What Wellcee does

Wellcee, Inc. is a privately held Chinese digital marketplace that connects renters with landlords and facilitates roommate matching across 40+ cities in China and Hong Kong, with a primary focus on expatriates, foreigners, and international students. The platform operates at wellcee.com and via a mobile application, supporting English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese languages. Core products include the Wellcee Rental Platform (apartment and house listings), the Wellcee Community module (roommate matching under 'Find Roomie,' a second-hand marketplace, and pet adoption listings), a mobile app, and an extensive library of city-specific rental guides targeted at newcomers to the Chinese rental market. As of the most recent data, Shanghai carries 95K+ active listings and 690K+ historical listings, while Beijing has 54K+ active and 358K+ historical listings, with smaller but material coverage in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong.

Name

Wellcee

Legal name

Wellcee, Inc.

Website

https://wellcee.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Wellcee is a China-based digital rental marketplace connecting expats, international students, and individual renters with landlords and potential roommates across 40+ Chinese cities via a multilingual web platform and mobile app, augmented by community features and city-specific rental guides.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Rental Marketplace

NAICS

Rental and Leasing Services (532)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531), Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Local/Regional Vacation Rental Marketplaces (Geo-Focused Platforms) (THAMALAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Student Housing Marketplaces & Booking Platforms (THAMAGAJ)

Keywords

• Rental marketplace platform
• Apartment listing platform
• Roommate matching service
• Expat housing platform
• Community rental platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Beijing

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Rental Listings Platform: Wellcee operates as a marketplace platform for apartment rentals in China, connecting renters with landlords. Revenue is generated through listing fees and potentially membership services based on the 'Membership Value-Added Services Agreement' referenced on the site.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Wellcee operates a digital rental marketplace that connects individual renters, expatriates, international students, and multicultural renters with landlords across more than 40 cities in China. The platform provides apartment and house listings, integrated roommate matching (Find Roomie), a second-hand marketplace, pet adoption listings, and city-specific rental guides, delivered through a multilingual web platform and mobile application supporting English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Product overview

Wellcee operates as a unified rental platform combining apartment/house listings with social features. The core Wellcee Rental Platform serves as the main marketplace for finding apartments across 40+ Chinese cities, while the Wellcee Community module extends functionality to include roommate matching (Find Roomie), a second-hand marketplace (2nd-hand), and pet adoption listings (Pet Adoption). The Wellcee Mobile App provides on-the-go access to listings and community features, and City Rental Guides offer educational content to help users navigate renting in specific cities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wellcee Rental Platform Digital rental marketplace enabling users to search and list apartments, rooms, and rental properties across 40+ cities in China including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong; serves expatriates, international students, Chinese renters, and individual landlords with a multilingual interface.
• Wellcee Mobile App Mobile application for iOS and Android allowing users to search rentals, manage listings, and access community features such as roommate matching on mobile devices; available for download via QR code displayed on the Wellcee website.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Airbnb: Global short-stay and vacation rental marketplace. While Wellcee skews long-term and Airbnb skews short-term, both are international-renter-facing marketplaces with community content and a 'lifestyle' brand orientation.
• Lianjia (链家): China's largest traditional real estate brokerage network with deep rental inventory. Parent of Beike and a broad incumbent whose rental arm competes with Wellcee in tier-1 cities.
• 58.com (58同城): Massive Chinese classifieds platform that includes rental listings as one of many verticals. Overlaps broadly with Wellcee's listing business but operates at much greater scale across jobs, services, and other categories.

Direct peers

• Ziroom (自如): Large-scale branded apartment rental operator in China offering standardized long-term rentals. Closely comparable to Wellcee on long-term apartment rental demand in tier-1 cities, though Ziroom is also a landlord, not purely a marketplace.
• Beike Zhaofang (贝壳找房): China's dominant online real estate and rental marketplace, spun out of Lianjia. Competes directly with Wellcee for landlord supply and renter attention in tier-1 Chinese cities, with vastly larger inventory and landlord network.
• Anjuke (安居客): Major Chinese property and rental listing platform owned by 58.com. Overlaps directly with Wellcee's apartment-listing core across China's major cities, though without Wellcee's expat-specific focus.
• Roomi: Roommate-finding and housing platform with verified profiles and community features. Closely mirrors Wellcee's combination of listings, roommate matching, and lifestyle/community tooling.
• SpareRoom: UK-focused flatshare and roommate matching platform with community-driven listings. Highly comparable to Wellcee's Find Roomie module and its community-centric positioning around shared housing.

Emerging players

• CitySpade: US-based housing platform serving international students and expats with curated listings and relocation support. Mirrors Wellcee's niche focus on foreign renters in unfamiliar markets, though operating in the US rather than China.

Regional players

• WG-Gesucht: Germany's leading shared-accommodation and roommate platform. Strong functional comparability to Wellcee's roommate-matching module, though geographically focused on DACH rather than China.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/wellcee
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wellcee
• Instagraminstagram.com/wellcee_china
• Xx.com/WellceeH

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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