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North Mississippi Startup WISPR Making Headlines
This past week, Magnolia Report’s Frank Corder offered WISPR some great coverage, detailing the success of the drone-building startup as it expanded into various markets and commercial applications.
CEO Connor Ferguson and COO Austin…
Prospective Vision Solutions Offers Free Personal Finance Workshops
Angenett Curry, CEO of Prospective Vision Solutions LLC, saw a need in her community to show clients how to manage their personal finances, so she set out to meet it. In her previous career as a student loan coordinator at Itawamba…
Entergy Mississippi Brings First Electric Vehicle Fast Chargers to Renaissance at Colony Park •…
Entergy Mississippi has launched its first company-owned direct current fast charging station pilot program in an effort to understand better the impact of electric vehicles on the power grid and prepare for any upcoming needs. The…
David Collins to Work with Innovate MS as Entrepreneurial Development Consultant
The Innovate Mississippi team is pleased to announce that David Collins will work with us as Entrepreneurial Development Consultant. Collins worked as a management consultant for Deloitte in Toronto, Ottawa, New Zealand, and New York.…
RFI for SSBCI in Mississippi is Now Open
Innovate Mississippi is pleased to announce that the Request for Information (RFI) period is now open to express an interest in Mississippi’s potential new SSBCI Venture Capital Program. Investment funds or potential investment funds…
The Skin Consult Earns $100,000 Award from the Mississippi Seed Fund
This month, the Mississippi Seed Fund board of directors approved a $100,000 award to The Skin Consult, a Mississippi-based startup company focused on the skincare industry. The $100,000 New Tech Business award is a convertible note…
EDA Awards over $600k to Innovate Mississippi
Innovate Mississippi is proud to announce that we’ve won two “Build to Scale” federal grants from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
The EDA awarded a $263,617 Capital Challenge Grant to help Innovate Mississippi encourage…
Narratrip and ppx-TEC Receive Mississippi Seed Fund Awards
Innovate Mississippi is excited to announce two new Mississippi Seed Fund award recipients this Fall.
Narratrip, LLC plans to work with state travel departments and other tourism bureaus to build mobile apps geared explicitly to…
CoBuilders.ms Accelerator Launches with 21-Company Cohort in Mississippi
Startup companies from around the state convened in Jackson Tuesday, May 3, as the inaugural cohort of CoBuilders, powered by Microsoft, gets underway. Companies offering products ranging from medical devices, food, and even technology…
Microsoft launches TechSpark in Jackson
Microsoft is bringing TechSpark to Mississippi, and Jackson resident JJ Townsend will lead the tech giant, according to reporting by Sara DiNatale with Mississippi Today.
TechSpark aids communities that usually don’t get many tech…