TEDCO handed out its annual honors for “Innovation,” “Corporate Excellence” and “Entrepreneurship” on Tuesday. The ICE Awards ceremony at Columbus Center in Inner Harbor marked a move into Baltimore city after last year’s event in Columbia.
Here are the TEDCO portfolio companies that won:

Innovation

Three startups split the award in this category this year. From Baltimore, Sisu Global Health was honored just a few hours after showing off its work at Harbor Designs and Manufacturing. Bethesda’s Cobrain and Hyattsville-based fire-tech company MF Fire also picked up awards.

TEDCO Ice awards # she innovates #sisu#allovue#immunomic. Women in innovation pic.twitter.com/NWsNM38fXr

— SPCBusiness (@SPCConsulting) May 17, 2016

Corporate Excellence

Following its big licensing deal for allergy vaccine tech, Immunomic Therapeutics got recognition from TEDCO. The company is forging ahead with cancer applications on technology that was developed in the Johns Hopkins University lab of Dr. Tom August.

Pleased to share that we won Life Science Company of the Year, hosted by @TechCouncilMD https://t.co/mI8qK6ENKq pic.twitter.com/pvto3aUz4N

— Immunomic Therapeutics (@immunomix) May 13, 2016

Entrepreneurship

With growth at Allovue that included closing a $5 million Series A and lots of (diversity-minded) hiring, CEO Jess Gartner was honored for her edfintech entrepreneurship.

Congrats to @jessgartner @AllovueBalance CEO #ice2016 #entrepreneur winner pic.twitter.com/8ZvX2jGJGX

— TEDCO (@MDTEDCO) May 17, 2016