GoMechanic To Buy Car Servicing Startup VOW CarClinic

Gurgaon-based automobile servicing platform GoMechanic is set to acquire car servicing and repair startup VOW CarClinic.

Employees at VOW CarClinic are already working for GoMechanic, Abhishek Menon, co-founder of VOW CarClinic, told VCCircle. All of VOW CarClinic’s customers base, technology assets, and service partners will be on-boarded by GoMechanic over the next few weeks, he added.

Kushal Karwa, co-founder at GoMechanic, said “The deal boosts GoMechanic’s added capability and momentum to strengthen its B2C vertical focus, in addition to cementing its leadership position within technology-enabled automotive services delivery space. This will help foster our growth agenda and achieve greater things ahead as we gear up for Mumbai operations launch in early 2018.”

The startup connects users with automobile repair and maintenance service providers in the vicinity and provides original spare parts for all the services booked at its partner service centres. In August this year, media reports stated that GoMechanic secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding from venture capital firm Orios Venture Partners.

VOW CarClinic, run by GreyHair Ventures Pvt Ltd, was founded in early 2016. It is a marketplace for car servicing and repair needs in the online-to-offline consumer Internet space. Users can avail of the firm’s services via a website and mobile application. It was established in 2015 by Menon and Harmeet Singh Hora, both of whom are alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore.

In January this year, VOW CarClinic raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding from Vishal Malik, founder and director of IT services firm Gemini Solutions and a group of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi alumni.