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Managed by Q made everybody clean - even the CEO
An iPad could order the cleaner. Managed by Q’s harder idea was to make cleaning a good job - and turn the office’s daily annoyances into a business.
The Office Is Now a Variable Cost
Gable began with a peculiar question: what if an office behaved less like a headquarters and more like cloud computing? Pay for what people use, see the demand in real time, and stop pretending every empty desk is a strategy.
The Startup That Turned the Office Supply Closet Into Software
Kathryn Madden built OfficeLuv around a boring truth: someone always ends up ordering the paper towels. Her bet was that the someone should be software - plus a person who shows up.
The Borrowed Cadillac That Became an Office-Pantry Empire
Crafty began with four friends, a borrowed Cadillac, and a plan to put a kegerator in every office. A decade later it stocks the snacks for DraftKings and Robinhood - and turns the break room into a spreadsheet.
Bloom Talent
Bloom Talent is a woman-owned boutique recruiting agency in San Francisco that places Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, and operations talent for tech startups, venture firms, and executives. Founded in 2015 by Amanda Christoff, the firm is known for a relationship-driven, white-glove approach that weighs personality fit alongside skills, and has placed candidates at companies including Y Combinator, Stripe, Airbnb, and Pinterest.
Plover
Plover is a Singapore-based corporate travel and technology company that simplifies business travel through a wholly owned, cloud-based SaaS platform. Founded in 2017, it combines a full-service travel management company (TMC) with proprietary apps for travel booking, expense management, and workspace management. Plover describes itself as builder of Asia's first fully integrated corporate travel, expense and workspace platform, offering GDS, NDC and Direct Connect airline content plus global hotel aggregators to corporates and travel agencies across the Asia Pacific region.
Codi
Codi is a San Francisco startup rethinking the office for hybrid work. It began by offering private, fully serviced, turnkey offices on short leases - a flexible alternative to WeWork-style co-working and traditional multi-year commercial leases - and has since expanded into an AI-powered platform that automates office management tasks like cleaning, pantry restocking, and vendor coordination. Founded in 2018 by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, Codi has raised roughly $23 million, including a $16 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz.