Ten companies, built by students.

PyroSight

Firefighter safety

PyroSight is a design-stage thermal sight that clips onto a firefighter's helmet. A thermal camera feeds on-device detection that flags people and fire, and a motion-based tracker holds a route back to the door when smoke has taken away every other reference.

It is built to run entirely on the helmet — no cloud, no connectivity — at roughly 16 frames a second, and the team puts the parts cost of a full prototype at about $543. The hardware has not been built or certified yet, and the detection models are trained on synthetic data while the team works toward live testing.

VisioCourt

Sports operations

VisioCourt turns existing facility cameras into live court-occupancy data. Operators see which courts are active, open, or idle across a whole site without walking it, and players check open courts and wait times from their phone before leaving home.

The system is privacy-first by design — it uses no facial recognition — and runs on a facility's existing IP cameras, with a ten-day risk-free pilot to get started.

Beacon

Safety

Beacon came out of the first Capture Success cohort and became the network's first competition win. The team took TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Regionals in April 2026, earning $1,000 and a place at nationals in Seattle.

The project was guided start to finish by Capture Success members Saatvik Santosh and Ketav Karthikeyan.

Resyn.

Recycling technology

Recycling mostly fails at the bin, in the three seconds someone spends guessing whether something belongs there. Resyn removes the guess: point a camera at a bottle, tub, or container and it identifies the plastic resin type straight from a live feed.

It is built resin-first rather than bolted onto a generic object detector — purpose-made around the seven resin codes from day one. The team is early-stage and building in public, with a working scanner shipped and a custom-trained model in progress.