Campus Ink
$1.7Mlatest round · Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
$25Mrevenue · 2024 · SEC Form D 0002088335-25-000001
2backers · Capital Innovators, Illinois Ventures
74team · US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -9% in a year
Overview
Campus Ink is a merch platform built for students & athletes providing apparel for universities, fraternities & sororities.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.7M
Venture round · Sep 2025 · 13 mo ago
Team
74
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -9% in a year
Revenue
$25M
2024 · SEC Form D 0002088335-25-000001
Backers
2
Capital Innovators, Illinois Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
13 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Sep 2025 | $1.7M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Campus Ink, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Steven WatsonExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Charles SwisherExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Steven FaragExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Financials
Est. Annual Revenue
$15M
2024
Total raised
$1.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $1.7M | Details |
People
Steven Watson
Executive Officer
Charles Swisher
Executive Officer
Steven Farag
Executive Officer
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News
Campus Ink, NIL Store make history with ESPN partnership
URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) - Campus Ink and the NIL store have just made history thanks to a new partnership with ESPN. The companies are the first apparel store in the NCAA able to sell licensed apparel. This collaboration allows the stores to have access to ES
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The latest company information, including net asset values, performance, holding & sectors weighting, changes in voting rights, and directors and dealings.
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Grow Loyalty, Earn Royalties: Campus Ink at the Fraternity Communications Association Conference
Grow Loyalty, Earn Royalties: Campus Ink at the Fraternity Communications Association Conference The Campus Ink team had the privilege of attending the Fraternity Communications Association (FCA) Conference-an incredible opportunity to connect with nation
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Campus Ink: Strategic Investment Raised From High Street
Campus Ink is a company that has emerged as a leader in collegiate merchandise and NIL monetization. It utilizes technology to transform how student-athletes build their brands and generate income. High Street Equity Partners has invested in Campus Ink.
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Campus Ink Lands Strategic Investment to Scale NIL Store and ARENA Platform Nationwide
Campus Ink has emerged as a game-changing force in collegiate merchandise and NIL monetization, leveraging technology to transform how student-athletes build their personal brands and generate income. Founded by CEO Steven Farag, who began selling campus
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Campus Ink rebrand opens for start of basketball season
On Nov. 3, Illinois fans celebrated the grand re-opening of the Illinois NIL store, located at The Lab near Campus Ink. The store, stocked...
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Sean Ellenby: Connecting Your Brand to Your Audience
Campus Inks Virtual Internship enters week 4! It has been a thrilling first half of the internship. We are teaching our 100+ Interns the ropes and watching them grow tremendously. This week we had Sean Ellenby Campus Inks Director of NIL Marketing and Com
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Meet Grant Heus: Cat Videographer
Meet Grant Heus: Grant is our Videographer/Photographer Intern at Campus Ink this summer! He will be the reason you see such great content all summer long! He just graduated from Columbia College Chicago this past May. He majored in Audio Arts. Grant has
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Meet Noah Pendleton: Fraternity Math Tutor
Meet Noah Pendleton: Noah is the TMM Greek Intern at Campus Ink this summer. He is working alongside the TMM side of campus ink to design and creatively design apparel! He is an incoming Senior at Wabash College in Indiana. He has been with Campus Ink for
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Urbana
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff