Firefighters from the age of 15, Martin hunt, now 26, knowing that the small community is sick with a fire budget.
One day at 2023, he found himself talking to one of the firefighters who asked if she knew the better way.
“If you can’t find anything, it must have a market needs for expensive equipment, hard-to-move like fithucks,” hunting to tell techcrroch. “Some months later, I left my job without a product or fund to build a solution.”
She is teamed with alas of alarm college and launched GarageThe market selling special equipment is generally used in a public government and security. This can reveal that you are used to be the manual process, such as assessments, excerpts, and payment solutions.
“Many customers our civilians, firefighters, fleet managers, and director of public work are not having an administrative bandwidth to solve the paperwork and logistics coordinate,” he said. The fragrance is the CTO.
The company announced the $ 13.5 million Wednesday in the Infinite Ventures.
Right now, hunting it, the fire department depends on the online auction board like Govdeeals, Facebook groups, or even still, find equipment if you want to buy the previous Gear.
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At the same time, cities try to sell the old equipment to produce money for new inventory. Hunt says many communities that cannot sell all around the nation, because of the fire truck to thousands of miles often proclaimed logical.
Product platforms across Nationroro can be used like this: Seller uses Garage AI tools to measure the equipment. Then, displaying the product, offers “buy now” format. The seller’s buyer’s message, get a quick quote for something like a thing and something. After the deal found, the garage filled the backend and use AI to help coordinate the submission.
“With transactions about this size, often over $ 100,000, security is a major concern, especially with the amount of scammers that lurk the platform like Facebook market,” Hunt added.
They explain about fundraising as “catalytic,” and say that he is and the fragrance found a tin investment after the YC summer investment. Founder picked up $ 4.5 million in uppercase, then after introduced unlimited.
Another in the round includes benchstretsh, Wayfinder equity, and FJ lab. The company has raised $ 18 million so far.
Fresh capital will be used to expand the team and market. Hunt says that the product is currently used in all 50 countries, cities named Burlington, Vermont, and Charleston South, the West Virginia, as a client.
“May I improve access to access, employee mission that can increase the security of the people in the area that requires most, when it allows funding funding and remains in the hand,” he said.
This story is updated to describe where Burlington.