It's on! Startup founders are invited to register for startup pitch competitions in regions across Mississippi as part of the CoBuilders initiative. Right now competitions are open for registration in Oxford/Lafayette County, Clarksdale, Starkville, Jackson, Hattiesburg and on the Gulf Coast. Winners from regional competitions will join the CoBuilders Accelerator…
"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…
We were thrilled to be honored by the Mississippi Business Journal this year during the Top Mississippi Nonprofits awards. The ceremony, which took place on December 16, 2021 at the Old Capitol Inn in downtown Jackson, featured a number of nonprofits that had been nominated by their constituents and supporters…
Entrepreneurs, economic developers, innovators and future business owners are set to gather April 6-7, 2022 in Vicksburg to learn about the climate and future of entrepreneurship in Mississippi. The seventh annual Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum is sponsored by the Mississippi Development Authority and the University of Mississippi‘s McLean Institute for Public Service and…
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…
In the past decade, over 100 percent of job growth has come from companies less than five years old, said J.F. Gauthier, founder of Startup Genome and keynote speaker for Accelerate 2021. As legacy corporations automate more jobs and streamline their workforces, startup companies create the jobs that fill those…
November 2021 isn't just the month when our successful Accelerate 2021 conference took place—it's also the month that Site Selection magazine chose to interview Innovate Mississippi's President and CEO Tony Jeff. Tony spoke with the magazine to tell them more about what Innovate Mississippi does and paint the picture of…
We wanted to let our readers know about a great WLBT story this past week focused, in part, on the growth of entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated challenges to conducting "business as usual." WLBT's Roslyn Anderson reported the story, headlined "During the Pandemic, Mississippians Left Their Day Job…
The Mississippi Development Authority is accepting grant applications for the 2021 Mississippi Industrial Energy Efficiency Program, which is made possible through approximately $400,000 in State Energy Program funds from the U.S. Department of Energy. MIEEP assists industrial manufacturers with making energy efficiency upgrades to their facilities, which reduces energy consumption…