Sheryl Sandberg Leads $10 Million in Self Inspection as Startup Tops 1 Million Vehicle Checks
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 16
Sheryl Sandberg Leads $10 Million in Self Inspection as Startup Tops 1 Million Vehicle Checks
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jul 16
Summary
$10 million in new funding will help Self Inspection expand its AI vehicle-inspection platform, with Sheryl Sandberg's family office leading the round.
More than 1 million inspections have already been completed for rental fleets, lenders, auctions and marketplaces, including Stellantis' finance arm for corporate-owned and lease-end vehicles.
Self Inspection uses smartphone-guided photo capture and compares images against a large damaged-vehicle dataset to detect damage, estimate repair costs and generate body-shop-style PDF reports.
Customers have cut costs by more than $80 million and saved over 300,000 operational hours, giving the 2021-founded San Diego startup a base to add products, win more enterprise clients and expand into Europe.