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, Miss.) The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Innovate Mississippi $125,000 to assist Mississippi research-oriented companies in getting SBIR/STTR Grants to develop and bring their research to market. MS-FAST (The Mississippi - Federal and State Technology Partnership), which is led by Innovate Mississippi and The University of Southern Mississippi…
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…
Brady Hoggard, founder and CEO of Sonido Software, has two strong passions—startup entrepreneurship and music. Originally from Utah, Brady relocated to Oxford, Miss., following the acquisition of a previous software company. Being with a startup technology company from early stages through a successful exit was an exciting way to spend…
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…