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.
TEDCO’s pre-seed Builder Fund was created to financially and operationally support the development of start-up companies run by entrepreneurs with a socially or economically disadvantaged background that hinders access to traditional forms of capital and executive networks.
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.
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.
TEDCO’s Rural Business Innovation Initiative (RBI2) announced its latest pre-seed investment in PaverGuide, Inc.—a structural base for paving systems designed to advance permeable pavements. PaverGuide is the second rural-based company to receive a $25,000 investment from TEDCO’s program.
Under the new TEDCO 2.0 vision, MII is now poised to get even better, and Arti Santhanam, Ph.D. was recently appointed as the new MII Program Director to help make that happen.
Elixirgen Scientific’s new kit, Quick-miniBrain™ uses ES/iPSC differentiation to form miniaturized, 3D human brain tissues for drug discovery and toxicity screening.
The grant will go toward Longeveron’s clinical trial examining the safety and efficacy of its allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell product to improve flu vaccine immune-response in elderly patients with frailty.
The Southern Maryland Innovation and Technology (SMIT) meetup and PaxSpace announced Lowell Cade, Founder of RYG Light LLC, as the first place winner of the Crab Pot Pitch Contest.
Bio-Trac, biotechnology training solutions company, announced the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund at TEDCO will partner on three stem cell related training programs: Gene Editing iPSCs and NSCs with CRISPR, Hepatocytes Derived from Human iPSCs, and Generating The Neural Lineage From iPSCs.
