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About
Casalova was built in Toronto from 2014 by Ray Taeeb and Curtis Layne as the first Canadian app that let a renter search, book and pay for a rental entirely online, with a rent guarantee for landlords. It came out of the DMZ at what was then Ryerson, expanded from rentals into buying, selling and property management, and acquired MyPropertyManagers with about $35 million in assets under management. Aviva Ventures invested $2.5 million in 2017. Taeeb's TechTO talk in April 2017 was mostly about the years before any of that: working 6pm to 2am on the side until they quit, moving to Dallas and selling everything, and being down to roughly $200 in the bank before an accelerator cheque of $35,000 landed. He used a Chinese bamboo analogy for it — five years of watering before ninety feet of growth in five weeks — against a tech press that reports the ninety feet and not the five years. The company is no longer operating: casalova.com redirected to a domain-parking lander when checked on 4 August 2026.
Backers
Aviva Ventures invested $2.5 million in 2017. Earlier funding included a $35,000 accelerator cheque Taeeb described on stage. The full cap table was not confirmed.
Quick answers
What was Casalova?
A Canadian online rental marketplace — search, book and pay for a rental online, with a rent guarantee for landlords — that later added brokerage and property management services.
Is Casalova still operating?
No. casalova.com redirected to a domain-parking lander when checked on 4 August 2026, and no recent company activity was found. The exact wind-down date is not established.
Who backed Casalova?
Aviva Ventures made a $2.5 million strategic investment in 2017. Before that the founders described bootstrapping down to roughly $200 in the bank before an accelerator cheque arrived.