Parking Cupid
Daniel Battaglia
Daniel Battaglia has founded two marketplaces for renting parking and garage spaces, covering vehicles, vessels, and aircrafts. Founded in 2011 in Sydney, Australia, Parking Made Easy offers a free and paid version of its services while Parking Cupid (founded in 2013, San Francisco, United States of America) offers an international website.
Driven by the lack of parking availability in Sydney , Daniel had an idea to launch a marketplace which would offer people access to garages and driveways around the city. In 2012 the venture went live as a free beta and was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald shortly thereafter. This gave people an opportunity to rent out their spare parking spaces. He began his website from a humble desk within a co-working office, hoping that word of mouth alone would be enough to get the business off the ground - and it did! With no other marketing tactics or strategies at play, the venture