Garage

Building the marketplace that powers America’s most essential assets

shopgarage.com

HQ: New York, NY, USA

11-50

B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Garage is a New York-based YC W24 marketplace for specialized vehicles and equipment—starting with fire apparatus and other public-safety/municipal assets—that automates appraisal, freight, payments, financing, and warranties.

Primary product

AI-powered marketplace for specialized vehicles and equipment

Founded

2023

Headquarters

New York City, New York, United States

Team size

30-40

Industry

Software Development

Sub-industry

Vertical marketplace for public-safety and municipal equipment

Offices

New York City, New York, United States

Business model

marketplace

facilitated transactions

Funding

Stage

Series A

Total raised

$18M

Latest round

Series A · Aug 2025

Latest amount

$13.5M

Series A

Aug 2025 · Infinity Ventures

$13.5M

Accelerator / pre-seed

Feb 2024 · Y Combinator

$500K

Seed

Jan 2024 · Initialized Capital

$4.5M

People & investors

Leadership

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder, CTO

Head of Marketing

Head of People

Head of Growth

Product Operations Lead

Investors

Work & culture

Mission-driven, customer-focused, and high-velocity; public hiring materials emphasize growth, humility, and a 'hack to success' mentality, and describe a small, talent-dense team with experience from Ramp, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Bilt, Wise, Unify, Honey, PayPal, and more.

Visa sponsorship

Limited

Compensation

Publicly posted engineering/design roles are $150K-$250K base plus meaningful equity in New York City; YC listings also show some roles in the $120K-$250K range.

Benefits

100% covered health insurance

100% covered dental insurance

100% covered vision insurance

unlimited PTO

daily lunch

daily dinner

$100 monthly wellness stipend

401(k) matching

pre-tax commuter benefits

bi-annual team offsites

relocation assistance

Product & market

Pricing

Free to list; marketplace monetization appears to come from facilitated transactions and related services (payments, freight, financing, warranties).

Differentiators

—AI-assisted appraisal
—end-to-end transaction automation
—freight/logistics coordination
—financing and warranty facilitation
—buyer and seller protection
—free listing
—virtual inspections
—auction and buy-now listing formats
—focus on specialized public-safety assets

Technology

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Next.js

Express

PostgreSQL

Python

Tailwind CSS

GitHub

HubSpot

Intercom

Salesforce

Google Workspace

Ashby

Customers

local governments

fire departments

public safety agencies

civil servants

small businesses

Auburn Fire Rescue Department

Burlington Fire Department

Colchester Fire Department

Elba-Salem Fire Protection District

Competitors

GovDeals

Municibid

local auction/classifieds marketplaces

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

Estimated around $2.1M ARR (GetLatka, 2025-04-10); another third-party estimate places it under $1M (Owler).

Estimated monthly visits

104.7K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

support@withgarage.com (201) 293-7164

Latest news

From Delaware Firehouses to a National Mission: Former Volunteer Firefighter Builds Marketplace Helping Departments Save Millions

Delaware LIVE News · May 2026

A local profile highlighted Garage’s national reach, claim that fire trucks sold on the platform move much faster than traditional methods, and the company’s broader mission for public-sector buyers and sellers.

Fire, EMS departments use Garage to buy and sell used apparatus amid rising costs, delivery delays

FireRescue1 · Mar 2026

FireRescue1 covered Garage as a resale marketplace for emergency apparatus, including examples of departments selling brush tankers, engines, and command units through the platform.

Fire, EMS departments use Garage marketplace to buy, sell used apparatus amid rising costs, delivery delays

EMS1 · Mar 2026

EMS1 reported on departments using Garage to sell used apparatus and buy replacement vehicles amid rising costs and long delivery times.

Garage Raises $13.5M to Build Modern Marketplace for Municipal Equipment

AlleyWatch · Aug 2025

AlleyWatch framed Garage as a $1T municipal/heavy-equipment market play and described it as an alternative to GovDeals with end-to-end services including financing, virtual inspections, and warranty management.

YC-backed Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

TechCrunch · Aug 2025

Garage announced a $13.5M Series A led by Infinity Ventures; TechCrunch also notes a prior $4.5M seed led by Initialized Capital and says the marketplace serves all 50 states.

Jobs and careers at Garage

14 jobs at Garage

Sales Lead

Remote

Growth

Remote

1w ago

Remote

Full-time