir@innovatecorp.com

(212) 235-2691

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