By Michael Tomberlin
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 technology that aids in networking and mixing, were sewn in Nashville on a weekend in late 2014 when both Kerry Schrader and her daughter Ashlee Ammons had separate experiences that were equally frustrating. They were living in the Music City at the time.
“We are that quintessential entrepreneurial story where we experienced a problem ourselves between the two of us and then when we went to look for a solve, there wasn’t one and so we did the next logical thing and we built it ourselves,” said Ammons, president and co-founder of Mixtroz.
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