Former director at Seattle auto marketplace startup indicted on $2M wire fraud charges The former director of auto marketplace startup Tred was indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Seattle on… Read More
Former employee of Seattle startup accused of embezzling $2M in company funds U.S. law enforcement authorities last week arrested a former employee of a Seattle startup who allegedly funneled more than $2… Read More
Ditch the dealership: Tred raises $25M to drive more car shoppers to its online marketplace The news: Online peer-to-peer marketplace Tred has raised $25 million in new funding to further expand its platform aimed at… Read More
After years of shifting gears, online car sales platform Tred settles on model and lands $3M If making customers happy was the only secret to success, Grant Feek would have been an entrepreneurial winner years ago.… Read More
Tred brings its mobile and automated car dealership service to Portland Tred is expanding to Portland. The Seattle startup is now operating in The Rose City, offering its mobile dealership service… Read More
Mobile dealership Tred raises another $1M to help used car owners make more money It took a few pivots, but Tred appears to have settled on new business model that its investors feel optimistic… Read More
Disrupting dealerships: How Tred is creating a peer-to-peer marketplace for used cars Sometimes, new business ideas can come about when you least expect it — and that’s exactly what happened with Tred.… Read More
Test drives from your home: Tred raises cash, expands with new trade-in program Tred, the Seattle startup that’s looking to upend the car buying experience by allowing customers to conduct test drives from… Read More
Zillow, Haiku Deck, Tred nominated for Webby Awards honoring top apps, websites Nominations were released today for the 18th annual Webby Awards, the Oscars-style bash for Internet innovation, creativity and other wacky stuff.… Read More
Tred looks to transform car shopping with at-home test drives Is this the future of car shopping? Tred today is taking the wraps off a new service in the Seattle… Read More
Maveron to plant a seed each month, unveils plan to sprout early-stage consumer startups Maveron struck gold a few years ago when it provided the initial seed funding to a young e-commerce startup by… Read More
Tred speeds ahead with $1.7M, plans to change car shopping with driveway test drives One of my favorite pitches at the TechStars Demo Day last November was a tiny company called Tred that had… Read More
TechStars Spotlight: Tred aims to help dealers, shoppers with test drives [Editor’s note: GeekWire is running a series of profiles on the startups participating in this year’s class in the TechStars… Read More
