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Pixelligent gets a VFA fellow // Gary Vaynerchuk likes Betamore [Startup Roundup]

This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch. who’s getting funded? Gliknik, based in the University of Maryland BioPark, has raised $9.9 million in equity of an offered $15 million, according to SEC filings. The biopharmaceuticals company creates “new therapies for patients […]

Sean Lane goes HAM on e-mail all day, baby.

This is the Startup Roundup. Every Wednesday morning, Technically Baltimore will put together the smaller pieces that make up our startup ecosystem. If you’ve got news to share, get in touch.

who’s getting funded?

Gliknik, based in the University of Maryland BioPark, has raised $9.9 million in equity of an offered $15 million, according to SEC filings. The biopharmaceuticals company creates “new therapies for patients with cancer and immune disorders.” Gliknik recently closed a separate round of $9.8 million in equity.
Pixelligent Technologies, based in the Holabird Industrial Park, has raised $5,098,868  in equity, according to SEC filings. The nanotechnology company‘s funding round was led by the Abell Foundation, according to the Baltimore Business Journal.

who’s making moves?

Pixelligent Technologies joins Riskive as a Baltimore startup accepting a Venture for America fellow. Middlebury College’s Peter DiPrinzio, an international economics major, will join Pixelligent in August.
Biomedical startup OptiCul Diagnostics Ltd. “submitted an application this month to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of its first product, a device that tests for bacterial presence and promises to shorten hospital stays,” according to BmoreMedia.
Health IT startup Analytical Informatics, which provides EMR analytics and practice management software, has partnered with SchedFull, “a provider of improved patient scheduling and notification software,” according to a press release. Technically Baltimore first reported on Analytical Informatics in September.
Sean Lane, CEO of BTS Software Solutions and cofounder of Betamore, went straight HAM on his e-mail inbox with Mailstrom, removing more than 14,000 e-mails in one day. For a definition of HAM, please ask YouTube.
Federal Hill-based incubator Betamore made Gary Vaynerchuk‘s list of “Five Companies You Should Be Paying Attention To.” The CEO of VaynerMedia said Betamore will “really create Entrepreneurship 2.0 in the Baltimore region.”
Cybersecurity startup Light Point Security won the Northern Virginia Technology Council “Destination Innovation award for most innovative startup company.”

Full disclosure: Betamore cofounder Mike Brenner is a partner with Technically Baltimore, which works on occasion from the Federal Hill incubator.
Companies: ZeroFox / BTS Software Solutions / Light Point Security / Venture for America / University of Maryland BioPark / 410 Labs / Betamore

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