Media kit
Welcome to the Groover Labs media kit. This page will answer some basic questions you may have and provide you with an easy place to find our logo. Please reach out — we’re always eager to chat — if you have additional questions.
OUR elevator pitch
We’re a nonprofit organization providing this region with a collaborative technology hub. Groover Labs is situated in a 42,000-square-foot building in the Old Town district of Wichita, Kansas. We’re your home base for new product development.
show, don’t tell
timing is everything
Why “Groover Labs”?
Our co-founders are Curt Gridley and Tracy Hoover.
Think Gridley + Hoover = Groover.
SO Who are Curt Gridley and Tracy Hoover?
They’re big thinkers, entrepreneurs and philanthropists.
Curt is a software and hardware engineer. Tracy is a software engineer. The husband-and-wife team founded the Gridley Family Foundation in 2000. They have donated more than $2 million to charitable causes, including more than $1 million to Wichita State University.
Curt grew up in Kansas and graduated from WSU. He earned his master’s degree from Dartmouth. He worked for emerging tech companies and startups in the Boston area, founding a venture-backed hardware startup, Amber Wave Systems, which he sold in 1996.
Tracy grew up in New Jersey, graduating from Wellesley College. She worked in the Boston area until 1997. The couple returned to Wichita in 2005 with their two children, Henry and Fiona. Curt and Tracy have invested $5 million in the design build of Groover Labs. Hutton is the contractor.
Curt has served on the boards of the WSU Foundation and MakeICT. Tracy has served as treasurer for the Viola da Gamba Society of America and MakeICT. She has also taught on the music faculty at Wichita State.
