Formerly Flowers to the Grave, BloomBridge gained new team members and energy in 2020 to expand their offerings throughout the southern United States. In 2019, Kristen Allen met Huey Ngo through an Innovate Mississippi mentor: Mike Morgan, an experienced technology executive and professor of practice at the University of Southern…
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…
Compete Running is an Oxford, Miss.-based startup that has launched an app to help runners analyze their data and score their runs, giving them a "number" that's handy for training, virtual races and more. Marvin King likes spreadsheets so much that he found himself using them not just in his…
Dr. Michele Morgan says it's fitting that her product, The MaxBit, appeared this month on The Today Show as a product offered under the Hammacher Schlemmer banner. After all, the 172-year-old catalog company gave The Maxbit its first "win" back in 2004. "When all I had was the prototype, and…
Hagan Walker and Anna Barker of Glo say they've been fortunate during the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. The Starkville, Mississippi company, and frequent participant at Innovate Mississippi's Accelerate conference, has two major product lines—Glo Cubes and Glo Pals. Both are products that glow when put in contact with liquid.…
This pitch from Cattlog is part of our series of videos from the Company and Investor Spotlight in November of 2019. Our goal is to showcase some of the companies and investors who were part of the event—and to give you some startup inspiration. Enjoy! In this video, Loren Stark,…
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.
Bilal Qizilbash founded EasyKale after he discovered, while studying for a master’s degree in medical science, that juiced curly kale would kill melanoma cancer cells in vitro. That discovery led him on a dual-pronged quest to continue that cancer research and to get more people to add kale to their…