Keylr, a B2B marketplace and SaaS platform for property services, has raised £200,000 in pre-seed funding from SFC Capital, one of the UK's most active early-stage investors. The platform connects estate agents, property managers and short-term rental operators with verified local tradespeople and service providers.
Property managers typically rely on a different supplier for every job, from a leak to a check-in. Covering maintenance and repairs, viewings, inventory reports, check-in/check-out, photography, cleaning and key management in one place, Keylr gives property managers a single platform to combine their own teams with a network of verified providers. Job dispatch and tracking, compliance checks, self-billing and automated payout distribution are all handled on-platform.
Founded by Fernando Arenas, who previously worked in global operations at mobility marketplace Karhoo, Keylr has completed thousands of property service jobs since launch across ten service categories.
The new funding will be used to expand Keylr's service categories, grow its footprint across the United Kingdom, and build deeper integrations with the software systems property managers already use. A new version of the platform is also in preparation, pairing the managed marketplace with workflow automation software to reduce manual coordination for property managers.
Over the past two years, we've been hands-on running thousands of jobs across ten service categories. Our focus now is to build the operating system for property third-party operations and supercharge property managers
We're excited to back Fernando. Property managers still juggle a different supplier for every job, from a leak to a check-in. Fernando has run marketplace operations at scale before, and he is building the system that ties it all together
