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…
Tyler Jones at the Columbus Dispatch recently covered our $100,000 seed fund award to Rocketing Systems, the up-and-coming e-commerce marketing company based in Starkville and run by recent Mississippi State University grads. Buzzbassador is a customer relationship management platform for companies to supervise their influencers or brand ambassadors. It tracks…
The Mississippi Seed Fund, managed by Innovate Mississippi, has invested in five companies in the first quarter of 2021. The companies receiving investments are StayCool Brands, Fan Space, Live Music Network, Rocketing Systems and CampusKnot. "We're delighted that these companies have come out of 2020 with promising products and business…
A little more than two years ago, Thomas White, an experienced barber, noticed that electric hair clippers—used extensively for Black and Latino hair styling—have a tendency to overheat too quickly, necessitating that barbers own and use multiple pairs throughout a workday. White pitched the idea of building better clippers to…
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,…
ClasScape started at a hackathon on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw reservation when co-founders CEO Patrick Boudreaux and COO Dalton Pruitt went with an idea for using virtual reality, or VR, in classrooms. Boudreaux's wife, a teacher, was having trouble engaging her students, and he thought virtual reality, or VR,…