FlavorFull: Elevating Campus Dining with Custom Flavor Solutions - Morgan Donahoe, Kellie Cousins, Jusrena Soe
FlavorFull is an innovative subscription box service designed to enhance the dining hall experience for college students by delivering customizable seasonings, sauces, and simple recipe cards directly to their doors. The service allows students to personalize their boxes based on flavor preferences and provides perfectly portioned ingredients that require minimal storage, making it ideal for dorm living. Created in response to widespread student dissatisfaction with repetitive and bland campus dining, FlavorFull aims to transform ordinary meals into exciting, flavorful experiences while remaining budget friendly and convenient. The company differentiates itself from meal kits and grocery options by enhancing existing meal plans rather than replacing them and by tailoring products to the realities of limited kitchen access. With subscription options such as the Adventure Box and Comfort Box, FlavorFull targets a large market of dissatisfied undergraduates and projects strong growth potential through affordable monthly pricing and scalable operations.
NavSafe: Smarter, Safer Driving Through AI Innovation - Nicholas Andrade, Nicholas Prescott, Aidan Czajka
NavSafe is an AI-powered mobile safety platform designed to improve road safety by combining real-time driver monitoring with intelligent crash zone alerts. The app uses facial recognition technology to detect fatigue and distraction, provides personalized driving analytics, and delivers live safety alerts based on NHTSA accident data tied to the driver’s location. Addressing the significant risk that distracted or drowsy driving contributes to 35–50% of crashes, NavSafe helps drivers stay focused without requiring expensive hardware, working seamlessly on any smartphone. The platform differentiates itself from navigation competitors like Google Maps and Waze by integrating behavior monitoring, safety insights, and heat-map analytics into one accessible solution. Targeting tech-forward vehicle owners, fleet drivers, commercial operators, and families, NavSafe enters a growing $2.5 billion driver monitoring systems market with a scalable freemium and subscription revenue model supported by partnerships and data licensing opportunities.
CleanSweep: Eliminating the Dust Line with Smarter Cleaning - Dom Johnson & Jake Sigoui
CleanSweep is an innovative cleaning tool designed to solve the common frustration of the dust line left behind when using a traditional broom and dustpan. The product integrates a built-in lint roller into the dustpan, allowing users to sweep debris as usual and then easily roll over remaining fine particles for a more complete clean. Positioned as a simple, cost-effective, and compact solution, CleanSweep primarily targets apartment dwellers, dorm residents, and other consumers who need space-efficient cleaning tools, while also appealing to pet owners, eco-conscious users, and small businesses. The company plans to compete in a market dominated by brands like Libman by launching quickly to build strong brand recognition and by designing proprietary lint roller attachments that encourage repeat purchases. With an estimated unit price of $15 and a focused student market entry strategy, CleanSweep demonstrates scalable revenue potential supported by low initial startup costs and practical everyday utility.
Catch Craft: Custom Fishing Lures for the Modern Angler - Dillon Gallagher
Catch Craft is a customizable fishing lure business that allows anglers to design personalized spinners and spoons through an online platform, selecting features such as size, color, hook color, and glow-in-the-dark options. Built to modernize a traditionally slow-to-innovate industry, the company focuses on delivering high-quality, made-to-order lures directly to customers’ doors, eliminating the need for travel to tackle shops and avoiding unwanted multi-pack purchases. Inspired by the founder’s lifelong passion for fishing, Catch Craft aims to attract both experienced anglers and younger generations by offering greater product customization and convenience than competitors like large retailers and small local vendors. With a bottom-up market estimate of approximately $932,733 in the Rochester area and relatively low variable production costs, the business positions itself for scalable growth through continuous product innovation, strong branding, and a direct-to-consumer online model.
Ez Eatz: Convenient Wellness Nutrition for Busy Students - Eric Ramirez
Ez Eatz is a wellness-focused subscription service designed to help college students conveniently access healthy, nutrition-rich food and essentials throughout their busy academic schedules. Built from the founder’s personal wellness experiences, the business addresses key student challenges such as food insecurity, time constraints, and the need for healthier alternatives on campus. Ez Eatz delivers customizable weekly baskets containing items like fruits, snacks, protein drinks, hydration products, and hygiene goods, with multiple package tiers including Regular, Athlete, Protein, and Dorm options to match different student needs. Guided by a mission to promote overall wellness and fuel future leaders, the company emphasizes affordability, cost efficiency, and sustainable packaging while targeting on-campus populations through a subscription model. With a cost-leadership strategy and projected weekly profits based on Brockport student segments, Ez Eatz positions itself as a convenient, consumer-oriented solution in the growing campus wellness and convenience market.
Serve and Stake: Where Pickleball Meets Sports Entertainment - Ryan O' Toole
Serve and Stake is an innovative entertainment concept that combines the rapidly growing sports of pickleball and sports betting into a single indoor destination. The business addresses a clear market gap in Rochester, where demand for pickleball courts and betting experiences is rising but no facility currently integrates both activities in one social environment. The proposed venue allows customers to play pickleball, watch games, place bets, and socialize in one connected space, supported by features such as multiple courts, a sportsbook lounge, food and beverage service, and event hosting capabilities. Targeting primarily adults ages 25–34, identified as the largest segment of both pickleball players and sports bettor, the company aims to generate revenue through court rentals, memberships, betting partnerships, merchandise, and tournaments. With estimated startup costs of about $210,000 and projected first-year revenue of $226,000, Serve and Stake positions itself as a scalable, experience-driven business designed to capitalize on strong market demand and recurring customer engagement.
