Garret Flower raising €500,000 in seed money

Flower previously co-founded Krust Bakery

Daniel Ramamoorthy, Garret Flower and Daniel Paul from Parkpnp Picture: Fergal Phillips

Entrepreneur Garret Flower has cofounded a new startup called Parkpnp which aims to become the Airbnb for car parking in Ireland.

Flower, who previously co-founded Krust Bakery, is raising €500,000 to roll out the business from Enterprise Ireland and other investors. Parkpnp has created a mobile phone app that creates a marketplace for people to rent out their parking spaces for money.

“This is really taking off in other markets,” Flower said.

“Richard ...