Get your technology off the ground.
About.
Ground Up Innovations was founded in 2020 with a mission to bring meaningful products to life.
With an emphasis on innovation, manufacturing and automation, we work alongside early-stage startups and small technical teams to design, prototype, and commercialize new technologies.
Today, GUI is a seven-person team bringing together mechanical, electrical, process, and controls engineering, along with in-house machining and welding. In 2025 alone, we worked with 30 companies—20 of them startups, including 13 Massachusetts-based ClimateTech startups.
With a background rooted in startups, our team brings an adaptive mindset, a strong sense of urgency, and a passion for developing new technologies and processes — making Ground Up Innovations an ideal partner for emerging technology companies.
MANUFACTURING
We provide fast, low-volume bridge manufacturing from prototype through early production.
INNOVATION
We focus on engineering design, development, and innovation to turn complex challenges into practical, cutting-edge solutions.
AUTOMATION
We deliver advanced industrial automation, robotics systems, integrated controls.
Dan Holzer is the founder and principal at Ground Up Innovations. He is an electromechanical engineer and a startup veteran — having worked at three startups and a corporate SkunkWorks before starting his own company. Throughout his career, Dan built a reputation of rapidly deploying innovative technologies and generating useful intellectual property along the way. Dan founded GUI to leverage this technology delivery model to help more startups get off the ground.