Emerging from thousands of competitors, Jackson-based EasyKale Labs LLC has made it to the final round of Pepperdine Graziadio Business School’s “Most Fundable Companies” competition. EasyKale Labs was co-founded by Bilal Qizilbash and Richard A. Sun, CFA, both of whom were named 2019 Mississippi Top Entrepreneurs by the Mississippi Business…
Brady Hoggard, founder and CEO of Sonido Software, has two strong passions—startup entrepreneurship and music. Originally from Utah, Brady relocated to Oxford, Miss., following the acquisition of a previous software company. Being with a startup technology company from early stages through a successful exit was an exciting way to spend…
Pitch your startup for a chance to win cash and in-kind prizes in the 2019 Mississippi New Venture Challenge. (Jackson, Miss.) Innovate Mississippi will present the 11th Annual Mississippi New Venture Challenge Pitch Competition Thursday, October 3, 2019 at the Clyde Muse Center in Pearl, MS. Approximately 30 Mississippi innovators…
[Jackson, Miss.] Bidmoni, Inc., a financial-services startup offering an online platform for connecting companies with 401k plans for their employees, has closed a round of angel funding led by the North Mississippi Angel Fund. The investment will allow Moss Point, Miss.-based Bidmoni to add to its team of developers and…
In 2006, Gary Butler moved to Starkville, Miss., from Northern Virginia and started his company, Camgian. He developed his desire to create the company when he was working at BBN Technologies, a leading company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; BBN had been conducting advanced research for the government and military since…
[Jackson, Miss.] Lobaki, Inc., the Jackson-based virtual-reality firm, has closed the first tranche of a $2 million round of financing led by the North Mississippi Angel Fund. "We met with the North Mississippi Angel Fund in Columbus and had a really good experience with them. All the members are very…
EasyKale CEO and co-founder, Bilal Qizilbash, is a passionate, driven guy. While studying for his master’s degree in medical science from Mississippi College, he ended up with a surprising discovery from his studies—he found that juiced leafy kale, in vitro, would kill melanoma cells while leaving noncancerous ones alone.…
Vince Jordan believes his company, Lobaki Inc., may be one of the first companies ever formed, literally, in virtual reality. Jordan was physically in Boulder, Colo., and his son, Josiah, was in New Zealand. Wearing headsets and holding controllers, they met on a virtual beach in cyberspace, where they signed…
Bidmoni, a financial services startup out of Moss Point, just closed a $500k investment round with the Mississippi Angel Investor Network. Bidmoni’s FiduciaryShield is a retirement plan marketplace that allows for the employer, the plan provider, and the financial advisor to put together a retirement plan in the best interest of…
MetaGames, founded by MSU graduate Ryan Gilbrech, is building a video game company aimed at the lucrative competitive gaming market, with funding from the Mississippi Seed Fund. Not long after graduating from Mississippi State University and entering the workforce with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, Ryan Gilbrech was lamenting to…