Ekaya,a marketplace for long term rentals with a touch of online dating, like an AirBnb with a little Tinder thrown in for good measure, has launched in private BETA, with early access requests on Ekaya.co .
Founded by Justin R. Melville (CEO), Ruark Ferreira (COO) and Rudolf Vavruch (CTO) and Mark Heerden who provided their initial seed capital and joined the team as executive chairman & CFO, Ekaya wants to connect property owners and property hunters easily.
The platform connects landlords to good (verified) tenants, providing transparency and control like never before. For tenants, Ekaya is the perfect tool to differentiate themselves in the hyper-competitive rental market and get the place they want.
” The opportunity we’re addressing with Ekaya is massive, totally enormous,” says Justin. “And, unlike a lot of other consumer internet ideas, it’s totally feasible to execute this in South Africa and then expand. The combination of these factors together with our passion to design and build great things come together to inspire us everyday.”

Though Ekaya looks sexy, it is not the only platform connecting tenants and landlords. Ebay owned general classifieds site Gumtree has most of the eyeballs the firm is interested in but Ekaya is not interested in their revenue model at all.

In two years, Ekaya aims to be in the middle of internationalizing and on a mission to turn into a very big business, very quickly.
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