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Four firms win $100k each in InvestMaryland contest

By Jamie Smith Hopkins and The Baltimore Sun
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Eric Conner, left, and Manik Bhat are recent Johns Hopkins University graduates and the founders of Healthify, which is a startup company that creates electronic health records.

Eric Conner, left, and Manik Bhat are recent Johns Hopkins University graduates and the founders of Healthify, which is a startup company that creates electronic health records. (Barbara Haddock Taylor, Baltimore Sun)

Four startups won $100,000 each Monday night in the second InvestMaryland Challenge, a state-run competition to help promising new firms and encourage out-of-state companies to establish a Maryland presence.

The state Department of Business and Economic Development said 260 businesses entered the InvestMaryland contest, 29 of them from out of state.

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The general business category, open to companies anywhere in the U.S. if they open a location in Maryland, was won by New York-based Healthify. The firm, a Johns Hopkins University startup, helps health plans address patient social needs that affect well-being — access to food, housing and the like.

Bethesda-based Brain Sentry won the life sciences category. The company's helmet-mounted sensor — an impact detector — blinks red when the athlete wearing it should be evaluated for concussion.

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Gaithersburg-based ClickMedix won the IT category for its mobile-health platform aimed at helping doctors and hospitals reach more patients in areas of the world where medical care is hard to get.

Frederick-based Luminal won the new cybersecurity category. The company, which moved from West Virginia this year, focuses on cloud-computing security.

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