Baltimore among 16 cities selected for Village Capital startup initiative

Companies founded on technology licensed from Johns Hopkins University have raised $1 billion since 2010. And 90 percent of those companies are no longer in Maryland. Christy Wyskiel, who leads Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, the university’s commercialization arm, hopes to reverse that trend with a new partnership with Village Capital and the Abell Foundation. “Imagine the ecosystem if all that institutional capital had stayed here,” Wyskiel said. Since taking over as head of the university’s…

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