Grounded’s Post

I am thrilled to share that Grounded just announced our $3.5M pre-seed fundraising round to build smart, modular electric vans for work and outdoor recreation, co-led by Vijen Patel & Alex Kirshenbaum at The 81 Collection, and Mike Annunziata at Also Capital. Participation also from Andrew Batey at Side Door Ventures. What a freaking awesome team of investors who already in just 1 week since closing have proven tremendously helpful. Those of you who know me know that fundraising isn't my favorite activity of all time - I prefer to spend time actually building the business, working on product, engineering and sales. But this is going to help Grounded get to the next phase of the business and scale up meaningfully over the next 12 months and create more jobs here in Detroit :) Huge thank you to everyone who has helped me/Grounded with professional advice and with emotional therapy on this roller coaster ride (of which I've needed a lot) since we started the company 2 years ago, especially our rock-star team, advisors and amazing startup community in Detroit. (Apparently LinkedIn has a "mentions" limit but there is actually an endless number of people to thank on Grounded's journey so far). Eli Harris Nadia Meyer Grant Morgan Nick Fitzpatrick Aiden Leonard Patrick Dunstone Matt Nyrkkanen Joseph Jiran Anthony Miceli Alisyn Malek Tony Lyscio Xenya Burdo Katie Soven Garrett Winther Michael Lehman Erik Hardy Aaron Weast Mike Dudgeon Benedict Walker Marc Bernstein Blaine Riley Roy Carter Kevin Delie Mark Krassner John Mueller Leeshy Cutler Ben Cutler, CPA Newlab Michigan Central Jason Vazzano Tommy Skinner Jim Tenzillo https://lnkd.in/ggg-8dfM https://lnkd.in/gMGt4kAv