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Garage: Capital Raising

Garage, an AI-powered marketplace for essential heavy equipment (fire engines, garbage trucks, other heavy-duty vehicles), raised a $41M Series B and says it has surpassed $100M in annual platform sales.

Source: PR Newswire - Financial Services

Who
Garage · USA
What happened
Garage, an AI-powered marketplace for essential heavy equipment (fire engines, garbage trucks, other heavy-duty vehicles), raised a $41M Series B and says it has surpassed $100M in annual platform sales.
When
2026-11-10
So what
Fresh capital is a hiring signal before it is anything else.

The leadership read

Fresh capital is a hiring signal before it is anything else. For Garage, a raise in the sector funds leadership depth, scale, go-to-market and operational rigour, rather than any single appointment. Watch where Garage hires first across Americas; that is where the capital is really pointed.

Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 97.6 (Neutral) (down 3.4 month-on-month), Americas is at easing (-15.6pts) on signal share.

Garage: 1 signal in the last 90 days.

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