CarCopia

We enable consumers to buy used cars cheaper from large sellers in a private, analytics driven, socially integrated, haggle free environment

  • Stage Concept Only
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location San Jose, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Website carcopia.com

Company Summary

CarCopia eliminates the agony in today's used car buying process. Our focus is to address the inefficiencies in the current used car supply chain to enable a consumer centric car buying experience that is based on price transparency. Our solution focuses on empowering the consumer with a wide selection of cars at competitive prices by identifying demand/supply mismatches and connecting motivated large sellers with serious buyers.

Team

  • Sanju Pancholi
    Founder, CEO

    Sanju is a 13+ year technology professional with a track record of taking ideas from concept to implementation. His focus is building great products by motivating teams which are focused on the customer. He is a CA licensed used auto dealer with his own dealership. He was most recently admitted into Wharton's Venture Initiation Program - a highly competitive start-up collaboration group supported by the Wharton School of Business.

  • Christophe Baubert
    Co-founder, CTO

    Christophe has 15+ years of software experience in both back and front end development. He previously founded MobileAppTailor, an online platform for startups to create HTML5 Mobile apps and web sites. Chris was also the Co-founder of NowAndNear, a promotional platform for Restaurants. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, he led the development and design of HTML/CSS/JavaScript SDKs at HP. Chris has a Bachelors in EE from ENSERG in France.

  • Ravi Dronamraju
    Advisor

    Ravi is an 18+ year technology veteran, and entrepreneur. He was responsible for all of Yahoo! Autos from 2000 to 2006, and lead a team of 50+ engineers. He Co-founded Money-Chakra, an AppStore top 100 app. He oversaw engineering at several start-ups such as Driverside.com and Everytrail.com.

  • Paras Wadehra
    Founding Tech Team

    Paras is a 10+ years experienced technology professional. He has extensive knowledge of auto industry data and lead the founding technology team at CarTHINK, a start-up specializing auto inventory management.

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