entrepreneurship: Growing Companies

Founded by a teacher-turned-technologist, Mindgrub Technologies LLC recently moved into a larger office in Catonsville and is looking to fill eight open positions. The "technology innovation agency" creates applications for cell phones, the Web and social media outlets. 

640 Frederick Road
Catonsville, MD 21228

Founded more than two decades ago, marketing firm Renegade Communications counts Comcast, T. Rowe Price and Under Armour among its clients. It underwent a rebranding last year, with a new logo and website. 

10950 Gilroy Rd.
Suite-J
Hunt Valley, MD 21031

Founded 25 years ago, Columbia software company Tricerat recently hired a new president and introduced new scanning software. 

10320 Little Patuxent Pkwy.
Suite 200
Columbia, MD 21044

Founded in 1976, Structural is a specialty engineering and construction firm that is providing blast protection technology for the new buildings at the New York World Trade Center in Manhattan. The Hanover company is hiring for 30 positions throughout the US. 

7455 New Ridge Rd.
Suite T
Hanover, MD 21076

Web Advantage CEO Hollis Thomases founded the Havre de Grace firm 14 years ago. It now counts Unicef, Visit Baltimore and Nokia USA among its clients. 

321 North Union Avenue
Havre de Grace, MD 21078

Founded by an entrepreneur and a radiologist, SecureRad provides imaging systems for health care practices in the U.S. and abroad. It is adding a new cloud-based service this year. 

122 Defense Highway
Suite 228
Annapolis , Maryland 21401

Named by Baltimore magazine as the Best Color Salon in 2011, Towson's No Worries Salon is expanding this month. Owner Jill Turnbull counts the Washington Ballet Co., Fila and many celebrities among her clients. 

29 W. Allegheny Ave.
Towson, MD 21204

Founded by former WBAL-TV reporter John Sherman, Storyfarm New Media staff believe that every website is its own TV station. Clients include T. Rowe Price Group Inc., the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

2400 Boston Street
Baltimore, MD 21224

Towson's AVF Consulting has picked up new clients and is hiring for several open positions. The 25-year-old company provides accounting software and consulting services to organizations in the mid-Atlantic.

1220-C E. Joppa Rd.
Suite 514
Towson, MD 21230

Since launching 15 years ago, Baltimore marketing firm Warschawski has worked with a variety of national and international clients. They include Gore-Tex, Topps Baseball Cards, T-shirt printing company CustomInk and clothier Robert Talbott. The country of Switzerland is its latest client win.

1501 Sulgrave Ave.
Suite 350
Baltimore, MD 21209

Established in 1985, the Traffic Group has grown to become one of the nation's leading traffic engineering and transportation planning firms. It is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Montgomery County and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department.

9900 Frankling Square Dr.
Baltimore, Maryland 21236

KatzAbosch is a leading certified public accounting, tax and consulting firm that serves clients throughout the mid-Atlantic.
Accounting Today has recognized it as one of the top 100 Best Accounting Firms to Work For three years in a row.

9690 Deerco Rd.
Suite 500
Timonium, Maryland 21093

One of the companies at the recent White House briefing with Baltimore entrepreneurs, MOS Creative is taking advantage of the growing demand for mobile marketing. It recently moved into a new office in Howard County.

8945 Guilford Rd.
Suite 130
Columbia, Maryland 21046

Greenspacers "grows fresh air" by using hydroculture plants to remove volatile organic compounds in the air and produce oxygen to ease breathing and alleviate "sick building syndrome."

2400 Boston Street
3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21224

Although technology is very important, it's not everything. LocalUp's model and business opportunity is proven and being executed in local communities across the country. LocalUp believes in generating revenues through local sales and marketing initiatives.

443-743-3272
3500 Boston Street
Suite 434
Baltimore, MD 21224