Riata Center announces 2025 Business Plan Competition finalists – Oklahoma State University

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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Terry Tush | Director, Marketing and Communications | 405-744-2703 | terry.tush@okstate.edu

The Riata Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship kicked off Oklahoma State University’s
2024-25 winter break with exciting news for student entrepreneurs.

The center announced Tuesday the finalists in the annual Riata Business Plan Competition.
These students will present their ventures in an elevator-pitch format Jan. 24 to
a live audience, receive expert feedback and have the opportunity to win thousands
of dollars in scholarship money.

Open to OSU students of all majors, the competition promotes entrepreneurship and
small business development by showcasing student created, managed and owned ventures.
Each entry competes in one of four tracks: Main Street Lifestyles, Social Enterprise,
Big City High Tech or Rising Entrepreneur, which is geared toward previous Business
Plan scholarship recipients regardless of track.

In the first round, students submitted executive summaries of their ventures.

The following participants advanced to the finals.

Main Street Lifestyles

• Pete’s Protein Café – Lydia Rice
• Snap Footwear – Addy Irwin, Aidan Ahern, Trinity Hunsaker-Patton
• Boba Pour – Mary Wellington
• The Roaming Rooster – Destiny Wahweah
• Angela’s DIY Designs – Angela Davis
• CPS Contracting – Nick Comacho, Jaydon Saylor
• Bri’s Blooms – Briana Eads
• Palette – Alison Conway

Social Enterprise

• Ghidaa w Ni’ma – Sara Abdelmoneam
• In the Middle of a Miracle – Brooklyn Hawkins
• Prograte Capital Ventures – Kevin Kuteesa, Muwanika Jdiobe
• Nutreco Salvor- Shivanshi Agarwal, Hari Rroopesh

Big City High Tech

• Lingua – Aubrey Fudge
• Better Boyfriend – Carson Horsburgh, Dean Bigler
• Prescient Healthcare – Rynn Hogan
• Innozyme – Rosalie Dohmen
• UAI – Venkata Leela Raman Raj Botta
• WasteNot – Prince Jhandai, Liyaqat Ali Kamran
• LumiWalk – Mohammad Pasham, Habib Boloorchi
• BluScreen – Erik Raunikar, Kartikaya Srivastava, Shakawat Hossain
• SCIVINCE – Hadi Noori, David Thomison, Soroosh Farsiani
• HipAI, Inc. – Noah Duncan 

Rising Entrepreneur

• The 405 – Marian Gutierrez
• Inhaler Innovations – Anahita Badkoubeh, Emmanuel Yangue, Boris Oskolkov, Rashed Islam

Visit the Spears School of Business website to learn more about the Riata Business Plan Competition and see past winners.