Welcome at Zenhomes

Zenhomes was a technology company founded by Jannes Fischer and his partners in Berlin in 2016 with the vision of making property ownership simple and smart for everyone.

Over the years, the flagship product Vermietet.de developed into the market-leading property management system for private landlords in Germany. In 2021, the company was acquired by Scout24, making it the largest exit in the German real estate industry at that time.

While the SaaS product Vermietet.de was integrated into Scout24's suite of solutions for homeowners, the operational business was spun off into a new company called Upmin Group, which was separately funded by external investors.

In April 2016, Jannes Fischer - who had taken over the management of his grandparents' properties - had the idea to clean up the dusty processes in the real estate industry and build a digital ecosystem around real estate. This idea quickly became Zenhomes, which was founded shortly afterwards by him as CEO and Dmitry Dzifuta as CTO.

The goal was to make living simple and smart for everyone. This could only work if all stakeholders - i.e. owners, tenants and service providers - came together in a single ecosystem. Zenhomes was to act as a neutral operating system in the middle, bringing all stakeholders together on a central platform via various applications.

The start was made by Vermietet.de, a SaaS suite for self-managing private landlords.

The History of Zenhomes

Almost every aspect of our lives is digitised these days: from brushing our teeth in the morning to ordering dinner in the evening. But for something as important as managing one's own properties, paper, pen and - at the very least - Excel are still used.
May:
Zenhomes is founded by Jannes
2016
September:
First investment round with investments from Sebastian Funke and Mark Hartmann of Springtech Partners, 88 Investments, Discovery Ventures, Lars Grosenick and Marc Stilke, the ex-head of Immobilienscout24
2016
March:
The insurance company Axa Deutschland, Axel Springer Digital Ventures and several business angels join Zenhomes as investors.
2017
April:
Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank join Zenhomes
2018
February:
Zenhomes wins PropTech VC BitStone Capital as investor. Existing investors provide further funding in the millions.
2019
April:
Launch of advertising services: Vermietet.de expands its services beyond pure property management and offers landlords the opportunity to list their properties on ImmoScout24, Immowelt/Immonet and Ebay.
2019
September:
Zenhomes has received €13 million in a Series A funding round from new and existing investors, bringing the total to around €19 million.
2019
November:
Due to growing demand, a new service is being launched to provide a digital property management solution for property owners who do not want to manage their properties themselves, laying the foundation for what will later become an independent company, Upmin.
2020
May:
Scout24 acquires Zenhomes. Scout24 has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Zenhomes GmbH, the company behind Vermietet.de, the market-leading digital platform for private landlords to manage all property-related processes
2021
More than 1 million units are managed on Vermietet.de.
2021
June:
Upmin Group is founded as an independent company and receives seed funding of €4 million from external investors, including P3A (Jannes Fischer's investment firm), Swiss Life, Bitstone, Scout24 and business angels.
2021
The company's mission is to realise its vision of simple and intelligent property management, with the aim of bringing landlords together and empowering them.

Welcome at Zenhomes

Through our digital platform Vermietet.de, we provide private landlords with access to tools, expertise and resources to help them manage all aspects of their properties as simply, efficiently and securely as possible.

Our goal is to help everyone become a successful landlord by providing them with the resources and support they need to manage their properties with confidence.

To Vermietet.de

The Upmin Group provides modern, sustainable and digital property management for private and institutional clients across Germany. It combines local expertise with state-of-the-art technology to bring property management into the 21st century - for owners and tenants alike.

To Upmin.de