"Who is it?" the man said from his hospital bed. "Ronnie, you're looking right at me," Dr. Barbra Coatney replied. She was confused. After her nephew called from Atlanta, she checked in on her brother-in-law. Her sister had passed away some years back. Ronnie was back in the hospital, not…
Four Mississippi companies are attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week along with the Mississippi Development Authority, which also has a booth. The companies are: Starkville-based Camgian (intelligent software services powered by data science and artificial intelligence); Flowood-based Kopis Mobile (hardware and software communications solutions for the…
In the second year of the Women and Minority Entrepreneurial Development Program, Innovate Mississippi grew the cohort to 18 startup companies, putting their founders through a 12-week educational sprint. The program, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, seeks to introduce people from historically underserved communities to early-stage capital, professional…
BloomBridge, a service for delivering flowers to gravesites, launched in seven Southeastern states this summer. The Mississippi-based company grew out of a startup that CEO Allen initially named "Flowers to the Grave," which applied a gig-economy model to the task of decorating the gravesites of loved ones with attractive artificial…
Ryan Gilbrech said that around the same time that Meta Games got its second round of funding from the Bulldog Angel Network at the beginning of this year, they also started a slight pivot in the way they offer their PC-based fighting game, "Slayers for Hire." "At the time, it was kind…
Locally-owned, woman-owned, skilled trades employer makes the 2021 Inc. 5000 list PEARL, MS, August 17, 2021 --- Laundry South Systems & Repair, the leading commercial laundry equipment provider for Mississippi and the surrounding region, ranked No. 4468 on Inc. 5000’s 2021 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. In…
Shamrck, an ed-tech solution based in Vicksburg, Miss. that uses artificial intelligence for career exploration and workforce development in secondary schools, started as a software engineering firm to keep CEO Sheffie Robinson from being bored as a stay-at-home military mom. In 2015, Robinson had recently had a son, and her…
Like many serial entrepreneurs, Cortney Davis has a knack for spotting trends. Davis, who has a background in real estate investing and has done business in construction clean-up and green energy, noticed a trend early in the COVID-19 pandemic: People were gaming from home. Lots of them. With offices locked…
CEO Nicholas Neilson-Slabach, Chief Financial Officer Kyle Hebert, and Chief Creative Officer Thomas Lee launched DaisNotes to help college students make meaningful connections during their college years. DaisNotes is a mobile app that enables students to connect to peers in their classes and other students who share their interests, making…
Innovate Mississippi has approved Starkville-based CampusKnot for a 2021 Mississippi Seed Fund award. CampusKnot offers a mobile app designed to help professors and teachers promote classroom participation among college and high school students. The company also added three new angel investors this quarter: Mike Morgan, Huey Ngo and Shaheed Khwaja,…