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.

Remember when I said that ‘how’ people will interact with physical spaces for the next generation will look nothing like it did for ours or previous generations? This video from Dan Bladen shows how Kadence‘s chat bot in Microsoft Teams can check who’s in a company’s specific office, and book a desk near a colleague, all without searching, clicking or toggling apps.

Expect more of this from platforms across the HR, team communication, workspace aggregator, and brokerage sectors. As they make booking flows faster and faster, we can confidently expect overall booking volume to grow too.

The integration between Kadence and Liquidspace is now live, and helping organizations’ employees using the workforce management platform to book internal and third-party spaces to work and meet in. This follows the announcement from both firms in week 20, 2023, and included a full rebuild of the booking experience.

Expect to see more booking interfaces coming into other hybrid-enabling software, especially as implementation & integration timeframes are coming down, fast.

Dan Bladen shares how Kadence offers an AI interface to help users book meetings and spaces in half the time.

I did say back in April that AI bookings and Remote Work apps will both become bigger interfaces for how more and more people interact with your workspace, business and resources.

Mark Gilbreath (and Dan Bladen) share the news this week that their platforms are partnering up. In short this means that organizations using Kadence to manage their hybrid teams can now book both internal employer-owned spaces and spaces from 3rd party operators via Liquidspace.

This follows similar moves from other remote work platforms and booking platforms, including the recent tie up between Liquidspace and OfficeRnD Hybrid. As mentioned in my recent post about new rev. opportunities for flex space bookings, expect more in this area.