Amina Moreau, from Radious, joins Liz Elam on the GCUC podcast to discuss the challenges of scaling a venture-backed startup, the firm’s approach to making workspaces more accessible and cost-effective.

Amina Moreau shared that following a surge in demand, they’ve added half-day bookings to Radious. ICYMI: This fractional office platform enables companies to access dedicated workspaces in what are traditionally residential settings.

What this means for you: Are you offering half-day passes? If not, why not?

Seem the list of industry experts who openly shared their insights, warnings, pro-tips and lessons learned in our first 3,800+ word Undercurrent deep-dive?

They are: Antonette Benting from Workshop17, Kane Willmott from iQ Offices, Chris Edwards from The Flexi Group, Jerome Chang from BLANKSPACES, Justin Raymond from Flexday, Danielle Schindler from Engel & Völkers Work Edition, Jon Dweck from Space32, Amina Moreau from radious, Henry Burn from Hubble, Jocelyn Vincent from Landmark and Rafi Sands from Tandem. With thanks to Anne Olsen from The Shop Workspace and Kerry Charlick from Think Tank Cowork for helping with the proof reading

The first edition lands exclusively in the inboxes of TWIC email subscribers on Monday June 17th 2024. And the trend? Fractional Offices – friend or foe for coworking spaces?

Richard Lawson pens a piece in Forbes about how investors are looking past WeWork troubles to place bet on coworking companies.

In it, we’re reminded that Bullpen Capital led the recent round into Switchyards, joined by Cercano Management and Overline. We also see that Radious is on the verge of closing another round, including from Robin Daniels (ex-WeWork CMO) and Nick Bloom, whilst similar-but-also-different Jarvo recently expanded from the UK into the US market with a NYC pilot.

I absolutely love that big publications are sharing that coworking is growing, investable and I hope that TWIC can be a bigger resource for journalists like Richard to tell more stories about brands like yours.

The team at Radious shared that they’re seeing a rapid onboarding of residential workspace rentals across the Bay Area. The platform, which is more Airbnb-for-Workspaces than either Airbnb or Workspace operators would appreciate, does hit on an interesting trend of teams wanting to book nearby space to come together and collaborate – but not necessarily ‘workspace’ in it’s traditional sense.

I’d love to see more stats about booking, and re-booking rates. If you’re up for sharing team Radious, hit me up. As for coworking spaces, maybe worth checking what local by-the-day options are available around you, or where your members are commuting in from.