CarTrawler

CarTrawler was founded in 2004 by brothers Greg and Niall Turley, who built it out of their family's Dublin car rental business, Argus Car Hire. Rather than selling rentals directly to travelers, it built a white-label platform that airlines and travel sellers plug into their booking flows, earning ancillary revenue on each rental.

By May 2026 the platform connected more than 550 car rental suppliers and more than 500 mobility providers to over 300 travel brands, including more than 70 airlines. Partners named in press coverage include easyJet, Air France-KLM, United Airlines, American Express and Uber, and Ryanair signed an exclusive partnership in 2015. CarTrawler also owns the consumer brands Holiday Autos, acquired in 2013, and Argus Car Hire. It has more than 300 staff in Dublin, London, Paris, New York and Sydney, and Peter O'Donovan is chief executive.

Its 2024 accounts showed revenue of €172.3 million and profit after tax of €6.6 million.

CarTrawler has changed hands four times. ECI Partners invested in May 2011 and sold in 2014 at six times its money, after revenue and profit tripled. In May 2020, with pandemic travel restrictions hitting trading, TowerBrook Capital Partners invested €100 million for a majority stake, completing in July 2020.

On May 20, 2026, Expedia Group agreed to buy CarTrawler to add car rental, ground transport and insurance to its B2B travel platform, following its purchase of attractions platform Tiqets. Terms were not disclosed; Skift reported a value of about $350 million and The Irish Times cited industry estimates above $450 million. The deal completed on September 1, 2026.