# The Grid

> The Grid was a San Francisco website publishing company that promised to turn a user's words and images into an automatically designed site. Its content analysis, layout engine and developer API made it an early, unusually ambitious entrant in AI web design. Preorders and venture funding arrived quickly; product access, control over finished designs and dependable service proved harder. Its live site now says V2 sites are archived and promises a V3, without a public release date.

- **Founded:** 2010
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Dan Tocchini IV (Technical co-founder and CEO), Brian Axe (Co-founder and chairman), Daniel Tocchini III (Co-founder and vice president of business development)
- **Products:** The Grid website builder, The Grid developer API, V3
- **Notable:** Raised $3.1 million in seed funding and $4.6 million in Series A funding in 2014., Launched a public version after an extended beta in September 2016, according to contemporary reporting., Released public developer documentation and open-source components for its layout and publishing stack.

## Products & services

- **The Grid website builder** — Hosted website publishing service that analyzed text and images and generated layouts, colors and crops, with users able to adjust style controls.
- **The Grid developer API** — REST and JSON API with OAuth2 for content, users, notifications, design systems and website operations.
- **V3** — Proposed successor named in The Grid's V2 archive notice; no public launch date is stated on the site.

## Achievements

- Raised $3.1 million in seed funding and $4.6 million in Series A funding in 2014.
- Launched a public version after an extended beta in September 2016, according to contemporary reporting.
- Released public developer documentation and open-source components for its layout and publishing stack.

## Latest updates

- **2019-01** — The company's site announced that V2 sites had been placed in an archived state and promised a V3; the month is approximate based on contemporary reporting.

## Links

- Website: https://thegrid.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thegrid
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thegridio
- GitHub: https://github.com/the-grid
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGridio/videos
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegridio

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