{"id":629738,"date":"2026-05-07T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:26:12","slug":"local-golf-startup-raises-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629738\/","title":{"rendered":"Local golf startup raises $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/another-nine-fundraise-golf-simulator-franchise.html?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Business Courier<\/a>) &#8211; A fast-growing Covington-based startup has raised new funding amid a major growth streak that includes opening dozens of franchise sites across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Another Nine, a 24\/7 indoor golf simulator company, closed a $2 million investment round in April. Funding came entirely from its existing investor base, co-founder and CEO Ethan Grob said. He declined to name the individuals or firms involved.<\/p>\n<p>The capital will be used to expand its team \u2013 Another Nine has a full-time staff of seven now, but Grob expects to hit 14 to 17 employees by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/cincinnati\/news\/2026\/05\/07\/another-nine-fundraise-golf-simulator-franchise.html?utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medium=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=local12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story<\/a> from the Cincinnati Business Courier.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati Business Courier is a Local 12 News partner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (Cincinnati Business Courier) &#8211; A fast-growing Covington-based startup has raised new funding amid a major growth streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-629738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}