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In this episode of Dealer Talk with Jen Suzuki, I sit down with Tasso Roumeliotis, Founder & CEO of NUMA AI, for a candid conversation about leadership, change, AI adoption, customer experience and what dealership operators need to…

Numa CEO Tasso Roumeliotis is quoted as an expert voice on how dealerships should handle AI-informed customers, advising salespeople to ask "What is the AI seeing?" and then walk customers through local inventory reality — noting that AI bots don't know spe…

Numa is highlighted as an AI-powered platform that helps dealerships improve the customer experience by identifying and addressing issues in real time rather than relying solely on traditional CSI surveys. By providing actionable insights from customer inte…

Numa's acquisition of AI sales platform Ficus is briefly noted in the M&A Watch section, identified as an Oakland-based VC-backed AI platform for auto dealership customer operations that acquired sales platform Ficus.

Numa acquires Ficus to add sales to its service department customer operations platform.

The acquisition accelerates Numa’s expansion into dealership sales and variable operations, extending its AI platform beyond customer operations in fixed ops into the broader dealership.

Numa's acquisition of AI sales platform Ficus is listed in the M&A section of the Axios Pro Rata newsletter, briefly identified as a VC-backed AI platform for auto dealership customer operations that acquired sales platform Ficus.

Numa's acquisition of AI sales platform Ficus is noted in the "Deals" section of the WSJ Pro Venture Capital daily newsletter, described as an AI platform for auto dealership customer operations that acquired AI sales platform Ficus.

Numa announced a 200% revenue increase, expansion to over 1,300 dealerships across North America, and the acquisition of AI sales platform Ficus — marking its strategic expansion from fixed ops and customer operations into variable ops and dealership sales.…

Numa's acquisition of AI sales platform Ficus is listed in the M&A section of the Axios Pro Rata deals newsletter, briefly identified as a VC-backed AI platform for auto dealership customer operations that acquired sales platform Ficus.

SAN FRANCISCO -- April 9, 2026 -- Numa, the leading AI platform for dealership customer operations, today announced a year of record growth, including a.

Exclusive: AI platform Numa expands to variable ops with Ficus acquisition.