Screentime manager, pantiless pantyliners, mobile-first marketing solutions take home top spots at LaunchCon pitch competition

Published October 28, 2025

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The winners of the 2025 LaunchCon Pitch Competition presented by FinSync have been announced by StartUP Columbus.

The competition, which takes inspiration from the television show Shark Tank, was the culminating event of the entrepreneurship conference.

The winners were:

• Grand Prize: Mya Swaby- MindMunch, a gamified screentime manager that turns screen time into study time. The venture is said to be an innovative approach to mental-wellness content for this generation of internet users.
• Runner Up: Tara Harris- FemeFlex, a product designed to support women’s health and wellness. FemeFlex is the world’s first pantiless pantyliner.
• People’s Choice Award: Ed Norris- PromoMob, custom design and manufacturing company that uses a mobile-first marketing and promotions approach for small businesses.

The finalists of the event were able to pitch their business ventures and ideas to a panel of judges and were awarded cash prizes to help further develop their ventures.

“This event represents the next chapter in Columbus’s entrepreneurial growth,” said Ben
MacMinn, Executive Director of StartUP Columbus. “LaunchCon builds on the momentum of our
city’s startup ecosystem, offering founders not just a stage to pitch, but a community that
believes in their ideas and is ready to help them grow. Mya, Tara, and Ed exemplify the
creativity and drive we see emerging across this region.”