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Collision Partners Is Buying Great Body Shops - and Leaving the Names on the Door
Most roll-ups buy a reputation and replace it with a logo. Collision Partners is betting that the name above the garage door - and the craft behind it - is the asset worth keeping.
The Supermarket Turnaround Hiding in Argentina’s Shopping Cart
GDN AR inherited Walmart’s Argentine footprint, replaced the signs and began rewiring the machine behind them. Its bet is that a supermarket can become more useful - and more local - by shrinking the trip from warehouse to shelf.
The Company Behind Your Oil Change Is Quietly Building Car Care's Operating System
Driven Brands has turned a scattered chore - keeping a car alive - into a portfolio of familiar local shops backed by one shared machine. Its next chapter depends on making that machine simpler, faster and more disciplined.
The Three-Minute Wash That Turned Miami’s Rain Into Recurring Revenue
El Car Wash took a mundane errand, wrapped it in Miami color and sold it like a streaming plan. Now the Warburg Pincus-backed chain has more than 100 locations - and half a million members paying to keep the shine on.
The Tire Company That Wants to Sell Fewer Tires
Bridgestone Americas built a continent-sized business around the part of a car most people notice only when it fails. Now it is turning that overlooked circle of rubber into a service network, a data stream and a test of whether mobility can become less wasteful.
The Body Shop That Became a 650-Location Repair Machine
A single Illinois body shop grew into the country’s third-largest collision-repair operator. Its real product is not fresh paint - it is trust, coordination and the ability to make a complicated car whole again.
Whistle Express Car Wash
Whistle Express turned 16 regional car-wash brands into one operating system. Then a $385 million deal more than doubled its footprint - and made the humble wash tunnel a revealing lesson in subscription retail.
Rinsed
Rinsed is a New York-based vertical SaaS company that builds a customer relationship management (CRM) platform purpose-built for the car wash industry. It plugs into a wash's existing point-of-sale hardware and helps operators grow and retain unlimited-wash membership subscriptions through automated email and text marketing, online sign-ups, churn-reduction tools, salesperson coaching, and business analytics. Founded in 2019 and backed by Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, VMG Technology and Y Combinator, Rinsed serves more than 3,000 car washes across the U.S. and Canada.
Yoshi Mobility
Yoshi Mobility is a Nashville-based automotive services company that brings car care to the vehicle instead of making the vehicle come to the shop. What began in 2015 as on-demand, at-home gasoline delivery has grown into a full suite of mobile services: preventative maintenance and tire work, AI-assisted virtual vehicle inspections, and mobile EV charging. Backed by General Motors Ventures, Bridgestone Americas, and ExxonMobil, the company serves fleets, rideshare and car-sharing platforms like Uber and Turo, and Fortune 100 customers across all 50 states.