🏟️ 🎙️ Fanstake Just Raised $6 Million to Change College Sports Forever | S2 E4
VP of Partnerships Andrew Phillips breaks down the mission
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The Connection: Good ole LinkedIn DMs. Andrew played football at Stanford and we had several mutual connections.
Quote of the Episode: "I remember distinctly walking into the Stanford bookstore with my parents . . . it’s my senior year, it’s Andrew [Luck] ‘s second year playing. You could buy basically ANYTHING with the number 12 on it. You could buy a t-shirt, you could buy a hat, you could buy a jersey, I remember they had dog scarves that had a “12” on them . . . and I just remember thinking to myself, ‘There is something wrong about this.’”
Bet You Didn’t Know: Andrew’s freshman year (2006), Stanford went 1-11 and finished as the 114th ranked program in the nation…out of 119. His 5th year (2010), the team went 12-1, won the Orange Bowl, and finished ranked 4th in the final AP poll.
Note: This episode was recorded in March, several weeks before Fanstake announced its $6.25 million seed raise from Courtside, with participation from Susa Ventures, Will Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Myriad Ventures, Alumni Ventures and others.
Andrew Phillips is a former college football player (Stanford, 2006-2010) and the VP of Partnerships at Fanstake.
Founded in 2024, Fanstake is the preeminent NIL team-building platform built by fans for fans to pledge money to recruit and retain athletes at their favorite colleges. Fanstake was founded by Greg Glass, Alex Boisvert, and Donnie Flood. The three were part of the founding and executive team of Bizo, an AdTech company that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014 for $175M. They have since held senior leadership positions at multiple Unicorn companies (Alex Boisvert - former CTO of Headspace), (Donnie Flood - former CTO of Guild). Fanstake is based out of San Francisco.
