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Innovate Mississippi accelerates startups and drives entrepreneurship throughout the state. If you’ve got a business idea, we’d like to hear about it. We strengthen and grow the culture of innovation in Mississippi.

Learn how we can help you. We work directly with pre-revenue and post-revenue startups to develop your business strategies, find funding and grow your business. We’ve organized investor resources, training and angel fund efforts in Mississippi to help our clients secure early-stage funding and to help Mississippi’s venture capital community come together.

We work to strengthen the innovation ecosystem by bringing together partners, mentors, services providers, entrepreneurs and capital to create growth and jobs in Mississippi. We hold regular events including CONNECT, CoBuilders pitch days, our annual Accelerate Conference and others.

Apply Now To Become an Innovate Mississippi Client developing mississippi's entrepreneurs You’ve got a business idea—but you’re not sure what its potential is or how to fund it. That’s where we come in. MS-FAST Grant Information Innovate Mississippi has a significant economic impact on the state.

For 20 years, we’ve helped develop over 1,500 new companies and connected them with over $181 million in seed and venture capital , resulting in new high-paying jobs being created within our state. We are able to continue providing coaching and connection to resources for entrepreneurs thanks to the generous support of our public and private sponsors.

From startup businesses to startup weekends, Innovate Mississippi has helped launch, nurture and grow ventures and initiatives of all shapes and sizes. GrowinLocal connects food producers (from personal gardeners to large farmers) to local customers via an iOS and Android. They work with Innovate Mississippi with a proof-of-concept award from the Mississippi Seed Fund.

HyperLuxe gaming makes it easier for esports tournament organizations to create and monetize gaming competitions in a completely virtual setting. Hyperluxe has raised over $1 million in angel funds. Duet Technologies developed a 3-in-1 electric barbering tool that stays cool for prolonged use and combines a clipper, a trimmer, and a shaver.

Duet has raised over $250,000 in funding from the MSU Venture Catalyst program, the Mississippi Seed Fund, and the Bulldog Angel Network. AI Control Technology makes systems that empower high-tech aquaculture cultivation. They're the recipients of MS Seed Fund loan administered by Innovate Mississippi to help them grow this technology.

Dais Notes is a mobile app that connects college students to their peers in class and others on campus with similar interests. The company received a $10,000 proof-of-concept awards from the Mississippi Seed Fund. Lobaki builds "augmented reality" worlds for healthcare, education and corporate training.

Their fast growth has been supported by Innovate Mississippi through speaking opportunities, events and an investor roadshow. Citizen Health is disrupting medicine by offering a marketplace for primary care transactions that bypass traditional insurance. CEO Brennen Hodge says Innovate Mississippi's advice has been invaluable.

WonderWindow is a highly efficient window for residential and commercial building, designed to move builders to net-zero energy efficient construction. Developed with Mississippi Seed Fund loans and SBIR funding via MS-FAST. Sonido offers a full suite of client-management software for recording studios.

They're launching their Oxford-based solution with advice from Innovate Mississippi and an award from the Mississippi Seed Fund. MegaPatch offers a patented pothole patching technology that works in cold weather and lasts longer than traditional asphalt patches. Reactive Surfaces adds special abilities such as self-cleaning to coatings using bio-tech, in part with help from a Mississippi Seed Fund grant.

Recently they've been working on "atmospheric farming" to capture carbon in the atmosphere and process it into cellulose for use in products. WISPr Systems designs and manufacturers drones that make installing and configuring high-speed wireless connections easier than ever, thanks in part to a Mississippi Seed Fund award from Innovate Mississippi.

Bidmoni's first product, FiduciaryShield, offers businesses of all sizes transparency in choosing retirement accounts for employees. Bidmoni successfully pitched the Mississippi Seed Fund. ​ Vibe LLC, the company behind Glo Cube and Glo Pals, is a quickly growing company based in Starkville and an awardee from the Mississippi Seed Fund.

CampusKnot, an app that facilitates engagement in college classes, has gained funding, leads and pitch experience via Innovate Mississippi, the MSU eCenter and others. Curtsy, the clothes-sharing app for college students, is a successful startup in the "sharing economy" space. It got help from the Mississippi Seed Fund.

Bac Yeast offers high-quality yeast for beer brewing to breweries around the Southeast. They've worked with Innovate Mississippi and USM's The Accelerator. Bloombridge offers a unique service of delivering and maintaining artificial flowers to gravesites for a nominal fee.

The company was a Mississippi New Venture Challenge winner. Quantum Flow developed the Momentum Dryer after winning the top prize in Innovate Mississippi's New Venture Challenge. NuTech Metals is working on next-generation battle armor for first-responders and military personnel.

From the Gulf Coast the company has received advice and Mississippi Seed Fund money from Innovate Mississippi. This innovative idea for a gardening tool won a New Venture Challenge award and got help from Innovate Mississippi and the InnovateMEP partnership. MetaGames is building a video game company aimed at creating titles for the lucrative competitive gaming market, with funding from the Mississippi Seed Fund.

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We couldn’t do what we do without great year-round support from companies and individuals in Mississippi. (And we thank many more who sponsor individual events and the Conference on Technology Innovation .) Innovate Mississippi does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, income level or Limited English Proficiency.

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