COLLEGE PARK — Maryland startups found a venue for networking, learning and commiserating Tuesday at the Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s annual Entrepreneur Expo. Founders celebrated successful exits in keynote addresses. CEOs and lawyers offered tips and war stories in breakout ...

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The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) was awarded a grant of up to $125,000 Tuesday by the U.S. Small Business Administration under its Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program. The program’s objective is to improve outcomes for underrepresented entrepreneurs ...

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The Maryland Technology Development Corp., or TEDCO, has hired Jody Sprinkle as its first director of government relations. Sprinkle’s hiring, announced Tuesday, comes after a legislative session that saw the development agency’s agenda derailed by a critical legislative audit. “I ...

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A TEDCO program designed to help universities turn research into commercial activity funded seven startups and 26 technology assessments during the last fiscal year, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation announced. TEDCO used $4.2 million through the Maryland Innovation Initiative last ...

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Maryland retains strong assets that can make it a hub of startup economic activity, despite the recent setbacks suffered by the state agency designated to spur that innovation. Stakeholders have had mixed reaction to legislation that created oversight at TEDCO, the ...

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Three startups received funding this week from a TEDCO fund designed to help firms founded by entrepreneurs from economically or socially disadvantaged backgrounds. As recipients from the Pre-Seed Builder Fund, these companies receive funding and executive management help from the ...

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TEDCO’s leader said a critical audit allowed the agency to open a conversation with legislators about its mission and where it should be spending its resources. The Maryland Senate Thursday approved legislation to create more oversight and direction for the ...

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TEDCO is focused on compliance after a critical legislative audit was released last week, TEDCO CEO George Davis said. “Change is hard. But I’m up to the task and I think I was hired to do that,” Davis said. “If ...

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Improving Maryland’s innovation infrastructure will enable the state to make the technology investments it needs to keep up with states like California and Massachusetts in the innovation economy, members of Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday. ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan unveiled plans for a Maryland Technology Infrastructure Fund at his Opportunity Zone announcement last week. But this is something TEDCO has been planning for a while as it tries to find more ways for tech startups in ...

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