TEDCO Announces Recent Investment in Sybal

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $35,000 Pre-Seed Builder Fund follow-on investment in Sybal. This Maryland-based software startup provides computational governance solutions designed to support various industries.
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TEDCO’s Pre-Seed Rural Business Innovation Initiative Invests in Acorn Family Services

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.
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TEDCO’s Entrepreneur Expo to Host Second Future Founders: University Innovators Pitch Competition

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announces the return of the Future Founders: University Innovators Pitch Competition at the 2026 Entrepreneur Expo. In collaboration with Lightwork Enterprise, the competition provides a dynamic forum for emerging entrepreneurs from
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A 12-Year Overnight Success: How Diagnostic Biochips Is Powering a Renaissance in Neurological Drug Discovery

Back in October at the 2025 TEDCO Expo, we sat down with Brian Jamieson, Founder and CEO of Diagnostic Biochips. Jamieson humorously described his company’s journey as a “12-year overnight success story.” It’s a line delivered with a knowing smile, but it captures something true about the long
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Ellen Flowers-Fields and Tammi Thomas Selected as The Daily Record’s 2026 Maryland’s Top 100 Women Honorees

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announces the recognition of both Ellen Flowers-Fields, TEDCO Board of Directors chair, and Tammi Thomas, chief development & marketing officer, TEDCO, as one of The Daily Record’s 2026 Top 100 Women. The Top 100 Women awards began in 1996
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TEDCO Awards a Total of $371,875 in SBIR/STTR Matching Funds to Latest Round of Awardees

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced the latest round of awardees for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Matching Funds (Matching Funds) program.
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OpEd: Maryland Must Create an ‘Unfair Advantage’ for Key Industries

David Tohn As CEO of a Maryland-based defense and intelligence technology firm, I spend a lot of time visiting other technology ecosystems and asking myself, “Why are they performing better than Maryland?” To borrow from Gov. Wes Moore, they decided to win, built a strategy around their strengths
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Thinking Differently in Uncertain Times: Fulton Bank’s Bret Schreiber on Capital, Community, and the Future of Maryland Life Sciences

The energy at the 2025 TEDCO Expo was unmistakable. With over a thousand companies filling the room, the event once again proved itself as one of the most important gatherings in Maryland’s innovation ecosystem. Amid the buzz of pitches and conversations, BioBuzz Networks sat down with Bret
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Baltimore jet engine firm starts selling drones amid military demand

The company's drones could be used to help U.S. soldiers prepare for military tactics used by Russia and Iran.
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Mapping the Future: How EcoMap Technologies Is Building the Digital Infrastructure for Innovation Ecosystems

What does it look like when a startup sets out to build the digital backbone of an entire innovation community? For EcoMap Technologies, a Baltimore-born company on a mission to digitize the infrastructure of entrepreneurial ecosystems, the answer is taking shape in real time, and it’s catching the
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NeuroIntact: Focus on Regulatory Path, Expanded Clinical Validation for Temperature Modulation System

NeuroIntact, founded in 2023 by Bryan Nicholson, offers an advance in precision temperature modulation for hospitalized patients. Its flagship system, VCool, was developed with direct feedback from world-renowned physicians in the United States and internationally.
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Minnowtech’s sonar imaging tech gets major upgrade to boost shrimp populations

Minnowtech built a data-driven imaging tool to address a common aquaculture challenge: farmers’ inability to accurately count shrimp growing in murky ponds. The company’s technology captures and analyzes underwater images, so that farmers can see inside pond populations and then know when to feed
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TEDCO’s Concept Capital Supports Gaia Agricultural Technology

TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, recently announced providing Concept Capital funding to Gaia Agricultural Technology. As part of the Concept Capital program, eligible entities are allotted $25,000 to support founders during the beginning stages of entrepreneurial ventures
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From Personal Loss to Purpose: How Impruvon Is Transforming Medication Management

Back in October 2025, at the TEDCO Expo, Chris Frew, CEO of BioBuzz, sat down with Impruvon CEO Justin Amoyal to talk about the problem his company is tackling, and why it’s so personal.
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Alex Choi Chosen for Leadership Maryland’s Emerging Leader Program 3rd Class

Leadership Maryland announced today that Alex Choi, executive director of Government Program Development, Affairs and Research at TEDCO, has been chosen to participate in the Emerging Leader Program 3rd Class statewide professional development program.
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