Best Auto Companies in Dallas, United States
The 53 best Auto companies in Dallas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tricolor.
Our analysis of 50 Auto companies
$9.4b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Auto companies in Dallas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tricolor | $130M | 46 mo ago | Series C | — | 2007 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Chart.js+30 | 6 patents AI-powered platforms for vehicle identification, transaction processing, and support services. | — |
| 2 | Carable Online P2P auction platform of used cars | $2M | 106 mo ago | Deadpooled | Göran Rehn Chairman | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Copart Online marketplace for used and salvaged vehicles | $1M | — | Public | Cameron Jones Executive Assistant to CEO | 1982 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365TypeScript+28 | 22 patents Automated online vehicle auction and title processing, including remote printing and imaging systems | 2 awards |
| 4 | 360 Wraps Provider of automotive wrapping services | — | — | Unfunded | Tommy Strader Founder | 2007 | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+15 | — | — |
| 5 | Adonis Auto Used car dealership offering transportation | — | — | Unfunded | Josh Austin Owner | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Altronic Controls The world's leading manufacturer of ignition and control systems for industrial engines. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | America's Auto Auction Automotive auction and dealers service provider | — | — | Deadpooled | Ben Lange CEO & President | 2005 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Ruby+13 | — | — |
| 8 | Angel Service Provider of automotive repair and maintenance services, including license plate remitter | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1992 | — | — | — |
Top 3 Auto companies in Dallas
#1
Series C · Dallas, Texas · founded 2007 · 295 employees$130Mraised▾
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt$100M
- Sep 2021Series C$90M
- Feb 2020Series B$40M
#2
Deadpooled · Dallas, Texas · founded 2015 · 2 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Carable is an online peer-to-peer auction marketplace platform of used cars. Its online valuation tool provides an approximate market value of the car and every car listed for auction goes through an inspection. It has partnered with Firestone and claims that all cars receive a 241-point inspection from a Firestone's technician who also takes photos from 24 different angles and documents any damage. The cars then go for auction on the platform and the highest bidder who also meets the minimum set price wins the auction. The buyer pays the money into its escrow account which is then transferred securely to the seller's account.
- Aug 2017Seed$570.1K
- Mar 2016Seed$1.2M
#3
Public · Dallas, Texas · founded 1982 · 10200 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Online marketplace for used and salvaged vehicles. It allows choose late model cars, classics, trucks, motorcycles, boats, jet skis, snowmobiles, and more.
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Auto coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Autonomous Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 3,252 United States-affiliated papers.
- Carnegie Mellon University89
- Purdue University West Lafayette76
- University of California, Berkeley69
- Northeastern University64
- Stanford University55
- Computer vision12→111
- Human–computer interaction2→64
- Perception2→59
- Robustness (evolution)3→53
- Trajectory12→61
- Human–computer interaction3→65
- Transport engineering11→66
- Computer vision2→54
- Reinforcement learning3→46
- Automotive engineering5→48
- Humanities4→108
- Philosophy1→64
- Context (archaeology)1→54
- Computer security2→48
- Transport engineering4→30
Where autonomous vehicles is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing autonomous vehicles patents in the United States
United States autonomous vehicles patent filing is accelerating — 19,294 filings from 4,355 assignees (2016–2025), led by Waymo, Baidu USA, GM Cruise Holdings; annual filings 885→1348.
- Waymo1688
- Baidu USA1034
- GM Cruise Holdings767
- FORD Global TECH589
- Qualcomm565
- Tusimple547
- UBER Technologies527
- UATC507
Common questions
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