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.

On April 21, the delegation from TEDCO (led by CEO Troy LeMaile-Stovall), an important technology investment and startup incubation organization in Maryland, USA, and the Asia-Pacific Association for Investment and Innovation Development (TAIIDA) in Taiwan jointly met with Vice President Jiang Qichen of the Legislative Yuan to exchange views on technology industry cooperation, innovation investment, and regional development opportunities.

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $25,000 Pre-Seed Rural Business Innovation Initiative (RBII) investment in Acorn Family Services.