going to the bank to finance their idea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

If you're launching a series of nail salons, that's great, but Innovate is not the partner that's going to help you with that.

Um, so, but for the companies that are, you know, developing, you know, a high tech, high growth and innovative solution, um, that's, that's, that's scalable, has some intellectual property involved for those companies, um, you know, coming to us, there's, I'd say we'll start kind of at the, at the base level.

So the Mississippi seed fund is, um, I kind of briefly brushed over early on as a state appropriated, uh, fund started in 2008, um, that offers some, uh, offers seed fund awards to very, very early stage companies.

Most of the awards that we see going out are $10,000, $25,000.

These are going to companies that most likely not raised any money yet.

Nice.