Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is now a minority investor in an Urbana apparel screen-printing business, Campus Ink.
Campus Ink co-owner Steven Farag said he sent Cuban an email, “and he answered.”
“It feels like we hit a lottery ticket of sorts,” Farag said.
The amount of the investment isn’t being disclosed.
With Cuban’s investment, Campus Ink plans to expand its work teaching college students how to design and sell collegiate brands and help more student-athletes earn commissions from the use of their names, images and likenesses.
Through Campus Ink’s Illini Store platform, the company said it’s generated more than $70,000 in profits for student athletes since last September.
Farag said Campus Ink is currently working with 150 college students across the country teaching them to design…
