Maryland Venture Fund
VC Fund
Columbia, United States
Maryland Venture Fund is a VC fund in Columbia focused on Software and Biotechnology. The Maryland Venture Fund, started in 1994, is a $110M early-stage, evergreen venture capital fund dedicated to funding and growing the next generation of exceptional businesses based in Maryland. The Fund makes direct investments in technology and life science companies and indirect investments in venture capital funds.
- Total investments:
- 86
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Maryland Venture Fund invests in
Stages Maryland Venture Fund invests in
Countries Maryland Venture Fund invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 21 (24%)
- Biotechnology 19 (22%)
- Health Care 16 (19%)
- Medical 12 (14%)
- Analytics 10 (12%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (27%)
- Funding Round 17 (20%)
- Seed 12 (14%)
- Convertible Note 12 (14%)
- Series B 6 (7%)
Country
- United States 63 (73%)
- South Korea 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bill Collier
Business Development Associate
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Business Development Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Bill Collier
Business Development Associate
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Business Development Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Frank Glover
VC
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VC | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Attila
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Attila provides visibility, control, and threat defense across physical, virtual, and cloud applications. Attila protects connected devices from the tidal wave of cyber activity estimated to cost the global economy more than $600 billion annually. Atilla was co-founded by Gregg Smith and Vesh Bhatt in 2018. | $750K / Series A / Mar 16, 2020 | |
Xometry
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Xometry is a AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, transforming one of the largest industries in the world. Xometry uses its proprietary technology to create a marketplace that enables buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, and empowers sellers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses. | $50M / Series D / May 13, 2019 | |
scaleMatters
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scaleMatters is a data-FIRST business intelligence company that helps SaaS and subscription businesses reduce customer acquisition costs and unleash rapid growth.Too many SaaS companies are flying blind, wasting upwards of 50% of their sales and marketing dollars on fruitless strategies, broken processes, and underperforming people.Fundamentally, CEOs and revenue leaders lack the accurate data and insights they need to make good decisions and instead operate on intuition and gut feel.scaleMatters’ comprehensive approach to data integrity, business intelligence, and insights transforms SaaS companies into high performing sales and marketing engines.Our business intelligence platform, SellScience™, enables CEOs and revenue leaders to easily understand the end-to-end cost effectiveness of their customer acquisition strategies and invest their sales and marketing dollars more efficiently.This approach has proven to reduce CAC for SaaS companies by 25-75%, freeing up that capital for accelerating growth and/or increasing profitability. | $2.9M / Seed / Mar 31, 2019 | |
Racktop Systems
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RackTop was founded by intelligence community veterans who have been solving the most complex data and security problems for over two decades. Today, RackTop develops innovative software products that are revolutionizing the data storage industry by combining high-performance network attached storage with advanced security to solve the mostdifficult compliance and cyber security challenges facing the modern enterprise. RackTop’s products are unified under a single platform, offering reduced complexity, improved security, and significant cost savings over traditional solutions. | $15M / Series A / Mar 04, 2019 | |
Bandura Cyber
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Bandura uses simple, innovative technology and best-in-class threat intelligence to secure your networks, data and users in real time - wherever they are. Whether it’s from data we provide out of the box, data from one of our Partner Integrations - or any other data source you have - we block attacks from up to 150 Million malicious IPs and domainsin real-time, with no latency. At Bandura, we believe nothing scales like simplicity. We make blocking threats smart and simple - at scale - everywhere. | $4M / Series A / Aug 21, 2018 | |
Threater
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ThreatBlockr is the only active defense cybersecurity platform that fully automates the enforcement, deployment and analysis of cyber intelligence at a massive scale. As the foundational layer of an active defense strategy, ThreatBlockr’s patented solution blocks known threats from ever reaching customers’ networks. ThreatBlockr utilizes immensevolumes of cyber intelligence from over 50 renowned security vendors to provide unparalleled visibility over the threat landscape resulting in a more efficient and effective security posture. Block. Every. Threat. at threatblockr.com. | $4M / Series A / Aug 21, 2018 | |
Neuraly
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Neuraly, a startup biotech company, was formed in 2016 following foundational research by world class neuroscientists led by Ted Dawson, M.D., Ph.D., Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Director of the Institute for Cell Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Following the acquisition of exclusivelicenses to patents covering the composition of matter and methods of use, research supporting the development of NLY01 was recently published in Nature Medicine1. These data demonstrated the critical role of the glial compartment of the neural tissue in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. | $36M / Series A / Jul 18, 2018 | |
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Xometry
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Xometry is a AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing, transforming one of the largest industries in the world. Xometry uses its proprietary technology to create a marketplace that enables buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, and empowers sellers of manufacturing services to grow their businesses. | $25M / Series C / Jul 10, 2018 | |
QxBranch
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QxBranch specializes in developing algorithms and software for quantum and classical computers, with a focused on predictive analytics, forecasting, and optimization. The company develops solutions for industry-leading organizations facing difficult analytics challenges in domains including finance, insurance, pharmaceuticals, media, and energy.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., QxBranch has offices in Adelaide, Australia, and London, UK. | $4.1M / Series A / Jun 25, 2018 | |
Topbox
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Topbox's Customer Experience Analytics solution analyzes customer interactions across every communication channel, enabling our clients to quickly identify and resolve customer and prospect friction points. Customers are providing a mountain of feedback about your products and services through voice, chats, texts, social media, NPS surveys,post-sale surveys, product reviews, app feedback, web feedback, and more. Are you listening? | $5.9M / Series A / Jun 11, 2018 | |
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FAQ
What does Maryland Venture Fund invest in?
Maryland Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 86 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Maryland Venture Fund?
The team at Maryland Venture Fund includes Bill Collier (Business Development Associate), Bill Collier (Business Development Associate) and Frank Glover (VC). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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