Top Rental Housing Startups in 2026

Roofstock is a company that allows people to invest in real estate in an easy and simple way. we offer our users the opportunity to invest in single family rental properties at a low price point. we guarantee above average returns for all of our users. add another revenue stream and allow your money to work for you.

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

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outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search.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.

Esusu is the one stop shop for capturing, transforming, and reporting rental payment data into the credit bureaus. This enables landlords to improve on-time payments, attract tenants, and lower turnover while tenants build and establish credit. Our mission is to dismantle barriers to housing for working families. Our vision is to unleash the power of data to bridge the racial-wealth gap.

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.

Doorvest is a vertically integrated, AI-native residential property management company. We operate across 6 markets and manage 2,000+ doors today, and we're scaling through M&A by acquiring local property managers and integrating them onto our AI-native operating system in under 90 days. Property management has historically been a low-margin, labor-intensive business where every new door added headcount and degraded service. AI changes that math, and we're using the resulting super-cycle to build the largest residential PM brand in the country. The U.S. market has roughly 240K operators and 10M units with less than 1% share for the largest player. We've already completed 25+ M&A transactions on our way to going after it. We're backed by Mucker, M13, Tacora, and founders and executives from Invitation Homes, Wealthfront, Opendoor, and other top fintechs. Check out our website for more info! doorvest.com

Join us to reimagine how people rent homes. The number of new renters in the US is increasing more and more each day, and RentSpree is on the forefront of that wave. Our purpose is to pioneer a new rental process that empowers all renters, landlords, and agents to interact the right way. RentSpree provides an award-winning software known in all 50 states for its universal tenant screening process, renter management, partnership program, and rental screening API that enables any platform to incorporate an automated screening process in as little as one week. RentSpree is headquartered in Los Angeles California and we are proud of the role we play in shaping the future of the U.S. housing industry! Visit rentspree.com for more information or check out all of our open positions: rentspree.com/careers.

New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority is a self-supporting public corporation that promotes, finances and supports affordable housing. We operate rental and homeownership programs designed to assist low- and moderate-income persons with obtaining affordable housing. We have helped more than 50,000 families purchase their own homes and been instrumental in financing the creation of more than 15,000 multi-family housing units.

Our mission is to turn the entire process of renting into a tech-enabled and user-friendly experience. We're starting by making paying rent and applying for apartments easier, more rewarding and more secure. Backed by prolific real-estate investors, we've put together an awesome team to turn rental real estate on its head.

AltoVita powers the corporate accommodations sector with enterprise software layered with a human-centric approach, providing every traveller with exactly what they need. AltoVita’s award-winning technology creates a cloud-based bridge between the highly fragmented property distribution system and Global 2000 companies, SMEs, and business travellers, reducing the legacy 48-to-72-hour bidding process down to a few minutes. The fully customisable platform provides instant access to a diverse network of 1 million+ housing options worldwide – including serviced apartments, professionally managed homes, aparthotels, and co-living – with the ability to sort by desired amenities, pet friendliness, sustainability scores, and more. All properties are fully vetted and verified to provide duty of care and compliance, backed by our extensive Four-Tier Quality Control system. AltoVita’s fast-growing global footprint currently spans 165 countries and 1,554 cities. They are headquartered in London, with regional offices in Singapore and Dallas, TX.