What Mamikos does

Mamikos is an Indonesian two-sided online marketplace for kost (boarding house) rental accommodations, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Jakarta. The platform enables individual renters to search, compare, and book kost properties digitally, while property owners list and manage their rooms through the same interface. With over 140,000 listed properties, Mamikos serves students, young professionals, and migrant workers seeking affordable monthly urban accommodation across Indonesia. The company's stated value proposition centers on digitizing a historically offline category, replacing physical property visits, manual negotiations, and in-person cash payment with online search and integrated payment processing.

The underlying technology is a conventional marketplace platform delivered through web and mobile app interfaces, supporting listing management, search, and transaction/payment processing. No proprietary AI/ML features, API/SDK surfaces, or differentiated technical components are disclosed in the available data. Mamikos does not appear to operate an open developer ecosystem or expose integration points; distribution is direct-to-consumer via its own website and mobile applications under a self-serve, product-led growth motion.

Mamikos generates revenue primarily through transaction-related fees on the marketplace, with the supply side consisting of small and individual kost property owners rather than enterprise customers. The company has raised modest disclosed capital across two funding rounds: a 2018 seed of approximately $750,000 from BonAngels Venture Partners, Hana Ventures, and Kakao Ventures, followed by a 2019 round led by SBVA with an undisclosed amount. Operating geographies are domestic Indonesia only, and the company is privately held with 101-250 employees.

Name

Mamikos

Website

https://mamikos.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Mamikos is an Indonesian online marketplace founded in 2015 that connects individual renters (students, young professionals, migrant workers) with kost (boarding house) property owners, listing over 140,000 properties and enabling digital search and rental payment across urban Indonesia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Property Rental Marketplace

NAICS

Rental and Leasing Services (532)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Vacation & Short-Term Rental Management (BPAJAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Co-Host / On-the-Ground Operations & Guest Services (BPAJAIAI)

Keywords

• Property rental marketplace
• Boarding house listings
• Kost rental platform
• Accommodation booking marketplace
• Rental payment processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Jakarta

HQ country

Indonesia

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Kost Rental Marketplace: Mamikos operates as a two-sided marketplace connecting kost/boarding house seekers with property owners. Revenue is generated through listing fees from property owners and/or transaction commissions on rentals facilitated through the platform.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Mamikos operates an online marketplace platform that connects individual renters with owners of kost (Indonesian boarding houses and dormitories) across Indonesia. Users can search, compare, and book monthly rental accommodations, complete payments online, and manage rental activity digitally through the web platform and mobile applications.

Product overview

Mamikos is a single-platform online service that connects renters with kost (Indonesian boarding house and dormitory) accommodations. The platform provides an integrated search, payment, and rental management experience for finding and securing kost properties.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mamikos Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Rukita: Indonesian co-living and managed rental operator offering monthly-stay rooms to urban professionals and students, directly overlapping with Mamikos's core kost/boarding-house offering in the same geography.
• Flokq: Indonesia-based coliving and rental management platform providing furnished monthly rentals, targeting a similar urban professional and student renter segment as Mamikos with comparable discovery and booking flows.
• Travelio: Indonesian apartment and monthly rental platform with online booking, payment, and property management services, serving a comparable urban Indonesian renter segment with similar transaction-fee marketplace economics.

Broad incumbents

• OLX Indonesia: Major Indonesian classifieds platform where individual kost listings appear alongside broader property, vehicle, and goods categories — providing indirect competition for kost discovery and owner-side lead generation.
• Airbnb: Global short-stay rental marketplace that increasingly captures monthly-stay urban demand in Indonesian cities, competing for the same renter wallet share even though its core positioning is vacation rather than kost rental.
• Rumah123: One of Indonesia's largest property listing portals covering rentals and sales; offers an alternative discovery channel for kost seekers and competes indirectly for owner-side listing supply.
• OYO Rooms: Global budget hospitality operator that aggregates and standardizes small independent lodging, comparable to Mamikos's role of aggregating fragmented kost supply under a managed brand and standardized booking flow.

Emerging players

• RedDoorz: Budget hotel and managed-stay operator in Southeast Asia with similar mid-affordability, standardized accommodation positioning; overlaps with Mamikos on affordable monthly urban stays but skewed toward short-stay hotel-style inventory.

Regional players

• 99.co: Singapore-headquartered property marketplace with Indonesian operations covering rentals and sales; overlaps with Mamikos on urban rental listings, though primarily focused on apartments rather than kost.
• Urbanindo: Indonesian property search portal listing apartments and houses for rent and sale, serving as an indirect competitor for renter discovery and owner acquisition in the same urban Indonesian market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mamikosapp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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