Bikes can pull their weight when space is at a premium

Name: Sinead Geraghty

Company: Stowaway

The pitch: home storage system for bikes

Urban cyclists short on home storage space will be the target market for e-commerce graduate Sinead Geraghty, who has designed an indoor wall-mounted hoist system to store bikes overhead.

Geraghty established Dublin start-up Stowaway last May, having worked in sales and marketing roles with Ol’ Irish Pubs and Dublin’s Convention Centre.

“I got the idea because I had three bikes myself ...