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Cars.com
ActiveOperating status — whether the company still runs independently. “Closed” usually means it was acquired, merged, or shut down.🔥 HighHeat score — how much recent activity & attention the company has (web traffic, news, hiring).📈 Low growthGrowth score — momentum trend across web traffic, headcount and other growth signals. Chicago, Illinois, United States Founded 1998 5001-10000 employees For Profit
Cars.com is a online destination that helps car shoppers and owners navigate every turn of car ownership.
Cars.com was acquired by Gannett in 2014 for $1.8B.
Total Funding
Available in Pro Last Funding
Available in Pro Acquisitions
6
Monthly Visits
Available in Pro Contacts
0
Patents
6
12 trademarks
Company Details
Funding & Financials
Pro- Total funding
- Funding rounds
- Last funding
- Last funding type
- Last funding date
- Funding status
- Total equity funding
- Revenue range
IPO & Stock
- IPO status
- Private
Web Traffic
Pro- Monthly visits
- Global traffic rank
- 6-mo avg visits
- Visit duration (s)
- Pages / visit
- Bounce rate
- Rank change (mo)
Technology & IP
- Active technologies
- 96
- Mobile apps
- 12
- Downloads (30d)
- 527,304
- Active products
- 64
- Patents granted
- 6
- Trademarks
- 12
- Top patent class
- Electric Communication Technique
Company Info
- Founded
- 1998
- Employees
- 5001-10000
- Operating status
- Active
- Company type
- For Profit
- Org types
- company, investor
- Founders
- 2
- Sub-organizations
- 1
- News articles
- 478
- Events
- 5
- HQ
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Region
- Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US
- Exit date
- Aug 5, 2014
Signals & Scores
- Heat score
- High
- Growth score
- Low
- Trend (7d)
- -0.7
- Trend (30d)
- -0.6
- Trend (90d)
- -0.9
- Last leadership hire
- Jun 15, 2026
- Last layoff mention
- Apr 9, 2026
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