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A $130B market
waiting to be
connected.

Parking is one of the largest and least-digitized industries in America. The supply exists. The demand exists. The coordination layer connecting them does not — yet. Parkt is building it.

PRE-SEED · NOW OPEN $750K – $1.25M MINNEAPOLIS LAUNCH · 2026 DECK AVAILABLE UNDER NDA
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$130B+
U.S. annual parking market — largely un-digitized
IBISWorld · 2024
$73B
Wasted annually by drivers searching for parking
INRIX · 2023
930M gal
Fuel burned every year by drivers circling for spots
ParkNav · UCLA Shoup
6–8x
Parking spaces per registered vehicle in the U.S.
UCLA Donald Shoup
The Opportunity

The problem
isn't supply.
It's coordination.

There are more than enough parking spaces in every major American city. The problem is that drivers can't find them, can't reserve them in advance, and can't access them seamlessly when they arrive.

Every other transportation category — flights, hotels, rideshare — solved this coordination problem. Parking hasn't. The technology to fix it exists today. What hasn't existed is a platform built to own the full experience.

Parkt is that platform.

The fragmentation problem
The average driver in a major U.S. city manages 4+ separate parking apps, none of which provide real-time availability, advance reservation, and seamless gate access in a single experience. The result is wasted time, wasted fuel, and billions of dollars in friction annually.
The digitization gap
The U.S. parking market generates over $130B in annual revenue yet remains one of the least digitized consumer categories in the economy. Most transactions still involve a human attendant, a cash payment, or a broken kiosk. The infrastructure is ready for a technology layer — it just doesn't exist yet.
The timing
Mobile payment adoption has crossed the threshold that makes a parking platform viable at scale. GPS accuracy, computer vision for plate recognition, and real-time inventory APIs are all mature and affordable. The window to build the category-defining platform is open right now.
The ESG dimension
930 million gallons of fuel burn every year from drivers circling for parking — one of the most avoidable sources of urban vehicle emissions. Every reservation made through Parkt eliminates a search loop. At scale, this is a measurable, auditable environmental outcome that institutional investors and corporate partners increasingly require.
Business Model

Multiple revenue streams.
All additive.

Parkt's model is designed to grow margin over time as the platform scales from a direct marketplace to a full ecosystem. Each stage builds on the one before it.

STREAM 01
Transaction Revenue
Parkt earns revenue on every parking transaction processed through the platform. Drivers pay once. Parkt manages the economics on both sides.
STREAM 02
Operator Platform
Parking operators and property managers access Parkt's management tools and analytics on a recurring basis. Sticky, scalable, and high-margin as the operator network grows.
STREAM 03
Platform Services
Additional revenue streams emerge naturally as platform scale creates new value for both operators and drivers. The full model is detailed in the investor deck.
Traction & Milestones

Built before
we raised a dollar.

Everything below was built by the founding team without external capital. This is what Day 1 of a funded Parkt looks like.

COMPLETE ✓
Parkt LLC formed — Minnesota Secretary of State
File No. 1568208300021 · EIN 41-5321294 · Excelsior, MN
COMPLETE ✓
Brand system, product architecture, and legal framework complete
Full business plan, investor deck, NDA, terms of service, privacy policy, host agreement, and driver booking terms drafted and ready for attorney review.
COMPLETE ✓
getparkt.com live · @getparkt secured across platforms
Primary domain deployed. Instagram and X/Twitter handles secured. LinkedIn company page established.
COMPLETE ✓
Technology stack selected and documented
React Native · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Stripe Connect · Mapbox · Firebase · AWS · full architecture ready for technical co-founder to build against.
IN PROGRESS
Technical co-founder search underway
Outreach underway through the Minneapolis tech and startup community. Target profile: marketplace experience, full-stack mobile, equity-motivated.
Q2–Q3 2026
Pre-seed close · MVP development begins
Target raise: $750K–$1.25M. Use of funds: engineering (40%), operator acquisition (26%), legal/compliance (10%), infrastructure (6%), operations (18%).
AUG–SEP 2026
Summer 2026 event pilot — Minneapolis metro
First live transaction data from a high-density event environment in the Minneapolis metro. The proof-of-concept moment before seed conversations begin.
Q4 2026 – Q1 2027
Seed round · 1,500–2,000 active spaces in MSP
Target: $4–6M. Expand team. Launch full MSP market. Begin city #2 planning.
ESG Impact

The environmental
case is built in.

Parkt is not an environmental company. But the environmental impact of solving the parking coordination problem is real, measurable, and significant — and it is a direct consequence of the core product working as designed.

Every pre-arrival reservation eliminates a search loop. No circling. No wasted fuel. At scale this becomes an auditable ESG metric that institutional investors and corporate fleet operators increasingly require.

930M
Gallons of fuel burned annually by U.S. drivers searching for parking — eliminated when Parkt works as designed
~8.1M
Metric tons of CO₂ equivalent — the avoidable emissions cost of the parking search loop
Per txn
Environmental impact is quantifiable at the transaction level — auditable, reportable, and scalable with platform growth
The Founder
GK
Grant M. Kolb
Founder & CEO
getparkt.com
Grant Kolb built Parkt because he couldn’t stop thinking about a problem he watched repeat itself in every city he traveled to for work. Airports, stadiums, city centers across the country — the parking experience was identical everywhere: multiple apps, no real-time information, no advance reservation, and a transaction that still required a human at a booth. The infrastructure existed. The coordination layer did not.
Rather than wait for someone else to build it, he built it himself — completing the full business plan, product architecture, legal framework, brand system, and go-to-market strategy before raising a dollar of external capital. Six years as an early employee at a fast-growing reinsurance brokerage taught him how to price risk, build relationships in complex markets, and scale a business without a blueprint. Those skills transfer directly to building a marketplace.
He didn’t build Parkt because parking is a good market. He built it because the problem is real, the solution is achievable, and nobody has done it right yet. Minneapolis-based, Minnesota-focused to start, with a clear national expansion thesis. The beachhead market is the city he knows best. The ambition is every parking market in the country.
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Pre-Seed Round · Now Open
$750K – $1.25M
Pre-seed equity · Accredited investors only
Round Type
Pre-seed equity · Delaware C-corp conversion pre-close
Primary Use of Funds
Engineering (40%) · Operator acquisition (26%) · Legal & compliance (10%) · Infrastructure & ops (24%)
Launch Market
Minneapolis–St. Paul metro · Summer 2026 event pilot · Target 1,500–2,000 active spaces Year 1
Seed Target
$4–6M · Q4 2026 – Q1 2027 · National expansion begins
Full business plan and investor deck available under NDA · Accredited investors only
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