Groundspeak is a privately held company in Seattle, Washington. The company was initially founded in November of 2000 to support the ongoing development of the Geocaching.com web site. Jeremy Irish, Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth met at a late 90's dot-com era startup and obtained initial funding for the site from the sale of 144 donated geocaching t-shirts (really!).From the beginning the founders were inspired by the combination of location-based technology (GPS) with outdoor recreation. As the s…