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Detroit startup Grounded raises $5M to customize electric and gas-powered vans

Detroit-based Grounded has had to be flexible since it was founded in 2022.

The startup was initially built around the idea of customizing electric vans like Ford’s E-Transit and General Motors’ BrightDrop for the “van life” set, using a modular, “Lego-like” system. Sensing a bigger opportunity, Grounded then started customizing those vans for small businesses. But then GM discontinued BrightDrop last year, Ford axed plans for a next-generation electric Transit van, and EVs generally became a harder sell in the United States.

That hasn’t stopped Grounded. On Tuesday, the startup announced that it has closed a $5 million seed round, with repeat investments from existing backers Also Capital and Chicago-based early-stage firm The 81 Collection, along with Animal Capital, the Michigan Outdoor Innovation Fund, and “various SpaceX alumni,” according to founder and CEO Sam Shapiro.

Grounded has also opened a new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Detroit where it will...

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T-Mobile will cover your first month of 5G home internet and give you up to $200 back - here's how

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CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug

Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks CISA says attackers are exploiting a critical 2025 vulnerability in Ray, the widely used open source framework for scaling Python and machine-learning workloads. Tracked as CVE-2025-62593 and rated 9.4 under CVSS v4, the bug was first

Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users

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Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021

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T-Mobile will cover your first month of 5G home internet and give you up to $200 back - here's how

CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug

Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users

Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021