TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent Pre-Seed Builder Fund investment in Sommos. The Pre-Seed Builder Fund rests under the organization’s Social Impact Funds umbrella, created to support underserved founders and communities.

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, formally announced the promotions of Tammi Thomas to president and Geyssel Gonzalez to chief financial & technology officer. These appointments were made by TEDCO’s CEO, Troy LeMaile-Stovall, recognizing the leadership, strategic vision and longstanding contributions both leaders have made to TEDCO’s growth and Maryland’s innovation ecosystem.

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announces the selection of Direna Cousins for vice president of marketing. In this role, she leads the organization’s enterprise marketing, communications, brand and market development strategy to strengthen TEDCO’s position across Maryland’s innovation ecosystem and expand awareness of its programs, partnerships and impact.

greatEvent, located in Rockville, Md., has developed a Real‑Time Booking (RTB) platform for events, intending to give customers instant access to live venue availability and the ability to book spaces in minutes. The patented platform was also designed to let planners see meeting and event spaces in real time, hopefully eliminating the guesswork and delays of traditional sales‑and‑catering systems.

ICaPath is a Baltimore-based biotech company that has developed a cancer immunotherapy product using encapsulated IL-12 in PLGA nanoparticles. ICaPath's proprietary technologies for PLGA nanoparticle encapsulation can be expanded to additional payload as well.