

Because smartphone cameras are getting better every year, with bigger sensors, multiple lens options, powerful AI, and high dynamic range (HDR) software, all you really need are a phone and natural light. Luckily, you don’t need to know your way around a studio to take a polished self-portrait. Whether any of those will stick around is uncertain, but one photography fad that deserves to move into the post-pandemic world is DIY professional headshots or “selfie” portraits: cheap, cheerful, sweatpant-friendly-and high-priority after Covid-19 upended jobs and inspired people to reinvent themselves. Given it’s also a “contactless” process, dealers and car owners increasingly seeking to buy and sell cars online.We’ve seen a lot of creative photography trends in the past year or so: taking pictures through windows. The cars are then bid on by professional car dealers in a daily online auction, with the car collected for free by the winning dealer within 24 hours. On Motorway, consumers can sell their car via a smartphone app that also uses computer vision to assess the state of the car. Secondhand cars have boomed in price because new cars are being made in smaller numbers due to the lack of supply of computer chips and other essential equipment from China. Part of the reason is the impact of the COVID pandemic on supply chains. The startup is now claiming a valuation of over $1 billion. Existing investors Latitude, Unbound and BMW i Ventures also participated in the round. It’s now raised a $190 million Series C funding round led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Growth, a leading Silicon Valley technology growth investment firm. platform on which professional car dealers can bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale - raised $67.7 million in a Series B round.
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