Angelo State Students Win Big at 2025 BizPitch Entrepreneurship Competition

SAN ANGELO, TX - Angelo State University's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and Norris-Vincent College of Business have announced the winners of the 2025 BizPitch student entrepreneurship competition following the recent live finals event in the LeGrand Alumni and Visitors Center.

The BizPitch competition began in January when individual ASU students or teams of up to four students were invited to submit video pitches of their ideas for new business startups. A panel of ASU business faculty and SBDC specialists selected five finalists to make live pitch presentations to a panel of judges made up of local business professionals.

Winners of the 2025 BizPitch competition are:

First Place ($2,500 prize) - Liger Hydro Clean
Eugene Liger III of Cypress, mass media major
Business Tagline: "We clean your property, not your pockets."

Second Place ($1,500 prize) - The Brushery
Anjelina Humphreys of San Angelo, MBA in healthcare management
Business Tagline: "The art of beauty, the science of smiles."

Third Place ($1,000 prize) - Cloud Surfer
Bella Garrett of Tuscola, commercial aviation major
Business Tagline: "Surfing skies, serving bliss."

Finalist ($250 prize) - Stitch Kitch
Ryanne Swanson of Granbury, economics major
Business Tagline: "A cooking place for all chefkind."

Finalist ($250 prize) - Drive Thru Wise
Kaleb Morkovsky of El Paso, economics major
Drin Qerimi of Prishtina, Kosovo, finance major
Business Tagline: "Save time, skip lines, Drive Thru Wise."

The finalists each made eight-minute live presentations to the judges and answered judges' questions during the finals event. The cash prizes are for the winners to use as seed money for their new ventures.

The panel of business professionals who judged the finals included:

• Andi Markee - Media Advantage
• Leonard "Lenny" Christo - Goodfellow Air Force Base
• Bailey Dominguez - Armstrong, Backus & Co., LLP
• Christian Garcia - Developmate

The BizPitch competition is designed to provide ASU students with opportunities to learn through interaction with SBDC business advisors, ASU faculty mentors and ASU alumni who are successful in business, as well as to promote and foster student entrepreneurship at ASU.

This year's competition was sponsored by Hydraulic Industrial Services LLC, Old Central Firehouse Pizzeria & Taproom, and the Waterford Wellness Spa, with in-kind sponsorship from Glazer's Beer & Beverage and San Angelo Studios.