Below is our recent interview with Daniel Battaglia, the Founder & CEO at Parksy:
Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to your company?
A: Parksy is a global parking marketplace. We started in Sydney in 2011 after I kept walking past empty driveways in Paddington while drivers circled the block looking for a space. That became Parking Made Easy, then Parking Cupid in North America, and today it all sits under Parksy at parksy.com globally.
We cover three things drivers actually need. Information: what the signs mean, what the rules are, what a fine will cost you. Transaction: a marketplace where anyone can rent out a driveway, garage or car space, alongside aggregated commercial parking so you can compare options in one place. And protection: our Parksy Protect membership, which helps members contest and cover traffic fines.
We operate across 57 countries with around 136,000 users and more than 108,000 listings.
Q: What makes you the best choice? How are you unique?
A: We are commission free. Most parking platforms take a cut of every booking up to 30% or more, which quietly raises the price for the driver and lowers the return for the space owner. We do not do that, and we do not run an affiliate program either. If you list your driveway on Parksy, what you charge is what you keep. We make our money from memberships and advertising instead.
The second difference is that we do not only sell parking. A lot of our most used pages are free tools that make us nothing directly: an AI parking fine appeal calculator, a parking sign scanner, Find My Car, and a car accident report tool. Nobody hits a paywall.
The third is breadth. Residential driveways and commercial car parks sit side by side, across 57 countries, so a driver can compare real options rather than only the ones a single operator wants to show them.
Q: Any highlights about your latest announcement?
A: Two. Parksy is now live on both the App Store and Google Play, so members can search, list and manage their parking from their phone, with the membership handled natively in the app.
Alongside that we have released our free driver toolset. The one people talk about most is the AI parking fine appeal calculator, which reads the details of a ticket and tells you whether you have grounds to appeal and what to say. We have paired it with operator specific appeal guides for the private operators drivers most often get caught by, including ParkingEye, Euro Car Parks and APCOA. It is free, with no account required to get an answer.
That matters because a fine is the moment a driver feels most powerless. Most people just pay it because appealing looks harder than it is.
Q: What can we expect from you in next 6 months? What are your plans?
A: Three priorities.
Expansion into new markets, with Malaysia, the Philippines and India next in line, building the local coverage before we promote anything there. We are also in conversations with investors to accelerate that expansion.
Real time availability. We are integrating open transport data so drivers can see live occupancy at Park and Ride facilities before they leave home, starting in Sydney and expanding from there. Knowing a car park is already full is worth as much as knowing it is open.
And a much stronger word of mouth engine. Parking is intensely local, so we are building referral and friend finding features that let members bring in the people who park in the same suburbs they do.
Q: What is the best thing about your company that people might not know about?
A: That it has been bootstrapped for over a decade, and that the platform is largely built by one person. I write the code myself, using AI tooling to do the work of a much larger team, and run a small offshore team alongside it. There is no venture money behind the 57 country footprint.
That shapes the product more than people expect. When you are not spending someone else’s money, you cannot afford to build things drivers do not want, and you cannot justify taking a commission that makes the product worse for both sides of the marketplace. The free tools exist for the same reason. They are the cheapest honest way to earn someone’s trust before you ever ask them for anything.
