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CarWoo! is the stress-free, organized way to shop multiple dealers to get a great deal on your new car. CarWoo! was founded in 2008 by Tommy McClung and Erik Landerholm and has helped hundreds of thousands of customers buy their new car from dealerships who love making customers happy.
Overview
Location
United States, California, Burlingame
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$12.85M
Founded date
2008
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 3
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| Dec 14, 2011 | Funding round | $6M | |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Series A round | $6M |
Mentions in press and media 16
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| Jul 30, 2012 | CarWoo Steps on the Gas Pedal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints CarWoo CEO Tommy McClung shared some numbers last week that would make any startup founder proud. The deal-finder site, which we first profiled in October 2010, is on pace to ... |
| Jul 19, 2012 | AOL Autos Partners With CarWoo! To Let Users Negotiate With Local Dealerships Anonymously | Buying a car is usually a pretty awful experience. Browsing may be fun, but once it comes time to sign on the dotted line you end up having to do a lot of research, a lot of paperwork, and it’s expensive to boot. This is what makes services... |
| May 8, 2012 | Mojo Motors Fuels Up With $3M From Atlas, RPM For Better Used Car Shopping | Mojo Motors, a discount shopping site for used vehicles, has raised $3 million in series A financing, led by Atlas Venture, with participation from existing investors RPM Ventures, NextView Ventures, and others. As a result of the round, At... |
| Apr 25, 2012 | YC-Backed Car Buying Site CarWoo Teams Up With Comparison Shopping Service FindTheBest | YC-backed new car-buying service CarWoo is partnering up with car comparison site FindTheBest, which operates something like a Kayak.com for hundreds of products and services from smartphones to snow blowers. The partnership means FindTheBe... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day | At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways. Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for c... |
| Dec 19, 2011 | Zynga, Twitter, NextG: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Time for our roundup of the latest deals news from Bay Area technology companies, from biggest to smallest. And today’s biggest numbers are pretty big. $1 billion—The approxim... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | CarWoo! Closes $6M Funding | CarWoo!, a Burlingame, CA-based car online marketplace, has closed a $6m funding round. Backers include InterWest Partners, Comcast Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Raymond Tonsing and others. The company plans to use the funding to launch new p... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | CarWoo Raises $6 Million To Spare You The Car Dealership Blues | Buying a car doesn’t have to be such a nightmare, after all. That’s the promise of CarWoo, a startup that looks to take the stressful negotiation tactics and pushy salespeople out of the equation, allowing consumers to buy their car online ... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | CarWoo Launches CarWoo Version 2 To Keep Car Buyers Even More Informed | YC-funded CarWoo is announcing its Version 2 launch today. In the same space as TrueCar, CarWoo is a reverse auction marketplace for cars i.e. it makes car dealers bid for your business and focuses on covering all aspects of car buying tran... |
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FAQ about CarWoo!
When was CarWoo! founded?
CarWoo! was founded in 2008.
How much funding has CarWoo! raised?
CarWoo! has raised $12.85M in total across 3 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has CarWoo! raised?
Parsers VC lists 3 funding rounds of CarWoo!, among them a funding round of $6M on Dec 14, 2011 and a Series A round of $6M on Oct 13, 2010.
What has the press written about CarWoo!?
Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning CarWoo!, among them “CarWoo Steps on the Gas Pedal” (Jul 30, 2012) and “AOL Autos Partners With CarWoo! To Let Users Negotiate With Local Dealerships Anonymously” (Jul 19, 2012).
Is CarWoo! still active?
CarWoo! is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 7, 2022.