Seventeen startup business teams from Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi—all part of the Delta Regional Authority's Delta I-Fund program—converged on the Innovation Hub in downtown Jackson for their Opening Weekend on June 9th and 10th. Sponsored by Innovate Mississippi, with support from TeamJXN and Coalesce Coworking, the Opening Weekend event saw…
This May, Starkville-based Camgian was named the Industrial IoT ("Internet of Things") Company of the Year in the 6th Annual Compass Intelligence awards. The awards, presented by the global analytics company Compass Intelligence, are voted on by an outside group of press, editors, journalists and thought leaders in the industry. “In…
JACKSON, Mississippi - Ten Mississippi counties will share $75,000 in grants for projects to make them more competitive among companies looking to establish or expand their operations. In its second year, Entergy Mississippi's Excellerator Competitive Communities program, awarded grants for environmental site assessments, website development, marketing and more. "When our…
[press release] WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, yesterday chaired a hearing to consider the state of the mobile application economy and ways for Congress to support the development of the industry. (View the video on…
The inaugural MVMT 2018 ("movement") event took place this month at the Jackson Convention Center. The day-long conference presented by C Spire was really two different events—one was a serious cyber security conference for technology professionals and the other was technology fair for students, teachers and the general public. Mississippi…
When Jackson native Nashlie Sephus was working on her doctorate degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), she met Jewel Burks. Burks had a startup business idea that came out of her work in customer service at the parts department of a manufacturing company.The idea came from a…
Startup Weekend 2018 was a stellar success, with over 40 people participating on nine teams that presented on Sunday night after the grueling 54-hour process of choosing a product, forming a team and testing the ideas. The event took place April 20-22, 2018 at the CoalesceJXN co-working space in downtown…
Startup Weekend 2018 in Jackson was a huge success, with nine teams making it through the grueling 54-hour process. Startup Weekend participants begin with initial ideas and team formation on Friday evening, and then go two full days through the process of business planning, customer validation, mentor sessions, prototyping, market…
C Spire is planning for a very busy spring in 2018, as the company continues to roll out fiber throughout the state of Mississippi, expand wireless services, plan a technology conference and encourage kids to learn coding. Entergy, C Spire and PSC Team Up to Take On the Digital Divide…
J.J. Townsend's non-profit business got its start at an Innovate Mississippi-sponsored Startup Weekend in 2016, although Townsend says he initially went in with a somewhat different idea. "The original [pitch] was still CitizenJXN, but the idea was a convoluted 'everything store,'" Townsend said. "It was sort of like 'all things civics.'…