About RoomPe, the operator behind institutional living

Why does RoomPe exist?

India has millions of beds, and almost nobody runs them well. University hostels are run by admin staff who were hired to run academics, and workers live in informal rooms with long commutes. The result is bad food, weak security, endless vendor juggling, empty beds, unhappy parents, absenteeism and attrition.

RoomPe was started to be the operator in between: an organisation whose only job is running the life inside institutional buildings, to hospitality-grade SOPs, for whoever owns them. Institutions keep the asset and the policy; RoomPe runs beds, meals, safety, people and reporting under one contract.

How has RoomPe grown since 2020?

RoomPe was incorporated in Ahmedabad in March 2020, opened its first 60-bed campus with one institution in 2021, reached three campuses in 2022, and by 2024 was running 1,000+ beds across 5 campuses. It crossed $1M in annual recurring revenue by January 2025 without outside funding.

1. 2020RoomPe Private Limited incorporated on 28 March 2020 in Ahmedabad.
2. 2021First campus: 60 beds, one institution.
3. 2022Three campuses.
4. 20241,000+ beds across 5 campuses.
5. January 2025Crossed $1M in annual recurring revenue, bootstrapped and profitable.
6. NextA target of 2,000 beds, adding workforce housing and new student-housing formats.

What makes RoomPe different from a landlord or a caterer?

A landlord rents space and a caterer cooks food; neither answers for the whole residence. RoomPe is a housing operator: it runs food in-house, staffs the site with verified people, covers every resident type on one system, and reports every month, so the institution or employer has one point of accountability.

Operator DNA

Institutional housing run to hospitality-grade SOPs since 2020.

Food in-house

Central kitchens operated by RoomPe, not sub-let to a caterer.

Every resident, one system

Students, blue-collar and grey-collar workers and trainees on one operating platform.

Visibility built in

Resident app, client dashboard and a monthly MIS the board can table.

Asset-light for clients

Lease and operate means beds near the campus or plant without capex lock-in.

Close to the corridors

Within reach of Gujarat’s auto, pharma, chemical and electronics clusters.

Who leads RoomPe?

RoomPe is led by its two co-founders, Deval Patel and Satya Mehta, who started the company in Ahmedabad in March 2020 and are both directors of RoomPe Private Limited. Deval’s background is in operations and customer service; Satya’s is in education and sales. Both earned their MBAs at MEFGI in Rajkot.

Satya also writes the RoomPe blog. Read his author page.

Which principles does RoomPe operate by?

RoomPe runs on four principles: safety first, technology at the core, hospitality standards in every service, and two rules it does not bend. No commercials are issued without a site visit, and nothing starts on a handshake: scope, service levels, manpower and terms are fixed in writing first.

Safety first

24×7 security, verified staff and residents, and traceable incident logs at every site.

Technology at the core

Every bed, meal and complaint visible in real time, for residents and clients.

Hospitality standards

Hotel-grade housekeeping and service, delivered at campus and plant scale.

Nothing on a handshake

No commercials without a site visit; everything fixed in writing before mobilisation.

How is RoomPe related to MealPe?

MealPe is a sister company in the RoomPe group that builds B2B foodtech for cafeteria and mess management. RoomPe uses the MealPe app in the messes it runs, for menus, polls, feedback and digital meal counts. MealPe operates as a separate company with its own site at mealpe.app.