Wednesday December 18, 2024
Media Contact: 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 some exciting news for student entrepreneurs.
The center announced the finalists for the annual Riata Business Plan Competition on Tuesday. These students will present their projects in elevator pitch on January 24 to a live audience, receive expert feedback and have the opportunity to win thousands of dollars in scholarships.
Open to OSU students of all majors, the competition promotes entrepreneurship and small business development by showcasing student-created, managed and owned businesses. Each application competes in one of four tracks: Main Street Lifestyles, Social Enterprise, Big City High Tech or Rising Entrepreneur, which is aimed at former Business Plan scholarship recipients, regardless of the track.
In the first round, students submitted summaries of their projects.
The following participants qualified for the final.
Main Street Lifestyles
- Pete’s Protein Café – Lydia Rice
- Snap Shoes – Addy Irwin, Aidan Ahern, Trinity Hunsaker-Patton
- Boba Pour – Mary Wellington
- The wandering rooster – Destiny Wahweah
- Angela’s DIY creations – Angela Davis
- CPS Contracts – Nick Comacho, Jaydon Saylor
- Bri’s Flowers – Briana Eads
- Palette – Alison Conway
Social Enterprise
- Ghidaa with Ni’ma – Sara Abdelmoneam
- In the Midst of a Miracle – Brooklyn Hawkins
- Prograte Capital Ventures – Kevin Kuteesa, Muwanika Jdiobé
- Nutreco Salvor – Shivanshi Agarwal, Hari Rroopesh
High technology in big cities
- Lingua – Aubrey Fudge
- Best Boyfriend – Carson Horsburgh, Dean Bigler
- Premonitory Health Care – Rynn Hogan
- Innozyme – Rosalie Dohmen
- AUI – 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 Gutiérrez
- 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.