Badi

Badi operates a room-rental marketplace that lets landlords and flat-sharers list rooms and lets room seekers search, request and book them. Its website offers filtered search by city or neighbourhood, move-in date and length of stay (short: 1-5 months, medium: 6-11 months, long: 12+ months), plus categories such as shared homes, a "Badi Plus" premium all-inclusive homes tier, and listings that accept couples or pets. Requests and chats run through the platform, and bookings are made through a secure payment system positioned as fraud protection versus direct transfers. Publishing a listing is free, and a mobile app complements the web product; the site also references paid or premium features including "Badi Gold" and "Fast-Track" [0][2].

Third-party profiles describe Badi as a room rental platform that applies artificial intelligence to matching, with a stated mission of unlocking available living units and making city living accessible, and goals including reshaping real estate, applying new technologies and removing intermediaries [4]. Nordic9 characterises it as an end-to-end platform connecting landlords with room seekers using AI [3]. Seedtable classifies the company under marketplaces, real estate and construction, artificial intelligence and social/communication categories [6].

Sources disagree with the internal record on founding year: Nordic9, Growjo and Seedtable all state Badi was founded in 2015 [3][4][6]. Note that badibadi.com, a Warsaw-based postproduction and animation studio, is an unrelated company with a similar name and was excluded [1].

Founding story

Carlos Pierre is identified as founder and CEO of Badi [3][5][6]; Alvaro Cordoba is also listed as a founder [6]. The sources do not describe the circumstances of the company's founding.

Business model

Two-sided marketplace connecting landlords and room seekers. Listing rooms is free, and the platform intermediates discovery, requests, chat and booking, taking payments through its own secure payment system; premium consumer tiers referenced on the site include Badi Plus, Badi Gold and Fast-Track [0][2]. One source states an explicit goal of eradicating intermediaries in the rental process [4].

The sources do not state pricing or fee levels. The website indicates listings are published free of charge and that bookings flow through Badi's payment system, with paid or premium offerings referenced as Badi Plus, Badi Gold and Fast-Track [0][2]. Third-party estimates put annual revenue at about $16.8M (Growjo) or in a $15M-$40M range (Seedtable) [4][6].

Traction

Nordic9 reported 12 million rental requests since launch and more than one million registered users as of November 2018, up from roughly 700,000 in February 2018 [3]. A January 2020 report cited 450% year-over-year growth, more than 300,000 room listings in Europe and data from nearly two million users [4]. Headcount was reported at 80+ around the 2019 Series B and at 120-125 in later third-party estimates [4][6].

Latest developments

Seedtable, updated 7 August 2026, lists Badi as active at Series B stage with 125 employees, total funding of $52.1M and a last funding event of 5.4M USD on 10 June 2024 [6]. The company's website remains operational, marketing shared homes, the Badi Plus premium tier and room search across ten Spanish cities [0][2].