Innovate Mississippi has approved Starkville-based CampusKnot for a 2021 Mississippi Seed Fund award. CampusKnot offers a mobile app designed to help professors and teachers promote classroom participation among college and high school students. The company also added three new angel investors this quarter: Mike Morgan, Huey Ngo and Shaheed Khwaja,…
ClasScape started at a hackathon on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw reservation when co-founders CEO Patrick Boudreaux and COO Dalton Pruitt went with an idea for using virtual reality, or VR, in classrooms. Boudreaux's wife, a teacher, was having trouble engaging her students, and he thought virtual reality, or VR,…
AI Control Technologies has a promising future in aquaculture with Mississippi as a base of operations. AI Control Technologies, or AiCT, was launched about three years ago. Prior to this, in Switzerland, the earlier work was developing an advanced dive computer, called SUBA, designed to help scuba divers manage their…
The founders of Rocketing Systems were running an online fashion website in the summer of 2018 when they decided to buy some Facebook ads to see if they could recruit influencers. It turned out they could—many people were willing to get a small commission by recommending the company’s products to…
Mark Isaacs is joking, a little, when he says the WonderWindow has been fifty years in the making. But that's the length of his career as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained architect who became a developer of award-winning "green" buildings, now turned start-up entrepreneur. Isaacs doesn't just want to…
Charlie Helms, CEO of WSN Live, says something a little unusual has come out of the COVID-19 lockdowns throughout the Southeast.He's been making a lot of sales.WSN stands for "Worldwide Streaming Network," and his original vision was to help high schools stream their sporting events online. While COVID-19 has shut down…
Bidmoni is a fintech startup whose first product, Fiduciary Shield, is an online marketplace designed to make it easier for companies to shop for 401k plans and make sure the fees and plans they offer their employees are appropriate and competitive.
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…
WAPT got great footage and interviews to help us get the word out about Accelerate 2019, with a focus on entrepreneurship and job creation in the state of Mississippi. Despite sub-freezing morning temperatures, we were thrilled at the capacity attendance and vibrant energy at Accelerate 2019 at the Westin Jackson this…
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…