Managed by Q

What Managed by Q does

Per firmographic records, Managed by Q is a New York-based, private for-profit company founded in 2013 that historically provided subscription and on-demand office services, spanning cleaning and maintenance, supply replenishment, and workplace wellness offerings to office tenants. The business scaled to 251-500 employees and attracted approximately $97.4M in cumulative equity funding across seven disclosed rounds from 2014 through January 2019, with Google Ventures and RRE Ventures as recurring lead investors and a broad syndicate including Greycroft, Kapor Capital, Homebrew, Slow Ventures, SV Angel, and strategic investor Oxford Properties Group. The company executed two acquisitions (Hivy in September 2017 and NVS in June 2018) to broaden its service platform, and Henrik Werdelin is recorded as a founding angel investor.

The current observable state of the company's primary web property, managedbyq.com, diverges sharply from this historical profile. As of January 2024, the site functions as a minimal WordPress content blog publishing educational articles on resource management, incident management, mobilization, and emergency response topics, authored by Anne Robinson and Neil McIntosh. No commercial product, SaaS platform, pricing page, customer logos, or service offering is visible on the website, and the only public contact is a generic [email protected] email address. The technology stack is described in source data as not proprietary, with no integrations, APIs, SDKs, or AI features disclosed.

The commercial mechanics of the historical business model — based on the firmographic description — were subscription-based recurring office-services contracts, augmented by on-demand service requests, distributed via a direct sales force to office tenants primarily in the New York market and adjacent geographies. No pricing tiers, contract values, or unit economics are disclosed in the available data. The cumulative funding, two acquisitions, and 251-500 employee headcount through 2018-2019 imply a meaningful mid-market B2B services operation at peak, but the post-2019 absence of capital activity, product launches, or visible commercial activity on the website leaves the company's current operating status materially ambiguous.

Name

Managed by Q

Website

https://managedbyq.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Managed by Q is a New York-based company that historically provided subscription and on-demand office services — cleaning, maintenance, supply replenishment, and wellness — to office tenants, having raised approximately $97M from investors including Google Ventures and RRE Ventures. Its current website functions as a content blog rather than a commercial offering.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Office Management Services

NAICS

Facilities Support Services (561210)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Same-Day/On-Demand Recurring Cleaning (Subscription-Based) (HSAEAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Home Services Coordination & Vendor Management (HSACAIAI)

Keywords

• Office management services
• Commercial cleaning services
• Facility maintenance services
• Workplace wellness programs
• Office supply replenishment

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Content monetization: Revenue generation through educational content publication, likely supported by advertising or affiliate marketing related to resource management tools and services mentioned in articles.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Managed by Q provides subscription and on-demand office services to businesses, covering cleaning, maintenance, supply replenishment, and wellness. The company operates a managed-services platform that connects workplaces with vetted service providers, allowing customers to consolidate multiple office operational needs under a single subscription or on-demand contract.

Product overview

Managed by Q operates a WordPress-based blog/knowledge resource website (managedbyq.com) that publishes educational and informational articles on resource management, incident management, crisis management, and emergency response topics. The site features blog posts authored by Anne Robinson and Neil McIntosh covering subjects such as resource coordination, mobilization, strategic resource allocation, multi-agency collaboration, and communication in emergencies. The website does not appear to offer a commercial product, software platform, or SaaS service — it functions as an informational content publication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Office Cleaning Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Articles provide frameworks and methodologies that can improve resource coordination efficiency during incidents
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Compass Group: Global contract foodservice and support services giant including facility services; comparable end-customers but at vastly larger scale and broader service portfolio.
• Sodexo: Multinational facility management and quality-of-life services provider; serves overlapping enterprise customers with bundled facility and cleaning offerings.
• ISS A/S: One of the largest global facility services providers offering cleaning, maintenance, and workplace support; competes for the same enterprise office services contracts.

Direct peers

• Handy: Marketplace for on-demand home and office cleaning and handyman services; comparable subscription/booking model and overlap in office cleaning use cases for NYC-based commercial customers.
• TIDY: Subscription home and office cleaning service with recurring booking model; directly comparable in service packaging and customer acquisition through employer benefits partnerships.
• Properly: Tech-enabled residential and commercial cleaning marketplace combining software and vetted cleaning crews, overlapping with Managed by Q's subscription cleaning value proposition.
• Eden: Subscription office services platform offering cleaning, maintenance, and supplies — the closest direct competitor and eventual acquirer of Managed by Q, operating the same subscription-based service model for office tenants.

Emerging players

• OfficeSpace Software: Workplace management and facilities platform serving similar office operations customers; comparable in serving facility/office managers but as a software layer rather than physical service delivery.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/managedbyq
• Facebookfacebook.com/ManagedbyQ
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/managed-by-q

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors22 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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