BacklotCars is an online marketplace for auto dealers.
Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions.
We make wholesale easy so dealers can be more successful.
Through BacklotCars, auto dealers, auto finance, and rental car companies can transact without having to go to physical auctions.
We make wholesale easy so dealers can be more successful.
Location: United States, Missouri, Downtown Kansas City
Employees: 51-200
Phone: +1 855-925-2252
Total raised: $43M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 8
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.04.2019 | Series B | $25M | - |
| 20.12.2018 | Series A | $18M | - |
Mentions in press and media 18
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| 04.02.2026 | SNAK Venture Partners: Oversubscribed $50 Million Debut Fund Launched To Back Early-Stage Marketplaces | SNAK Venture Partners has closed an oversubscribed $50 million debut fund aimed at seed-stage investments in digital marketplaces that bring offline, fragmented industries online. Based in Chicago, the firm said Fund I will target marketpla... |
| 03.02.2020 | 2019 Was One Of The Best On Record For Kansas City Startup Fundraising | 42 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The Kansas City Chiefs won the big game last night. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily In a now-deleted tweet, the nominal President of the United States congratulated the great state of Kansas on th... |
| 04.01.2020 | A venture firm that invests ‘from Park City to Kansas City’ just closed its third fund | Sometimes, in venture capital, it pays to specialize. The latest indicator is a Kansas City, Mo.-based venture firm that’s focused on seed-stage startups that are based anywhere from “Park City to Kansas City.” According to an SEC filing, i... |
| 30.07.2019 | Origin Ventures Promotes Stern, Shukla, Leichtman | In 2019, we celebrate our firm’s 20-year anniversary with 20 short stories and lessons learned by investing over $150M in more than 70 companies and the entrepreneurs behind their origin. These are their stories. |
| 16.04.2019 | Why Startups Marketing Prescription Drugs Need to Tread Carefully: Term Sheet for Tuesday, April 16 | TREAD CAREFULLY Ro, a direct-to-consumer telehealth business, is raising another round of funding. According to TechCrunch, the company is raising $85 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation. It’s unclear who participated in... |
| 15.04.2019 | BacklotCars Raises $25M in Series B Funding | BacklotCars, a Kansas City, Mo.-based online wholesale automotive marketplace, raised $25m in Series B funding. The round, which brought total funding to $38m, was led by Stripes, with participation from existing investors Origin Ventures, ... |
| 15.04.2019 | 3 Chicago VCs Invest in $25M Round for Online Car Marketplace BacklotCars | Several Chicago venture capital firms invested in a $25 million Series B funding round for a Kansas City automotive marketplace startup. Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Chaifetz Group participated in the funding round ra... |
| 15.04.2019 | Daily funding roundup - April 15th, 2019 | Blume raised $3.3M; Talentuno Landed $4.5M; MyVillage secured $6M; Splitty closed $6.75M Keeper: Keeper monitors gig workers’ expenses all year in search of possible tax deductions on their behalf. Keeper just raised $1.65 million at a $10 ... |
| 15.04.2019 | BacklotCars Raises $25M in Series B | KANSAS CITY, MO, Leading online wholesale automotive marketplace, announced $25 million in Series B funding. >> Click here for more funding data on BacklotCars >> To export BacklotCars funding data to PDF and Excel, click he... |
| 24.12.2018 | Kansas City-Based Online Used Car Marketplace BacklotCars Raises $8 Million | BacklotCars, a Kansas City, Missouri-based online used car marketplace for automotive dealers, announced it has raised $8 million in Series A funding along with $10 million in an expanded credit facility. This round of funding was led by Or... |
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