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Maryland Cyber Incubator Graduates Two More Startups, Including First International One

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the bwtech@UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Cyber Incubator announced Oct. 27 that two more cyber startups have graduated from the company’s Cync program, including the first international startup graduate.iWebGate of Perth, Australia and Light Point Security of Baltimore, Md., both completed the Cync scholarship program bwtech@UMBC. Bwtech is a 71-acre research and technology community at UMBC with over 500,000 square feet of office and laboratory space. It contains more than 120 technology and life science…

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