is the first on-demand roadside assistance solution in North America – a free smartphone web app which puts consumers just a few taps away from quick, nearby and available help in the event of a roadside emergency – saving them time, money and providing increased peace of mind. Urgently provides towing and roadside assistance providers a powerful platform to more efficiently grow their business by connecting them with new customers close to their open and available service vehicles. Launched in April of 2014, Urgent.ly is currently available in the greater Washington DC area, where you can get roadside assistance by going to
on your smartphone today.
on your smartphone today.
Total raised: $8.2M
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Select Ven... | selectvent... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 29.09.2015 | Series A | $7M | - |
| 15.10.2014 | Series A | $1.2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.11.2018 | Zendrive, Lyft, Uber, and Lime partner to award $50,000 for traffic safety plan | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. More than 60 percent of drivers — roughly 69 million — use their phones at least once a day while behind the wheel. In 2018, distracted... |
| 04.10.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, October 4 | 5 QS WITH A DEALMAKER Ryan Sweeney, a general partner at Accel, joined the firm in 2008 to focus on growth investments. He became the first outside investor and board member at enterprise software companies including Atlassian, Qualtrics, ... |
| 12.01.2017 | Urgent.ly, the Leading Global Digital Roadside Assistance Platform, Continues Rapid Expansion; Adds Three to Senior Team | VIENNA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 12, 2017– Urgent.ly – the company reinventing the roadside assistance market for premier global automotive, insurance, mapping, and parking brands as well as roadside assistance professionals and consumer... |
| 04.02.2016 | Zendrive raises $13.5M to make roads safer by tracking your driving behaviors | Zendrive today announced that it has raised $13.5 million in funding for its technology to make transportation safer. The investment was led by Sherpa Capital and will be used to improve technology and add more talent to the team. A mission... |
| 10.12.2015 | Announcing This Year's 50 on Fire Winners | Tonight, we unveiled the winners of 50 on Fire, a collection of companies, CEOs, startups and entrepreneurs that are driving the District's innovation economy. From high-powered investors like Revolution to booming restaurant chain &piz... |
| 10.12.2015 | Urgent.ly Hires Top Connected Car Dealmaker | New Hire Tom Sexton Joins Team to Help Grow Urgent.ly into the Dominant Roadside Assistance Platform VIENNA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–December 10, 2015– Urgent.ly, the company reinventing roadside assistance, announced today the appointment of T... |
| 29.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 29, 2015 | Trive Capital Management bagged $500M; Thumbtack raised $125M; Wheels Up raised $115M The local services marketplace is filled with players, including companies like TaskRabbit, Angie's List and Yelp. Even companies like eBay, Amazon and Go... |
| 29.09.2015 | Urgent.ly Raises $7M in Series A Funding | Urgent.ly, a Mclean, VA-based on-demand roadside assistance service, raised $7m in Series A funding. Backers included Allianz Digital Corporate Ventures, Verizon Ventures, and Forté Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to scale th... |
| 28.09.2015 | New Money: These DC Companies Raised Millions This Week | Like this? Get a daily dose of D.C.-area funding news in The Beat. Sign up here. Here are all of the tech funding deals out of the Washington, D.C., area this week. We’ll be updating this post as more news comes out. Thursday, October 1 Sun... |
| 24.07.2015 | Money, Mergers & Expansions For Booktrack, Other SF Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints While big tech companies like Google filed their quarterly reports this week, a number of their smaller brethren in San Francisco caught my eye as they recorded their own benc... |
Show more