Innovate Mississippi

Innovate Mississippi is a Mississippi-based entrepreneurial development organisation that supports technology startups and emerging companies, with a stated aim of strengthening the state's innovation economy through company formation and job creation. Its work spans startup development, business planning and incubation, entrepreneurship support, and access to venture funding and capital. The organisation reports having helped develop more than 1,500 companies and to have connected them with over $181 million in seed and venture capital.

Its programme portfolio includes CoBuilders, a structured accelerator through which entrepreneurs and emerging companies receive mentoring, training, and startup development support. Alongside it, Innovate Mississippi provides mentoring and training services that guide technology entrepreneurs from the earliest assessment of an idea through business planning, launch, and growth, as well as networking and funding resources that connect founders with mentors, service providers, partners, and investors.

The organisation operates as a connector within Mississippi's technology startup and emerging company ecosystem rather than as a conventional venture fund; check sizes, fund structure, and portfolio composition are not disclosed. Its positioning is described in terms of economic development: capital access, community building, and the growth of the state's innovation economy.