Previous Winners & Graduates
2025 Prize Winners
2025 One-Minute Video Winners
2025 Graduates
Meet the Grads
Company: A Guiding Light Solution Center
Team Lead: Candice Jackson
Company: B. Mack Strategies
Team Lead: Brandon Mack
Company: BamaTexas
Team Lead: Ashley Harvell
Company: Browning One Assisted Living Facility
Team Lead: Desirae Mock
Company: Clear Compass Technology
Team Lead: Hugo Pineda
Company: Dispute Resolution Experts & Mediators (D.R.E.A.M Mediation)
Team Lead: James Carey
Company: Divorce Retreat
Team Lead: Nikita Lamar
Company: Empower Learning Academies
Team Lead: Tywana Pitre
Company: Eunoiva
Team Lead: Jo Michelle Jackson
Company: EverWell
Team Lead: Jala Hawkins
Company: Galacey Tax & Financial Services
Team Lead: Rose Galbreath
Company: JC Creative Studio, LLC
Team Lead: Jessica Cole
Company: Lash to a TEE
Team Lead: Tiffany To
Company: Latina Leadership Podcast
Team Lead: Anjelica Cazares
Company: Let Me Snack, LLC
Team Lead: Kirati Amin
Company: Life’s a Beat CPR
Team Lead: Keelan Wilson
Company: Nibiru Confections, LLC
Team Lead: Phillip Tucker
Company: Odebe, Inc.
Team Lead: Oluwatunmise Okufuwa
Company: ProRoofs and Restoration, LLC
Team Lead: Karla Viesca
Company: Quickgredients
Team Lead: Godson Inokori
Company: Solentricx, Inc.
Team Lead: Deyanira Burton
Company: Space City Cookies
Team Lead: Lakeisha Ammiel
Company: Teriya Richmond MD MPH & Associate PLLC
Team Lead: Teriya Richmond
Company: Twilight Candle Company
Team Lead: Twila Davis
Company: WeVibe Studios
Team Lead: Sandy Yanin Mattey
2025 Awards Ceremony Highlights
We proudly celebrated all 30 teams and their advisors on June 5, 2025!
Browse our Photo Album:
HCC Business Plan Competition Awards Ceremony – June 5, 2025
Thanks to the incredible generosity of our sponsors, we awarded $147,000 in in-kind prizes to all graduating teams!
And there’s more fun to see…
Click below for additional photos capturing the excitement before, during, and after the winner announcements!
View More Awards Celebration Photos
We surrounded our 2025 winners and graduates with the support of the Houston entrepreneurial eco-system!
They were cheered on by competition leaders, sponsors, funders, advisors, judges, trainers, family, friends, community partners and alumni from past competitions to welcome them into our alumni network for support and connections as they move forward. It was a day of celebration for what they have achieved and for what lies ahead!
2024 Prize Winners
2023 Prize Winners
2022 Prize Winners
2021 Prize Winners
2020 Prize Winners
2019 Prize Winners
