TEDCO announced nine awardees for the inaugural Maryland Student Venture Showcase and Pava LaPere Innovation Awards. The awards, funded by the State of Maryland through the Pava LaPere Legacy of Innovation Act of 2024, recognize and support outstanding student entrepreneurs from colleges and universities in the Baltimore-Towson-Columbia metropolitan statistical area.

Gonzalez is an accomplished finance executive with extensive experience in strategic financial management, operational optimization and process automation. Prior to joining TEDCO, she held leadership roles at the Nuclear Energy Institute and the International Association for Dental Research where she spearheaded enterprise resource planning system implementations, led cross-functional teams and played a pivotal role in financial planning and compliance.

TEDCO announced a recent Builder Fund investment in Nostopharma, a musculoskeletal therapeutic platform company focused on treating complications of trauma, orthopedic surgery and rare diseases musculoskeletal sequalae. 

ReBokeh, based in Towson, Md., is a technology-driven company focused on creating modern, customizable assistive tools for individuals with vision impairments. Their mission is to reduce the limitations of vision impairments, empowering individuals to live more independently.

State legislators encounter similar challenges when working to bolster Maryland’s innovation economy. They must weigh initiatives that are designed to spur growth against budget realities, while devising creative solutions in response to the outside forces reshaping conditions on the ground.