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Jim Roche Saw a Stack of Paper. He Found a Business.
After thousands of dealership visits, Jim Roche learned to look past the showroom. In a forgotten back office, he found the stubborn problem that became WarrCloud.
Joel Grossman and the Long Art of Answering the Call
He began with an empty desk and helped build one company to a $220 million exit. At Numa, Joel Grossman is applying the same patient operating logic to the ringing phones, missed messages and frayed handoffs of the modern car dealership.
CitNOW taught car dealers to show. Now it wants them to remember.
A personalised video can explain a repair. CitNOW Group is betting that connected software can keep the whole dealership conversation from getting lost.
The $20,000 Mailer That Taught CallRevu to Listen
A Toyota dealer went looking for proof that his advertising worked and found something more useful: the conversations his store was mishandling. Two decades later, CallRevu is trying to turn every ring, pause and missed appointment into a dealership operating signal.
KPA Spent 40 Years Expanding. Then It Put the Whole Company Back in the Dealership.
The compliance company built a broad industrial software portfolio, then split it apart. Now KPA is betting that 150 consultants, 400-plus courses, and one dealer-specific dashboard beat a generic safety platform.
Ryan Maher Found a $22 Billion Problem Hiding in the Service Lane
A stale recall notice, a list of 42 VINs and one profitable experiment sent a third-generation dealer back to the car business - this time to make the software disappear and the appointments show up.
The Startup That Turned 73 Million Ignored Recall Letters Into a Money Machine
A Marine-turned-car-dealer got stuck with 42 recall notices and no phone numbers. His fix became a platform that has booked over a million VINs and turned the auto industry's most-ignored paperwork into a service department growth engine.
The Quiet Software Empire Behind 40,000 Dealerships
LeadVenture built a portfolio for the dealerships that mainstream auto software often overlooks - the shops selling motorcycles, boats, tractors, RVs, trailers, tires and used cars. Its advantage is not one flashy app, but a network that turns scattered inventory into a coherent digital storefront.
Dynatron Software, Inc.
The quiet profit center inside a dealership is the service lane. Dynatron turns its messy repair-order data into pricing discipline, warranty revenue and measurable action - pairing software with coaches who keep the dashboard from becoming wallpaper.
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.