Manufaqtury (Manufactory of Offices)

Manufaqtury is a PropTech company that provides offices for medium-sized businesses and corporations with a built-to-suit coworking service: the business signs a lease agreement, and Manufaqtury prepares offices at its own expense or builds them in accordance with customer requirements. In the future, the company manages and develops spaces using an IT platform.

Manufaqtury bills itself as an "operating system" of real estate (Q: OS) that accelerates occupancy and promotes the inner life of business centers or multifunctional complexes, attracting a new audience and creating additional traffic for infrastructure.

History

2021

Main activity

As of December 2021, the main activity of Manufactory of Offices LLC is the lease and management of its own or leased real estate.

Attracting 2 billion rubles

In early August 2021, it became known about the investment of 2 billion rubles in Manufaqtury. WS Capital, an investment company, has invested in PropTech.

The funds received startup intend to spend, in particular, to achieve the goal of becoming the largest EEU in a company operating in the built-to-suit format, or "build-to-order." On the Manufaqtury page Facebook , by the beginning of August 2012, it was said that the area of ​ ​ real estate managed by the company had recently grown to 10 thousand square meters. m.

Russian developer of the "operating system" for real estate Manufaqtury attracted 2 billion rubles of investment

As Forbes writes with reference to the director of the WS Capital fund Andrei Malyshev, by 2021 there is a high market demand for a new type of office and technology for managing office real estate in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Through investments, Manufaqtury will primarily finalize a mobile application that will allow employer clients to reduce office costs, says startup co-founder Andrei Kulagin. In his opinion, in "post-covid reality, the number of employees no longer determines the office footage."^[1]

2019: Founding of the company

The startup was founded in 2019 by the former managing partner of the Deworkacy coworking network Andrei Kulagin and Olga Volodina, who previously worked at the Moscow Innovation Agency and the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF).

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