Google Ventures led the company's seed round as it prepares to expand from its home city of San Francisco.

US-based car parking service Luxe Valet has raised $5.5m in seed funding from investors including Google Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company Google, VentureBeat has reported.

Other seed investors include Sherpa Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, Foundation Capital, BoxGroup, Slow Ventures, Data Collective, Eniac Ventures and Rothenberg Ventures.

Users of San Francisco-based Luxe’s app can tell one of the company’s trained valets where they are set to arrive. The valet then meets the user there…