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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 [...]

Mixtroz is a shining example of the potential of Birmingham’s tech economy

A Nashville-born startup led by an African-American mother-daughter duo is representative of Birmingham’s innovation economy. That’s a lot to unpack. Let’s start with the startup. The seeds for Mixtroz, an app-based [...]

The Rising Black Founders Building In the South

During Black History Month, it’s important to learn about and reflect on the leaders and innovators that have contributed to black history thus far. But we at Hypepotamus also like [...]

Mixtroz Raises $1M In New Funding To Become Catalyst For Conversations, Connections And Communities

Mixtroz is a catalyst for conversation, connection and community. We’ve created software that engages and improves events for our secondary customer (event attendees) while collecting data for our primary customer [...]

Mixtroz: This Alabama-Based Startup Launched By A Mother-Daughter Team Raises Over $1 Million

Mixtroz is a Birmingham, Alabama-based startup that has raised more than $1 million to further build up its networking software platform, which connects people at live events in real-time. Mixtroz [...]

Birmingham startup founders to keynote Google event

Ashlee Ammons and Kerry Schrader, mother-daughter team that founded Mixtroz, will be keynote speakers at a Google event on International Women's Day in Atlanta. The event is one of 22 global events [...]

Minority-Owned Tech Startup Mixtroz Raises Over $1M for Networking Software

Mixtroz, a minority and woman-owned tech startup specializing in connecting people at live events in real time, has reached the historic fundraising mark of $1 million. Kerry Schrader and Ashlee [...]