Who owns Dealer Inspire?
Dealer Inspire is owned by Cars.com (the United States, NYSE: CARS).[1]
Evidence: Cars.com Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Cars.com Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Chicago
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Technology › Software › Enterprise software
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CARS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Dealer Inspire
Dealer Inspire is one of the solutions and brands the Cars.com 10-K lists beside AccuTrade, CreditIQ, D2C Media and DealerClub, and the filing notes that its website traffic is excluded from the Cars.com marketplace metrics. The company's digital experience business hosts dealer websites for about 7,700 dealers in the United States and Canada.
How often Cars.com names Dealer Inspire in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Dealer Inspire
Where Dealer Inspire sits in Cars.com
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Cars.com
Cars.com controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in technology.
Also in technology
Other brands in enterprise software, and who owns them
The 30 brands in enterprise software on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Globant, with 6; Cars.com has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Blankfactor | Globant | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Encompass | ICE | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AxiomSL | Nasdaq | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AutoDS | Fiverr | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| CoreCard | Euronet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Red Hat | IBM | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cornerstone | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Recorded Future | Mastercard | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Cars.com
Cars.com is a publicly listed company headquartered in Chicago, United States. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CARS.
Cars.com Inc. is a Delaware company based in Chicago that runs an automotive marketplace and a set of tools for car dealerships. Its 10-K for the year to 31 December 2025 describes about 19,500 franchise and independent dealer customers in the United States and Canada, 26 million average monthly shoppers, and four product groups: marketplace, digital experience, media solutions, and trade and appraisal.
🇺🇸 Dealer Inspire and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Dealer Inspire is not one of them.
- AxiomSL — Nasdaq 🇺🇸
- Blankfactor — Globant 🇱🇺
- Brainium — PLAYSTUDIOS 🇺🇸
- CoreCard — Euronet 🇺🇸
- Cornerstone — IDEXX 🇺🇸
- DoubleDown Casino — DoubleDown Interactive 🇰🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Dealer Inspire?
The parent company of Dealer Inspire is Cars.com, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Dealer Inspire American?
Yes. Dealer Inspire originated in the United States and its owner, Cars.com, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Dealer Inspire still owned by Cars.com?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, Dealer Inspire is still owned by Cars.com. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Cars.com Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 18 October 2026.
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