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Apr 22, 2021	The US government’s next pandemic aid will cover broadband. What will it mean for Baltimore’s digital divide?	In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has offered direct stimulus checks and targeted relief over the last year. The next area it’s supporting: Broadband. The pandemic has put a spotlight on the high cost of internet,...
Mar 16, 2021	Baltimore City Councilmembers send letter calling for FCC commission on ‘digital redlining’	Baltimore City Councilmembers Zeke Cohen, Kris Burnett and Ryan Dorsey wrote a letter this week calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to set up a commission to investigate “digital redlining.” The letter signed by 106 offic...
Dec 7, 2020	emocha applies its technology to pediatric asthma, a critical public health challenge in Baltimore	Initial results of a study conducted by a Baltimore startup and healthcare institution point to a potential tool to address one of the city’s public health challenges. Through the study with LifeBridge Health, Mount Vernon-based emocha appl...
Oct 16, 2020	Need startup funding? Here are 75+ venture capital firms in the Baltimore-DC region	If you’re located in New York City or the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms are abundant and well covered by the media — you can’t escape them. But entrepreneurs in the Baltimore-D.C. region don’t need to go so far to find a firm that c...
Oct 13, 2020	Need startup funding? Here are 75+ venture capital firms in the DMV region	If you’re located in New York City or the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms are abundant and well covered by the media — you can’t escape them. But entrepreneurs in the DMV region don’t need to go so far to find a firm that could propel...
May 28, 2020	RealLIST Connectors: Meet 110 top community builders in Baltimore tech and entrepreneurship	Think tech and entrepreneurship, and it’s likely that the companies come to mind first. Whether they’re startups, social enterprises or small businesses, the association puts a focus on the young companies building new products and business...
Apr 27, 2020	The Abell Foundation Joins $28.5M Series A for LifeSprout	LifeSprout, a Baltimore, Md.-based regenerative medicine company founded with technology licensed from Johns Hopkins University, closed a $28.5m Series A financing. The round was led by Redmile Group, with participation from new institution...
Apr 24, 2018	How Mera Kitchen Collective helps Baltimore immigrants and refugees through food	In recent months, Baltimore restaurants have welcomed refugees into their kitchens. In a pair of pop-up events, chefs from Hersh’s and Clavel have each cooked alongside Iman Alshehab to prepare Syrian feasts. The events offered guests a tas...
Nov 7, 2016	Camden Partners has a new venture fund for Maryland startups ?	When Sisu Global Health announced its most recent investment, it came from a new fund from Camden Partners. The downtown investment firm founded by David Warnock has a new fund focused on early-stage startups. Warnock, George Petrocheilos, ...
Aug 16, 2016	Pixelligent Closes $10.4M Funding; Led by The Abell Foundation	Pixelligent Technologies, the leader in high-index advanced materials for Solid State Lighting and Display applications and producer of PixClear products, announced today that it closed $10.4 million in new funding. The round was led by The...
Jan 26, 2015	Autotransfusion, telemedicine for nutrition, Epic alumni part of DreamIt Health Baltimore’s 2nd class	Here’s a brief look at the six companies taking part in the healthcare accelerator’s four month program: Baton Health Shift changes are frequently cited as the time when mistakes are most likely to be made in patient care. Baton Health’s mo...
Apr 17, 2014	The Abell Foundation launches new website	The Abell Foundation launched a new website this week. The foundation is a noticeable financial supporter of several technology projects in the city, including the Baltimore City Robotics Center, the space for which is owned and donated by ...
Jan 29, 2014	These six startups picked for third AccelerateBaltimore class	The third class of AccelerateBaltimore was announced this week. Six startups will spend 13 weeks at the Highlandtown office of the Emerging Technology Center (ETC). With $25,000 in seed funding apiece donated to the accelerator by the Abell...
Nov 6, 2013	Does Baltimore need an ‘innovation district’?	There’s value in placing entrepreneurial people around one another, as executive director of the University of Maryland BioPark told Technical.ly Baltimore in September. “Being in the cluster holds high value,” said Jane Shaab, who has live...
Aug 23, 2012	Common Curriculum: online lesson planning for teachers, officially launches at Max’s Taphouse	Updated 4:00 p.m. 8/23/12: The version of Common Curriculum launched last night “represents about a year of work,” Earle said via e-mail, but Messinger has been working on the product for about three years. Earle also said that Joe Manko, p...
Jul 27, 2012	Art Bytes brings technologists, others to Walters Art Museum for art-inspired hackathon	Before the weekend is out, before a sizeable gaggle of artists, technologists and “creatives” have decamped from a makeshift coworking space set up in Statuary Hall of the Walters Art Museum—the museum Baltimore City owns —there’s a reasona...
Jul 26, 2012	AccelerateBaltimore’s first class presents at Demo Day	The first class of startups to enter AccelerateBaltimore presented on Wednesday to a crowd of more than 70 at Demo Day, according to the Baltimore Sun. AccelerateBaltimore, launched by the Emerging Technology Center in December 2011 with $1...
Jul 10, 2012	Venture for America coming to Baltimore in 2013	Venture for America, the nonprofit that places college graduates in two-year commitments with startup companies nationwide, will expand to Baltimore in 2013, according to Mike Tarullo, VFA’s director of corporate development. “I think it’s ...
	Autotransfusion, telemedicine for nutrition, Epic alumni part of DreamIt Health Baltimore’s 2nd class	Improving patient handoffs, autotransfusion, Epic alumni and a couple of women-led startups figure into DreamIt Health Baltimore‘s second class of early stage healthcare companies. They will also be the first to occupy its permanent office ...

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Abell Foundation has 1 portfolio company on Parsers VC.

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Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Abell Foundation, among them “The US government’s next pandemic aid will cover broadband. What will it mean for Baltimore’s digital divide?” (Apr 22, 2021) and “Baltimore City Councilmembers send letter calling for FCC commission on ‘digital redlining’” (Mar 16, 2021).

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Yes, Abell Foundation is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 6, 2021.