(Jackson, Miss.) The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Innovate Mississippi $125,000 to assist Mississippi research-oriented companies in getting SBIR/STTR Grants to develop and bring their research to market. MS-FAST (The Mississippi - Federal and State Technology Partnership), which is led by Innovate Mississippi and The University of Southern Mississippi…
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.…
Innovate Mississippi was pleased to be a part of the the 2nd Annual Health Innovation and Transformation Forum hosted by the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Tuesday, May 21 at the Norman C. Nelson Student Center on UMMC’s campus. The HIT Forum is an interactive event where health innovators…
Brennen Hodge started Citizen Health to provide a marketplace for direct primary care, an area of healthcare that is poised to explode with growth over the next few years. Brennen Hodge always thought he’d be a doctor, going so far as to pursue a master’s in biomedical science at William…
It’s a little surprising that Mississippi State University student Landon Casey, a Texas native, has founded a company, EM-Boards, built a working prototype of his motorized longboard, and is raising capital. After all, he hasn’t even graduated from college yet. But his company received a $10,000 prototype award from the Mississippi…
The Mississippi Seed Fund has awarded Seed Fund Proof of Concept awards to two companies recently. EM Boards has developed a longboard system that gives the rider the ability to jump over and avoid obstacles. The system is a hybrid electrical-and-mechanical solution centered around the use of a remote, a…
Startup Weekend 2018 was a stellar success, with over 40 people participating on nine teams that presented on Sunday night after the grueling 54-hour process of choosing a product, forming a team and testing the ideas. The event took place April 20-22, 2018 at the CoalesceJXN co-working space in downtown…
C Spire is planning for a very busy spring in 2018, as the company continues to roll out fiber throughout the state of Mississippi, expand wireless services, plan a technology conference and encourage kids to learn coding. Entergy, C Spire and PSC Team Up to Take On the Digital Divide…
The STEM Advancement / Mississippi Robotics 2018 "STEM/SUMO" Annual Statewide Competition will be held on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Nissan – Canton, MS. The time will be 8am – 5pm. Seven individual events and three team events will be included in the competition. Mississippi Robotics is a non-profit organization involved in training youth and…
Innovate Mississippi is thrilled to get local coverage of our announcements, and this story by WJTV is a great one! With the announcement last week that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will grant $1 million to the Mississippi Coding Academies for expansion in Jackson, the word is out about the exciting possibility for…