• STELLA

  Participated · Series A · May 2024

  STELLA provides an AI assistant for auto dealerships that handles inbound calls, chat, and web interactions, performing tasks like answering FAQs, routing calls, and booking sales and service appointments. The assistant is trained on a wide range of automotive retail topics and can simultaneously handle unlimited inbound calls with natural-language conversations 24/7. STELLA’s products sit on top of dealers' legacy software (including integrations with Reynolds and Reynolds) and report analytics about customer behavior to dealers. Dealership groups are adding STELLA to their stores weekly, with tens of thousands of customer calls being handled around the clock. The company says it uses dealer feedback to rapidly enhance current offerings and build a roadmap of future products dealers want to deploy. STELLA raised capital to drive market growth and support ongoing product enhancement and development. STELLA Automotive AI provides high-end conversational AI that handles telephone, chat, and web interactions for automotive dealers, acting like a staff member to answer and route calls, book appointments, and handle FAQs. The product sits on top of dealers' legacy software and delivers analytics about customer behavior. Dealer groups are adding STELLA to their stores weekly, with tens of thousands of customer calls being handled 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. STELLA says its initial product replaces a labor-intensive process and enables dealers to redeploy staffing to other customer-facing areas. The company closed a seed financing via convertible promissory notes from strategic investors and plans to use the investment to increase focus on sales, market share, and new product innovation. Presidio served as STELLA's exclusive financial advisor since its market introduction in 2022 and helped procure strategic capital and industry advice.

• Spiffy

  Participated · Series C · Feb 2023

  Spiffy is an on-demand car care, technology, and services company delivering mobile automotive maintenance and dealer-facing hardware and software. Since launching in 2014, Spiffy has completed over 2 million mobile services and currently performs 3,000–4,000 services daily across more than 45 markets. The company operates over 350 vans staffed by more than 500 W2 technicians and ASE-certified mechanics. Spiffy offers wash and detail, oil changes, tires, brakes, and other maintenance solutions performed onsite using its Spiffy Green system. In 2020 Spiffy introduced Digital Servicing, a private-label van upfit plus a comprehensive software suite (consumer apps, technician app, and manager/dashboard) for dealers. With back-to-back years of more than 90% growth, Spiffy plans to expand via new franchise markets, roll out Spiffy Tires and Spiffy Brakes, and introduce medium- and heavy-duty fleet services nationwide. Spiffy provides on-site car washing, detailing, and maintenance services through a mobile app that enables scheduling in under two minutes. The company recently introduced Fleet Management as a Service (FMaaS) to manage fleets across the entire vehicle lifecycle, including in-fleeting, preventive maintenance, and de-fleeting. Spiffy serves consumers, rental and commercial fleets, auctions, and car-sharing services, and its offering is designed to be EV/AV and connected-car friendly. It operates a fleet of over 100 vans in 11 cities and employs more than 150 W-2 trained technicians. Spiffy has partnerships with companies such as Lyft and a recent Ford connected-car partnership. The company plans to expand FMaaS into six additional markets and roll the service out in existing markets including Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas–Fort Worth, Los Angeles, and Raleigh–Durham. Spiffy is an on-demand car cleaning, technology, and services company that lets customers schedule, track, and pay for mobile washes and details via an app or website. The company operates in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Los Angeles, California. Spiffy’s vans bring their own water and equipment and offer waterless and multiple detail service tiers, all using the Spiffy Green environmentally friendly system. The business reported over 150% growth from 2015 to 2016. With the Series A proceeds the company plans to expand into new markets, invest in technology, and explore additional services. Concurrently Spiffy expanded to Los Angeles through the acquisition of Squeegy’s operations, gaining access to more than 14,000 residential and commercial relationships.

• Get Spiffy

  Participated · Series C · Feb 2023

  Get Spiffy operates an on-demand mobile car care service and a private-label hardware and software-as-a-service offering called Digital Servicing. The company performs wash & detail, oil change, tires, brakes, and other maintenance services onsite for fleets, office parks, and residences. Since launching in 2014, Spiffy has delivered over 2 million mobile automotive services and currently completes between 3,000 and 4,000 services daily across 45+ markets. The company employs over 500 W2 technicians and ASE-certified mechanics operating from 350+ vans nationwide. Spiffy reported back-to-back years of 90%+ growth. With Digital Servicing (introduced in 2020), Spiffy provides dealer-branded van upfits, a consumer app suite, technician app, and manager/customer dashboards to support dealer partners. Get Spiffy operates an on-demand car care, technology and services business centered on a Fleet Management as a Service (FMaaS) platform. Led by CEO Scot Wingo and based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., the platform enables rental car fleets, automotive auctions, midsize fleets and car-sharing services to manage vehicle in-fleeting, preventative maintenance and de-fleeting. Fleet managers use an app to schedule, track, rate and pay for services including pre-delivery inspections, reconditioning (wash/detail), preventative maintenance (oil change, tire rotation) and de-fleeting (de-fueling, label removal). The company is available in metro areas including Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas‑Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Raleigh‑Durham, and lists Denver, New York, Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, DC among planned expansion targets. Get Spiffy raised $10M in funding and said it will use the proceeds to expand into those new cities and further roll out in existing markets. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. Get Spiffy is an on-demand car care, technology, and services company that lets customers schedule mobile washes, detailing, and oil changes via its app. The service uses a green, environmentally-friendly system and the company’s technology enables clients to track and pay for services at their chosen time and location. Led by CEO Scot Wingo, Spiffy operates in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas. The company closed a $9M funding round in July 2018. Management intends to use the proceeds to broaden car care services, expand into additional geographies, and develop new channels. The business combines field operations with a consumer-facing app and service logistics technology. Get Spiffy, led by CEO Scot Wingo, offers an app-based platform that lets users schedule, track and pay for mobile car washing and detailing services using an environmentally-friendly cleaning system. The company is Research Triangle Park, NC–based and currently operates in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia and Los Angeles, California. Spiffy provides on-demand services to both residential and commercial customers and announced the acquisition of ongoing operations from Squeegy, adding over 14,000 residential and commercial relationships. The business intends to use the new capital to expand into new markets, invest in its technology and explore additional services. Financially, the company closed a $5m Series A to support those growth plans.

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