AOL co-founder Steve Case will be the inaugural speaker for Anchor Ventures's speaker series.

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After years of groundwork, Maryland universities saw more tangible results this year from their efforts to support new startups formed from university technology. State and university officials hope this year’s results show a state gaining traction as it looks to ...

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University of Maryland, Baltimore startup Harpoon Medical was acquired by Edwards Lifesciences for $100 million, Edwards announced Wednesday. The deal could rise to $150 million if Harpoon meets pre-specified milestones. Harpoon’s primary product is a device designed to facilitate beating-heart, ...

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M-1 Ventures, the health technology accelerator sponsored by Johns Hopkins, Plank Industries and the University of Maryland, chose five companies to participate in its first cohort. These companies will each receive $25,000 and go through a 16-week program with one-on-one ...

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  With a slogan of “Turning plant floor data into actionable information,” Julie Lenzer founded the software company Applied Creative Technologies Inc. in 1995. Focused on data collection, data mining and analytics in the food manufacturing sector, Lenzer’s company started ...

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Lentigen acquired University of Maryland, Baltimore startup Living Pharma last week just 18 months after the company was founded, an initial success for a university program designed to turn languishing technologies into successful companies. The New Ventures Initiative, run out ...

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Researchers from the University of Maryland, Baltimore have been exploring the medicinal properties of a particular Jamaican plant. No, not that one. A different one. The plant, commonly known as “Ball Moss,” contains a molecule that has the potential to ...

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore has spawned a new startup that will use genome research to target inflammatory bowel ailments such as Crohn's disease. Technology developed by two doctors from the Institute for Genome Sciences at the university's medical school looks at the genomes of bacteria in the human gut to detect diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's.

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The University of Maryland, Baltimore has invested $100,000 in a Baltimore company called Breethe, Inc. to help market a wearable, artificial lung system developed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The investment was made through UM Ventures, a partnership between UMB and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County that allows the schools to commercialize technology developed by their students and faculty. Dr. Bartley P. Griffith, executive director of the medical school's Program in Lung Healing, developed the core technology behind the portable blood pump oxygenator and founded Breethe to commercialize the product in 2014.

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UM Ventures at the University of Maryland, Baltimore has invested $100,000 in Harpoon Medical, a medical device company based in Stevensville.

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