workplace-analytics
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The Office Was Broken Before Anyone Filed a Ticket
HP Workforce Experience sells a curious promise: an IT problem spotted before the worker notices it. Its own meeting rooms offer a revealing test of whether that promise survives contact with a real office.
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.
Freespace and the expensive fiction of a full office
The calendar says the meeting room is taken. The sensor says otherwise. Freespace turns that disagreement into decisions about desks, leases and the cost of keeping empty space comfortable.
The Office Is Half Empty. OfficeSpace Software Wants to Make That Useful.
Hybrid work turned every floor plan into a moving target. OfficeSpace is betting that the winner will not be the company with the prettiest desk-booking app, but the one that can turn workplace chaos into decisions.
HqO
HqO is a Boston-based property-technology company that builds a real estate experience (REX) software platform for commercial landlords and their tenants. Its platform combines a tenant app, an analytics and intelligence suite, a partner marketplace, and building-operations tools so office owners can measure and improve how people experience their buildings. Founded in 2018, HqO powers hundreds of properties and hundreds of millions of square feet across dozens of countries, and works with major landlords including Hines, Vornado, JLL, JP Morgan and Alexandria Real Estate Equities.
Density
Density is a San Francisco-based people-analytics company that builds privacy-first sensors and software to measure how offices, buildings, and other spaces are actually used in real time. Founded in 2014 by Andrew Farah, it pairs radar and depth-sensing hardware with its Atlas analytics platform to help enterprises cut real estate costs, plan hybrid workplaces, and understand utilization without cameras or personally identifiable data. Backed by more than $225 million in funding and a $1.05 billion valuation, Density serves Fortune 500 customers across dozens of countries.
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.
VergeSense
VergeSense is a Mountain View-based occupancy intelligence company that uses AI-powered sensors and a cloud analytics platform to help enterprises understand how their offices and buildings are actually used. Founded in 2017 by Dan Ryan and Kelby Green, it serves over 200 enterprise customers across 50+ countries and monitors more than 140 million square feet of space.