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Lasse-Mathias Nyberg Is Teaching AI to Do the Paperwork of Buying a Car
The Stanford MBA and former BCG consultant is betting that the future of used-car retail will be won in the unglamorous space between a customer’s click and a clean title.
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.
Mia Labs
Mia Labs is an Austin-based AI company building Mia, a voice-first conversational platform for automotive dealerships. Marketed as an 'AI super employee,' Mia answers inbound and outbound calls 24/7 across a dealership's sales, service, reception, and parts departments, syncing with dealer management systems, CRMs, and scheduling tools to capture leads, book appointments, and handle routine customer conversations. As of early 2026 the platform served more than 350 franchise dealerships and had raised a $20M Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $29M.
Ever
Ever is a San Francisco company building what it calls the first AI-native, full-stack auto retail platform, starting with electric vehicles. It runs an omnichannel marketplace - an online store plus a physical San Francisco showroom - where consumers can buy, sell, and finance used EVs across more than 30 brands. Underneath the storefront sits a proprietary operating system that orchestrates the unglamorous back-office work of car retail (appraisals, pricing, titling, inventory, financing), which the company says lets its sales team run two to three times more productively than a traditional used-car dealer. Ever came out of stealth in February 2026 with a $31M Series A led by Eclipse, bringing total funding to roughly $100M in equity and debt.
Del Grande Dealer Group
Del Grande Dealer Group (DGDG) is the largest family-owned automotive group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 1998 with a single dealership, it now operates a portfolio of franchised new- and used-car dealerships across Northern California, representing more than a dozen brands. DGDG pairs a high-volume retail operation with a culture obsession - it has been named a Bay Area Top Workplace for more than a decade - and a digital-first buying experience it markets as No Brainer Pricing and No Brainer Checkout.
Jeremy Beaver
Jeremy Beaver is the CEO of Del Grande Dealer Group (DGDG), Northern California's largest family-owned automotive retailer. He started in the business at sixteen, cold-calling from a Dodge BDC, and now runs roughly 17 dealerships moving 25,000-30,000 cars a year at about $1.3 billion in revenue. He is known for building dealerships that operate like tech companies, treating data, culture, and team experience as the operating system of car retail.