Our Story

We're building
parking's
missing layer.

Parking is a $130B industry running almost entirely on friction — broken kiosks, multiple apps, circling blocks, and crossed fingers. We're fixing that by building the connectivity layer that parking has always been missing. One city at a time.

Meet the team

The origin · MSP Airport

"I was rushing to catch a flight out of MSP and spent nearly 20 minutes trying to find parking — circling ramps, checking three different apps, getting no useful real-time information. I had the money, I had the time if I hadn't wasted it searching, and I nearly missed my flight over something that should have taken two minutes. I knew the spaces were there. What didn't exist was the layer connecting me to them."

— Grant M. Kolb, Founder & CEO

The last straw · US Bank Stadium

"On the way to a concert we pulled into a ramp right next to the stadium. Someone greeted us at the entrance — cash only, $50. We didn't have cash. We had to back out into a traffic jam. Drove ten minutes to find another ramp that accepted cards, a block away, nearly empty. Two problems in one night: no way to know in advance, and a human having to handle every transaction. Both are fixable. Neither should still exist."

— Grant M. Kolb

Our Mission

When people think parking,
they think Parkt.

We are building the platform that finally connects drivers to available parking — removing the friction, the guesswork, and the wasted time that defines the experience today. Every city. Every space type. One platform.

Zero friction

Every product decision is measured against one question: could my grandparents complete this without help? If not, we simplify it.

Connectivity first

We're not building another parking app. We're building the connectivity layer that makes all parking findable, reservable, and accessible — before you leave the house.

Operators win too

Parkt only works if parking operators earn more. Our model is designed to grow their revenue, not extract from it.

Environmental Impact

930 million gallons of fuel burn every year in the United States from drivers circling for parking — one of the most avoidable sources of urban vehicle emissions. Every reservation made through Parkt is a driver who went directly to their spot. No circling. No wasted fuel. At scale, that's a measurable environmental outcome — not a marketing claim, but a direct result of the product working as designed.

930M

Gallons saved
when Parkt works

The Team

Small team.
Big vision.

We're a lean founding team building fast. The best seats are still open.

Grant M. Kolb

Founder & CEO

Grant built Parkt out of a frustration he couldn't stop thinking about. Years of constant travel for work — airports, stadiums, city centers across the country — meant years of experiencing the same broken parking reality in every market. The apps didn't talk to each other. The spaces existed but couldn't be found. The transactions still required a human at a booth taking cash. Every city, same problem. He kept waiting for someone to fix it. Eventually he decided that someone was going to be him.

Before founding Parkt, Grant was an early employee at a fast-growing reinsurance brokerage — helping scale the business from a small startup to a major market player in six years. He brings deep experience in complex market structures, risk frameworks, pricing analytics, and building relationships in industries that run on trust.

Startup reinsurance broker — Early employee. Scaled a business from zero to major market presence in 6 years.

Minneapolis, MN — Building Parkt in the city where it launches first.

@getparkt @getparkt on X LinkedIn

Now Hiring

The best seat
in the room
is still open.

Parkt is raising its pre-seed round and assembling its founding team. If you want to build something that changes how millions of people interact with cities every day — this is that opportunity. Click any role to see the full position description.

Technical Co-Founder PRIORITY · EQUITY →

Head of Operator Growth POST-SEED →

Product Designer POST-SEED →

Get in touch

The Journey

How we
got here.

The honest version — no spin, no founder mythology. Just the real sequence of events.

The problem · Ongoing

The same broken experience, everywhere

Years of business travel meant years of parking in airports, stadiums, city centers, and event venues across the country. The experience was identical in every city: multiple apps, no real-time information, no reservations, and a transaction that still required a human being at a booth. The infrastructure existed. The coordination layer connecting drivers to it did not.

The research · 2024–25

The numbers confirmed it

$73 billion wasted annually searching for parking. 107 hours per driver per year. 930 million gallons of fuel burned. 30% of city traffic caused by parking search. Six to eight spaces for every registered vehicle in the country. The data wasn't surprising — it was clarifying. This wasn't a niche problem. It was one of the most solvable inefficiencies in American urban life, and nobody had solved it.

The build · 2025–26

Parkt LLC is formed

Parkt LLC is registered in Minnesota. The business plan, investor deck, legal framework, brand system, and product architecture are built. The technical co-founder search begins. The first operator conversations start. The pre-seed round opens. The State Fair pilot is on the calendar.

The launch · 2026

Minneapolis first

The beachhead city strategy: prove the model in Minneapolis–St. Paul before expanding nationally. Build the flywheel. Demonstrate that a single platform can connect drivers, operators, and spaces in a way that works for everyone. Then move fast. The goal is simple — when people think parking in this city, they think Parkt.

How We Build

Principles that
guide every decision.

We don't have a large team or a long history. What we do have is a clear set of beliefs about how great products get built.

Simple beats clever.

The best product decision is almost always the one that removes something, not adds it. We design for the person who just wants to park — not the person who enjoys reading app documentation.

Infrastructure before features.

We build the foundation correctly before building fast. The connectivity layer — the data architecture, the operator relationships, the payment rails — has to be right from day one.

Operators are partners, not inventory.

We succeed when parking operators succeed. Every product decision that affects operators is evaluated through that lens. If it doesn't make their business better, we don't build it.

The data belongs to everyone who created it.

The demand intelligence Parkt accumulates belongs to the ecosystem that generates it. We use it to make every participant — drivers, operators, cities — better off. Not to extract from them.

We're buildingparking'smissing layer.

When people think parking,they think Parkt.

Small team.Big vision.

The best seatin the roomis still open.

How wegot here.