The Latest from Mixtroz

Startup Advice from the 38th Black Woman to Ever Close a $1M Round

Ashlee Ammons spent many years working as an Events Producer for A-Listers like Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jay-Z, but we’d argue she’s on an A-List of her own. In [...]

Black Female Founders Face Constant Rejection. They’re Thriving Anyway.

Despite the lack of funding, black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs today. Here's why. Most women under the age of, say, 45 dread a particular time of the [...]

Techstars LegalTech Firm Is the Latest Startup Heading to Birmingham For New Opportunity

It’s not often that you hear a founder describe the process of working with an investor as “really falling in love,” but that’s what Lauren Sturdivant describes when she talks [...]

This Mom-Daughter Duo Struggled To Network At Events. Their Tech Solution Got $1M Funding: Mixtroz On Mogulwatch

Based on their own bad experiences trying to network, the mother-daughter duo set out to find a better way to meet people at live events. Kerry’s longtime work experience is [...]

Local tech: I tried Mixtroz at a major Birmingham networking event. Here’s what happened.

Locally founded and minority owned, Mixtroz has sent waves rippling far beyond Birmingham. So naturally I’ve been eager to try the networking app in the wild. On March 21, I [...]

Birmingham mother-daughter duo get Google’s attention with Mixtroz App

After years of hard work, Google has taken notice.  The duo will be the keynote speakers at an International Women's Day event this week. Read More...

Birmingham-based Mixtroz to keynote at Google Atlanta’s International Women’s Day event March 14

It’s hard not to go all fangirl on Mixtroz’ Ashlee Ammons. She’s fun, smart, energetic and going places. And, she’s the millennial daughter of Baby Boomer biz partner Kerry Schrader. [...]

Kerry Schrader says Mixtroz is “out of ICU, but we still have an IV and oxygen”

We have grown to appreciate the enthusiastic, positive attitude of the mother and daughter Co-Founders of Mixtroz, but Kerry Schrader was on a new high when we chatted with her recently [...]

This mother and daughter team with no computer-science background left $350,000-a-year-combined jobs to launch a startup and couldn’t be happier

When Ashlee Ammons called her mother, Kerry Schrader, back in November 2014 to complain about a business conference she attended, she didn't know that they would wind up quitting their [...]