DigsConnect

What they do:

DigsConnect pairs up registered students and young professionals looking for a place to stay with homeowners across South Africa that are looking to rent out their properties on a longterm basis.

The Company’s main priority is safety and security for its community, so they make every effort to personally verify their users to create a safe place for students and young adults to find and book a room in a digs (shared housing), and to help the landlord seamlessly find and manage student tenants in their properties.

Why we invested:

Market Size: $2.4B gross annual rental in the SA private housing market and $1.4B gross annual rental per annum for Africans studying in the UK,US and France markets.
Exit Potential: Deep relationship with the world's largest marketplace for international student housing
Platform: A decentralized and scalable student accommodation verification system, that removes the bottleneck of a centralized authority granting property verifications.

Founding Team:

Alexandria Proctor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Digs Connect

Greg Ramsay-Keal is the Co-Founder and COO of DigsConnect