Hafven

What Hafven does

Hafven is a private, for-profit coworking space operator headquartered in Hanover, Germany, founded in 2016. The company's core offering combines shared workspaces, bookable meeting rooms, and an integrated cafe facility, serving local professionals, freelancers, startups, and small businesses that require flexible office infrastructure rather than long-term leases. With a headcount of 11-50 employees, Hafven operates as a small, locally focused workspace provider whose value proposition rests on physical amenities and community atmosphere rather than technology differentiation.

No information on a proprietary technology platform, app, API, or integration ecosystem is disclosed in the available sources, and the primary website (hafven.de) returned only a loading/verification page during data collection, leaving substantial gaps around pricing, customer segments, partnerships, and operational metrics. The revenue model is not publicly documented but, consistent with coworking industry norms, would plausibly combine monthly desk/membership fees, hourly meeting-room rentals, and cafe/ancillary revenue.

Leadership and capital structure are similarly opaque. Ricardo Ferrer Rivero is identified as a Co-founder and Head of Partner Collaboration, signaling a partner- and community-driven operating model. The company has a single documented funding round of approximately $477,762, suggesting limited external capital activity beyond initial startup financing. No subsequent raises, acquisitions, geographic expansions, or product launches are evidenced in the input, indicating either stable small-scale operations or a constrained growth profile.

Name

Hafven

Website

https://hafven.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hafven is a Hanover, Germany-based coworking space operator founded in 2016, providing shared workspaces, meeting rooms, and an on-site cafe to local professionals, freelancers, and small businesses in the Hanover market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Coworking Spaces

NAICS

Facilities Support Services (561210)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Space & Occupancy Services (Move/Add/Change, Seating, Wayfinding) (IMAIALAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Managed Workplace Services (DaaS/Workplace-as-a-Service) (BPAEAIAA)

Keywords

• Coworking spaces
• Shared workspaces
• Meeting rooms
• Cafe services
• Community workspace

Headquarters

HQ city

Hanover

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Hafven operates a coworking space in Hanover, Germany, providing shared workspaces, meeting rooms, and an on-site cafe. The facility serves individual professionals, freelancers, remote workers, and small teams seeking a flexible work environment with community amenities under one roof.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coworking spaces
• Meeting rooms
• Cafe

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Design Offices: Munich-based operator of flexible, design-led workspaces across multiple German cities. Directly comparable as another German coworking/flexible-office operator serving SME and corporate clients with a multi-vertical service model.
• Mindspace: Premium European coworking and flexible-office operator with locations in Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond. Comparable on curated workspace design and community-led positioning targeting professional and enterprise members.

Broad incumbents

• IWG (Regus / Spaces): The world's largest flexible-workspace operator under brands including Regus, Spaces, and HQ. Overlaps with Hafven on coworking and meeting-room rental but operates at vastly greater scale with a multi-brand portfolio.
• WeWork: Global coworking pioneer offering shared offices, private offices, and meeting rooms. Directly comparable product offering to Hafven, though with a vastly larger footprint and capital base.
• Industrious: US premium flexible-office operator partnering with landlords for enterprise-grade coworking. Overlaps with Hafven in the meeting-room and private-office product surface, though operating at materially larger scale.

Regional players

• Office Club: German flexible-office and coworking operator. Comparable regional peer focused on small and mid-sized German cities — directly relevant to Hafven's mid-tier German market positioning.
• Workhaus: Cologne-based coworking and event-space operator offering shared workspaces and meeting rooms in Germany. Comparable mid-sized German coworking peer with a hybrid workspace-plus-community model.
• St. Oberholz: Berlin-based coworking space with attached cafe — a notable structural parallel to Hafven's coworking-plus-cafe combination in the German market.

Emerging players

• second home: London-headquartered design-forward coworking operator expanding into European cities. Comparable on the curated, hospitality-inflected positioning Hafven also pursues via its cafe component.
• Workbar: Regional US coworking operator offering shared offices and meeting rooms to professionals and small businesses. Comparable mid-market coworking positioning to Hafven.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hafven

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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