Flai Raises $27 Million Series A Led by Base10 to Automate Car Dealership Operations

Car dealerships lose customers every day to calls that go unanswered and follow-ups that never happen. Flai started with that problem and has grown into something larger, and investors have noticed.

Flai raised a $27 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, with Toyota Ventures, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, The Friedkin Group and Findlay Automotive Group also participating. The company announced the round alongside an AI-native Service and Sales CRM.

What Flai Does

Flai began by automating dealership communications and now uses AI agents to answer customers, schedule visits, run outbound campaigns and re-engage customers across both service and sales. The company says it has grown more than 20 times over the last year, works with hundreds of dealerships including more than 20 percent of the top 50 dealer groups in the US, and schedules more than 50,000 appointments a month. These figures come from the company and have not been independently verified.

The New CRM

Traditional customer relationship software creates tasks and tells staff what to do next, but a person still has to notice and act. Flai's new product is built around agents that act on their own: reaching out to customers, handling conversations, scheduling appointments and updating dealership systems. When a case needs human judgment, the system brings in the right person with context and a suggested next step. The company says its goal is to automate as much of the administrative work of running a dealership as possible.

Who Is Backing It

The investor group mixes venture firms with industry partners. Toyota Ventures, The Friedkin Group and Findlay Automotive Group bring automotive relationships, while Base10, First Round Capital and Y Combinator bring startup experience. The new funding will go toward product and engineering, deeper integrations and expanding the workflows Flai handles.

What This Means for Founders

For founders selling AI into traditional industries, Flai shows how a narrow, painful entry point, here missed calls, can earn the trust to take on larger workflows later. Having customers and industry investors in the round also helps, since they can open doors and validate the product in a market that is slow to adopt new tools. If you are preparing a Series A, show how you moved from a first use case to a broader platform, and be ready to explain your growth with a clear ARR trend and customer retention.

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