A photographer's 1,500-square-foot studio became a 22,000-square-foot NuLu clubhouse for people who work alone. The revealing part is not the expansion - it is the location that failed, the focus that followed, and the business hidden inside a very good cup of coffee.
Lotfi Zadeh Technology Center sells desks, private offices and meeting rooms. Its more interesting proposition is putting the people building Azerbaijan’s technology businesses within talking distance.
Across the Carolinas, Flywheel pairs desks and private offices with a network of mentors, business services and local partners. Its wager: entrepreneurs should be able to build a company without leaving their community.
Mark Dixon turned a plain observation - real business happening at cafe tables - into Regus, the flexible-office network that now spans thousands of locations and quietly outlasted the startup that was supposed to bury it.
GoWork is Indonesia's largest network of premium coworking and flexible office spaces, offering hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms and event venues across malls and office towers in Jakarta, Tangerang, Bali, Surabaya and Medan. Founded in 2016 as Rework and formed through a 2018 merger with the original GoWork, the company serves freelancers, startups, SMEs and enterprises with a mix of physical space, a booking app and business-support services such as company incorporation and mail handling.
Envoy is a workplace platform that helps over 16,000 organizations run smarter offices - from front-desk visitor sign-in and package deliveries to desk booking, meeting rooms, and workplace analytics. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by ex-Twitter engineer Larry Gadea, Envoy became a unicorn in 2022 after a $111M Series C.