YC-backed Garage Raises $13.5M to Help Fire Departments

YC-backed Garage Raises $13.5M to Help Fire Departments

YC-backed Garage Raises $13.5M to Support Fire Departments Fire departments in small communities often face a serious challenge: buying the specialized equipment they need on tight budgets. Martin Hunt, a firefighter since age 15, experienced these struggles firsthand. At just 26, Hunt decided to take action. He realized there wasn’t an easy, reliable way for fire departments to buy expensive, hard-to-move equipment like firetrucks. This gap in the market sparked the creation of Garage, a nationwide marketplace designed to simplify and streamline the process of acquiring fire department gear. Image Credits:Martin Hunt and Alaz Sengul How Garage is Transforming Fire Department Equipment Buying Before Garage, local fire departments had to rely on outdated or fragmented solutions to buy used equipment. Many turned to online auctions, Facebook groups, or even classified newspaper ads—methods that are slow, inefficient, and prone to errors. Garage changes that by automating key processes like …