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LiquidSpace is a technology company.
LiquidSpace provides a unified platform to manage and optimize flexible office space and hybrid work strategies. Its core product enables on-demand booking of offices, shared workspaces, and meeting rooms globally. The platform includes workplace operations for permissions, budgeting, and tracking, plus portfolio strategy tools leveraging behavioral insights and market data for real estate optimization.
Mark Gilbreath founded LiquidSpace in November 2010. He recognized traditional real estate lacked agility for modern work, prompting a digital marketplace. This connects organizations with flexible workspace solutions, enabling adaptive, efficient management. Gilbreath’s technology and real estate experience informed this approach.
Serving individuals, teams, and enterprises, LiquidSpace helps manage distributed workforces. Its mission is to reduce real estate costs, enhance employee flexibility, and foster data-driven decisions on physical footprints. The company envisions businesses aligning workspace needs with dynamic operational and employee preferences.
LiquidSpace has raised $27.3M across 7 funding rounds.
LiquidSpace has raised $27.3M in total across 7 funding rounds.
LiquidSpace has raised $27.3M in total across 7 funding rounds.
LiquidSpace's investors include Background Capital, Catapult Capital, Kevin Ding, Forerunner Ventures, IA Capital Group, NFX, Plug & Play Ventures, SignalFire, Transformation Capital, True Ventures, David Marcus, Halle Tecco.
LiquidSpace is a technology company that operates the world's largest online marketplace and network for flexible office spaces, combined with hybrid workplace management software. It enables companies to book on-demand workspaces by the hour, day, or month, while providing tools like Portfolio Manager for AI-driven real estate optimization, real-time utilization insights, and team coordination via Slack and Microsoft Teams[2][3][6]. Serving enterprises shifting to remote and hybrid models, LiquidSpace solves the problem of rigid, underutilized office leases by offering scalable access to over 13,000 enterprise-grade spaces from providers like Serendipity Labs and Carr Workplaces, reducing real estate costs—such as one Fortune 500 telecom's 80% savings—and empowering employee choice in "Work From Anywhere" strategies[1][3][6].
The platform integrates marketplace booking, scenario planning, and data analytics into one system, supporting on-demand spokes, dedicated hubs, and HQ management without brokers or spreadsheets[2][3].
LiquidSpace was founded in November 2010 by Mark Gilbreath, who serves as CEO, launching publicly at SXSW in 2011 with a mission to disrupt traditional office real estate by enabling real-time bookings and challenging the 9-5 orthodoxy[4][5]. The idea emerged from recognizing innovation's need for flexible work locations, growing the network space-by-space and city-by-city amid rising demands for employee mobility and sustainability[5]. Early milestones included introducing month-to-month listings in June 2015 and plans to expand to 100 million square feet by spring 2016; the company raised over $26 million from investors like Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Mike Maples Jr. (Floodgate), and Shasta Ventures[4]. The COVID-19 shift to remote work validated its decade-long push, accelerating adoption of its enterprise tools[1][5].
LiquidSpace rides the hybrid work trend accelerated by COVID-19, capitalizing on enterprises ditching long-term leases for agile models amid "Work From Anywhere" demands[1][5]. Timing is ideal as remote work persists—its pre-2020 tech positioned it ahead, now scaling with AI insights and marketplace breadth to meet diverse needs like on-demand desks or team hubs[2][3]. Market forces favoring it include rising CRE costs, office vacancies, and sustainability pushes; it influences the ecosystem by partnering with providers (e.g., Premier Workspaces) and enabling space-sharing, optimizing global portfolios for efficiency[1][3][6].
LiquidSpace is poised to dominate hybrid workplace management as AI and real-time data become standard for CRE decisions, potentially expanding internationally and integrating more enterprise tools like advanced VR previews or predictive analytics. Trends like AI optimization and economic pressures on fixed real estate will fuel growth, evolving its role from marketplace pioneer to indispensable platform—much like it disrupted offices in 2010, now fully realized in a flexible work world[2][3][5].
LiquidSpace has raised $27.3M across 7 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $120K Seed in May 2015.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2015 | $120K Seed | Background Capital, Catapult Capital, Kevin Ding, Forerunner Ventures, IA Capital Group, NFX, Plug & Play Ventures, SignalFire, Transformation Capital, True Ventures, David Marcus, Halle Tecco, Harris Barton | |
| Oct 30, 2014 | $14.0M Series C | Roth Capital | Mark Rose, Black Diamond Ventures, Lucas Venture Group, Shasta Ventures, Steelcase, The GPT Group |
| May 9, 2013 | $1.3M Other Equity | CBRE, Steelcase | |
| Jan 15, 2013 | $6.0M Series B | Sam Nickless | Mike Maples Jr, Greylock Capital, Tod Francis |
| May 24, 2011 | $3.6M Series A | Tod Francis | Mike Maples Jr |
| Feb 18, 2011 | $1.3M Seed | Mike Maples Jr, Reid Hoffman | |
| Dec 1, 2010 | $1.0M Seed | Betaworks Ventures, CSC Venture Capital, GPO Fund, Greylock, Idealab, iNovia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, VitalStage Ventures, Western Technology Investment, Zinc, Marc Benioff, Robin Klein, Roger Ehrenberg |