Startup · $13m raised

CarExpert

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Amreeta Abbott	Unnamed stage	-

What CarExpert bought

Companies CarExpert acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
CarExpert is not recorded as having acquired anything.

People

Name	Role	Sources
Alborz Fallah	Founder	SmartCompany (Fri 27 Oct 2023), Australian FinTech, SmartCompany (Wed 21 Oct 2020)
Amreeta Abbott	Non-Executive Director	Australian FinTech
Andrew Dalton	Chief	SmartCompany
Anthony Crawford	Founder	SmartCompany (Fri 27 Oct 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 21 Oct 2020)
Paul Maric	Founder	SmartCompany (Fri 27 Oct 2023), SmartCompany (Wed 21 Oct 2020)

Coverage

Stories naming CarExpert. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

14 deals

Ten Aussie startups that raised $39 million this week

Roundup of ten Australian startup raises totalling $38.8 million, topped by Heidi Health's Series A, also recording an Outstaffer executive appointment and the earlier sale of CarAdvice to Nine.

SmartCompany Fri 27 Oct 2023 CarExpert CipherStash Employment Hero Factory.app Got Cakey Heidi Health LAB Group LifeBid Local Measure Orkestra Outstaffer Australia Broadband AWS Birchal iTW Listing Loop LUXEM Ventures Nine SpringCapital Stride Equity TechnologyOne 1in100 Ventures AirTree Ventures Alua Group Archangel Ventures Beachhead Venture Capital Blackbird Ventures Future Now Capital Global Credit Investments HESTA Hostplus Hugo-Hamman Investments Impact Ventures Management Investible Mondo Ventures Possible Ventures Rampersand Saniel Ventures Seven West Media Side Stage Ventures SixThirty Ventures Skip Capital Stride Group Tidal Ventures Utiliti Ventures Wormhole Capital Adrian DiMarco Andrew Rogers Danin Kahn John Poynton Jonathan Barouch Laurence Escalante Michael Locaso Dr Oliver Hartley Phil Blythe Alborz Fallah Anthony Crawford Blayz Meredith Brett Wright Dan Draper Jay Curtin Kerry Stokes Lyndon Webster Michael Lutkajtis Nick Boudrie Paul Lutkajtis Paul Maric Thomas Derum Dr Thomas Kelly Waleed Mussa Yu Liu

Also SmartCompany·Startup Daily

32 deals

FUNDED September 2022 Including September Q Review

Techboard's September 2022 roundup reports Australian raises led by Morse Micro's $140m Series B, several acquisitions including ResApp Health to Pfizer, fund closes by Telstra Ventures, OIF and Main Sequence, and open raises.

Also @AuManufacturing·SmartCompany·SmartCompany

28 deals

FUNDED APRIL 2022

Techboard's monthly roundup cataloguing April 2022 Australian startup funding: megadeals, seed rounds, grants and crowdfunding, nine acquisitions, several ASX listings, and venture firms' fund news.

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Unnamed stage

Award-winning fintech entrepreneur Amreeta Abbott joins Board of CarExpert

Fintech entrepreneur Amreeta Abbott has been appointed a non-executive director of CarExpert and is investing in the company. The piece also recalls her 2020 sale of NowInfinity to Class Ltd for $25 million.

Australian FinTech Mon 1 Nov 2021 CarExpert Annature Class NowInfinity Succession Plus Amreeta Abbott Alborz Fallah

Also SmartCompany

Seed $3m

“An entrepreneur at heart”: CarAdvice co-founder Alborz Fallah raises $3 million for new motor media venture

Serial founder Alborz Fallah has secured $3 million from private backers for CarExpert, his new automotive reviews platform, four years after his earlier car media business was bought by Nine.

SmartCompany Wed 21 Oct 2020 CarExpert CarAdvice Drive Fairfax Media Nine Alborz Fallah Alex Parsons Andrew Dalton Anthony Crawford Paul Maric