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AI-powered automotive retail platform for inventory merchandising and customer engagement. NY-based; raised $100M.
Impel (formerly SpinCar) is an AI-powered automotive retail platform headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2012 and having raised over $100M in funding, Impel delivers AI-driven solutions across the automotive retail customer lifecycle, from inventory merchandising and virtual vehicle walkarounds to AI-generated lead engagement and customer communication automation. The company rebranded from SpinCar to Impel in 2022 to reflect its expansion beyond its original 360-degree vehicle photography product into a broader AI-powered retail engagement platform. Impel serves thousands of dealerships, dealer groups, and OEMs across North America and internationally.\n\nImpel's product suite includes AI-powered inventory merchandising with interactive 360-degree vehicle tours and automated photo enhancement; an AI Communication Platform that uses generative AI to engage leads via email, SMS, and chat with contextually relevant, personalized responses; and customer lifecycle management tools for service retention and reactivation campaigns. The AI communication layer is particularly notable—it can autonomously handle inbound leads, answer inventory-specific questions, schedule appointments, and qualify prospects, reducing the response time from hours to minutes and freeing sales staff for higher-value conversations. Impel integrates with major DMS and CRM systems including CDK, Reynolds, VinSolutions, and DealerSocket.\n\nImpel competes with Conversica, Podium, and CarGurus' Dealer Tools in AI-powered automotive customer engagement. Its combination of visual merchandising heritage—SpinCar's 360-degree walkarounds became an industry standard—with a new generative AI communication platform positions Impel as a full-funnel automotive retail AI solution. For dealer groups seeking to improve lead response rates, online inventory presentation quality, and service drive reactivation simultaneously, Impel offers a unified AI platform that addresses multiple revenue levers within a single vendor relationship.
Adept AI raised $415M to pioneer computer-use AI agents; its core research and agent team moved to Amazon in 2024 in a landmark talent acquisition while the company continues developing ACT-1 for enterprise automation.
Adept AI was founded in 2022 by a team of former OpenAI, DeepMind, and Google Brain researchers to build AI that can take actions on computers — navigating software interfaces, filling forms, and executing multi-step workflows in any application. Its ACT-1 model demonstrated the ability to control web browsers and desktop applications through natural language instructions, pioneering the computer-use agent paradigm that Anthropic later commercialized with Claude's computer use feature.
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