Astek is a Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) portfolio company that is a University of Maryland Baltimore County spinout that is building a platform (Eugris) that guides physicians in prescribing appropriate antibiotics for patients with bacterial sepsis in one hour.

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator, based in San Francisco, working with companies to refine their pitch to investors. A highly competitive program, the YC has an approximate 3% acceptance rate.

As part of Governor Larry Hogan's $5M economic relief package, the RUBRIC program is an economic relief initiative to benefit socially and economically disadvantaged and rural early-stage technology-based businesses hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds administered by TEDCO are provided to early-stage companies that are impacted by the current crisis and are in need of bridge funding to survive and prosper as the downturn and COVID-19 crisis subsides.

to TEDCO portfolio companies JuneBrain Inc. and remodelmate!

Winners of the Washington Business Journal and DC Inno Fire Awards of 2021!

OcuFlow placed in the top 6 (out of 100) in the ASCRS Pitch Competition

The I-Corps program is an immersive learning experience developed by the National Science Foundation for researchers, faculty, students, and others to determine if the problem they are working to solve exists on a larger scale in the market.

The next cohort will be taught by Elizabeth Mazhari and will run from September 16th through October 14th. Applications are accepted through September 1st.

Maryland companies poised for growth and expansion are encouraged to apply for the SCALEUP Maryland™ Program, sponsored by the Maryland Department of Commerce and the T. Rowe Price Foundation. This four month program, taught by seasoned entrepreneurs and business development professionals, will help you develop in-depth and targeted strategies for growth. Companies with $500K to $2M in revenue across multiple industries will develop tools to reach their targeted milestones.

Applications Due: August 20, 2021

by Troy LeMaile-Stovall

Discover how the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund is Accelerating Cures

Using cell therapy, Dr. Luis Garza, Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his lab are conducting clinical trials to help wounded warriors and the 2 million amputees living in the United States. His mission is to give back to the people who have risked their lives for their country and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF) has made that possible.

Visit tedcomd.com/jobs to view our available positions.

By: Jody Sprinkle

At TEDCO, we embrace the core value of stewardship every day in each of our programs. It is our responsibility and privilege to manage the scarce resources entrusted to us by our public and private partners. As a quasi-public instrumentality of the State of Maryland, TEDCO incorporates stewardship into our mission to serve the State’s entrepreneurs in an efficient, effective, and fiscally responsible manner.

Astek Diagnostics Accepted into the Y Combinator - BioBuzz

TEDCO Makes Rural Business Pre-Seed Investment

UMBC spinoff Astek Diagnostics accepted into Y Combinator - The Daily Record

TEDCO Awards 45 Grants to Maryland Businesses Hit Hardest by the Pandemic - I95 Business Magazine

Money Moves: Arlington-based Interos is now a unicorn Plus, TEDCO announced grants for 45 Maryland businesses, and a SPAC from Revolution's Steve Case completed its first merger.

This UMBC-born medical device startup got accepted into Y Combinator - Technical.ly

University Of Maryland Professor Gets New Funds To Continue Research To Enhance Crop Production

Multiple D.C.-area companies closed $100M rounds in July. Here are more local ventures that secured investments.

Deal roundup: Medical device firm readies for European sales, local events firm acquires another - Multiple TEDCO Portfolio Companies Spotlighted on Baltimore Business Journal

University of Maryland Associate Professor receives new funding to expand CRISPR-Cas12a genome editing technologies and continue the search for novel variants - Research aims to develop a genome editing pipeline in carrots and screen for new CRISPR systems

Omar Muhammad Elected Chair of TEDCO’s Board of Directors - Citybiz

A Silicon Valley sequencing leader acquired Baltimore biotech company Circulomics

First African American Elected Chair of TEDCO's Board of Directors - Yahoo! Finance

First African American Elected Chair of TEDCO's Board of Directors - MarketWatch