TGC Capital Partners announces strategic investment in CarSale24.

OSLO & FRANKFURT, 21 March 2026 - TGC Capital Partners, the operator-led growth equity platform of the Gateway Group operating organisation, today announced a strategic investment in CarSale24, the digital marketplace connecting private car sellers with verified dealers across the DACH region. The investment combines minority growth capital with embedded engineering and go-to-market capacity drawn from the Gateway Group bench, under a written 24-month operating thesis jointly authored with CarSale24’s founding team.

The investment is structured around TGC’s scaleup-catalyst engagement model. Capital pairs with a deployed team of engineers and GTM operators integrated into CarSale24’s leadership cadence, working alongside the founders on the next phase of platform development - verified-dealer integrations, condition-data infrastructure, and cross-border platform extension across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Why this investment

The German and broader DACH automotive market is undergoing a structural shift from listings-led marketplaces toward integrated infrastructure software - transactional flows that close inside the dealer’s operating system rather than next to it. CarSale24 sits at the buy-side of that shift: a platform that connects private sellers to verified dealers with software embedded in the workflow rather than around it. The thesis is that the next decade of value in DACH automotive software accrues to the integration layer underneath the existing listings incumbents, not in displacing them.

For TGC’s broader perspective on this shift, see the firm’s recent analysis: Germany’s automotive market is evolving - from listings to infrastructure.

What the investment enables

• Engineering depth. Embedded engineers from the Gateway Group bench accelerate CarSale24’s platform development - dealer onboarding flows, condition-report tooling, transactional integration with financing and registration partners.
• GTM cadence. Embedded GTM operators work alongside the CarSale24 commercial team on dealer-group expansion across DACH, with a structured weekly operating cadence rather than quarterly board input.
• Governance maturity. Governance specialists support the move from founder-led decision-making to scaleup-stage operating cadence, including monthly operating reviews on top of the standard quarterly board cycle.

Comment

Pavak Shah, Partner - Strategic Partnerships and Growth at TGC Capital Partners with primary coverage of the German market, said: “CarSale24 is exactly the shape of business our model is built for - a founder team that has reached genuine product-market fit in one of the largest automotive markets in Europe, where the binding constraint on the next ARR doubling is execution capacity rather than capital alone. The Gateway Group engineering and GTM bench gives us the structural ability to pair capital with deployed people who have built this kind of platform before.”

About CarSale24

CarSale24 is a digital marketplace connecting private car sellers with verified dealers in the DACH region. The platform brings transparency and convenience to the used-car selling process and is positioned as the integration layer between private sellers and the verified-dealer network across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. carsale24.com

About TGC Capital Partners

TGC Capital Partners is an operator-led growth equity firm investing in B2B software companies in the Nordics, Benelux, DACH, UK, India, and North America. The firm pairs minority growth capital with embedded engineering and GTM operating capacity drawn from the Gateway Group operating organisation (28+ years, 2,000+ specialists, 16 countries). About TGC Capital Partners.

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