Who are the leading angel investors startup entrepreneurs should be pitching right now? How do you connect with them?
Effective fundraising for startups isn’t about how many people and firms you can blast your opportunity out to. It’s about getting in front of the right investors, with a strong pitch deck. A recent DocSend survey shows successfully funded startups contacted an average of just 58 investors, made 40 meetings, and took just 12.5 weeks to close their funding round.
Fairfax health technology company Vibrent Health hosted Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA, 11th District) at the company’s new offices for a town hall style meeting today, to talk about digital health initiatives, health care access, immigration issues and other topics of interest to Vibrent’s 140 employees.
“Congressman Connolly understands the importance of integrating health data from various sources to promote the best outcomes for individuals and for public health,” said Vibrent Health Founder and CEO Praduman “PJ” Jain. “We are eager to work with our leaders in government to continue developing digital health technology that advances health research and empowers people to live healthier lives.”
The 2018 UEDA Awards of Excellence finalists have been chosen following an extremely close competition this year. Higher education institutions and organizations across North America submit nominations annually for innovative programs that focus on developing economic prosperity in their communities and beyond. A panel of university and economic development professionals have chosen 24 finalists from the group of nominated projects.
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, today announced several provisions in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) specifically focused on supporting small businesses in Maryland and nationwide. The annual defense funding bill passed the Senate Wednesday.
On the morning of Wednesday, July 25th, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee held a hearing titled The Innovation Economy, Entrepreneurship, and Barriers to Capital Access. The day’s discussion focused on various federal policies that could be pursued by Congress to increase avenues for financing innovative businesses and improve the ranking of the United States as an innovative economy.
The long wait for a White House science adviser is over. President Donald Trump announced today that he intends to nominate meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier, a university administrator and former vice-chair of the governing board of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), to be director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP director traditionally, but not always, also holds the title of the president’s science adviser.
Baltimore-based Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx) recently received a designation from federal regulators that’s designed to help allow patients to get quicker access to new devices.
United Therapeutics Corp. said it has received Food and Drug Administration approval for an implantable pump for Remodulin, its flagship pulmonary arterial hypertension drug.
QIAGEN N.V. and Hamilton Robotics, a privately held leader in automation and liquid handling technology, today announced a new collaboration to improve processing of QIAGEN’s QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) diagnostic test through the integration of Hamilton’s Microlab® STAR™ automated liquid handling workstation into the QFT-Plus assay workflow. QIAGEN’s fourth-generation QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus is the modern gold standard for latent tuberculosis (TB) detection.
Close proximity to a host research university — check. Sustainably designed and preferably LEED-certified buildings — check. A state-of-the-art telecom infrastructure — check. An office of commercialization — check. These used to define a cutting-edge and competitive research park. Not anymore. Today’s “A list” parks, or districts, look more like towns, complete with transit, lodging, residential and retail. Besides those, the University of Maryland’s Discovery District in College Park will soon have coworking space, thanks to a recent partnership among the university, global coworking provider WeWork and Chesapeake Realty Partners.
