Used-car marketplace CARS24 has acquired automotive utility startup Vehicle Info as it looks to expand beyond vehicle transactions and build a full-stack vehicle ownership platform.
Founded by Chirag Pipaliya in 2017, Vehicle Info is a bootstrapped startup which allows users to access key vehicle details such as insurance validity, traffic challans, FASTag balance and registration information in one place.
By bringing its app into its ecosystem, CARS24 plans to support users not only when they buy or sell a car but also during the years they own and manage it.
This builds on CARS24's acquisition of vehicle information and management platform CarInfo in January this year. Founded by Sahil Ajmani in 2019, CarInfo helps users track insurance, pollution certificates, challans and other vehicle records from a single interface.
At the time, CARS24 cofounder and CEO Vikram Chopra said CarInfo would continue to operate as a standalone app within the CARS24 ecosystem. He said the acquisition would help CARS24 engage users more frequently, since managing vehicle documents and compliance happens far more often than buying a car.
This is the third acquisition by CARS24 in the past year. It acquired automotive community platform Team-BHP in April 2025, marking another step in its effort to build a broader ecosystem around car ownership.
Founded in 2015 by Chopra, Gajendra Jangid, Ruchit Agarwal and Mehul Agrawal, CARS24 operates an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. It also offers financing, insurance support and warranty services. The startup operates across India, Australia, the UAE and parts of Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Earlier this week, Inc42 exclusively reported that CARS24's India used-car business CEO Himanshu Ratnoo stepped down from his position. Ratnoo had been leading the India used-car operations since July 2024. Following his exit, Chopra said the Indian used-cars' leadership team would report directly to him for the foreseeable future.
The leadership change came shortly after Chopra revealed CARS24's plans to go public within the next six to twelve months. He said CARS24's adjusted net revenue in the first half of FY26 rose 18% YoY to ₹651 Cr, while it reduced its adjusted EBITDA loss by 36% to ₹162 Cr, as it prepares to tap into India's $200 Bn used-car market.
Ahead of its IPO, the startup has also been shutting or scaling down non-core verticals. It closed its B2B spare parts platform Inspare in May 2025. It also wound down consumer-facing operations of its car servicing platform FourDoor and driver hiring service AutoPilot last year. The exercise resulted in multiple rounds of layoffs, impacting over 300 employees.