Tabas

What Tabas does

Tabas is a Brazilian furnished apartment rental operator founded in 2020 and headquartered in São Paulo. The company offers fully furnished apartments for mid-term stays, averaging three months, targeting individuals and professionals needing temporary housing such as business travelers, relocating employees, and people in transition between permanent homes. Its core product is the rental itself — a ready-to-move-in apartment with included amenities, professional cleaning and disinfection, and (at launch) COVID-19 hygiene protocols following WHO guidance.

The company's underlying technology is a direct-to-consumer website platform with city-specific landing pages for each of its eight served markets (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Contagem, Lauro de Freitas, Porto Alegre, and Campinas), enabling self-serve search and booking without intermediaries. There is no indication of proprietary AI, dynamic pricing, or marketplace technology in the source data; the moat is operational — curated furnished supply in tier-1 and select tier-2 Brazilian cities — rather than technological.

Tabas generates revenue through monthly recurring rental payments on furnished apartments, with pricing varying by city, apartment size, and lease duration. Its go-to-market is fully self-serve via its website, with SEO-driven organic acquisition through localized city pages. The company has raised approximately $16M across four funding rounds between April 2020 and January 2022, with lead investors including VentureFriends and Blueground (the global furnished-rental operator). Co-founders Leonardo Morgatto (CEO) and Simone Surdi (COO) lead the organization, which currently employs 101-250 people.

Name

Tabas

Website

https://tabas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tabas is a Brazilian furnished apartment rental company operating across 8 cities, offering self-serve, mid-term (average 3-month) furnished stays for business travelers, relocating professionals, and individuals in temporary housing transitions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Furnished Apartment Rentals

NAICS

Other Traveler Accommodation (72119), Accommodation (721)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Extended-stay serviced apartments (weekly/monthly) (THAMACAD)

Keywords

• Furnished apartment rentals
• Mid-term housing
• Corporate housing
• Temporary furnished rentals
• Extended stay apartments

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Furnished Apartment Rentals: Revenue is generated through monthly rental payments for furnished apartments. The average stay is 3 months, indicating a recurring revenue model based on long-term furnished rentals. Customers pay for temporary housing with all amenities included.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Tabas provides fully furnished apartments for rent across 8 Brazilian cities, with an average stay duration of approximately 3 months. The service targets individuals seeking temporary housing — including business travelers, employees on temporary assignments, and people relocating — and includes professional deep disinfection, optional mid-stay cleaning, COVID-19 safety supplies (masks and gel alcohol), and ready-to-move-in units. Customers browse and book directly through the company's website without intermediaries.

Product overview

Tabas is a furnished apartment rental platform operating as a single unified service. The company offers fully furnished apartments for extended stays (averaging 3 months) across multiple Brazilian cities including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Contagem, Lauro de Freitas, Porto Alegre, and Campinas. The core offering is the apartment rental service itself, which includes professional cleaning, COVID-19 safety protocols, and essential amenities like masks and gel alcohol provided in each unit.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Furnished Apartments for Rent

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Blueground: Global leader in furnished apartments for 30+ day stays across major cities worldwide. Blueground is the most direct comparable — and is also a Tabas investor — operating essentially the same model (furnished apartments, tech-enabled, mid-term stays) at far larger scale.
• Sonder: Tech-enabled operator of furnished apartments and boutique short-stay units across global cities. Comparable product offering (fully furnished units, multi-city, app-driven booking) and overlapping customer base of business and leisure travelers seeking apartment-style stays.
• Kasa: Tech-enabled furnished apartment operator in US cities with a similar direct-to-consumer, multi-city, professionally managed furnished rental model. Targets business travelers and extended-stay guests with an apartment-hotel hybrid positioning.
• Limehome: Digital aparthotel operator across Germany and Europe offering fully furnished, contactless-check-in serviced apartments for short and extended stays. Operates a comparable tech-forward, multi-city, kitchenette-equipped apartment model targeting similar extended-stay customer segments.
• StayAlfred: US-based operator of furnished apartments in major downtown locations serving corporate and leisure extended-stay travelers. Closely aligned with Tabas on mid-term furnished rental positioning, kitchen-equipped units, and business traveler focus.
• TheSqua.re: London-headquartered serviced apartment provider operating across multiple global cities with furnished apartments for corporate and leisure extended stays. Comparable business traveler customer base and multi-city furnished apartment model.
• Homelike: European online platform for long-stay furnished apartments (typically 30+ days) primarily serving business travelers and corporate clients. Comparable mid-to-long-stay customer focus and B2B/corporate housing distribution channel.
• Churchill Living: US operator of corporate housing and serviced apartments for extended stays (typically 30+ days) targeting business travelers, relocating professionals, and project-based workers. Closely comparable mid-term furnished rental model with similar corporate/customer profile.

Broad incumbents

• Airbnb: Global short-term rental marketplace with rapidly growing 28+ day stay segment. Not a direct furnished-apartment operator but increasingly competitive in the extended-stay space Tabas occupies, especially for monthly stays in Brazilian cities where Airbnb supply is substantial.

Regional players

• Casai: LATAM-focused tech-enabled short-stay apartment operator with presence across Mexico and Latin America. Comparable furnished apartment offering and tech-forward operations in the same regional context, though serving different geographies than Tabas's Brazilian footprint.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/tabashomes
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tabas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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