The thought of competing in the 2017 Mississippi New Venture Challenge pitch competition created more fear in Kristen Allen than just about anything she had ever experienced. As an artist, advocate for the homeless, and stay-at-home mom of two she was comfortable in her own skin. But a pitch-woman for an…
As of mid-October, Walmart shoppers at 50 locations are able to purchase meals from No Time 2 Cook, the Mississippi-based company run by Karen Kurr. The company is now positioned to grow into a national brand—the number of Walmart locations will increase with time, after category reviews. Kurr's frozen entrees…
Wade H. Creekmore, Jr. and James H. Creekmore, Sr., founders of C Spire, the largest privately held wireless company in the country, headlined the honorees present at the 2018 Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame Awards Gala at the Country Club of Jackson on September 13, 2018. The Creekmore brothers received the…
Even after Collegiate Tutoring won the New Venture Challenge in 2017, CEO Lee Ingram found himself deciding to pivot with his startup. While the company still does fundamentally the same thing—connecting college students with tutors to help them learn important concepts and improve their grades—the customer that Ingram now focuses…
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…
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…