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Maya Schwabe Takes Home Grand Prize at StartUp Columbus' 2025 LaunchCon BizPitch Competition

Maya Schwabe took home the $20,000 grand prize at StartUp Columbus' recent LaunchCon BizPitch Competition for her app, MindMunch, which turns screen time into study time. As WRBL's Bob Jeswald explains, the competition, co-sponsored by the Turner College and held at the Columbus Trade Center, connects local and regional entrepreneurs through workshops and seminars focused on sharing ideas and strategies for growth. As explained on its website, MindMunch is the first productivity app to integrate customizable, munch-sized quizzes into daily scrolling. The app was developed by a global team of students who got tired of feeling unproductive, unfocused, and overwhelmed —and decided to build the solution themselves. Now they are backed by schools, accelerators, and education leaders who believe in their solution. The company has so far used more that 500 beta testers and received more than 150,000 impressions. Past winners were also present at the recent event sharing their successes. Previous winner Jay Pitts, who works in the clinical research field, explained to Jeswald that "BizPitch, StartUp Columbus . . . all of it . . . was really instrumental in helping me define exactly what I wanted to do." Lastly, Tara Harris took home the runner-up prize of $10,000. 
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