rumr

Find shared apartments through friends and common interests

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2013
  • Employees 0
  • Website rumr.co

Company Summary

rumr’s aim is to create better, longer-lasting apartment shares by grouping users with similar lifestyles and interests. rumr focuses on creating a familiar space for users to search within, making social connectivity and common interests an integral part of its service. Listings are virtual open houses where users can view not only available rooms, but also potential roommates.

Team

  • Ivo Andreas Vigan
    CEO

    Prior to joining rumr, Ivo worked as a statistics consultant, interned at IBM Research and lectured at the CUNY. Ivo grew up
    in Switzerland where he earned his MSc degree in
    Computer Science at ETH Zürich while working as head of development
    at a public sector institution. Ivo is a PhD candidate at CUNY on a
    Fulbright scholarship.

  • George combines 10 years of software development, research and teaching
    experience. Before joining rumr he
    has worked as a software developer at Cyrus Innovation, one of the
    fastest growing extreme programming consulting companies in New
    York City, has been teaching and doing research within the Computer
    Science department of the City University of New York.

Advisors

  • Alice Davis
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Dominik Ruggli
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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