Around the state, high-growth startup businesses are being encouraged and accelerated by universities and economic development groups. The Panola Partnership is one such group, and we're excited to see them getting great coverage from the Delta Business Journal. A recent feature story in the Delta Business Journal highlights a trend…
Lobaki Inc. has expanded its reach into Kentucky, where it has partnered with a school district to offer the state's first virtual reality academy, according to WYMT, a station in Hazard, Ky. With this launch, the Jackson-based Lobaki now provides VR technology in 20 schools across six states. The five…
This week we were pleased to see a column by Jon Pritchett, president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, in the Clarion-Ledger. In it, he shared his thoughts on AOL co-founder Steve Case's keynote address (a "fireside chat" with Jim Barksdale) at the Accelerate 2019 Conference on…
The Mississippi Seed Fund has invested $100,000 in Lobaki, a startup company that creates Extended Reality content for industry, healthcare and military applications. [Jackson, Miss.] Lobaki, Inc. is in a somewhat unique position for a startup technology company—it already has plenty of clients. Instead of seeking seed funding for sales…
Liza Cirlot Looser, founder and CEO of The Cirlot Agency, has been appointed Chair of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Board at The University of Mississippi. The Ole Miss School of Business formed the CIE to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to become successful entrepreneurs…
JACKSON, Mississippi - Leaders from ten Mississippi counties recently completed Entergy Mississippi-sponsored ACT "bootcamps" that provided the training needed for their counties to become certified ACT Work Ready communities. The ACT program seeks to close the skills gap through workforce development, giving communities that are ACT-certified an edge when competing…
Jackson entrepreneur, attorney and former Innovate Mississippi board member Toni D. Cooley has added another distinction to her portfolio. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has appointed her to the board of directors of its New Orleans branch. As a branch director, she provides economic information to the district bank’s…
Emerging from thousands of competitors, Jackson-based EasyKale Labs LLC has made it to the final round of Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s “Most Fundable Companies” competition. EasyKale Labs was co-founded by Bilal Qizilbash and Richard A. Sun, CFA, both of whom were named 2019 Mississippi Top Entrepreneurs by the Mississippi Business…
[Jackson, Miss.] Bidmoni, Inc., a financial-services startup offering an online platform for connecting companies with 401k plans for their employees, has closed a round of angel funding led by the North Mississippi Angel Fund. The investment will allow Moss Point, Miss.-based Bidmoni to add to its team of developers and…
[Jackson, Miss.] Lobaki, Inc., the Jackson-based virtual-reality firm, has closed the first tranche of a $2 million round of financing led by the North Mississippi Angel Fund. "We met with the North Mississippi Angel Fund in Columbus and had a really good experience with them. All the members are very…