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Mnzil | منزل
Mnzil is a Riyadh-based proptech company that provides integrated housing, transportation, and catering solutions for Saudi Arabia's blue-collar and migrant workforce. Through a hybrid model of subleasing, purpose-built development, and a C2B marketplace, Mnzil lets companies outsource the housing and movement of their workers, offering furnished, regulated, and serviced accommodation at scale. Founded in 2024, it operates 60+ facilities across 13+ cities, serves 100+ corporate clients including Amazon, Nestlé, and SIXT, and raised an $11.7M Series A led by Founders Fund in November 2025.
Rukita
Rukita is an Indonesian proptech company that manages and rents out furnished co-living spaces, apartments, and boarding houses (kost) under a single brand and app. Founded in 2019 in Jakarta, it aims to raise the quality standard of rental housing for Indonesia's young urban professionals by combining standardized, serviced residences with a technology platform that handles booking, monthly payments, maintenance requests, and community events. Rukita operates directly managed units and a wider marketplace of partner properties, and has expanded its ecosystem into property marketing (RuOption) and financing (RuFinance).
Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins is the CEO and co-founder of Bungalow, the largest co-living network in the United States. Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma among serial entrepreneurs, he studied sociology and economics at Princeton and earned an MBA from Wharton before deliberately collecting skills at Medallia, Facebook, and the startup studio Atomic. In 2017 he and Justin McCarty turned their own struggle to find affordable housing and friends in a new city into Bungalow, which furnishes homes and rents individual bedrooms at roughly 30% below the cost of a studio. The company has raised about $175 million, including a $75 million Series C in 2021, from backers like Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Coatue.
Steve Satoru Naito
Steve Satoru Naito is the Co-founder and CEO of Anyplace, the San Francisco-based platform redefining long-term rentals for remote workers and digital nomads. Armed with a one-way ticket from Tokyo and $5,000, he arrived in Silicon Valley in 2015 speaking minimal English, turned a failed first startup into a learning opportunity, and built Anyplace into a $35M+ funded company offering fully-equipped, work-ready furnished apartments across major US cities and Tokyo. Named to Forbes Japan's 30 Under 30 in 2018, Naito is on a mission to give professionals the freedom to live and work anywhere without sacrificing productivity.
Giulianna Crivello
Giulianna Crivello is the Founding General Partner of DSH Ventures, the pre-seed investment arm of Draper Startup House — the global co-living and coworking network for entrepreneurs backed by legendary VC Tim Draper. A 2018 valedictorian from Sierra Nevada College, she went from research analyst in Nevada to directing investments across 14 countries in her first year at DSH Ventures. She co-manages the fund with Vikram Bharati and has facilitated over 215 investor introductions to startups spanning the US, Singapore, India, and beyond, while helping build Draper Startup House into a presence spanning 25 embassies across 5 continents.