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Darwin Homes
Next-gen property management platform
- 101-200 employees
- Property
- B2B
- Renting
- Real Estate
- SaaS
- East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
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Company mission
To make residents and owners lives easier through an innovative ecosystem of technologies.
-12% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Single-family rentals are an attractive investment opportunity and asset class in the US, but the management process of these property rentals can pose challenges. Ownership is typically fragmented; it's difficult to discover a reliable property manager, and the overall experience often results in all involved parties being left with a feeling of lack of trust and transparency.
Darwin Homes provides proprietary property management software that specializes in solving historic challenges in the single-family rental industry. The platform is provided to high-quality and transparent local property managers, with the software tools helping the manager to stay on top of duties, find tenants, and ultimately streamline their investment.
Many property management platforms already exist, but Darwin Homes' specialization in single-family rentals presents huge potential to make a lucrative but complicated industry more efficient. The company has expanded out from serving property managers in Texas and Ohio to other states across the US, and in 2023 was acquired by Pagaya - which "evaluated many players" in the space, but ultimately found Darwin "the best and most differentiated by a substantial margin".
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Hybrid/remote options
Company values
- Transparency
- Professionalism
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2021
$4.6m
EARLY VC
Jan 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $23.6m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Ryan Broderick
(CEO)They started their career as a Marketing Manager at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, before 3 years as Operating Partner of The National Resort Group. They spent 3 years at DoorDash before co-founding Summit Health in 2017 and Darwin Homes the following year.
Zachary Kinloch
(Product & Growth)Having studied at Stanford, they spent 2 years at Morgan Stanley before working at TPG Capital and LinkedIn for a combined 4 years. They served as Director of Growth at DoorDash and a Facebook Data Science Manager before co-founding Darwin Homes in October 2018.