Built from experience. Designed for the industry.
Stora was founded by a self storage operator who needed better software. That first-hand experience became the foundation for a platform now trusted by hundreds of operators across 15 countries.
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From running a storage business to building the platform
In 2019, our founder Gavin Shields invested in a purpose-built, unstaffed self storage facility. He expected the hardest part to be the fit-out. It was the software. The tools available were disconnected, manual, and years behind what a modern operation needed. So he built his own.
Within a year the facility was profitable and other operators were asking what he was running. The problems Stora solved at one site turned out to be the same problems holding back the entire industry. That system became the platform powering modern self storage.
"It's like Gavin shared my business DNA. Every solution I wanted and needed, he had already thought of. I couldn't find any comparable solutions."
"If somebody's an operator and using their product themselves, they're invested in making it a success. That gives me a lot of confidence in Stora."
The team behind the platform
Stora is built by a growing team of engineers, designers, and operators headquartered in Belfast, UK, with team members across the world. We ship continuously, obsess over the details, and build the kind of system we would want to run ourselves.