{"id":28155,"date":"2015-01-23T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28155"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T08:30:38","slug":"zenpark-raises-e1-6-million-expand-automated-shared-parking-throughout-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/01\/zenpark-raises-e1-6-million-expand-automated-shared-parking-throughout-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenpark raises \u20ac1.6 million to expand its shared parking service across France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/Zenpark5-e1421959487745.jpg\" alt=\"Zenpark5\" width=\"800\" height=\"294\" \/><br \/>\nThe reported #1 in shared parking, Zenpark, has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itespresso.fr\/levee-fonds-zenpark-roi-recherche-parkings-86509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed a\u00a0\u20ac1.6 million round<\/a> to expand its automated shared parking service across France. The latest\u00a0round was led by\u00a0Demeter Partners and Nestadio Capital, with Pole Capital also participating.<br \/>\nFounded in 2011 and currently available just in the Paris region, cofounders\u00a0William Rosenfeld, Fabrice Marguerie and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sebban are looking to bring their\u00a0automated shared parking solution to new\u00a0cities in France.\u00a0In order to expand their model, Zendesk draws on key partners such as individual parking space owners, hotels, and parking garage owners to identify available parking inventory for their users. Similar to other sharing economy businesses, they position their service as a win-win for both parking space &#8216;owners&#8217; and potential users as the owner can use the space as a way to generate some extra cash and the user can more easily find available parking, a big problem in most urban areas.<br \/>\nCurrently Zenpark has 40 shared parking locations where users can find a reserve available spaces online or via a mobile app. There&#8217;s certainly a demand for their service as they&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddyness.com\/finance\/2015\/01\/22\/zenpark-specialiste-parking-service-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing an average of 40% per month for the past two years<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reported #1 in shared parking, Zenpark, has just closed a\u00a0\u20ac1.6 million round to expand its automated shared parking service across France. The latest\u00a0round was led by\u00a0Demeter Partners and Nestadio Capital, with Pole Capital also participating. Founded in 2011 and currently available just in the Paris region, cofounders\u00a0William Rosenfeld, Fabrice Marguerie and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Sebban are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":28156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}