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Desana
Global on-demand workspace
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Sustainability
- Office
- Flexible working
- Real Estate
- SaaS
- Environmental
- Edinburgh, Scotland
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Company mission
To make it easy for distributed teams across global businesses to access workspace — from an hour to a whole day — anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button.
Most candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% female employees
0% employee growth in 12 months
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Aiming to reduce a person's time spent commuting is Desana, a platform to book a space to work wherever you are. From a hot desk to a conference room, you can book the spaces you need for however long you need, an hour to a whole day.
Flexible working is on the rise, and although productivity is found to be higher when working from home, the psychological impact of isolation can be profound. Desana is setting out to provide a variety of bookable workspaces to combat this.
Desana doesn't charge companies for advertising their extra space on the app, helping to attract businesses big and small. Competitors like Workspace operate exclusively within certain cities, whilst Desana connects employers and workspaces in more than 600 cities across 60 countries.
Benefits
- Regular salary reviews
- Company performance related bonuses
- Share Options
- 32 days holiday
- At least one week off at Christmas (which doesn’t come out of your allowance)
- Four-week paid sabbatical, every five years at the company
- Take your birthday off, no questions
- Flexible working
- Free access to the Desana app to work from wherever is most convenient or best for you. Anywhere
- Or if working from home makes most sense for you, then feel free to work from home. Just know that you’ll have the option to use any of the spaces in our network
- And, if you’ve got another commitment during the working day (the school run, the doctor, or an appointment with your favourite hairdresser), then plan your work around it
- We work with you to set and achieve your professional and personal goals
- Up to eight hours per month can be dedicated to your personal development - read, meet with mentors, listen to Podcasts, jump on YouTube - but there’s one catch: it has to be relevant to your role and we want to hear what you’ve been learning so we can all benefit and grow too
- Yearly professional development budget
- Five days away from work a year to attend training and development opportunities
- Mental health support with Spill, allowing you to chat with a therapist whenever you want
- We’ll provide you with a shiny new laptop for you to do your job
- You’ll also receive a budget to be able to customise your own remote setup
- Full pay for the first 12 weeks of maternity leave
- Full paternity pay for 4 weeks
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$7.4m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$4m
SEED
$12.2m
Total funding
This company has top investors
Founders
Steve Jeans
(Co-Founder & COO)They studied Civil Engineering at university. Former Engineer, Founded Aura Survey & Design prior to Desana.
Ro Ramtohul
(Co-Founder & CTO)They previously held various software engineering roles.
Michael Cockburn
(Co-Founder)Formerly the Director at Aura surveyors prior to co-founding Desana.
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