How is your community better or worse than it was in February 2020?

By Julie Zeglen | 3 minute read

After a year of massive societal shifts and challenges, we asked readers how they think their workplaces, industries and neighborhoods have fared. Here’s what they said.

These 5 startups are entering 1501 Health, the incubator from CareFirst and LifeBridge Health

By Stephen Babcock | 3 minute readStartups from Maryland and California are entering the yearlong program to work with teams from the payer and provider sides. Plus, collaboration space at CareFirst HQ is ready to go when the pandemic allows.
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Maryland’s biggest VC funding quarter in 20 years brought $560M to startups

By Stephen Babcock | 2 minute readPaced by a trio of $100 million "megarounds," the state took 2020's investment gains even higher to start the year. Here's a breakdown of funding totals in Baltimore city, the region and the state, courtesy of two new funding reports.
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Columbia-based SparkPost to be acquired by communications platform MessageBird in $600M deal

By Stephen Babcock | 2 minute readSparkPost grew into the largest sender of business emails. Now its platform will be added to the call and text tools offered by Netherlands-based MessageBird.
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Medly Pharmacy moves same-day prescription delivery hub to downtown Baltimore

By Stephen Babcock | 1 minute readAfter expanding here in 2020, the New York-based digital pharmacy company sought a bigger space that could allow a wider delivery area.
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