Success Breeds Success: How A $250M Acquisition Catalyzed Baltimore’s MedTech Ecosystem

One company gets absorbed into a larger brand and a host of companies flower as a result. The Biohealth Capital Region’s (BHCR) cycle of creative destruction has continued with Harpoon Medical. This was the story shared at the TEDCO Entrepreneur Expo’s session titled, “Success Breeds Success.”
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BioBuzz: If You Want to Raise Venture Capital These are Two Often Overlooked Factors That Investors Want to See

In it’s 9th year the Entrepreneur Expo attracted approximately 900 attendees from across the Biohealth Capital Region (BHCR) and beyond who came together to share ideas, collaborate and network.
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TEDCO mention in Baltimore Sun Op Ed

We’ll create a $10-billion federal fund, modeled on Maryland’s successful TEDCO fund, to co-invest in entrepreneurs of color, and defer and forgive college loans for Pell-eligible students who start and maintain businesses.
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Liftoff PGH 2020 efforts continue full steam ahead through the fall

Work continued briskly through October on preparation for Liftoff PGH 2020, with a second advisory committee meeting and the public announcement that Liftoff PGH will merge with the Pittsburgh's Life Sciences Week next year.
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10 biz-building quotes that stood out from TEDCO’s 2019 Entrepreneur Expo

Over 900 of the region’s entrepreneurs, business owners, venture capitalists and legislators gathered at TEDCO’s 2019 Entrepreneurial Expo last week to participate in a full day of workshops and events that facilitated networking and entrepreneurial education.
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Sonavex Secures New Financing for Limited Release of Commercial Products

Medical device company raises $3M to support pilot rollout of blood flow monitoring products Sonavex, a TEDCO Portfolio Company
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TEDCO sets timeline to start investing in startups again

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. is aiming to be able to once again make venture investments in local tech startups by the start of 2020. The state-backed funding agency stopped new investments while it enacted reforms mandated by the Maryland General Assembly.
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MD startups seek to build their ecosystems at TEDCO expo

Maryland startups found a venue for networking, learning and commiserating Tuesday at the Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s annual Entrepreneur Expo. Founders celebrated successful exits in keynote addresses. CEOs and lawyers offered tips and war stories in breakout sessions for
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TEDCO’s Entrepreneur Expo Energizes Maryland’s Startup Ecosystem with Record Attendance

The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) held its inaugural Entrepreneur Expo in 2011. The first Expo attracted approximately 300 attendees. Three times that number descended on The Hotel at the University of Maryland for its 9th annual Entrepreneur Expo on October 29th.
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Galen Robotics from Silicon Valley plots major growth in new Pigtown headquarters

Startup Galen Robotics is moving into a 5,000-square-foot space in Pigtown where it plans to quickly scale its operations and grow its staff from 25 to up to 150 employees.
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CoapTech LLC Awarded $1.2M Grant from National Institutes of Health to Support Clinical Evaluation and Training for Novel PUMA-G Device

BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CoapTech LLC announced today that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the company a two-year, $1.2M R44 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II
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TEDCO and GovCon Incubator Win a Second Consecutive U.S. SBA Grant to Train Small Businesses in a New FY2020 SBIR/STTR Proposal Lab

OST Global Solutions’ GovCon Incubator, a woman-owned small business, will train 20 additional Maryland small businesses on how to win government seed fund capital. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Federal and State Technology (FAST) grant was awarded to Maryland’s Technology Development
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TEDCO Portfolio Company, MF Fire, Scores $2M in DOE Grants

MF Fire has been transforming wood heat into clean, renewable energy, and eliminating particulate matter from wood fires since 2014. Today, MF Fire announced it received two (2) Department of Energy grants from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy totaling $2 million to aggressively
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TEDCO Portfolio Company, Renalert, wins $25K Beta City Prize

A Baltimore medical device firm that aims to prevent kidney injury was awarded the $25,000 grand prize in the Beta City Venture Capital Pitch Competition.
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In the Trenches with Dan Gincel/Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund

Dan Gincel, MSCRF's Executive Director and TEDCO's VP of University Partnerships, is featured in FITCI's In The Trenches video.
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