Meet the Team Behind StayZ — India's First Relocation App

Every great startup begins with a personal pain. StayZ began with several — because every single person on this team has personally experienced what it means to relocate to a new city in India with no support, no community, and no one in their corner.

This isn't a company built by investors who spotted a market gap on a spreadsheet. It's a company built by people who called their parents from a new city at midnight, who got cheated by brokers, who spent weeks feeling completely alone in a place that was supposed to be their big break.

Here's the team building India's first relocation operating system — and the story behind each of them.

Ayush Singh — Founder

Ayush is the operational soul of StayZ. As Founder, he has personally visited over 3,000 properties across Delhi NCR — on foot, on bike, through summer heat and winter fog. Not a single listing goes live on StayZ without his team's physical boots-on-ground verification.

That obsessive commitment to ground truth is the reason StayZ's 150+ PG partners maintain a 92% compliance rate — the highest in the market. Ayush built the deepest supply-side network in the Delhi NCR student corridor from scratch, one landlord relationship at a time.

Originally from GNIOT, Greater Noida, Ayush knows exactly what it feels like to land in a new city with no guide. He's building the infrastructure he wished had existed when he arrived.

"Every fake listing I remove is a student who doesn't have to stand on the road with their luggage wondering where they're sleeping tonight."

🔗 Connect with Ayush on LinkedIn

Amit Kumar — Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Amit built the entire StayZ platform — frontend, backend, infrastructure — solo, in 4 months. Every screen, every verified listing, every Reel-style video tour that loads instantly: that's Amit's work.

Beyond shipping the product, Amit designed the TrustScore algorithm from scratch — India's first behavioural scoring system for renters, built on top of India Stack (DigiLocker + Account Aggregator + UPI). This is StayZ's 24-month moat — a system that gets more accurate with every tenancy and cannot be replicated by competitors quickly.

From Galgotias University, Amit is the rare founder-engineer who can both think in systems and ship in sprints. His roadmap for the next 6 months: TrustScore v2, API layer for B2B clients, and the StayZ mobile app.

"The platform is the product. If it's not fast, not intuitive, not trustworthy — nothing else matters."

🔗 Connect with Amit on LinkedIn

Mohammad Zaid Khan — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Co-Founder

Zaid took StayZ from 0 to 3,000+ users with ₹0 in paid marketing. As Chief Executive Officer, he is the strategic north star, the brand voice, and the person who makes investors, partners, and users believe in the mission before the product is even fully built.

From IIM Bangalore, Zaid brings together strategic vision and ground-level hustle in a way that's rare at the pre-seed stage. He built StayZ's growth flywheel — campus ambassadors, organic content, community events — and is the reason StayZ has a 3x industry move conversion rate from Day 1.

Zaid's next 6 months: raise the pre-seed round, close the first corporate partnerships, and push StayZ to 15,000 users.

"We don't just help them find a house. We help them build a life."

🔗 Connect with Zaid on LinkedIn

Raja Chauhan — Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Raja is the operator who keeps StayZ running at scale. As Chief Operating Officer, Raja owns the systems, the processes, and the people that turn StayZ's vision into real moves on the ground. From manager onboarding to partner compliance, Raja ensures that every part of the StayZ experience lives up to what users were promised.

Building a lifecycle platform — one that stays with users from Day 1 to Day 365 — requires relentless operational discipline. Raja is the person who makes sure the Dedicated Manager system actually works, that SLAs are met, and that every touchpoint a mover has with StayZ feels like the platform actually cares.

With StayZ eyeing 3-city expansion, Raja's role becomes more critical with every month of growth.

"Operations is where trust is either built or broken. We choose to build it every single day."

🔗 Connect with Raja on LinkedIn

Sanskar — Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

Sanskar leads StayZ's marketing — the stories told, the communities built, and the brand that makes young Indians trust StayZ before they've even used it. As Chief Marketing Officer, Sanskar is responsible for turning StayZ from a product into a movement.

India's Gen Z movers grew up on Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. They don't respond to banner ads — they respond to authenticity, community, and content that understands their life. Sanskar builds all of that. From property tour Reels to city survival guides to StayZ Hangout event marketing, Sanskar shapes how StayZ shows up in the world.

His work is why StayZ's organic content consistently outperforms paid campaigns — and why the brand resonates deeply with the student and young professional communities it serves.

Nishant — Chief Product Officer (CPO)

Nishant owns the product experience. As Chief Product Officer, he is responsible for ensuring that every interaction a user has with StayZ — from the first listing browse to the monthly manager check-in — is intuitive, useful, and meaningfully better than anything else in the market.

Building India's first relocation platform means solving problems that have never been solved before: how do you make a TrustScore feel empowering rather than surveillance-like? How do you design a Dedicated Manager handoff that feels personal at scale? How do you build an app that a 19-year-old uses on the day they arrive in a new city and still uses 6 months later?

Nishant answers these questions — and then ships them. His work is the reason StayZ has an 11-minute average session time, 5x the industry average.

Akash — Business Development Associate (BDA)

Akash is on the front lines of StayZ's growth — signing PG partners, building relationships with colleges, and opening the doors that turn StayZ's vision into live supply and live users. As Business Development Associate, Akash is often the first StayZ person that a new landlord or campus administrator meets.

In a business where trust is the product, first impressions are everything. Akash represents StayZ's values in every conversation — transparent, honest, and genuinely invested in finding partnerships that work for both sides. His pipeline of PG partners and college tie-ups is a direct input into how fast StayZ can scale to new cities.

Why This Team Wins

3,000 users. 150+ PG partners. ₹1 Lakh in pilot revenue. A full-stack product. A TrustScore algorithm. A growth flywheel. All built in 4 months with ₹0 in paid marketing and ₹0 in external funding.

That's not luck. That's what happens when a team is solving their own problem, knows the market from the inside, and is too committed to the mission to quit when things get hard.

StayZ is hiring. StayZ is partnering. And StayZ is expanding.

If you're a first-time city mover, visit www.stayz.tech. If you want to be part of building India's relocation OS, reach out to the team at hq@stayz.tech.