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Flash Pack

Connects solo travellers at the same life-stage to enjoy adventures together

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Travel
  • Lifestyle
  • Wellbeing
Fitzrovia, London, UK

Company mission

Flash Pack's mission is to create 1 million friendships through the power of travel and technology. In a world that increasingly plays out behind screens, we facilitate authentic friendships between people at the same life-stage. We are solving a unique problem for a prominent niche with our global brand appeal.

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55% female employees

42% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Flash Pack is a travel firm whose mission is to build new friendships through group travel for solo travellers in their 30s and 40s. The founders are a couple who started discussing the business idea behind Flash Pack during their first date. Both of them realized that there was a gap in the market for a travel company that catered to people such as themselves.

Their target market is professionals with a growth mindset. Their trips are carefully designed to offer immersive and authentic experiences, distinguishing Flash Pack in a tourism market that is crowded with bland trips.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating effect on the tourism industry, which led to the cancellation of the programs organized by Flash Pack for 2020 and 2021. Since then the business has re-launched and is trending towards pre-pandemic levels.

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Steph

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Benefits

  • Remote first and flexible first working culture with the opportunity to travel and work abroad
  • 45 business days remote working from anywhere in the world
  • Generous options grant with further options awarded at reviews depending on performance
  • 5% matched employer pension contribution
  • Generous maternity package, 16 weeks full pay
  • Generous paternity package, 4 weeks paternity leave
  • Unlimited mental health therapy & wellbeing support

Company values

  • CUSTOMER, TEAM, SELF: You seek what is best for Flash Pack before yourself or your group. Service is the foundation on which this business is built and we believe a culture that fosters non-ego, servant leadership is a truly differentiated advantage that can only be built on trust
  • GROWTH MINDSET: We compete in a hyper-competitive industry where benchmarking against competitors is the norm. We’re looking for people who want to set the benchmark rather than celebrate incremental improvements over the competition
  • SIMPLIFY, FOCUS, EXECUTE: We value simplicity over complexity. We strive to ruthlessly prioritise. We say no to many things so we can focus on the things that are truly meaningful to us. Bias-to-action and avoid analysis-paralysis. Focus on great results rather than on process
  • HUMILITY- No A’holes please, this includes staff and customers. We bring together exceptional individuals but we optimise for the best team outcome. There is no individual bigger than the team and we don’t tolerate egotistical or selfish behaviour. Be self-critical, welcome feedback, continuously experiment and seek perspectives and solutions from outside the company
  • EMBRACE THE ADVENTURE: Yes we stole this from Airbnb! To us this means embracing challenges, use feedback and learn from failures and mistakes rather than dwell on them. Be a curious and a continuous learner, focus on bettering oneself and your team rather than protecting oneself

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2023

$6.2m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $6.2m

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Leadership

Previously Director at Lee Thompson Photography for 8 years.

Studied European Politics and Spanish at The University of Hull. Previously Trustee at Childreach International for 2 years and Director of Fundraising at Vyas Fundraising for 7 years.

People progressing

Oli stared as Finance Manager in 2019 and quickly progressed to CFO by 2021

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Flash Pack

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Radha Vyas (CEO)

  • We’re led by a BAME, female CEO and building a diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us. 33% of our team currently identify at BAME. As we rebuild Flash Pack post pandemic we’ll be focused on promoting self-education through our anti-racism and anti-sexism reading list and building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance and progression framework. If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how we can do better, we would love to hear from you

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