Dan Bladen shares that Kadence have secured $20M in Series A funding led by High Alpha, with participation from Kickstart, Four Cities Capital, Manta Ray Ventures, Sovereign’s Capital, Midwich Ignite, and 515 Ventures.

The workplace operations platform has grown to over 600 customers across 40 countries since its 2022 seed round, with enterprise growth accelerating 5X in the last 12 months. Notable customers include Boeing, BDO, Porsche, Ashurst, MIT, Starling Bank, and various government organizations globally.

Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and former CEO of Pluralsight, will join Kadence’s board as part of the funding round.

LiquidSpace has unveiled Team Connect, a new enterprise-focused tool designed to streamline in-person team coordination and workspace management. The platform features an interactive map showing team members’ workspace bookings, enables users to follow colleagues’ workspace patterns, and facilitates group reservations. The tool also includes analytics capabilities to help organizations optimize their workspace resources and identify popular meeting locations among team members.

LiquidSpace had an integration partnership with Kadence, but was more a one way user flow from Kadence customers booking their suggested meeting times on LiquidSpace. It makes sense they’d want to also offer a similar feature to the customers that are running the enterprise version of their platform.

Annie Dean, head of Team Anywhere at Atlassian, chats with Dave Cairns from Kadence on her team’s take on different coworking space designs and how many of them are not made to meet the current hybrid work moment (and how Atlassian categorizes different space design for different work type needs).

Upflex has partnered with gospace AI to introduce autonomous office space management technology through their new offering, Unify AI. The integration will help their customers forecast and schedule the best times for employees to meet in person and where.

This is similar to the partnership Kadence has where their customers can book meetings it schedules at flex workspaces via LiquidSpace. As more companies are getting the hang of hybrid work styles and patterns, no one wants to be the person in charge of scheduling and coordinating meetings and finding workspace – no matter how easy the aggregators make it for them. This is a natural fit for applying AI to a process that involves coordinating multiple variables such as calendars, locations and space availability.

Dave Cairns from Kadence joins the Caleb Parker Show to discuss if the office has a role in the future of work, personal brands, the challenges workplace leaders face, the need for mindset shifts and how companies are adapting the way they work.