Meet the companies attending this year's Dublin Tech Summit...
Name of company: Sanctifly
Name of founder: Karl Llewellyn
Tell us about your company...
The Vision: The global number one members’ club for business travelers access fitness and leisure facilities close to airports.
The Mission: To change the way business travelers use their airport downtime.
Pitch what you do in one line…
Sanctifly is an exclusive members club that grants business travelers access to airport hotels' gym, pool and spa facilities before, after or in between flights.
What makes your company unique?
This is ground breaking. There is no comparable club/app anywhere in the world. By the end of March, we will be the biggest airport fitness club in the US.
Why are you coming to Dublin Tech Summit?
Seems like a prefect launch event for Sanctifly – a great opportunity for us to pitch potential members (almost everyone in the room fits our profile of a travelling fit business executive) and hopefully sign up a few, at the very least gain priceless face-to-face feedback on the value and positioning of our product.
What advice would you give to an early-stage startup?
Meet your market. Don’t keep it a secret for too long, go out there and interview your core target customer and make doubly sure they really NEED to buy the product you are thinking of making - so sure, that they ask you for a delivery date.
What advice would you give to yourselves starting out?
It’s going to take a lot longer.
What are your plans for the next 12 months?
Lots of US travelling, recruit a passionate executive team in Ireland and the US to prepare for hypergrowth.
What is the most exciting thing in tech right now?
Service-on-demand. Tech is allowing companies on-board and retain customer based on their here and now value. It’s less about creating barriers to exit, more about recurring delight in CX.
Why does Dublin Tech Summit matter?
With the exit of the Web Summit, Dublin needs an affordable showcase event to gather peers and leaders so we can re-energise off each others' experience.
Tell us something that we need to know...
Somewhat immodestly: ‘Sanctifly is going to be the next $100 million travel tech out of Ireland’.
