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BUSINESS·1 min read·Oct 01, 2020

SpotHero Raised $50M in Series D Funding

SpotHero, a Chicago, IL-primarily based virtual parking organisation, raised $50 million in Series D investment. The round, which added SpotHero’s general investment thus far to $118m was led through Macquarie Capital, with participation from Union Grove Venture Partners and present traders Insight

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SpotHero, a Chicago, IL-primarily based virtual parking organisation, raised $50 million in Series D investment.

The round, which added SpotHero’s general investment thus far to $118m was led through Macquarie Capital, with participation from Union Grove Venture Partners and present traders Insight Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital, OCA Ventures, AutoTech Ventures and others.

The organisation intends to apply the fudns to boost up market growth, extend the virtual platform for the parking industry, beef up partnerships with mobility companies, and deepen its generation stack to standardize and optimize get right of entry to to parking for the duration of North America.

Led via way of means of Mark Lawrence, CEO and co-founder, SpotHero is a virtual parking platform to shop for and promote parking in North America. Millions of drivers use its cellular apps and internet site to find, ee-e book and access off-street parking in 7,000 places across three hundred cities.

Over six hundred company journey and agency customers use the developer platform to energy seamless parking at scale for fleets, linked cars, and concrete mobility solutions.

SpotHero for Fleets is the organisation’s parking-as-a-provider answer designed to aid the car sharing financial system and assist boost up the mobility industry’s eventual transition to autonomous vehicles.

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