GrandPad was founded in 2014 by Scott Lien, a former
Intuit executive, and his son, Isaac Lien. The elder Lien serves as the company's CEO. It is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota where many of the technological aspects of the business are housed. The first GrandPad tablet was launched in January 2015. In March 2016, GrandPad entered into a strategic partnership with technology and hardware company,
Acer, which saw the latter company make an equity investment in GrandPad. Later that year, GrandPad partnered with
Comfort Keepers (a firm offering in-home care to seniors) to provide their tablets to seniors in the Comfort Keepers network. In 2017, an updated version of the tablet was released with input from Acer. Also that year, the company collaborated with
Lyft to integrate the ride-hailing service's app into the GrandPad interface. In May 2018, it was announced that senior citizen-focused wireless network company,
Consumer Cellular, invested in GrandPad. Consumer Cellular also announced that it would become a distributor of the GrandPad tablet in the United States. In March 2019, GrandPad opened its first European office in Gorey, Ireland, which was established to support its European operations. The company also began selling its tablet through
Amazon and
Walgreens in 2022. ==Product==