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TrustedHousesitters
Verified housesitting platform
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- Travel
- Marketplace
- Pets
- London, UK
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Company mission
To create a world where pets enjoy their pet parents' vacations, just as much as they do!
Our take
With Trusted Housesitters, members connect to exchange pet care for a place to stay for one annual fee. It’s a money-free exchange, which creates a more friendship-based arrangement between sitter and host rather than a hired help contractual relationship.
The platform now has over half a million members across 130 countries, posts more than £5m turnover and counts easyJet and SkyScanner among its commercial partners.
The company is tapping into the multi-billion pet services industry as well as the travel market. However, because they offer members the advantage of saving hundreds of pounds on pet care, they don’t work in direct competition with traditional accommodation providers or even AirBNB.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Find a rescue pet to join your family and we’ll cover the adoption fees, as well as pawternity to help any pet settle into their new home
- We host a quarterly all expenses paid meetup, and will fund team events (remote or in person) throughout the year
- Recruitment Referral Bonus
- Health Insurance plan
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme
- Our team have an unlimited housesitting allowance, can work remotely from their sits, and TrustedHousesitters will contribute up to £500 per year towards travel costs
- Access to Spaces Locations across the globe
- 25 days holiday annually
- We can cover costs of personal development resources, and have regular time set aside for personal development
- Brighton Bikeshare
- Monthly working from home stipend
- Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters
- Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership which includes benefits like airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits
Company values
- Create the win-win-win
- Own it with passion
- Challenge what's possible
- Shipped is better than perfect
- Question with respect, commit with unity
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10m
Leadership
Andy Peck
(Board Director)Helped drive UK growth for Redbull in the late nineties and previously ran a publishing business
Rachel Martin
(Non-Exec Board Director )Background in public relations as account manager and director for general consumer and travel brands
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Diversity is a priority (1)
Growing fast (1)
Data-driven decisions (1)
TrustedHousesitters is currently growing rapidly due to good product-market fit and a rebound from the pandemic that surpassed all expectations. As such, we are expanding our team to enable us to grow even faster!
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Growing fast
May 2022
Data is at the heart of what we do. We have a robust analytics setup and a relatively large number of data analysts who ensure we have all the data we need and the right analysis to make good, data driven decisions at every step.
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Data-driven decisions
May 2022
Despite being a relatively early stage company we have a Diversity and Inclusion team made up of people from all areas of the business who can advise and challenge where necessary to ensure that D&I is considered in everything we do.
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Diversity is a priority
May 2022
At TrustedHousesitters there's a strong culture of experimentation and innovation. As the team is still relatively small, you can be very entrepreneurial and drive real impact.
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Opportunities to learn
May 2022
Everybody in the team is super bright and people are very passionate about our customers and product. We have disrupted pet care and travel industries. For pet parents, we provide best and affordable pet care and for sitters - affordable stays.
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Meaningful work
May 2022
Work life balance is great at TrustedHousesitters. Mostly remote working with occasional team events and quarterly all company events in Brighton and flexi working hours.
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Manageable workload
May 2022