McKeever Conwell and Angela Singleton
TEDCO and Harbor Bank Community Development Corporation received 120 applications from African American entrepreneurs for the first round of the Minority Business Pre-Seed Fund.
The applications came from all over Maryland, and even outside the state, said Mac Conwell, a TEDCO deal team coordinator who was a leader of the effort.
“We didn’t push this program out nationally, but there were people nationally who found it because we recognized at TEDCO the issue of minority founders having a lack of access to capital. That is a national issue as well,” Conwell said.
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