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Sell the moment. Then print the shirt.
Campus Ink turned a college print shop into an athlete merchandise business by changing the order of operations: find the fan, make the sale, then make the shirt.
Daniel Blank
Daniel Blank is the CEO and co-founder of Toggle, a construction robotics company he started in New York in 2016 to bring manufacturing methods to the built environment, beginning with the fabrication and assembly of steel rebar for reinforced concrete. A designer by training who spent a decade running a design agency, Blank re-imagined the one-off construction process as a repeatable product-manufacturing process after watching workers tie thousands of steel bars by hand at a wind farm. Toggle has raised roughly $15 million from investors including Point72 Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Blackhorn Ventures and Mark Cuban, and has since expanded into automated quality control for custom fabricators under the Toggle QC banner.
Clipbook
Clipbook is an AI-native platform for communications and corporate affairs teams. It monitors over one million media and policy sources - press, broadcast, podcasts, social, regulatory filings - and uses agentic AI to surface what actually matters, in real time. Founded in 2023 by ex-BCG consultant Adam Joseph, Clipbook bootstrapped to seven figures in ARR before raising a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital in late 2025.
Zain Zaidi
Zain Zaidi is the co-founder and CEO of TransCrypts, a blockchain-powered credential and employment verification platform he started after struggling to access his own college transcript as an SJSU student. Backed by Mark Cuban, Pantera Capital, and Techstars, he has grown the company to 450+ enterprise clients and 4 million users across 9 countries, raised $18M+, launched JustScreen (the world's first free background check service), and earned a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2026 — all before turning 30. His platform has also helped over 4,000 Ukrainian refugees access medical records.
Adam Joseph
Adam Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Clipbook, the AI system of record for communications and public affairs teams. A Harvard summa cum laude graduate and Fulbright Scholar, he bootstrapped Clipbook to $1M ARR before landing a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban - won through a single cold email. Before building Clipbook, he served as Communications Director for Abdul El-Sayed's historic 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign and as a Strategy Consultant at BCG, where he led healthcare and government transformation work. Clipbook now monitors 1M+ media and policy sources for 200+ clients including Weber Shandwick and BCG.
Shaan Patel
Dr. Shaan Patel is the founder and CEO of Prep Expert, the SAT/ACT prep company that landed a $250,000 deal from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank Season 7 - one of Cuban's most profitable Shark Tank investments. He raised his own SAT score 640 points to a perfect score, then built a company that has helped 100,000+ students improve their scores and win over $100 million in college scholarships. Board-certified dermatologist, Yale MBA, USC MD - Patel turned a personal academic transformation into a $75M+ enterprise.