Analytical Informatics, Inc, a portfolio company of the New Ventures Department of the University of Maryland, Baltimore is one of the semifinalists in 43North, the world’s largest business idea competition. 43North will award $5 million in cash prizes and is setting out to turn the best new business ideas from around the globe into reality. The top award is $1 million, with six $500,000 awards and four $250,000 awards. There were with 6,932 applications from 96 countries and all 50 U.S. states. That got boiled down to 2,603 qualified submissions and 113 semifinalists. Analytical Informatics, Inc was the only Baltimore and Maryland based company selected.