Pitch your startup for a chance to win cash and in-kind prizes in the 2019 Mississippi New Venture Challenge. (Jackson, Miss.) Innovate Mississippi will present the 11th Annual Mississippi New Venture Challenge Pitch Competition Thursday, October 3, 2019 at the Clyde Muse Center in Pearl, MS. Approximately 30 Mississippi innovators…
[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…
In 2006, Gary Butler moved to Starkville, Miss., from Northern Virginia and started his company, Camgian. He developed his desire to create the company when he was working at BBN Technologies, a leading company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; BBN had been conducting advanced research for the government and military since…
[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…
EasyKale CEO and co-founder, Bilal Qizilbash, is a passionate, driven guy. While studying for his master’s degree in medical science from Mississippi College, he ended up with a surprising discovery from his studies—he found that juiced leafy kale, in vitro, would kill melanoma cells while leaving noncancerous ones alone.…
Vince Jordan believes his company, Lobaki Inc., may be one of the first companies ever formed, literally, in virtual reality. Jordan was physically in Boulder, Colo., and his son, Josiah, was in New Zealand. Wearing headsets and holding controllers, they met on a virtual beach in cyberspace, where they signed…
Bidmoni, a financial services startup out of Moss Point, just closed a $500k investment round with the Mississippi Angel Investor Network. Bidmoni’s FiduciaryShield is a retirement plan marketplace that allows for the employer, the plan provider, and the financial advisor to put together a retirement plan in the best interest of…
MetaGames, founded by MSU graduate Ryan Gilbrech, is building a video game company aimed at the lucrative competitive gaming market, with funding from the Mississippi Seed Fund. Not long after graduating from Mississippi State University and entering the workforce with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, Ryan Gilbrech was lamenting to…
MegaPatch LLC, a Madison, Miss., company that is producing “the world’s most durable cold patch for pothole repair,” is the brainchild of Jack Wilson, who has held the patent on his Megapatch pothole repair solution for over 20 years. Potholes are the bane of every driver—and every civic transportation administrator.…
Tasha Bibb, entrepreneurial development director for Innovate Mississippi, was the special presenter of the STEM Entrepreneurship workshop presented by Tougaloo College. The workshop, attended by 50 Summer Science and Engineering Program (SSEP) students, took place on Monday, June 24, 2019, and is a new addition to the SSEP program. Bibb's…