Modal’s automotive ecommerce platform for auto dealers and brands transforms the complex car sale into an easy digital transaction that buyers love.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 51-200
Founded date: 2015
Investors 2
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| 17.06.2019 | The Hot IPO You Might Have Overlooked: Term Sheet | CONSUMERIZE THE ENTERPRISE While we all gave our undivided attention to flashy IPOs like Uber and Lyft, many overlooked the public market debut of cloud-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. You’ve probably heard of it without realizing ... |
| 14.06.2019 | Drive Motors Raises $5M in Funding | Modal (formerly Drive Motors), a San Francisco, CA-based provider of digital commerce for large auto retailers and brands, raised $5m in funding. Backers included: – Peter Thiel, – IDOM Inc., and – Ally Ventures, the investing arm of nation... |
| 02.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, Aug. 2 | ET CETERA OUT: Irene Rosenfeld will step down as CEO of Mondelez International in March, Fortune’s Beth Kowitt reports. Dirk Van de Put, currently the president and CEO of Mondelez-owned McCain Foods will take over. Paid Content Securing th... |
| 02.08.2017 | Drive Motors Raises $5.2M in Seed Funding | Drive Motors, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of e-commerce solutions for large car dealerships, raised $5.2m in seed funding. The round was led by Bullpen Capital, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures... |
| 02.08.2017 | Drive Motors Grabs $5.2M Seed Round | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Drive Motors, which builds ecommerce solutions for the largest car dealerships in the country, officially announced today that it has raised $5.2 million in total funding. >> Click here for more funding data on D... |
| 23.03.2016 | Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2 | “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 2. Yesterday, we covered... |
| 09.03.2016 | Drive Motors (YC W16) Lets You Buy a New Car Completely Online | The process of going in person to a dealership to shop for a new car can be intimidating and time-consuming, to say the least. Drive Motors is a company that is launching out of our Winter 2016 class that lets you bypass that altogether, en... |
| 11.02.2016 | Drive Motors Lets You Actually Buy A Car Online. How Did This Not Exist? | No one wants to go to a car dealership. We’re in the era where everything can be done online, so it’s crazy you can’t buy a new car straight from the web. Every site and startup that claims to help you do that just dumps you on a contact fo... |
| - | Why you should buy your next car online. Humans interact better, technology does the rest | -Hey dude, I’m gonna buy a car today. -Really? Where you gonna go?. -Where? I’ll do it from my couch. -Really? This might seem like a dumb conversation between two mates, but it is pretty much what we can expect to hear from now on. On ... |