According to founder and CEO Yinon Weiss, that means running mechanics through a rigorous screening process and occasionally doing operational testing to ensure that service centers are taking care of maintenance and problems that are diagnosed without adding additional charges to a customer’s bill.
CarDash has been operating for about a year in the San Francisco Bay Area. To date it has gotten customers mostly by partnering with local tech companies as a benefit to employees who don’t have the time to deal with having their cars looked at while working. However, the company is opening its service to anyone who might have car trouble.
CarDash is part of the current Y Combinator batch, but that hasn’t stopped it from bringing on seed funding from a group of early investors. The company has raised $5.3 million in funding led by Index Ventures and Felicis Ventures, with participation by Y Combinator, Afore Capital, NextView Ventures and NextGen Venture partners.
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With the funding, CarDash is looking to expand its team and grow operations. That means working with more local companies, growing its service center partnerships and, over time, making its service available in a greater geographic area.
It takes a lot of smarts to move from tech CEO to full-time novelist, but Rob Reid pulled it off. The author of After On, Reid has spent years in the murk and mire of Silicon Valley and is ready to name names and, above all, explore all facets of the coming technological changes facing us all.
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I spoke to Reid about his new book, as well as the problem of finding an audience online and what he expects will be the biggest technologies in the future. His bets? Gene editing, VR and quantum computing. Reid’s book, described as “the definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy,” is available now.
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