PureCars Acquires AutoAlert

CarData Inc. Acquires AutoNetTools

December 19, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

CarData Inc. has acquired Michigan-based AutoNetTools to expand its automotive photography, videography and window sticker capabilities. The acquisition adds AutoNetTools' specialized merchandising and marketing services to CarData's existing suite of dealer-focused advertising products.

Funds and Accounts Managed by BlackRock Acquire AutoAlert

April 11, 2023

Data & Analytics

AutoAlert, a Kansas City–based provider of AI-driven data analytics and CRM solutions for automotive dealerships, has been acquired by certain funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. BlackRock says it will support AutoAlert's product expansion and growth, leveraging its investment-management resources to enhance the company's AI/ML-driven platform and new CRM offering.

PureCars Acquires The AutoMiner

January 11, 2023

Marketing & Advertising

PureCars, a provider of digital marketing technology for automotive dealers backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures, has acquired customer data management platform The AutoMiner. The acquisition adds first-party data cleansing, secure storage and encrypted data delivery capabilities to PureCars' marketing stack to improve dealer advertising, targeting and privacy compliance.

PureCars Acquires AutoSigma

August 9, 2022

Marketing & Advertising

PureCars, a provider of digital marketing technology for automotive dealers, has acquired AutoSigma, a digital asset management platform that automates creation and syndication of vehicle advertising assets. The deal — executed by PureCars (which is backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures) — is an add-on to expand PureCars' MarTech capabilities and speed dealers' time-to-market for OEM-compliant advertising.

PureCars Acquires truPayments

July 12, 2021

Payments & Fintech

PureCars, a martech and advertising intelligence provider backed by Diversis Capital Partners and Stage 1 Ventures, acquired automotive fintech SaaS provider truPayments on July 12, 2021. The deal integrates truPayments' shopping personalization and payment-shopping capabilities into PureCars' martech stack to give dealerships expanded payment data, improved digital retailing and earlier shopper conversion.

J.D. Power Acquires ALG from TrueCar for $135 Million

August 6, 2020

Data & Analytics

J.D. Power has entered into an agreement to acquire ALG, Inc. from TrueCar, Inc. for $135 million, a transaction expected to close by the end of 2020. ALG, a specialist in automotive residual value forecasting, will join J.D. Power's data & analytics offerings and its ~40 employees will move to J.D. Power upon closing.