In 2020, entrepreneur and executive Nick Palazzo founded NP Ventures, an operating company designed to assist emerging founder partners in the sports, technology, and media industries, as well as to create new ventures. With in-depth expertise in technology, content development, live-event execution, and business operations, Nick Palazzo offers his partners comprehensive strategy and marketing opportunities to further their growth. He facilitates new connections with potential partners that include the industry's most iconic brands and influencers.

Nick Palazzo is an industry recognized sports technology entrepreneur and marketing innovator appearing in numerous publications and broadcast programs, including The New York Times, the “Today” show, Mediaweek, MIN, Folio, Sports Business Journal, Forbes and Adweek, and is a frequent keynote and panel speaker at sports, media and technology industry events. Earlier in his career, Nick Palazzo was featured as a “C-Level Visionary” by Folio as part of its annual Folio:40 list of media industry influencers and innovators. Palazzo was also featured in the acclaimed book Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking The World of Business.

A graduate of Harvard University, where he finished as one of the football program's all-time leading rushers and scorers and a key member of the first undefeated championship team since 1913, Nick Palazzo is passionate about expanding the possibilities available to today’s student-athletes from under-resourced areas.

Nick Palazzo was also a nominee for The William V. Campbell Trophy aka the “Academic Heisman”, the most prestigious and desirable academic award in college football. The trophy recognizes an individual as the absolute best in the country for his academic success, football performance and exemplary leadership.

While a Harvard athlete, Nick Palazzo founded STACK which grew into a global athletic training content sensation with a mission of educating and inspiring youth athletes. STACK was the originator of athlete-centric content produced “For the Athlete, By the Athlete," with a focus on training, nutrition, skills and gear. LeBron James was the first athlete featured by the platform where his high school workout was shared with the world.

At its peak, STACK had more than 15 million monthly unique visitors across its various platforms and a social reach through Facebook and other social platforms of more than 100 million. Early in its evolution, STACK also published a magazine that was distributed directly to high schools, reaching more than 12,000 high schools (75% of the market) with a readership of more than 5 million student-athletes.

STACK was the first mover and creator of the athlete-driven content space, developing content with many of the world’s most iconic athletes such as LeBron James, Brian Urlacher, Michael Jordan, Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, Kevin Durant, Alex Morgan, Drew Brees, Dwyane Wade, Abby Wambach, Cam Newton, Rob Gronkowski, David Beckham, Chris Paul, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Serena Williams, Tim Tebow, Skylar Diggins, JJ Watt and Adrian Peterson. In total, STACK worked with more than 1,500 professional athletes generating a global audience sustained through the support of the world's leading sports brands including Nike (who was the first supporter), Gatorade, Reebok, New Balance, Under Armour, Foot Locker, among others.

STACK also had acquired Velocity Sports Performance, the largest youth athletic performance training organization in the United States with more than 40 training locations nationwide, and Driven Apps, the leading developer of sports training technology, with apps featuring superstars Adrian Peterson and Dwyane Wade, creating the nation’s first fully-integrated sports performance service platform, engaging millions of athletes every month.

More recently, Nick Palazzo has created 2x2 Sports to support a variety of sports, health, and fitness programs to benefit young athletes in their schools and communities. The platform also offers access to scholarships that honor high school coaches and teachers that have dedicated their lives to their students and have had a profound impact. The goal of the scholarships are to help young people transform their lives through new educational, faith-based and sports opportunities.

Nick Palazzo is a proud #girldad with four amazing daughters. He is also a devout Roman Catholic having been involved in the Harvard Catholic Student Society and a variety of other catholic organizations over the years. Nick Palazzo's favorite Bible verse is Romans 10:9. Jesus is Lord.

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Family Blog: https://www.nickpalazzo.org

Sports Site: https://www.2x2sports.com