This Is How Ekaya Is Innovating The Property Rental Industry
This Is How Ekaya Is Innovating The Property Rental Industry. Founded in 2013 and based in Cape Town, South Africa, Ekaya is a young and ambitious technology startup out to make the world of renting better by building products that create trust and delight in the property rental space. Ekaya graduated from the Summer 2014 88mph Accelerator Program, broke boundaries at SparkUp Live and cleaned-up in the Dragon’s Den. It has attracted more than R8 million in investment from a premier line-up of investors and industry players and established partnerships with top-tier commercial and technical partners. Together, and with its customers, it is building the next generation rental ecosystem.
The company sets out to make the business of renting more simple and satisfying. The company has designers, engineers, dreamers and doers who believe that technology is the application of art and science to solve a practical problem. It doesn’t see real estate, it sees people – people with needs, wants and dreams. Each day, it strives to connect people who rent with one another, their homes and the world around them. It works to create the future of renting – today.
The company has expanded across South Africa and successfully helped its customers process more than R1.2 Billion in rent since 2015. Verified identity, comprehensive credit report, 3 months bank statements, rental affordability (all direct from source) and references come together in one safe and easy-to-use space.
The VIP Profile is designed to help great tenants showcase themselves in order to help landlords and property professionals find the best tenants for their properties. There’s no paperwork here. VIP digitally verifies identity, credit and affordability data – directly from the source. Plainly put – VIP is safer, faster and more environmentally friendly than traditional application methods. VIP features best-in-class security and encryption to enable information to be shared with confidence. Its consumer-driven design keeps tenants in control of their own data and makes VIP fully compliant. VIP’s revolutionary design collects and verifies all the information typically required during the rental application process and brings it all together in a single, secure profile.
