The software running the modern office - desks, rooms, maps, visitors, and the awkward question of who's coming in tomorrow.
"The office is the heart of your organization." So Robin gave it a schedule.
Here is a fact about offices that sounds trivial until you multiply it by ten thousand: nobody knows which conference room is free. Two people are already in the one you booked. The desk you wanted is occupied by someone who works there on Tuesdays, and it is Wednesday. This is the small, grinding friction that Robin turned into a business - and then into a category.
Robin began in 2014, not as a facilities-software company but as a curiosity. Brothers Sam and Zach Dunn, along with Brian Muse, were running a college-born digital agency called One Mighty Roar. To show off, they wired up their own office - including a conference table that could tell when a meeting was actually happening. It was the kind of demo that makes clients nod politely.
Except the clients did not nod politely. They asked to buy it. That is the entire origin of a company: a side project that people wanted more than the main thing. The Dunns and Muse pointed the agency at the problem, and Robin - a friendlier name than most enterprise facilities software dares to use - was born.
The premise was that offices generate a surprising amount of data about themselves and use almost none of it. A calendar knows a meeting exists. A room does not know it is double-booked. A floor plan is a PDF nobody opens. Robin's bet was that connecting those dots - rooms to calendars to people to maps - was worth paying for.
For years, that was a fine, unglamorous business. Then 2020 happened, everyone went home, and the entire premise of the office became a live question. This was, depending on how you looked at it, either an extinction event for Robin or the best thing that ever happened to it.
"Everyone predicted the office would die. Robin bet it would just need better software."The Workplace Desk
The office did not die. It got weirder. Companies kept their leases but stopped filling them. Employees came in two or three days a week, on days that did not reliably overlap with their teammates. The result was a building that was simultaneously too big and, on any given morning, unexpectedly crowded. Nobody could answer the newly urgent question: is anyone even coming in tomorrow, and if so, where will they sit?
This is a good problem for a software company, because it is a question about coordination, and coordination is what software is for. Robin's platform lets an employee book a desk in a couple of taps, reserve a room that actually fits the meeting, find a colleague on a live map, and check in a visitor at the front desk. Underneath, it quietly logs who used what, which is how a facilities team eventually decides whether to renew a floor or give it back.
Reserve meeting rooms from web, mobile, calendar or a tablet by the door. AI matches the room to your meeting's size and needs.
Hot desking, hoteling and assigned seats - with automatic booking based on your schedule and how you actually work.
Live floor plans showing who's in, where they sit, and how to find the room, desk or person you're looking for.
Guest check-in, host notifications and a front desk that works whether or not anyone is sitting at it.
Real numbers on space and desk utilization, so real-estate decisions rest on data instead of vibes.
An AI agent that resolves room conflicts and suggests spaces in real time - the office's own dispatcher.
Also new in 2025: Neighborhoods, color-coded desk groupings drawn right on the map so teams sit together on purpose rather than by accident.
The founders - twin brothers and a friend - are the college-agency origin. The CEO, Micah Remley, is the second act. Before Robin, Remley ran MineralTree, a Boston payments company that sold to Global Payments for roughly $500 million, and spent a dozen years at the energy-software firm EnerNOC. It is a resume built almost entirely on unglamorous back-office software, which is either a coincidence or the whole point.
Thousands of organizations, from startups to global enterprises coordinating tens of thousands of employees across dozens of locations. A sample of the names on the wall:
| Round | Amount | Date | Lead / Notable Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed / Early | ~$1.5M | 2015 | Boldstart Ventures, FirstMark Capital |
| Series A | ~$20M | 2019 | FirstMark, Accomplice, Boldstart |
| Series C | $30M | Sep 2022 | Tola Capital (lead), Atlassian Ventures, Allegion Ventures |
"Double the effectiveness of the office in half the time."Robin's stated vision
Sam Dunn, Zach Dunn and Brian Muse spin Robin out of their digital agency after a smart conference table draws real demand.
Boldstart Ventures and FirstMark Capital back the early room-booking product.
Robin adds workplace analytics, letting companies measure how space and desks actually get used.
A Series A funds a broader push into desks, visitor management and interactive office maps.
Tola Capital leads, with a strategic investment from Atlassian Ventures.
A new brand debuts and Robin brings AI to the hybrid workplace with automated room and desk suggestions.
Robin ships an AI Scheduling Agent in early access and Neighborhoods for deliberate team seating.
Robin is not alone in this. Workplace-experience software is a crowded shelf: Envoy, Skedda, deskbird, Tactic, Archie and the larger Eptura all want to run your office. The differences are less about features - everyone books a desk - and more about which end of the market they court and how far they push automation. Robin's tilt is toward the enterprise and, lately, toward AI agents that do the coordinating for you rather than just handing you a booking screen.
The bigger competitor, honestly, is the status quo: a shared spreadsheet, a Slack channel, and someone's assistant who knows which rooms are actually free. Robin's job is to be enough better than that improvised system to be worth a line item. So far, thousands of companies have agreed.