Md. manufacturing startup, Xometry, acquires competitor and raises $25 million, to include TEDCO’s Maryland Venture Fund

Gaithersburg manufacturing platform Xometry acquired a competitor and raised $25 million, the startup announced Tuesday.
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How a TEDCO portfolio company, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, is saving lives with bacteria-killing viruses

Dr. Carl Merril began researching bacteria-killing viruses at National Institutes of Health in 1965, leading to a partnership with the U.S. Navy’s biological defense group to combat potential bioterrorism attacks with superbugs.
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Two Baltimore university-born startups move their tech closer to market with fed funds

Cykloburn Technologies, born out of Morgan State University, has also been awarded a $225,000 Phase I grant.
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Cykloburn Technologies Wins SBIR Phase I Grant

Cykloburn Technologies LLC, a company developing a low-emission combustion system that converts biomass into energy, announced that it has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant.
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TEDCO has new funding and programming for underserved founders

TEDCO plans to provide funding and business-building programming to entrepreneurs from groups who are often overlooked by investors through a new fund that will begin this fall.
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Journey from Intern to CEO – inConversation with Brad Hennessie of NextStep Robotics

The secret to becoming a successful CEO “Build your own comfort level with being uncomfortable”.
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Checking in with Legends of Learning, the edtech startup providing games for teachers to assign

CEO Vadim Polikov said the company has been growing its slate of science-oriented games.
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RackTop Systems Named Best Storage & Backup Solution at 2018 SIIA CODiE Awards

RackTop’s BrickStor platform that offers high-performance Software-Defined Storage embedded with advanced security, encryption and compliance earns prestigious industry recognition
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RoosterBio Inc., a TEDCO portfolio company, becomes Industry Partner in NSF-Funded Public-Private Cell Manufacturing Technologies Initiative

RoosterBio Inc. has joined the new NSF Engineering Research Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies, known as CMaT.
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Inova Personalized Health Accelerator Invests in CoverMyTest, a New Software Platform that Speeds Insurance Verification for Genomic Testing

Prior Authorization Software Facilitates Broader Access to Genomic Testing
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TEDCO backs Kent County firm looking to make paving projects cheaper

PaverGuide Inc. is the second growing company based in a rural part of the state to receive funding through TEDCO’s recently expanded Rural Business Innovation Initiative. The first investment was awarded to a Queen Anne’s County herbal medicine business, Plum Dragon, in May.
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In RegMedNet’s latest video, TEDCO’s Amritha Jaishankar, discusses the advances enabling the organoid revolution

In this interview, filmed exclusively at the World Stem Cell Summit (22-26 January, 2018, Miami, Florida), Amritha Jaishankar, Award Manager, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF), discusses the organoid revolution.
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TEDCO launching fund to serve the young startups VCs often overlook

Maryland Technology Development Corp. is launching a new fund that will offer early stage investments of $50,000 to startups that may be overlooked by other funding organizations.
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Maryland could be a cybersecurity leader, here’s how

Historically, health care has spent fractions of a percent of its technology budget on security, a paltry proportion when compared to industries like finance that handle similarly sensitive data.
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TEDCO portfolio company Sonavex Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for EchoMark & EchoMark LP Tissue Markers

Sonavex, Inc., a announced today that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its EchoMark and EchoMark LP soft tissue markers.
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