Alexis Rankin – Startup Community – Power List

It began with a question: Since you can review restaurants, products and even professors, why can’t you review roommates? That simple question led Alexis Rankin to co-found Chillow, a mobile application that gives users the ability to review and endorse people they’ve lived with.

What spurred the idea for the app was a bad experience Rankin had with a roommate years earlier. Returning from vacation to an eviction notice, she was horrified to find out that her roommate had used their rent money to fund a getaway to Las Vegas.

Winner of the pitch competition at the 2020 Boise Entrepreneur Week event, Chillow was designed to allow college students and young professionals the ability to find their next place to call home, search for credible roommates through background checks and ID checks while bringing peer reviews to the housing market for the first time. The app’s proprietary algorithm connects potential roommates and tenants that share similar lifestyles, locations and preferences, ultimately resolving any potential roommate conflict before it occurs.

Chillow has partnered with and provides services to over 12 local apartment complexes and is rapidly expanding to other states across the country. The app not only helps individuals find like-minded roommates and places to live, but it also provides apartment complexes the opportunity to avoid the headache and costs associated with failed roommate scenarios before they happen.

Now available to download on the iOS App Store, Chillow will soon be on the Google Play Store as well.