Carly Solutions GmbH & Co. KG

What kind of company is Carly Solutions?

Carly Solutions is a private cartech company that sells an OBD2 diagnostic adapter and companion app directly to consumers, plus an enterprise diagnostics product for fleets and dealers.

Is Carly Solutions a public company?

No. The company is privately held by its four founders and has no stock listing or disclosed institutional investors.

Where is Carly Solutions headquartered?

The company is headquartered in Taufkirchen, a suburb of Munich in Bavaria, Germany, and registered in Munich under HRB 215798.

Who owns Carly Solutions?

The company is owned by co-founders Avid Avini, Arian Avini, Parvis Avini, and David Grotzky, who founded it in 2014.

How does Carly Solutions make money?

It sells the Universal OBD2 adapter as a one-time purchase and charges annual app subscriptions that unlock diagnostics, coding, and maintenance features. Carly Enterprise adds B2B diagnostic sales.

How many employees does Carly Solutions have?

Approximately 70 people, based mainly in Germany with additional presence in Poland, Sweden, and the United Arab Emirates.

The company began with a bad repair quote. In 2014, Parvis Avini's used BMW 7 Series kept developing faults that workshops could not easily diagnose, and repair estimates reached nearly $8,000. Parvis and his son Arian, both software specialists, pulled the car's error data themselves and traced the problem to a small electronic part worth a few euros, saving around 7,000 euros.

Recognizing that owners had no practical way to access their own vehicle data, the Avinis built an OBD2 adapter with a companion app. Avid Avini and friend David Grotzky joined to complete the founding team, and Carly launched in Munich in 2014.

Early traction came from German-car communities. Carly's coding features, which let BMW, Mercedes, Audi, and VW owners enable factory-hidden features, drew enthusiasts first, and the company progressively widened coverage to all major brands and added diagnostics, live data, and maintenance functions.

In February 2020 the company launched the Universal Adapter in the United States at $79.90, formalizing its subscription model with annual pricing scaled by vehicle brand and feature depth. Subsequent years added the used-car check for detecting odometer manipulation and the Carly Enterprise line, which packages predictive diagnostics for business customers including fleets and dealer operations.

No regulatory actions or legal proceedings against Carly Solutions are documented as of November 2026. The recurring criticism in consumer reviews concerns subscription costs layered on the hardware price, an ordinary commercial complaint rather than a compliance matter. Manufacturer-level coding operates in a gray area regarding vehicle warranties, but no automaker action against the company is on record.