Parkn'Sleep successfully launches crowdfunding campaign
Lucerne - Parkn'Sleep has achieved its crowdfunding threshold during the presale period. The funding target stands at 800,000 Swiss francs. The plan is to put this capital towards making the digital infrastructure for campers, which is now being used throughout Europe, even more attractive for both providers and travelers.
Parkn'Sleep AG has used the Zurich-based platform ΟΟΜΝΙUΜ to launch its second crowdfunding campaign. The company has already achieved 177 percent of its funding threshold of 350,000 Swiss francs a full 17 days before the campaign expires. In fact, the funding threshold was exceeded in the presale period. Parkn'Sleep will continue to issue shares to co-owners for another 17 days or until it reaches its maximum funding target of 800,000 Swiss francs. “The strong participation shows that the company is no longer perceived as a classic start-up, but rather as a validated platform business with a clear growth strategy”, as the company explains in a statement.
Founded in Lucerne in 2021, the company is capitalizing on the fact that the digital infrastructure of the camping market is unable to keep pace with an explosion in demand. While instant bookings are already common practice in the hotel and airline sectors, direct bookings for campsites and campervan parking spaces hardly exist at all. As Parkn'Sleep outlines in its OMNIUM pitch: “The result is a structural market failure: campers want to travel spontaneously, municipalities want order, operators want revenue, yet digital and standardized solutions that connect all interests are missing. This is exactly where Parkn’Sleep comes in. We are building the digital infrastructure for spontaneous travel by camper” – and this includes a payment system too.
With more than 10,000 parking spaces across Europe and over 70,000 users, Parkn'Sleep has evolved from an app into a whole digital infrastructure, reaching operational break-even in 2025, according to the statement. “Since then, revenue has been growing faster than costs”, the company writes.
The focus will now reportedly turn to scaling the platform, further automation and expanding the infrastructure. For the next digitalization step, the German company mobile emotion has exclusively licensed its camigo parking space pillars exclusively to Parkn'Sleep. These pillars run on solar energy and can autonomously handle reservations, check-in and parking space marking. Following the completion of a two-year pilot phase carried out in Arosa and Brigels in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and Aesch in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, the system is now scheduled to go live in the fall of 2026.
