The Thad Cochran Mississippi Center for Information and Technology (MCITy) recently held its inaugural pitch competition, hosted by the Mississippi State University Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach, in conjunction with Innovate Mississippi. This competition is part of the statewide CoBuilders accelerator, designed to encourage more startup companies in the state.…
Excellerator program exceeds $500K lifetime investment in economic development JACKSON, Miss. – Entergy Mississippi is awarding eight economic development organizations with grants that will help boost their marketing, strategic planning, and site readiness goals through the Excellerator Competitive Communities program. The program, now in its seventh year, helps county economic…
SuperTalk's Ricky Mathews recently invited to his radio show Innovate Mississippi CEO Tony Jeff and Geneva Dummer with The Meeting Place on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Meeting Place has three locations on the Gulf Coast for co-working and startup business acceleration services. The discussion among the three quickly turned…
Tanner McCraney came up with the idea for the rumie mobile app after an uncomfortable experience via Facebook Marketplace. As a freshman, recently dropped off at his Rhodes College dorm room in Memphis by his parents, he looked around and realized he had a problem—his mother had left him way…
We're excited to see Mississippi's thriving technology scene get well-deserved attention. According to a recent article by Becky Gillette in the Mississippi Business Journal, our state is quickly becoming known as a great place for technology innovation. "We just forgot to tell ourselves and the rest of the world," said…
The program aims to provide support and resources to Mississippi founders who systematically lack access to capital.
Jackson State University’s College of Business will host HBCU Entrepreneur’s Week March 27–29, 2023 with a focus on government contracting.
Mississippi startup and high-growth companies raised over $43 million in seed funding and working capital in 2022, according to Innovate Mississippi CEO Tony Jeff.
Innovate Mississippi is proud to be a part of the incredible progress made in our state over the past year. We're honored to work alongside our partners, JJ Townsend and the Microsoft TechSpark program, to bring CoBuilders Accelerator and help cultivate a brighter future for Mississippi. "TechSpark's initial partnership in…
First clean air breaker on Entergy’s system energized in Vicksburg JACKSON, Miss. – Entergy Mississippi has taken another step toward meeting the company’s environmental goals with the installation of a high-voltage clean air circuit breaker at one of its substations in Vicksburg. When crews installed the breaker, two Mississippi-based companies…