PocketRent

Rental Properties Sorted. Efficiently track payments, manage maintenance workflows, generate tenancy agreements. Perfect for private owners & managements firms.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Software
  • Location Wellington, New Zealand
  • Currency NZD
  • Founded October 2011
  • Employees 3
  • Website pocketrent.com

Company Summary

PocketRent increases efficiency for Property Managers, Investors and Owners globally by reducing admin overhead and automating maintenance, rent arrears and disbursement processes, gracefully including staff, property owners, contractors & tenants for streamlined comms & effective distribution of tasks. Accounts are kept up to date in real time, allowing for instant analysis and recommendations by financial advisors and accounting professionals.

Team

  • Simon Welsh
    Developer

    Simon has excelled throughout his Computer Sciences degrees as well as in his professional capacity to further PocketRent’s development efforts through innovative and quickly iterating deployments of features and improvements to the platform.

  • James Miller
    Developer

    James is a self-taught developer, attracted to the challenge of programming since high school in England. A forward-thinker, James takes the long view about software, focusing on future challenges and improvements.
    When not working on PocketRent, James is active in the open source community, most notably the Rust programming language where he sharpens his skills on cutting-edge technology research.

  • Director

    With 20 yrs experience Mike has owned Bars and Restaurants in the Wellington region. He undertook a new challenge opening I-kids, a group of Early Childhood Centres in Wellington. Mike built up his own property portfolio and saw a need to streamline the processes, around renting in residential and commercial markets, which lead him to embark on PocketRent. Mike's vision is to see PocketRent become an integral tool in the property industry.

  • Managing Director

    Mark has been crafting web and business experiences since his foray into the early internet when he was just 15. Since then he has continued to focus his energies on enabling business to reach their goals and potential through bespoke solutions. He lives and breathes PocketRent, after doing his 5 minute property inspections via the system he is often seen walking around Wellington with a content smile on his face.

  • Jono Wilson
    Director

    Jono has a property investment company – this is only commercial having moved away from residential some years ago. From 1993 thru to 2003 Jono was a director of Shed 5, one of Wellington first waterfront developments. During this period he was a director of the Greta Point Tavern. Prior to 1993 Jono had a retail store for some years and also had several rental properties. Jono is a proud Wellingtonian.

  • Mike Hood
    Director

    After traveling throughout the south pacific in his younger years Mike came to settle in Wellington. He has been firmly ensconced in the Restaurant and bar market for 20 or so years. During this time he diversified his business interests, first into residential rental property, then into commercial property and finally into early childhood education where he owns and operates 4 early Childhood centers.

Advisors

  • Lloyd Collins
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Todrick Taylor
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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