The Latest on Innovation &
Entrepreneurship in Maryland
September 2019
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Curbio Inc.
is a venture funded home renovation technology company that specializes exclusively in helping Realtors and their clients prepare their homes for sale in order to reduce days on market and increase seller proceeds. From its base in Potomac, Maryland, Curbio operates in the metro areas of Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix. Operations will begin in Chicago, Tampa, and Miami before the end of 2019.
Curbio recently announced that it has secured $7 million in Series A funding. The funding round was Co-led by Camber Creek and Brick & Mortar. Founded in late 2017 by Matt Siegal and Rick Rudman, the company has raised $13.6 million in total financing and will use this latest round of financing to build out its proprietary technology and expand to new cities.
TEDCO Seed
invested $500,000 in Curbio in May 2018 through the Gap Fund.
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Join us at
TEDCO's 9th Annual Entrepreneur Expo!
We're anticipating another great event celebrating Maryland's entrepreneurial ecosystem, with 80 exhibitors, many inspiring speakers and exciting session topics. We're also featuring for the first time at the TEDCO Expo, an
Entrepreneur Hub
in the exhibit hall to include a networking lounge, entrepreneur resources spotlight stage and entrepreneur speed dating.
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OCTOBER 29, 2019 | THE HOTEL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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DefTech Info Session Webinar
With Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation
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Friday, September 6, 2019
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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Division of Health and Sciences Informatics Grand Rounds
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Multiple Dates
12:45 PM
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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TEDCO SEED OPEN FORUM
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
TEDCO
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Intellectual Property Workshop
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Chestertown hotdesks
To Register - Email: emccoy@kentgov.org
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MD Cyber Solutions Showcase
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
M&T Bank Stadium
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Maryland Governor's Business Summit
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Friday, September 20, 2019
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Innovation Station
Email pitch@tedco.md to sign up
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Bio Innovation Conference
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Monday, October 7, 2019
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel
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EdTech Innovation Showcase
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Towson University West Village Commons
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Executive Women In Bio Webinar: Standing on the Glass Ceiling - Advancing Your Career
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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NIH Awards
Sonavex, Inc
. $3 Million Grant to Pursue New Vascular Surgery Applications for EchoMark® & EchoSure®
Sonavex, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on empowered patient care, announced that it received a $3 million Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health to use its EchoMark & EchoSure devices to support arteriovenous (AV) fistula maturation and long-term viability. The award provides capital for prospective clinical studies and continued research and development efforts.
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Airgility
, a TEDCO portfolio company, in the news (Drone industry aims for takeoff in Maryland via The Daily Record)
In April a drone carried a kidney across Baltimore to the University of Maryland Medical Center, where a patient who had waited eight years on dialysis received the organ.
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A TEDCO Portfolio Company,
InferCabulary
, Joins Google for Education as a Build Partner
InferCabulary, a leader in providing visual vocabulary to support literacy in grades 1-12, announced that it has become a Google for Education Build Partner. InferCabulary was chosen as a partner as it easily integrates with Google for Education products, such as Google Classroom, in addition to Google Sign-In, saving teachers and students time. InferCabulary is based on a unique research-backed approach to improving comprehension and nuanced vocabulary knowledge through visual critical thinking activities.
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Educational technology tool
InferCabulary
makes it easier for students to learn
TEDCO portfolio company featured in news spotlight on
WBALTV11
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RoosterBio Inc.
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a TEDCO portfolio company, raises $15M in Initial Series B Round
RoosterBio Inc, disrupting the market by radically simplifying human mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (hMSC) biomanufacturing, today announced it has raised in excess of $15 million in an initial Series B financing round led by Dynamk Capital.
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Camber Creek On Board As Real Estate Tech Startup
Curbio
Raises Millions
Potomac startup Curbio Inc., which helps homeowners renovate their houses to get a higher price at sale, has raised $7.1 million in fresh funding from several big name investors, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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NextStep
, a TEDCO portfolio company, awarded NIH $1M cooperative agreement
Baltimore Start Up NextStep Robotics Awarded NIH $1 Million Cooperative Agreement to Bring its Stroke Recovery Device to Market.
NextStep Robotics, a University of Maryland, Baltimore start up tackling stroke rehabilitation, specifically foot drop, has been awarded Phase I of a Fast Track Cooperative Agreement application worth up to $5.4 million over four years by the National Institutes of Health.
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Healthcare Embracing New Era of Compliance and Analytics
Healthcare compliance analytics company
Protenus
today announced a $17M investment from some of the country’s top healthcare technology investment firms, to keep up with growing customer demand and to continue partnering with health systems that aim to take a more innovative approach to maintain compliance. Founded in 2014, Protenus helps health systems leverage healthcare compliance analytics to demonstrate 100% compliance and proactively identify risk across the organization, such as inappropriate access to patient data and the theft and misuse of controlled substances by hospital staff.
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SBA Awards Grants to 24 Organizations to Support Small Business Innovation and R&D Commercialization
The U.S. Small Business Administration granted 24 awards up to $125,000 per recipient in FY 2019 under its Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program. FAST’s objective is to improve outcomes for underrepresented entrepreneurs in SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs and increase participation for women-owned, rural-based, and socially and economically disadvantaged firms.
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New TEDCO Task Force Created to Improve Venture Capital and Support Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs
The Maryland Technology Development Corporation
(TEDCO)
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Maryland’s leading tech economic engine, recently announced the formation of a Task Force for Women Entrepreneurs to tackle this support and funding gap head on. The Task Force’s mission is to “…assess the challenges that women entrepreneurs in Maryland face when accessing capital and implement strategies to overcome those challenges.”
The Task Force, chaired by
Myra Norton
, is dedicated to the recruitment, funding and operational support of women-owned and led startups in Maryland.
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TEDCO hires first government relations director
TEDCO
, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announces it has selected Jody Sprinkle as the new director of government relations to start on September 3, 2019. Sprinkle joins TEDCO with nearly 20 years as a policy analyst for various entities in the Maryland General Assembly. As TEDCO plans for new strategic growth throughout the organization, it’s eager to move forward with the support of this new position.
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TEDCO elects four new board execs amid internal reorganization
Maryland Technology Development Corp. has elected four new executive officers to its board of directors as the organization works to reshape its internal policies to meet new legislative requirements.
The state-backed funding group elected
Myra Norton
, chief operating officer of Baltimore software firm Arena, as TEDCO's new chair.
Tina Williams-Koroma
, president of local cyber security firm TCecure, was named vice chair.
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TEDCO announces Entrepreneur Expo for Oct. 29
The Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) announced the lunchtime keynote speaker for its annual Entrepreneur Expo, to be held at The Hotel at University of Maryland, on Tuesday, Oct. 29: Linthicum-based Paragon BioServices’ and the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s Marco Chacón.
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TEDCO highlighted as an innovation best practices from around the U.S in the newly released The Brookings Institution report
The 20 highlighted initiatives include strong strategy-setting efforts in states like New Jersey, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Massachusetts, and efforts to promote business R&D activity in Rhode Island, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey.
In addition, these best practices suggest how states can catalyze increases in early stage financing as Colorado, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Georgia, and Maryland have done, and how they are trying to counter regional innovation gaps, as North Carolina, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois are doing.
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TEDCO’s Maryland Innovation Initiative Fund Continues to Deliver Substantial Impact for Maryland Biohealth Companies
The Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s (TEDCO)
Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII)
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a program designed to propel research from partner universities towards commercialization, has had a strong, demonstrable impact on many important life science portfolio companies in the BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR).
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