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Most car buying still involves hundreds of manual steps and friction points. Ever, an AI-native EV marketplace, just raised $31M Series A led by Eclipse to fix this. The San Francisco startup built a unified operating system that handles everything from appraisals to titling automatically. • $31M Series A led by Eclipse • Thousands of customers already buying/selling EVs • Sales team 2-3x more productive than traditional dealers How it happened: • 2022: CEO spent 1 year researching auto retail friction points • Built AI orchestration layer to automate transaction workflows • Created unified customer experience vs. bolt-on AI tools • Achieved 2-3x sales productivity gains through automation Takeaway: Clean-sheet AI design beats bolt-on solutions for process-heavy industries. Source: TechCrunch #startups#founders