Howard Ballou of WLBT reported this comprehensive look at the new Jackson Tech District that Dr. Nashlie Sephus, an Innovate Mississippi board member and mentor, has just announced for downtown Jackson. The $25 million development will start in phase one with live-work residential spaces, retail, and meeting space. In the…
JACKSON, Mississippi – Site Selection magazine has named Entergy one of the nation’s top 10 electric utilities in economic development for the 13th consecutive year. The recognition is largely due to the vital role Entergy played in supporting projects that resulted in some $18.2 billion of capital investment and the creation…
Innovate Mississippi is the recipient of one of 24 SBA FAST awards that the U.S. Small Business Administration has granted for specialized training, mentoring, and technical assistance for R&D-focused small businesses under the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program administered by the SBA’s Office of Innovation and Technology. Innovate…
Over $4.5 billion in funding awarded to date; leading tech investment conference expands national footprint with virtual format for its 14th annual event ATLANTA – September 24, 2020 – Rocketing Systems, the company behind influencer marketing automation product Buzzbassador®, announced today that it has been chosen out of a record-breaking…
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…
[Jackson, Miss.] The "Emerging Solutions" project, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and managed by Innovate Mississippi, would like to hear your ideas about how technology or other new products or services could push Mississippi toward the best possible response to the COVID-19 crisis. Innovate Mississippi will help develop…
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…
Two Mississippi-based companies—Compete Running and Jano Technologies—will give virtual presentations next week to accredited investors, as they seek "angel" rounds of investment to move their business plans forward. Compete Running, founded by competitive runner and social scientist Marvin King, offers a software application that gives runners their "number" -- something…
Lobaki, Inc. and Painted Desert Montessori Academy in Buckeye, Ariz., announce the installation of Lobaki’s Immersive Institute: a proprietary offering from the company that provides a turnkey hardware and software solution for live immersive education in Virtual Reality, or VR. PD Virtual Academy, or PDVA, will be rolled out to…
This October, Venture Atlanta will be a completely virtual conference, which offers Mississippi entrepreneurs and investors not just an opportunity to register and participate in all of their content; startup companies from all over the Southeast are invited to apply to pitch, as well. Venture Atlanta has two ways that…