About Park Graph
Built in the Rocky Mountains to break parking open.
We are a team of about ten operators, engineers, and designers based in the Rocky Mountains, on a mission to change the way America drives by handing every parking lot owner a modern operating system — not a gate, not a meter, not a twenty-page contract.
Our story
David versus the parking Goliaths
The American parking industry has been controlled for decades by a handful of incumbents — companies like LAZ Parking and Metropolis — whose business model is built on long contracts, expensive hardware, gated entries, and a cut of every dollar that passes through your lot. We think parking lot owners deserve better than that. So we built Park Graph.
Founded in the Rockies
A small, senior team building from a part of the country that still understands the difference between owning the asset and renting access to it.
Ten people, one mission
About ten operators, engineers, and designers who have run lots, shipped software, and worked alongside drivers, municipalities, and venue operators long enough to know what actually breaks.
Owner-first, not vendor-first
No multi-year contracts. No hardware to install. No proprietary gates. The lot owner keeps control of the asset, the customer relationship, and the revenue.
Park Graph exists to empower the small and mid-sized parking lot owners across America — the family-owned downtown lot, the hospital that wants visitor parking to stop being a nightmare, the small airport that needs a real revenue dashboard, the municipality tired of paying a vendor more than it earns. These are the operators the incumbents leave on the bottom of the priority list. They are first in line for us.
We are deliberately small, deliberately fast, and deliberately obsessed with one thing: turning parking from a hardware-heavy, contract-heavy industry into a software-first network that any operator can join in thirty seconds, and that any AI agent can book against on behalf of a driver. That is how we believe America drives differently — not with a different car, but with a different relationship to the curb, the lot, and the charger.
We know we are the underdog in this fight. That is the point.
Founder profile
Ross D. Blankenship
Founder, Park Graph · Venture investor and operator
Ross D. Blankenship is the founder of Park Graph and a venture investor and operator who has spent his career building practical infrastructure for the way people actually move, park, and pay. His work has cut across early-stage investing and hands-on company building, with a recurring throughline: take overlooked physical assets and make them legible, programmable, and accessible to modern software.
Across years of work in the startup ecosystem, Blankenship has backed and helped build companies operating at the intersection of capital markets, civic infrastructure, and applied technology. He writes and publishes regularly on the mechanics of venture capital and on emerging opportunities in real-world infrastructure, with several titles available through his Amazon author page that distill what he has learned working alongside founders.
Park Graph reflects a thesis Blankenship has been refining for years: that parking is one of the largest underdigitized markets in the United States, and that the lots themselves, not the consumer apps that sit on top of them, are the unit of value. He started Park Graph with a small Rocky Mountain team to give every operator, from a single-lot owner to a municipal fleet, a way to turn a static asphalt asset into a living, revenue-aware system in minutes.
His other ventures sit alongside Park Graph in the same ecosystem: Recharged America focuses on the broader transition to electrified transportation; ChargingNear.Me helps drivers find usable EV charging; and Wins Parking is the operator-facing brand for parking-asset growth and yield. More about his broader work is at RossBlankenship.com.
Other ventures & links
Where else to find Ross
Companies, writing, and personal presence across the web. Each link opens in a new tab.
ChargingNear.Me
Making EV charging discoverable and usable for everyday drivers.
LinkedIn
Professional background, current roles, and recent posts.
Recharged America
Working on the broader transition to electrified transportation across U.S. communities.
Ross Blankenship books
Published titles on venture capital and emerging infrastructure, available on Amazon.
RossBlankenship.com
Personal site and the source for this profile.
Wins Parking
Operator-facing brand focused on parking-asset growth, operations, and yield.
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