Mitchell International, Inc. is a Privately held company Software Service provider founded in 1946 and based in San Diego, California. The Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based investment firm formed in 1991, is the holding company of Mitchell International.
Glenn Mitchell founded Mitchell Manuals in his garage in 1946, by creating an easily-used parts catalog for collision repair estimating. Mitchell had the idea of arranging collision parts by the quadrant of the car, rather than by component groups as in manufacturer catalogs. Eventually he added labor and paint times, which enabled a body shop or insurance company to do a repair estimate and generate a bill of materials and work orders. In the decades since, Mitchell has become a creator, consolidator and publisher of automotive information and software. It now distributes this information primarily to professional customers such as insurance companies, body shops and repair facilities. Part of the company, Mitchell Medical, processes over half of the automotive-related medical bills in the United States.