Urbnx Launches a Capital Raising on CrowdFundMe

URBNX, an innovative startup from Abano Terme (Padua) that has created a platform for agile working to connect locations and workers, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfundme, aiming for an initial goal of  €80,000 and a maximum of  €400,000.

The platform, unlike traditional coworking, acts as an intermediary between users and space managers, retaining a commission on the service provided.

URBNX, operational for a few months, is already strong in promising numbers: over 70 structures on Italian territory, inside and outside the cities, mainly in the North, of which 20 in Milan, more than 300 registered users, around 3,500 downloads of the app and 1,800 daily visits to the site.

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Urbnx collection objectives and business model

The objective of the collection is to increase the innovative startup’s presence in Italy and abroad, as the founders explain Giovanni Peracin, marketing executive with 25 years of experience in the fashion sector (from Levi Strauss to Benetton) and Alberto Nathansohn, with a managerial career behind him in large companies such as Bulgari, Benetton and Pirelli:

“URBNX is present today in Northern Italy with almost eighty locations and the number increases every week”. Milan and other large cities already have various workspaces accessible through our platform, as do the rest of Lombardy and Veneto. Agile workers can already find Urbnx spaces in Liguria, Piedmont and Lazio and our goal for 2024 is to expand the presence in new regions, with priority towards Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany. We also plan to start the development of at least one second country in Europe. We are studying Germany and France which could be the first to support our growth.”

Through the URBNX platform and App you can easily book, even at short notice, workstations located inside hotels, independent coworking spaces, bars, historic villas and, in the near future, also in public spaces such as museums, stations, sports associations and private clubs.

Anyone who has little-used spaces, but suitable for agile working, can make them available on URBNX. The company is then developing a strategic network, consisting of commercial agreements with some of the most important hotel chains in Italy, including Starhotels Group, Hyatt, Best Western and Novotel.

The reference market

The demand for smart working in Italy is increasingly higher. According to estimates from the Smart Working Observatory of the Polytechnic of Milan, after the peaks of the pandemic and a marginal contraction in the last two years, in 2023 workers from remote in our country stand at 3.585 million, slightly up on the 3.570 million in 2022, but up 541% compared to the pre-pandemic situation, with the forecast of reaching 3.6 million in 2024.

Smart Working also has important effects on the environment: two days a week of remote working avoids the emission of 480kg of CO2 per year, per person, thanks to the reduction in travel and less use of offices.

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