Senior Frontend Engineer, Homeppl

Existing rental validation solutions – like credit checks and traditional low-tech referencing – are usually slow and expensive (it takes 240 hours, on average, to complete a rental check). In fact, the cost of vacant properties due to slow and erroneous tenant validation checks is estimated to exceed £200 billion a year.

Homeppl's goal is to help assess the true transactional ability of consumers in the shortest possible time, in order to cut inefficiencies and unnecessary costs for both landlords and tenants. This space is not without competition – with companies like Goodlord and MudHut offering similar referencing products – but Homeppl has demonstrated early success by signing up an impressive portfolio of estate agents, including Foxtons and Knight Frank.