AppyParking

AppyWay (formerly AppyParking and Yellow Line Parking) is a technology company which provides parking apps and services for drivers. It was founded in London in 2013 by Dan Hubert initially under the name of Yellow Line Parking. It produces software that shows on-street and off-street parking options in major cities in the UK. The app is available on both Android and iOS. There is also a paid-for enterprise app, AppyParking Pro, which is a software as a service aimed at businesses with fleets.
History.
AppyParking was founded by Dan Hubert, a former advertising creative in 2012. Hubert started to contact every [[London borough]] and digitize their [[Controlled Parking Zone|Controlled Parking Zones]] from basic PDF maps. Originally named Yellow Line Parking, dealing only with [[single yellow line]] parking restrictions, the company was expanded and rebranded as AppyParking in 2014.
In late 2014, the company was part of the [[Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Program|Microsoft Ventures Accelerator]] programme in London, during which Eric Requena, the company's chief technology officer, was advised to revise much of the application code.
In December 2014, AppyParking launched an enterprise app aimed at commercial fleets, and at the [[2015 Consumer Electronics Show|CES 2015]] in January 2015 [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] announced a partnership with the company. Later in the year, the company ran a one-month trial in Westminster, London with [[Vodafone]] xone and Pimlico Plumbers. When a driver located a parking space with the help of the app, they clicked a button in the app when they arrived and simply drove away later, being billed only for the time they were parked. This was made possible by the sensors already built into parking bays.
Since January 2016, AppyParking provides a feature which shows the nearest and cheapest petrol stations anywhere in the UK.
In September 2016, founder Dan Hubert appeared on [[BBC]] business show [[Dragons' Den (British TV programme)|Dragon's Den]] seeking investment to expand the service, valuing the company at £10m ($m) based on a 2% equity offered for a sum of £200,000 ($). He was unsuccessful after declining two offers from [[Peter Jones (entrepreneur)|Peter Jones]] and [[Nick Jenkins]], who instead valued the company at £1m ($m).
In July 2019 AppyParking closed a Series A round of investment worth £7.6m ($m) from investors including [[Hyundai Motor Company]] and [[Sumitomo Corporation]], led by London based venture capital firm, West Hill Capital. The company has raised a total of £11m ($m) as of 2019 and is now valued at £50m ($m) after its 2019 round.
As of 2019, AppyParking hosts the largest dataset of the UK's kerbside restrictions, with over 450 UK towns and cities mapped within the AppyParking mobile app and Kerbside API.
AppyParking rebranded as AppyWay in September 2019.
AppyWay launched its second Smart City Parking scheme in the town of Halifax in October 2019.
Technology.
AppyWay uses [[Google Maps]] overlays to display areas, and projects its dataset in the form of [[Google Maps pin|pins]]. The app retrieves the user's location and the present date and time to provide a list of prices, and connects with routing apps like Maps and [[Waze]] to direct the user to the parking site.
References.
[[Category:Online companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:IOS software]]
[[Category:Parking]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2013]]
[[Category:2013 software]]
[[Category:Companies based in the London Borough of Hackney]]
[[Category:Mobile technology]]