Getaround's Airbnb-for-cars bet: US wind-down in 2025, dissolution in 2026

Peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace where car owners rent their cars, trucks and SUVs to other drivers, run on Getaround's own software.

Idle private cars could become an on-demand fleet: a digital marketplace where owners' vehicles are rented peer-to-peer by the hour or day, replacing rental counters.

Raised more than $750M, including a $300M 2018 round led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with investors including Menlo Ventures and Reinvent Capital; went public in 2022 via a SPAC merger.

Getaround was founded in San Francisco in 2009 and became a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield finalist in 2011; it grew into a VC darling that raised more than $750M, including a $300M round led by SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018.

With that capital it expanded across US cities and into Europe, buying Drivy for $300M and Nabobil in 2019. Getaround went public in 2022 through a SPAC merger but received an NYSE delisting warning within months; it cut 30% of its North American workforce in a 2023 restructuring, laid off staff again in 2024, and bought HyreCar for $9.45M in 2023.

On Feb 7, 2025 the board approved an 'orderly wind-down' of Getaround's US car-share and HyreCar businesses and a reduction in force of substantially all US employees, with most separating Feb 14, 2025 and $1.5–2.0M of expected charges; customers were told to return rentals within days over insurance-coverage risk. Getaround sold its European business to Denmark's GoMore (closing Apr 30, 2026), and stockholders approved full dissolution on July 29, 2026.

A rental marketplace carries insurance and vehicle-level costs; Getaround's own email warned it was 'at risk of no longer being able to provide liability insurance coverage in the U.S.'

The SPAC listing in 2022 did not fix unit economics; within months Getaround drew an NYSE delisting warning, then cut 30% of its North American workforce in 2023.

Acquisitions such as the $300M Drivy purchase bought geographic reach, not a self-sustaining cost structure, so the business kept depending on fresh capital.

When the liquidity ran out, the board chose an orderly wind-down (Feb 7, 2025) rather than a continued cash burn, and later a full dissolution after the European assets were sold.

A marketplace carrying insurance and fleet-grade costs lives on cheap capital; when the funding line closes, restructuring cannot revive unit economics, so the end is orderly shutdown.

After the Feb 2025 US wind-down, Getaround's European business continued in six countries. On Apr 30, 2026 its subsidiaries sold that business to Denmark's GoMore for roughly €31.5M in cash, a promissory note and up to €2.3M of tax-credit receivables; Mudrick Capital's consent cut about $121.7M of senior secured debt and added up to $3M for the wind-down. The board decided on June 5, 2026 that dissolving the company was in the best interests of Getaround and its residual claimants, and stockholders approved the dissolution on July 29, 2026, as reported in an Aug 4, 2026 SEC filing.