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The 30-Year-Old Startup Selling You a Fender Before the Body Shop Can
Three decades in, the online auto-parts seller is betting a rebuilt AI catalog, a revived JC Whitney brand, and a $35.7 million cash infusion can turn cheap fenders into durable margins.
Turn5 Built a Car-Parts Empire One Obsession at a Time
The Pennsylvania retailer turned a teenage garage experiment into a portfolio of specialist stores. Its real product is confidence: the fitment data, how-to media and human advice that help enthusiasts click "buy" on a complicated build.
The Parts Company Racing the Calendar Under Your Hood
WAI Global built a worldwide aftermarket business around a stubbornly practical promise: get a new, application-correct electrical part onto the shelf before a broken vehicle turns into a stranded customer.
The Gulf Coast Chain That Sells 15 Badges Under One Name
One Toyota store in Bradenton became 20-plus rooftops and 15 badges. Here is how a Florida family kept buying dealerships while national groups consolidated the rest.
Alephee
Alephee is an Argentine cloud platform that helps automotive aftermarket brands, wholesalers and distributors sell parts online across Latin America. It standardizes fragmented product catalogs, adds vehicle-fitment data, keeps prices and inventory in sync, and connects the entire distribution chain to marketplaces like Mercado Libre and Amazon so an offline reseller network can be replicated online.
Gluon Solutions, Inc.
Gluon Solutions is a Livermore, California software company building IoT and cloud platforms that quietly run the unglamorous back office of fuel stations, convenience stores, and auto-parts sellers. Its three product lines - Petromo (c-store and fuel-station management), Gluon Auto (vehicle and fleet monitoring), and EZ Lister (auto parts catalog and marketplace listing) - stitch together pumps, tanks, point-of-sale terminals, vehicles, and e-commerce inventories into a single connected system.