Our Mission

Inspire renters to connect, explore, and live fully.

What is Kopa?

Kopa is a marketplace for monthly rentals and roommates that inspires renters to get out of their comfort zones, form lasting relationships, and live richer lives.

Through our platform, hosts market their properties, and renters apply to and book those listings, find housemates, and pay deposits and monthly rent.

Houses and apartments for rent

Our shared values

Do the right thing.

We aim to leave everything better than we found it. We hold each other to ethical standards and take responsibility for our actions.

Learn something every day.

You can learn anywhere — in school, at work, during travels. We treat every experience as a learning opportunity.

Explore your passion.

With thousands of career options, deciding on a path isn’t easy. We promote trying out careers so you choose one that makes you happy.

Make eye contact.

We live in a heads-down society driven by devices. We make sure to actively spend time with friends, family, and colleagues in-person.

Leadership

We’re a fully remote team with all sorts of background. Check outCareersto see our open positions.

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Jack Forbes

Co-Founder and CEO

Jack is the best person to tell you all about Kopa. He focuses on fostering partnerships, finding great talent to join the team, and even writing front-end code from time to time.

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Courtney Sabo

Co-Founder and CPO

Courtney leads design and strategy. She creates human-centered digital experiences for our users. Throughout her career, she focused on education, non-profits, and healthcare sectors.

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Keith Williams

CTO

Keith brings 20 years of coding experience to the Kopa engineering team. He has a passion for writing clean and maintainable code and commits himself to doing the right thing.

Earth

667

books read in the past 10 years

97

rentals lived in

107

countries visited

925

bowls of oatmeal eaten annually

Our History

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2012-2015

Jack can’t find housing for his co-ops.

During Jack’s first co-op in the Bay Area, he couldn’t find housing and had to live with a family friend. He continued to struggle to find housing for his following four co-ops.

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October 2016

Kopa is live.

Jack decides to solve the problem for his final year engineering project at the University of Waterloo. After a year of serious coding, the site launches. Within a month, there are 50 listings and 100 renters.

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February 2017

Dream team unites.

Jack meets Courtney at a San Francisco design agency, where they both worked. They join forces to build Kopa in their free time.

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July 2018

The founders go full-time.

Courtney and Jack quit their jobs to turn their side hustle into a full-time hustle and focus all their time working on Kopa.

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March 2019

The team graduates from Y Combinator.

The team finishes Y Combinator (YC), a three-month start-up accelerator program in Silicon Valley with a 1.5% acceptance rate.

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Lots to come!

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