Meyer leaving Betamore for ZeroFox
Betamore CEO Jen Meyer told the incubator’s advisory board Thursday night that she planned to take the role of vice president of global customer operations at ZeroFox. ZeroFox, a cybersecurity firm focused on social media, was the first business to graduate from the Betamore incubator, and it has continued to grow. Earlier this year, the company […]
Beta City expands into Build Baltimore
Betamore and Sagamore Ventures are expanding the Beta City event to two days and dubbing it Build Baltimore. On Sept. 28, the Beta City event starts the Build Baltimore event where startups can pitch to investors and compete for a cash prize. On Sept. 30, The Foundery hosts Garage Fest highlighting projects, such as drones, […]
Betamore’s new space: ‘A place to make and build stuff’
Betamore expects its new space in City Garage to help companies through their entire lifecycle and to help offer more education opportunities. Surrounded by other companies, as well as having The Foundery and Under Armor’s Lighthouse also on the City Garage campus, should provide Betamore’s resident companies more resources and opportunities, said Jen Meyer, Betamore’s […]
Study: Baltimore a top city for women in tech
A new study has named Baltimore the No. 3 city in the country for women in technology. SmartAsset ranked 59 cities using U.S. Census Bureau data on the pay gap between men and women, income after housing costs, tech jobs filled by women and four-year tech employment growth. Baltimore finished behind only Washington, D.C., and […]
Betamore welcomes new tenants as Citelighter takes flight
Betamore’s largest tenant company is leaving the nest, making room for new companies in the Federal Hill-based incubator and co-working space for the first time this year. Since coming to Betamore in late 2013, Citelighter has expanded its Baltimore team from one person to more than 30. Now the company, which offers a digital platform […]
Community activists: Federal Hill’s Betamore looks beyond incubation to building relationships
The incubation space in Betamore’s Federal Hill campus is overflowing, which is both good news and bad news, CEO Jennifer Meyer says. It’s good that the resident companies are hiring, but not so good that they’re running out of room to grow, Meyer explained. Despite numerous requests, though, the 2-year-old Betamore — part incubator, part […]
Betamore to expand focus, create broad advisory panel
Betamore is getting an upgrade, and the new version will try to broaden its reach from giving aid to new companies to fostering a larger environment where those companies can grow and thrive. The Federal Hill-based incubator and education center for startups, which recently merged with the defunct nonprofit Greater Baltimore Technology Council and became […]