ParkMundo, a company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, that lets travellers compare and book parking near airports, has raised €2.3M in its first outside funding after more than a decade of growing on its own money. The seed round came from a group of angel investors with experience in technology and travel, and the Dutch bank Rabobank provided additional financing, according to the European technology site Tech.eu.
The company plans to spend the money on its technology, on expanding into more countries, and on growing both its consumer website and a business service. That service lets airlines, online travel agencies and other travel brands sell parking inside their own booking process. ParkMundo says it works with more than 850 parking partners in 15 countries across four continents and has handled millions of bookings, though it does not publish exact booking figures or revenue.
“For years, airport parking has been one of the last major travel products operating through fragmented local systems,” said Martijn Meeuws, ParkMundo’s co-founder and chief executive. He said the company’s ambition “is to become the global infrastructure connecting parking operators with travellers”.
From A Student Project To 15 Countries
Jeroen van den Eerenbeemt started the business in 2013 as Vliegen en Parkeren, Dutch for “fly and park”, a comparison website for parking at Dutch airports. According to the company’s own history, he was a 20-year-old student living near Eindhoven Airport when he had the idea. Meeuws joined shortly afterwards, and he has described the pair working “from a garage at Jeroen’s parents’ place” in the early years.
The company grew country by country under separate local names, among them Flyparks in Australia, Parkhero in New Zealand and Parkfellows in the United States, all run by a parent group called ROOSH. In 2025 the group folded nine brands into a single name, ParkMundo, meaning “parking world”, and it has since rebuilt its booking platform. It now runs local sites in markets including the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.
ParkMundo does not run car parks itself. “We do not own any parking facilities,” Meeuws told the trade publication Parking Network in September, describing a company that had “always” been self-funded and had to be “very disciplined” in how it expanded. Parking operators list their availability, products, prices and conditions on the platform, and ParkMundo handles the booking.
Two Ways To Sell A Parking Space
On the consumer side, a driver flying out of an airport enters dates on the website and compares options. These include shuttle car parks a few minutes away, valet services that collect the car at the terminal and hotel packages that combine a night’s stay with parking for the length of the trip.
The other business is the one Meeuws called “a second growth engine” in the September interview. Travel companies can add ParkMundo’s parking to their checkout pages, booking-management pages, emails or loyalty programmes through an application programming interface (API), a connection that lets one company’s software request data and bookings from another.
Partners that want a lighter start can use a branded copy of ParkMundo’s site, affiliate links or an agent portal. The company also offers partners artificial intelligence (AI) tools that suggest parking prices.
One distribution partner ParkMundo has announced is SMSParking, a Dutch company that provides mobile and card-based parking payment for businesses. Since September, holders of SMSParking’s business cards have been able to book airport parking through ParkMundo and have the cost charged to their employer’s invoice. ParkMundo has not named an airline or online travel agency that sells its parking.
Why Airports Care About Parking
Parking is a major earner for airports. In 2024, car parking was the largest single source of airport income outside flight-related charges, making up 24.1% of what airports earned from shops, rentals, parking and similar services, according to the airport trade body Airports Council International World. Retail came second globally at 23.1%, and in North America parking accounted for more than 40% of that income.
Travel companies have started treating parking as an add-on they can sell alongside a flight or a holiday. In August 2025, easyJet holidays added airport parking from the British travel extras company Holiday Extras to its package checkout, letting customers book a space while paying for their trip. ParkMundo is trying to supply the same kind of embedded booking to travel brands across many countries at once.
A Market Being Bought Up
Larger travel and parking groups have been buying parking booking and payment companies. CAVU, the travel services arm of Britain’s Manchester Airports Group, bought the British reservation platform ParkVia in 2023 and the Dutch comparison site Parkos in 2024.
Holiday Extras bought the Dutch price-comparison platform ParkCare in February 2025, its third acquisition in the Netherlands. Separately, the parking-payment company EasyPark Group, now called Arrive, completed its purchase of Flowbird, a French parking and transit payment and ticketing group, in January 2025.
ParkMundo has so far stayed independent and is using a small round to build its own distribution service. A long self-funded run before a first round is not unheard of in travel technology: the French ticket-pricing company Wiremind spent 12 years funded by its own profits before raising €35M. ParkMundo’s round is far smaller, and part of its funding comes as bank financing rather than equity.
A Late First Round
ParkMundo has not named its angel investors, said how much of the €2.3M is Rabobank’s financing, or disclosed revenue. It has also not yet named a travel brand that sells its parking, which is the business it says the money will help build.
The company starts this stage with more than a decade of operating history behind it, a single brand across its markets and a parking network built without outside capital. Its next phase depends on travel companies choosing to add a parking step to the trips they already sell.
