“It’s basically like AirBnB for dogs,” says co-founder James McElroy. “We sign up vetted sitters and they come to HouseMyDog and sign up for free. They also have to go through a five-step vetting process.” HouseMyDog is located in the Docklands Innovation Park in the IFSC in Dublin after entering into EI’s entrepreneurship programme, New Frontiers.
Expansion has already begun following positive feedback in the Irish market, spurring the firm to enter the UK. “We’re in Ireland and the UK now, we have about 15,000 users and we have around 2,000 sitters in five major locations in Ireland and five in the UK.”
For more information, read the full article here: http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/brothers-aiming-to-collar-the-eu-market-with-airbnb-for-dogs-34402471.html
