Toma vs DealerSocket
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SF YC W24 AI voice agents for car dealerships at 7-fig ARR in under 1 year with 100+ dealers and 1M+ calls; $17.5M total ($17M a16z Series A Jun 2025) with Lithia/Cox partnerships competing for automotive dealership AI.
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Toma is a San Francisco-based AI voice agent platform for automotive dealerships — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $17.5 million in total funding including a $17 million Series A in June 2025 led by Andreessen Horowitz with Y Combinator, Scale Ventures, and angel investor Yossi Levi (Car Dealership Guy) — providing car dealerships with a fully integrated AI software suite that handles inbound and outbound voice calls across service, sales, finance, and IT departments. Surpassing 7-figure ARR in under one year since founding in early 2024, approaching 8-figure ARR, and serving 100+ dealerships across the US with 1 million+ call minutes handled, Toma partners with Lithia Motors and Cox Automotive positioning as the automotive industry's equivalent of Microsoft/OpenAI for dealership voice automation.
DMS and CRM platform for auto retailers, acquired by CDK Global in 2021. Serves franchise and independent dealers with CRM, inventory, desking, digital marketing, and reporting in an integrated suite.
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DealerSocket is a dealership management system (DMS) and automotive CRM platform headquartered in Westlake, Texas. Founded in 2001, DealerSocket built a comprehensive suite of dealer software products spanning CRM, inventory management, digital marketing, desking, and reporting before being acquired by CDK Global in 2021. The acquisition combined two of the automotive retail technology industry's most prominent platforms, giving CDK a broader product portfolio spanning both the operational DMS layer and the customer-facing sales and marketing tools that DealerSocket specialized in. DealerSocket's products continue to serve thousands of dealerships across North America.\n\nDealerSocket's product portfolio includes its flagship CRM for lead management and sales workflows, an inventory management system (Inventory+) for stocking, pricing, and multichannel vehicle merchandising, a website and digital advertising platform (Dealer Inspire, now part of CDK), and a DMS for franchised dealerships. The CRM module is particularly well-regarded for its lead routing automation, follow-up task management, and integration with OEM lead sources. Its inventory tools help dealers manage days-on-lot, price to market, and push listings to third-party marketplaces like Cars.com and AutoTrader automatically.\n\nWithin the CDK Global family, DealerSocket's product investments are being rationalized and integrated with CDK's broader platform strategy. For dealers evaluating DMS and CRM solutions, DealerSocket's established customer base, deep OEM integrations, and broad feature set remain relevant, even as Tekion and other cloud-native competitors challenge the legacy stack. DealerSocket competes with Reynolds & Reynolds, Dealertrack, and VinSolutions in the core automotive retail technology market.
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