Mixtroz

Mixtroz is a networking app created by Kerry Schrader and her daughter, Ashlee Ammons in 2014 while they were living in Nashville, Tennessee.

Mixtroz's founders pitched their business on the A&E television program "Rooster & Butch" in 2017. They brought the startup to Birmingham in 2018 to participate in Innovation Depot's "Velocity Accelerator" program and won investment funding from Steve Case's Revolution Fund during a "Rise of the Rest" tour event in Birmingham. In October 2018 Mixtroz raised $1 million in investment capital to expand operations. It raised another $1 million investment in a round led by Black Star Fund in 2021. In September of that year Mixtroz was named as one of three Birmingham firms receiving $100,000 investments from the Google for Startups US "Black Founders Fund".

References

• Windsor, Matt (Summer 2019) "Power of Partnerships: Fueling the rise of Birmingham’s innovation ecosystem." UAB Magazine
• "6 questions with founder of innovative Mixtroz app." (November 2019) Birmingham magazine
• Patchen, Tyler (May 7, 2021) "Mixtroz raises $1M in seed round." Birmingham Business Journal
• Thornton, William (September 21, 2021) "3 Black-owned Alabama businesses each get $100,000 from $5 million Google fund." The Birmingham News

External links

• Mixtroz website