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The Daily Record has announced its 2017 Innovators of the Year, 26 individuals and companies who have created new products, services or programs that have had a positive effect on business, industry or the community.

A funding provider of new tech firms and a unit of one of the nation’s largest African American banks is offering black entrepreneurs up to $40,000 each to launch a tech company in Maryland.

Three local startups will receive up to $40,000 each in investments from the Maryland Technology Development Corp. and Harbor Bank as part of a new fund specifically targeted at black business owners.

The Incubation Challenge is seeking ideas that haven’t been tried here before. Proposals are due July 31.

Wasilisin talks to C. Peter Clough, Contributing Editor of Early Investing, regarding TEDCO and how it supports an innovation ecosystem in Maryland.

George Davis (Photo courtesy of TEDCO) George Davis has been appointed CEO of TEDCO, the technology development corporation announced Wednesday morning.

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. has tapped as its new chief executive an investor with a track record of leading Baltimore-area startup companies.

After 14 months and two separate searches, the hunt for a new CEO of Maryland Technology Development Corp. has ended and George Davis is ready to take the helm.

George Davis, who ran Gemstone Biotherapeutics, brings experience running and investing in early stage startups. TEDCO’s board chairman called him an “entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.”

TEDCO has announced its 2017 ICE award recipients, and two of the six winners have connections to Johns Hopkins. On May 25, AsclepiX CEO Wendy Perrow was named entrepreneur of the year, and Glyscend received an award for innovation.

Maryland Technology Development Corp. is offering $300,000 to the person or organization that comes up with the best idea for how to support and grow technology companies in the state.

hotDesks and the Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) have arranged to have Bill Bernard, the new Rural Business Innovation Initiative (RBI2) Mentor for TEDCO on the Lower Eastern Shore, to hold regular office hours at the hotDesks locations in Easton, Cambridge, Salisbury, and Pocomoke.

TEDCO’s ICE awards returned to Columbus Center in Inner Harbor on Thursday night. The Maryland agency, which provides resources for startups and other businesses, awards portfolio companies for Innovation, Corporate Excellence and Entrepreneurship.

Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) has approved awards of $8.5 million to 29 new stem cell research projects.