In a "Made in Mississippi" feature article, "Myra Mirrors More Than a Gadget," Callie Daniels Bryant of the Mississippi Business Journal tells the story of Myra Mirrors, a startup founded in Oxford, Mississippi, by Ole Miss students Pontus Andersson and Sam Bertolet. Myra Mirrors makes "smart mirrors," designed to use…
Glo Cubes began as a student project of Mississippi State University design student Kaylie Mitchell. The assignment was to create a conceptional company that “drew the eye” of potential customers—Mitchell figured something that lit up would definitely draw people's eyes. One of her teachers thought the idea was good enough…
Oxford, Miss. (January 17, 2018) – Oxford-based Myra Mirrors was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev., last week, where they introduce their “Reflective Assistant” to attendees at the world’s largest consumer technology conference. Myra Mirrors’ unique “Reflective Assistant,” created by co-founders Pontus Anderson, Sam Bertolet,…
Like most "overnight success stories" CampusKnot’s is about five years running—although the company just began expanding to states neighboring Mississippi in late 2017, in December 2017 they closed $500,000 of startup funding, which took their total private investment raised as a company to $700,000. CampusKnot also has a STEP grant…
Mississippi-based Kopis Mobile hit a major milestone in 2017—it ranked #384 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies. One of only two Mississippi companies to make the annual list, the honor cements Kopis Mobile as the fastest growing tech company in the state. Dr. Henry “Hank” Jones of…
Entrepreneur Beau York is giving podcast listener’s one simple thing: a way to tailor their own podcast preferences themselves. With his podcast player, Satchel, users have input into what kinds of podcasts are recommended to them by the app. With his first company, Podastery, York found that one of the…
What started as a fundraising tool for schools to sell website advertisements to local businesses has now evolved into a full-blown streaming network. WSN Live provides customer schools with a turnkey broadcast and streaming product that allows them to stream their sporting events online with speed and ease. All a…
In just 10 months, Michele and Max Morton went from having an innovative idea for a garden tool to manufacturing and selling their invention at a variety of local, regional and online garden supply retailers. The Mortons had a working prototype for a patented tool, TheMaxBit, which makes digging the…
In 2015, four developers released a fashion-rental app that allows college women to showcase designer dresses at formals and parties, without paying designer prices. The app quickly gained steam at the University of Mississippi, the branched out to a few other schools.With the Curtsy app, women register with their university…
A year after Quantum Flow, Inc. took home Innovative Mississippi’s New Venture Challenge grand prize of $3,000 for operating capital, the company is finalizing its first, fully engineered product – the Momentum Dryer. Martin McCurtis got the idea for his revolutionary hooded hair dryer more than 10 years ago, when his wife’s…