# Detect Auto funding: rounds and investors

> Detect Auto has raised $2.9M across 1 round since 2025. Investors include Gener8tor, Cultivation Capital and Groove Capital. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/detect-auto (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

United States · [Seed startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Detect Auto*

One round we have observed, with the 3 investors named in it. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Big Data & Analytics

Raised 11 months ago

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$2.9M** raised across 1 round since 2025, from 1 source

- **Latest round:** Seed, $2.9M Dec 2025
- **Investors:** 3

See who backed them

## The rounds

- **Dec 2025** Seed **$2.9M** [Gener8tor](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gener8tor) [Cultivation Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cultivation-capital) [Groove Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/groove-capital) Source recorded SEC filing: $2.9M sold, first sale Nov 2025

## Founders and team

From Detect Auto's own website: 2 on the team.

- **Jon Kaufman** Sales Manager / Lonsbury Garage
- **Michael Rice** General Manager / Auto Masters Repair

## Everyone who backed them

[Gener8tor](https://millionrounds.com/fund/gener8tor) VC firm **1** round

[Cultivation Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/cultivation-capital) VC firm **1** round

[Groove Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/groove-capital) VC firm **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=detect-auto).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 4 firms list Detect Auto as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Mairs & Power Venture Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/mairs-and-power-venture-capital) VC firm Per its own site

[Green Egg Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/green-egg-ventures) VC firm Per its own site

[Monster BA](https://millionrounds.com/fund/monster-ba) Angel network Per its own site

[Render Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/render-capital) VC firm Per its own site

## Quick answers about Detect Auto

### Who invested in Detect Auto?

Detect Auto's investors include Gener8tor, Cultivation Capital and Groove Capital.

### How much has Detect Auto raised?

Detect Auto has raised $2.9M across 1 round since 2025.

### When did Detect Auto last raise?

Detect Auto's most recent round was a Seed of $2.9M in Dec 2025.

### What was Detect Auto's biggest round?

Its most recent round, $2.9M in Dec 2025, is also its largest on record.

### Who backed Detect Auto first?

Detect Auto's first round on record, in Dec 2025, was backed by Gener8tor, Cultivation Capital and Groove Capital.

### What stage is Detect Auto at?

Detect Auto's latest named round is a Seed, in Dec 2025.

### Where is Detect Auto based?

Detect Auto is based in the United States.

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