Athletes
- Student athletes, all sports, all levels
- Active professional athletes
- Retired champions
- Athletic trainers and sports-medicine majors
PATENT PENDING — CFL owned
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Capital Forge League is a Florida 501(c)(3) nonprofit where students, athletes, and veterans don’t watch from the stands — they build real ventures inside a stadium competition. Teams compete across Game Day and the Stadium Experience with mentorship, curriculum, and NIL literacy — CFL takes no equity. Pick a role below to enter the stadium.
Membership includes stadium access, Game Day, mentorship, and a shot at the curriculum. Fan is the stadium minimum. Mentor, coach, instructor, team member, athlete, and NIL seats take a driver’s license or government ID — we confirm who you are before you take a seat.
Veterans
- All military branches
- Active duty, Guard, and Reserve
- Veterans and retired military
- All service eras, all specialties
Everyone
- Fan / supporter — vote, watch, badges
- Coach and instructor
- Mentor / advisor
- Ambassador and team member
Your campus. Your city.Become an Ambassador
Current team projects
Live competition projects. Join a team, earn yard points, and compete for votes and recognition to win the competition. 4 labs on the field today, with 33 seats still open. CFL takes no equity — every one of these is an education lab, not a clinic.
OpenPatent pending · CFL ownedThe Helmet Nobody Checked
A helmet’s certification runs from the day it was made — not from the hits it has taken since.
Two identical helmets can hang side by side in the same locker, and only one of them may still be the helmet that was certified. Nobody can tell which, because there is no practical way to check a helmet that is already in service. Every helmet is retired on a date instead, whatever it has been through.
Capital Forge League’s patent-pending research looks at that gap: a screen that never touches the shell and answers one question — keep it, retire it, or look closer. From there, a way to mark an impact when it happens, and a record that cannot be quietly edited and follows the helmet from owner to owner, season after season.
- Studies how a helmet could be checked after the hits, not only by its manufacture date
- College Forge Project teams will do the work, each with an assigned coach
- Patent pending and owned by Capital Forge League — students never take the patent
- Sport, military and construction, including the helmets handed down to younger players
This is research before validation. It asks whether a helmet is still the helmet that was certified, and makes no claim about preventing injury. The inspection process is assigned to Capital Forge League Inc, a Florida nonprofit.
open6 of 6 seats open
Thermal Suture Cutter (TSC)
Sports Medicine · Orthopedics
Students study a heated-filament approach to suture removal. Cutting a suture under tension pulls on skin that is still healing, which is why the moment is remembered long after the injury is forgotten.
- Ruptures a suture with heat instead of cutting it under tension — whether that takes the pull off healing skin is the question the team is studying
- Aimed at the high-tensile sutures common in sports medicine
- An education lab, not a clinical product — no claim about pain, recovery or outcomes
Not joining the team? A business can license this technology for its own products.File a license inquiry →
open6 of 6 seats open
Sternotomy & Rib Splint System
Tampa, FL
A chest splint built around adhesive anchor patches and elastic straps, meant to support rib and sternum injuries without the rigid wrap athletes quietly stop wearing.
- Adhesive anchor patches and elastic straps in place of a rigid wrap athletes quietly stop wearing
- Aimed at rib and sternum injuries in competitive and recreational athletes
- Fit and materials are still under study — no claims about healing, breathing or return to play
Not joining the team? A business can license this technology for its own products.File a license inquiry →
open5 of 6 seats open
BIOMAG — bio-absorbable metal anchors
Sports medicine
Students explore whether bio-absorbable anchors could reduce the need for follow-up hardware removal. Education lab. No injury-prevention claims.
- Bio-absorbable by design — the aim is an anchor that does its job and then breaks down, rather than staying in the body
- Education lab — not a clinic, and no claim that it lowers any risk; that is what testing would have to show
- Screening literacy: teaches teams to read what the imaging actually shows
Not joining the team? A business can license this technology for its own products.File a license inquiry →
Types of projects we're actively seeking
Sports technology, fan engagement experiences, sports medicine and recovery innovation, athlete safety and protective equipment, performance tracking and analytics, and training and coaching platforms.
Submit Your ProjectCFL does not broker securities or facilitate capital raises for participant ventures. All competition rankings are educational and do not constitute investment advice.
Why veterans and athletes
Free NIL education · No cut · Every sport
Your name. Your brand. Your money.
Capital Forge League is a nonprofit. The NIL education is yours free, and we take 0% of your deals. The business pays you directly, and we take no part of it.
- No studio needed. Upload a headshot and we build your outreach cards.
- We help you reach local businesses. Local shops, restaurants and dealerships in your ZIP codes.
- Free to learn. A six-week NIL course with a quiz every week.
Softball · Volleyball · Soccer · Swimming · Track · Basketball · Football · Every sport
Not just networking. Real infrastructure. Accelerator-style coaching and structure, without pretending a workspace is the product — veteran–athlete co-equal teams, NIL → capital literacy, at 0% equity.
Stadium Experience
Experience greatness. Enter the stadium.
Walk onto the field. The photograph stays cinematic. Names live in Player view — figures, hang-tags, scoring. Tampa, Florida. Education product. CFL takes no equity.
We need more than a donor. We need a social investor.
Social investors give to build the next generation. Gifts are tax-deductible donations, not investments, and earn no financial return.
Your venture is waiting. Your league is ready. Your moment is now.