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Funding and backers

Total raised
$3.1M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3.1M
Pre-Seed · Jul 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
3
Antler, Draper Associates
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 25, 2025 Raised a round Pre-Seed $3.1M · led by Outlander VC · Pulse 2.0 Mar 8, 2023 Recognition Genesis ElectronicsGroup's Glīd Joins The Teaming Partner List for ARPA-E · Nasdaq
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Pre-Seed Jul 2025 $3.1M Outlander VC lead Pulse 2.0
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Overview

Glīd synchronizes road and rail with dual-use Glīders to eliminate bottlenecks and provide resilient, efficient first-mile logistics solutions.

News

News Newsweek 6 months ago
AI Impact: What happens when AI changes what work actually is?
AI Impact explores how AI is compressing work, shifting value from execution to judgment and redefining what expertise looks like.
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Award TechCrunch 12 months ago
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2025 is: Glīd
Glīd, which is trying to streamline cargo container logistics, has beaten out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home $100,000.
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News TechCrunch 12 months ago
Here are the 5 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
After two days full of live demos and pitches, it's time to announce the five finalists at this year's Startup Battlefield.
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News TechCrunch 12 months ago
Glīd is building an autonomous shortcut to move freight from road to rail - catch it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Damoa pinpointed the problem: the complex, multi-step process moving a container from a ship to a freight train. He founded Glīd Technologies to try and solve it.
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News TechCrunch 12 months ago
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 - Overview
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News forbes.com 12 months ago
Glīd's Universal Platform Provides Frictionless Rail-to-Road Logistics Forbes
Glīd's Universal Platform Provides Frictionless Rail-to-Road Logistics
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Glīd: $3.1 Million Pre-Seed Funding Raised For Autonomous Road-To-Rail Freight Infrastructure
Glīd Technologies, a leader in autonomous road-to-rail solutions, has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, raising $3.1 million, led by Outlander VC. Founded in 2022 by Kevin A. Damoa, a former logistics leader at SpaceX and the U.S. military,
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Financials

Total raised
$3.1M
Latest round
Pre-Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Pre-Seed 2025 $3.1M Details