Community
The desk is the easy part. The room is the point.
Every other workspace marketplace sells you the seat you paid for and stops there. The people around it (founders, investors, freelancers, operators, in every space we verify) are the part nobody has bothered to connect.
What it will be
Six things, and none of them a feed to kill time in.
Profiles
One profile, doing two jobs: the one you book a desk with, and the one other members find you by. Profession, company, what you are working on.
Directory
Search members by profession, city or interest. The person who has already solved your problem is usually two floors up.
Feed
Post an update, ask a question, put an opportunity in front of people who can act on it. Not a timeline to scroll. A place to ask.
Messages
Direct conversations between members, so an introduction doesn’t have to leave for WhatsApp before it starts.
Groups
By topic rather than by building: investors, founders, freelancers, whatever forms. A group can span every space we list.
Events
Meetups and events posted by members and by the spaces themselves, in rooms that are already sitting there in the evening.
Who gets in
Members only, and moderated.
It is open to people who book through CoGrow and to the partners who host them, not to anyone who signs up. Everyone in it is verified by the same checks the marketplace runs on, and posts and reports are moderated by us.
A network is only worth joining if you can trust who else is in it. That is easier to hold at the start than to fix later, so we would rather it grow slowly.
Take the desk now. The rest arrives with it.
Book a workspace and your profile is already the one the community opens with. There is nothing extra to sign up for when it does.