The suit challenged the NCAA policies that deny college athletes the ability to collect endorsement money from other sports.īloom's team pointed out that the NCAA allows college athletes to collect salaries as professional athletes in other sports and keep their college eligibility. Bloom's first fight was a losing effort in courtīloom sued the NCAA in 2004 in an attempt to stop the association from ending his college football career. Most recently, Bloom partnered with Vice TV and Pulse Films to produce a documentary called " VICE VERSA: College $ports, Inc." that tells the stories of current and former college athletes who've faced punishment from the NCAA for accepting money based on their name, image, and likeness. But he has also become a leader in the movement to bring endorsement rights to college athletes. And really ever since then, I've just been on the front lines of fighting for student athletes' rights."īloom went gone on to compete in two more Olympics and even played one season in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2006. So I didn't get to play my junior or senior year, this was in 20. "And then they declared me permanently ineligible. For more information, please visit our blog, " A New Chapter for Integrate: Doubling Down on Precision Demand Marketing."In order to compete for my second Olympics for the United States, I was in a situation where I needed endorsements my junior year" Bloom said. Integrate was advised by BrightTower, a New York based investment banking firm focused on software, information and technology enabled services. “Audax ‘Buy & Build’ approach invests in companies with market leading positions and sustainable competitive advantages, and we believe our partnership with Integrate will help drive transformational growth in today’s new era of Precision Demand Marketing.” “We’ve been very impressed with Integrate’s team, technology, business trajectory, and market opportunity, and look forward to working to build upon their successes and fast-track their growth,” said Tim Mack, Managing Director at Audax. In the past twelve months, Integrate has helped its B2B marketing customers process over 14 million marketable and compliant leads through its governance engine, which amounts to over a half of billion dollars in collective pipeline. Integrate’s DAP powers its Precision Demand, Precision Syndication, Precision Digital, and Precision Events solutions. Its core offering is the Demand Acceleration Platform, which centralizes, connects, and elevates multichannel B2B buying experiences to accelerate demand and convert more leads to revenue. Integrate’s mission is to become the platform of record for demand marketing by connecting the data, channels and technology to create intelligent buyer and account journeys, and deliver Precision Demand Marketing at scale. “Audax' resources and expertise in partnering with market leading companies to further accelerate growth and innovation provides us with the right opportunity to win the large market opportunity in front of us.” “Integrate has had an exceptional year of growth and we’re excited to partner with Audax to continue building our market leading Precision Demand Marketing solution to help B2B marketers deliver a more precise, engaging, and connected omni-channel experience to their customers,” said Jeremy Bloom, co-founder and CEO of Integrate. 5000 2021, a list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, was awarded the MarTech Breakthrough Award for “Best Overall MarTech solution,” and was shortlisted as a SaaS Award finalist for Best SaaS Product for Sales and Marketing. This year, Integrate will achieve nearly 80% subscription ARR growth. This strategic investment will allow Integrate to invest in building out the Demand Acceleration Platform (“DAP”), increase global expansion, and pursue new acquisition opportunities to accelerate growth. GLOBAL, Decem– Integrate, the leader in B2B Precision Demand Marketing (“PDM”), today announced a majority investment from Audax Private Equity (“Audax”). The Leader in Precision Demand Marketing to Invest in Product Innovation, Geographic Expansion, and New Acquisitions
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