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Rockville Businesses Enter Second Round of InvestMaryland Challenge

Competition offers grants and services to life science and high tech companies.

Several companies across Montgomery and Prince George’s counties have made it to the second round of the InvestMaryland Challenge, a competition in which start-up companies can win a portion of $300,000 in grants and/or business services.

Of the 250 companies that initially applied to the competition, 71 were selected to advance to the second round, with 18 in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

In the second round, the entrants’ business plans will be reviewed and judged with semi-finalists announced Feb. 19, and the Governor’s Cup Award Ceremony held on April 15.

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Prizes include such things as mentorship programs, strategic consulting services, product development services, incubator space, accelerator programs and small business innovation research grant assistance.

Twenty-three local businesses made the second round:

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IT Hardware & Software Category                                  

  • ClickMedix, LLC, Rockville
  • VisiSonics Corporation, College Park
  • Employee Navigator, Gaithersburg
  • Management CV, Bethesda
  • Subject 7, Potomac
  • Visual Telehealth, Bethesda

 

Life Science Category

  • Audiodonics, Bethesda
  • Biomedical Enterprises Inc., Bethesda
  • ConverGene, Gaithersburg
  • NanoRods, Rockville
  • IGI Technologies, College Park
  • Remedium Technologies, College Park
  • SynAm Vaccine, Rockville

 

General Category

  • Athena Energy, Bowie
  • CoFounders Lab, Rockville
  • Maryland Energy and Sensor Technologies, College Park
  • Mercaris, Silver Spring
  • Mobilaps, Silver Spring
  • Sustainable Systems International, Gaithersburg
  • Triea Systems, Bethesda

To be eligible to enter the competition, companies must have fewer than 25 employees, annual revenues of less than $1 million, be a duly organized legal entity, be in good standing in the state they are registered in and have a principal place of business in Maryland. Prize winners are required to spend at least 51 percent of their grant money in the state.

Some of the sponsors’ special awards include money and business services from: Microsoft, Noble Life Sciences, Towson University, the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center, BioHealth Innovation, Bethesda Green and more.

Learn more about the competition on the InvestMaryland Challenge website.

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