Funding for Montgomery County companies is on track to outpace last year’s numbers by over 450%, according to data gathered by the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation.  Over $18 billion has been invested in 76 companies in Montgomery County, Maryland’s most populous jurisdiction, in just the first three quarters of 2021, as ...

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Exelon announced the creation of its Racial Equity Capital Fund, which aims to use $36 million to help minority businesses obtain capital to fuel growth and spur job opportunities.

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A Maryland company that focuses on open source software governance and security has received an $80 million investment.

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The University System of Maryland Foundation says it will no longer directly invest in certain fossil fuel sources. Leonard Raley, president and CEO of the foundation, which oversees the system’s $1 billion endowment, tells The Baltimore Sun that they are concerned ...

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Retail Properties of America Inc. has purchased the Shoppes at Hagerstown for $27 million. The 113,000-square-foot retail property is currently 93 percent occupied and includes tenants such as Best Buy, Starbucks and Dollar Tree. “We are very pleased to start ...

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The Baltimore area  isn’t necessarily a hot spot for Chinese investment. It wasn’t until June of 2014 that investors first took advantage of  a 1990 law that creates what’s known as EB-5 when Oriental Dolphins, through its regional investment center’s subsidiary, loaned ...

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A Rockville-based pharmaceutical company is expecting to speed up development of an eye drop after its joint venture partner secured $7.28 million in South Korean investments. RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals Inc. announced Monday that its partner and licensee, G-treeBNT Co. Ltd., will ...

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Don’t expect a bank to save you from yourself, the Court of Special Appeals said in rejecting a franchisee’s claim that Sandy Spring Bank negligently loaned him the money to invest in The Coffee Beanery Ltd. in Annapolis.

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Thanks in part to strategic acquisitions and restructuring efforts completed or announced over the past several months, Legg Mason Inc.’s net income jumped 51 percent during the quarter that ended June 30 compared to the comparable period last year.

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State officials are continuing their efforts to make biotechnology big business in Maryland.

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