Top Rental Housing Startups in 2024

Though the vast majority of renters live outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search. ABODO changes that. ABODO creates first-of-their-kind, localized rental marketplaces for underserved, tier 2 U.S. cities. Our platform combines the largest, most accurate and up-to-date inventory of local apartments available for a given city with a mobile-first, seamless search experience. This combination of unmatched local marketplace liquidity, and a delightful search experience, has helped ABODO grow from Madison, WI to 15 additional cities in the last 18 months, and from thousands of users to millions. With millions of renters now using ABODO across the web, iOS and Android, we're obsessed with continuing to make the process of finding your next apartment effortless, especially in cities outside of New York, San Francisco and LA.

Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 175 million visits per year. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by Built In SF. To date, we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. Changing the way the world rents requires passion, bold ideas, and bright minds. Join us in building the future of renting, today! Apply on our careers page: zumper.com/jobs

Our product acts as a third-party intermediary that allows tenants who currently rent from individual landlords (80% of the Canadian market) to pay rent with a debit/credit card, earn rewards, and build credit. Our product is tenant-centric and requires no landlord sign-up, meaning tenants get the benefit without needing to change anything for their landlord - the landlord continues to get paid via their preferred payment method.

openigloo is a mobile app and website, where renters can anonymously share and read rental reviews and access real-time city data on their buildings and landlords. With a community of over 500,000 NYC renters, our mission is to build a world where tenants everywhere are treated like valued customers. Since launching in August 2020, openigloo has helped tens of thousands of New Yorkers vet their prospective buildings and find landlords who care about their renters.

Everyone should be able to live and work wherever they want. That is why housing should be as convenient as possible so that there is more time for the really important things in life. This is exactly what we at Wunderflats enable by offering furnished apartments on our platform from one month onwards. As the market leader in Germany, we want to give our tenants and landlords a unique service experience and empowering them with a new sense of freedom. Wunderflats was founded in January 2015 and is well funded by successful VCs and business angels from the real estate as well as the internet sector. We raised the last round in July 2019 with €8 million, which leads to total funding of €12 million. So that we can enable everyone to live anywhere anytime our team is looking forward to the support of more enthusiastic and like-minded people.

OpenRent is the way people rent property online. Our platform empowers landlords and tenants to arrange successful tenancies quickly, cheaply, and efficiently. We’re dedicated to fixing an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Thanks to an unrelenting focus on technology and the customer experience, we now let more properties than any high street agency in the UK and continue to grow rapidly. Although we’ve grown our user base to a vast 7 million users, we’re very much of the startup mindset - a close-knit team of around 50 looking to transform an industry and have fun while we’re doing it. Come and join a small team who are having a huge impact and building a household name brand.

RentRedi is targeting a B2B market of 20M landlords, 80% of which are still using pen-and-paper & spreadsheets to run their businesses. RentRedi empowers the next generation of these landlords. Find out more at rentredi.com!

NestAway is India's fastest growing "Home Rental Network"attempting to provide better rental solutions via design and technology. We help you find, book & move-in to a rental home of choice across Indian cities - all from within an app. Not just that, we help you move-in, ask for services from tap leakage to door lock broken, pay your rent & finally move-out - again all within the app. Whatever is your budget ( INR 4000 to 100,000), whatever you call home( a bed, a room or an entire house). we have something for you. 35,000+ people call us home. 12500+ Owners call us friends. We are building India's much needed social infrastructure of affordable city housing. They say we suffer from a rare condition frequently observed among poets - 'imagination & empathy'.

We have a simple mission - Help owners earn higher rental income from their properties hassle-free and help tenants rent properties happily. Check this 60-sec video - youtu.be/XWdwYXYDuN8 India runs on renting... Hostels, PGs, Flats, Homestays, Shops, Godowns, Warehouses, Offices, dark stores... 200 million Indians stay & do business in rented properties and 10 million+ owners actively rent out their properties. That's $400 billion of rent changing hands every year. And yet renting is tedious. We are making renting simple... Using RentOk, owners can find tenants, complete their verification, send automated reminders, collect rent, complete accounting & taxation, buy property insurance, and manage their property remotely from their smartphones. How did we start? What have we achieved? Being unhappy tenants in their school & college life, Srijan & Nimit built a 2 Cr/250 beds Co-Living business in college. Seeing the struggles of untimely rent collection and inefficient rental problems, they launched an MVP in 2020. Since then, we have scaled to over 12,000 properties and 180,000 tenants across India. We collect over 50 Cr in monthly rent and add 15000 new tenants on RentOk every month Backed by India Quotient, Quona Capital, iSeed, FirstCheque, GSF, and other prominent investors, now we are looking for core team members to join our mission of making renting simple for everyone.

We’re on a mission to provide fair access to housing. VERO makes rental housing easily accessible and secure for all. We’re putting control of applicant data back into the hands of the renter. VERO is at the vanguard of transforming the leasing experience with fintech, powering new underwriting models and infrastructure to support owners, operators and renters. VERO is led by makers and creators who envision a world where qualified applicants are seamlessly approved for the homes of their choice in minutes while expertly mitigating delinquency and eviction risk for owners and operators. We work on solving the complex technical problems necessary to build the best real estate technology infrastructure—from designing highly reliable systems to developing advanced algorithms to prevent fraud and automate intelligent tasks.