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Softbank backed OYO bought Innov8 for $31 Mio: “We will deliver great quality experience to real estate customers as well”

Softbank backed OYO bought Innov8 for $31 Mio: “We will deliver great quality experience to real estate customers as well”

Apr 10, 2019 | , ,

Innv8 is among the first coworking brand launched in India. The company was bought by one of the biggest Indian hotel platform, OYO, for a total of 31 millions US$. Meanwhile, OYO announced the takeover of two other coworking brands (PowerStation, for corporations, and Workflow, more focused on startups), demonstrating a strong will to develop its position in the coworking field. Interesting to...

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CoWomen: “We are the second space that opened for women only in Europe and we are going to open many more”

CoWomen: “We are the second space that opened for women only in Europe and we are going to open many more”

Apr 10, 2019 | ,

Berlin based CoWomen is a community club and a coworking space for "driven women". The space focuses on women on the rise. CoWomen, explain the founders, supports those "women on the rise" to achieve their goals with a workspace with beautiful atmosphere, experts and masterclasses to develop professional and personal skills and community events to find inspiration for the big goals. Hannah Dahl...

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“Coworking fills a void in the existing corporate real estate market”

“Coworking fills a void in the existing corporate real estate market”

Mar 26, 2019 | , ,

The Coworking Europe 2019 conference took place in Warsaw for its 10th edition. In order to get to know the local ecosystem, we interviewed Konrad Szaruga and Natalia Kuliberda, both real estate experts who shared with us their experience, thoughts and insights about the polish market. Can you introduce yourself and tell us about your past and current involvement in the coworking fields? Konrad...

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“Coworking is more and more about accommodating teams, not solely individual freelancers”

“Coworking is more and more about accommodating teams, not solely individual freelancers”

Mar 13, 2019 |

Eric van den Broek, Sophie Ozdzinski, Stefano Borghi and Augustin Riedinger are co-founders of Copass, a marketplace that offers a selection of workspaces around the globe: vibrant or calm, huge or small, classic or atypical, they got everyone covered. We have interviewed Eric van den Broek to find out more about trends in nomad coworking as well as in new group working patterns. Can you...

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“The growth of flexible workspaces will continue as companies demand greater agility with reduced risk”

“The growth of flexible workspaces will continue as companies demand greater agility with reduced risk”

Aug 13, 2018 | , , ,

Founded in 1999, The Instant Group rethinks workspace on behalf of its clients, injecting flexibility, reducing cost and driving enterprise performance. Instant places more than 7.000 companies a year in flexible workspace such as serviced, managed or coworking offices workspace (Instant Offices hosts more than 12,000 flexible workspace centres across the world).  The Instant Group employs 230...

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“You don’t take a cut on all positive externalities you made possible” – Mutinerie (Paris)

“You don’t take a cut on all positive externalities you made possible” – Mutinerie (Paris)

Jul 19, 2018 | ,

Mutinerie in Paris used to be the poster child of coworking entrepreneurs in the early 2010's. Launched in the north of the French capital, the ecosystem always sounded genuine and unique, with, back then, one of the most beautiful space design one could experience. Seven years later, the van den Broek brothers and their fellow co-founders have decided to put an end to the story. Coworking is...

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“Barriers between hotels, office space, restaurants and residences are more and more broken down.”

“Barriers between hotels, office space, restaurants and residences are more and more broken down.”

May 30, 2018 | ,

TSH (The Student Hotel) has been developing  a co-living and coworking offering for more than a decade. Founded in The Netherlands by Charlie McGregor, a Scot born in Edinburgh, TSH operates 10 locations in various cities in Europe, among which Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Paris or Barcelona. TSH plans to open up a total of 40 locations in European cities by 2021. Florence,...

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“The office industry will resist to prevent a “booking.com” of coworking or flexible workplace to rule their market”

“The office industry will resist to prevent a “booking.com” of coworking or flexible workplace to rule their market”

Apr 11, 2018 | ,

Rialto is a sales and marketing software as a service offering CRM functionalities tailored to the commercial real estate industry. This "broker portal" allows operators and brokers to exchange inventory and enquiries for space. The rise of the demand for coworking and flexible workplace offering might hit dramatically the traditional intermediaries within the workplace world. We interviewed...

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“For property owners and flexible workspace operators, the shared revenue model will be one model among many”

“For property owners and flexible workspace operators, the shared revenue model will be one model among many”

Apr 10, 2018 | ,

GKRE, a UK based flexible workspace specialist, could be a kind of new operator in the market: a matchmaker between real estate owners, on the one hand, coworking and flexible workplace operators, on the other hand. GKRE advises landlords and building owners throughout the UK on their flexible workspace options and opportunities to partner with flexible workspace providers. The company has...

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Business centers and coworking spaces: now two sides of the same coin?

Business centers and coworking spaces: now two sides of the same coin?

Feb 19, 2018 |

  Eduardo Salsamendi is involved in the industry of flexible workspace since 1990. That year, he founded his first business center Klammer located in Northern Spain.  In 2008, Eduardo Salsamendi founded the European Confederation of Business Centers Associations (EUROCBCA ), headquartered in Brussels. while being the president of the Spanish Worskpaces association  ProWorkSpaces. We talked...

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