What Transforma Bxl does

Transforma Bxl is a Brussels-based coworking and entrepreneurial ecosystem operating across two locations — a 2,700 m² headquarters in Evere and a 1,500 m² warehouse-equipped site in Zaventem opened in March 2022 — serving startups, SMEs, corporates, and IoT/e-commerce founders. Founded in 2014 by Anis Bedda and Paul-Henri Schyns and operated as a brand of BottomUp Innovation SPRL, the company is bootstrapped with no disclosed external funding and runs a lean team (1-10 employees).

Its product stack layers flexible coworking memberships (€90-€350/month across four tiers), all-inclusive private offices for 3-16 person teams, hourly/daily meeting and event rooms (including a 150-person Co-Creation Hall and 60-person Innovation Garden), a CityFab2-partnered MakerSpace for hardware prototyping, a MediaLab with VR and green-screen equipment, a co-warehousing/logistics service, a podcast studio operated with The Podcast Factory Org, a Synups-operated fitness studio, and a permaculture garden. Member management runs on Nexudus, payments on GoCardless (PCI-DSS), and connectivity on Destiny/BeeOdiversity fiber.

The company generates revenue through subscription memberships, private office rentals, usage-based event and meeting room fees, one-time day passes (€30), and corporate intrapreneurship programs (Beehive Experiential Journey, design thinking, lean startup workshops). Go-to-market is primarily community-led and event-driven within the Brussels entrepreneurial ecosystem, supplemented by self-serve online booking. Transforma holds the Green Key eco-label (first coworking space globally, 2020), Ecodynamic Enterprise, and Label Réseau Nature certifications, and is approved for the Brussels Economy and Employment 'Prime Coworking' subsidy.

Name

Transforma Bxl

Legal name

BottomUp Innovation SPRL

Website

https://transformabxl.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Transforma Bxl operates a Brussels-based coworking and entrepreneurial ecosystem across two locations (Evere and Zaventem), serving startups, SMEs, corporates, and IoT/e-commerce founders with flexible workspaces, prototyping facilities, meeting rooms, warehousing, and corporate innovation programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Coworking Membership Subscriptions: Monthly recurring subscriptions for coworking access at various tiers (Networker 1-day/week, Mobile Worker 3-day/week, Coworker 5-day/week, Resident 7-day/24h). All plans include meeting room hours, building access, utilities, internet, coffee, and community access.
2. Private Office Rentals: All-inclusive monthly packages for private office spaces accommodating 3-16 people. Includes company registration, property tax, 24/7 access, furniture, IT infrastructure, telephone, meeting room access, and warehouse access.
3. Meeting & Event Room Rental: Hourly and daily rental of creative and classic meeting rooms. Rental prices start at €13/hour for small meeting rooms and €60/hour for creative meeting rooms. Catering and additional AV services available as upsells.
4. One-Day Passes: €30 per day for temporary coworking access, allowing visitors to experience the space without commitment.
5. Optional Add-On Services: Domiciliation (company address registration), telephone subscriptions, additional meeting room access (25% off), locker rental, and MakerSpace machine time and consumables billed separately.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Transforma Bxl operates a multi-location coworking and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brussels, offering flexible coworking memberships, all-inclusive private offices, modular meeting and event spaces, a MakerSpace for hardware prototyping, a MediaLab for audio-visual production, a podcast studio, shared warehousing/logistics services, and curated innovation programs for corporates. The ecosystem is anchored by a curated community of startups, SMEs, and innovators, with sustainability built into the physical infrastructure.

Product overview

Transforma Bxl is a multi-location coworking and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brussels (Evere and Zaventem) offering a comprehensive suite of workspace and innovation services. The core offering centers on flexible coworking memberships and private offices, supplemented by creative meeting and event spaces (Co-Creation Hall, Innovation Garden, The Hive), and maker facilities (MakerSpace, MediaLab, Warehouse, Podcast Studio). The ecosystem also includes fitness and wellbeing services (via Synups partnership) and permaculture garden. Innovation Programs provide intrapreneurship and bottom-up innovation services. The company positions itself as a 'playground for pioneers' combining workspace, prototyping, logistics, and wellness services for IoT, e-commerce, and media entrepreneurs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• transforma lab: Innovation programs and workshops for organizations to transition towards new ways of working, including intrapreneurship, design thinking, and sustainable innovation.
• transforma Zaventem

Products and services

• Coworking Memberships Shared coworking space with tiered monthly subscriptions (€90-€350/month) offering hot desks, dedicated desks, meeting room hours, fiber internet, utilities, coffee, and community access for startups, entrepreneurs, and freelancers.
• Private Offices All-inclusive private office spaces for 3-16 people with monthly packages that include company registration address, property tax, 24/7 access, furniture, IT infrastructure, telephone, meeting room access, and warehouse access.
• Meeting and Event Rooms Creative and classic meeting rooms for 6-150 people (Co-Creation Hall 170m²/150 ppl, Innovation Garden 81m²/60 ppl, board rooms), with usage-based pricing starting at €13/hour (small rooms) and €60/hour (creative rooms), plus optional catering and AV add-ons.
• MakerSpace Hardware prototyping facility offering 3D printing, CNC machines, metal shop, and wood shop for product development and IoT prototyping, operated in partnership with CityFab2 and supported by the Brussels Capital Region.
• MediaLab Audio-visual production studio with VR equipment (HTC Vive), 360-degree camera, green screen, photo/video studio with professional lighting, and editing workstations for content creators.
• Co-Warehousing / Logistics-as-a-Service Shared warehousing at Evere (300 sqm) and Zaventem (1500 sqm) locations enabling startups to store, handle, and ship products on-site alongside MakerSpace prototyping in a single integrated ecosystem.
• Podcast Studio Professional podcast recording studio available free for members, operated in collaboration with The Podcast Factory Org, including training by co-founder Michel Godart on podcast creation.
• Innovation Programs (transforma lab) Bottom-up innovation services including the Beehive Experiential Journey (4 practical workshops), intrapreneurship programs, design thinking workshops, and team experiences such as The Winning Sales Program and wellbeing activities, targeting corporations and SMEs.
• Fitness & Wellbeing Studio Functional fitness studio operated by partner Synups, offering personalized coaching programs and assessments covering fitness, nutrition, sleep, breathing, and meditation for members at preferential rates.
• Permaculture Garden Urban permaculture garden with vegetable plots, orchard, wetland area, bee hives, and community engagement programs, accessible to all members to promote wellness and sustainable living.

Quantifiable outcome

• First coworking space globally to achieve Green Key eco-label certification
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Belgian Coworking Association (BeCoworking)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerMember of the Belgian Coworking Association, which promotes and supports coworking spaces across Belgium. This membership positions Transforma Bxl within the national coworking ecosystem and provides visibility through the association's network.
• 1819 Brussels Business SupportminorGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial Brussels business support service helping entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. Listed as a friend/partner of Transforma Bxl.
• CityDev BrusselscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCityDev Brussels (Brussels Regional Investment Company) partnered with Transforma to create the MakerSpace/CityFab2 facility. CityDev contributed investment and support for the hardware prototyping space and co-warehousing infrastructure.
• Puro Fairtrade CoffeeminorOthersFairtrade coffee supplier for the coworking space. Provides ethical, fairtrade-sourced coffee to members, aligning with Transforma's sustainability values.
• Intrapreneurship Conference (Innov8rs)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerTransforma co-founder Anis Bedda co-founded the Intrapreneurship Conference (Innov8rs), the premier global gathering of intrapreneurs, corporate entrepreneurs, and innovation managers. The conference and Transforma Bxl cross-promote and share the same founder.
• Space FillingminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartner platform for finding and booking meeting rooms and event spaces. Increases Transforma's visibility among professionals seeking meeting venues in Brussels.
• BeeOdiversity (Destiny)coreTechnology or IntegrationInternet connectivity provider delivering fiber-optic internet to the Transforma workspace. BeeOdiversity/Destiny provides the critical IT infrastructure enabling member productivity.
• Spark LabsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInnovation and startup support organization listed as a friend/partner. May collaborate on events, programs, or cross-referrals within the Brussels innovation ecosystem.
• SynupscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFitness and wellbeing coaching partner who created a functional fitness studio inside Transforma. Synups provides personalized coaching programs encompassing fitness, nutrition, sleep, breathing, meditation, and more. Transforma members enjoy preferential rates. Co-founded by Anis Bedda (Transforma founder) and Patrick.
• The Podcast Factory OrgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPodcast production organization operating in collaboration with Transforma Bxl. Hosts podcast recording in Transforma's studio. Founder Michel Godart provides free training to Transforma members on podcast creation.
• CityFab2 / Brussels Capital RegioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCityFab2 is a FabLab network supported by the Brussels Capital Region and CityDev. Transforma's MakerSpace operates in partnership with CityFab2, providing access to hardware prototyping equipment and the broader FabLab network.
• Brussels Economy and Employment (BEE)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerTransforma is an approved coworking space by Brussels Economy and Employment. Members can apply for the 'Prime Coworking' subsidy worth €450 on their subscription, funded by the Brussels regional government to encourage flexible working.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• The Wing: The Wing is a members-only workspace and community built around women professionals. It shares Transforma's emphasis on curated community, programming, and event spaces as core differentiators versus commodity coworking, though focused on a different audience demographic.
• Fosbury & Sons: Fosbury & Sons is a Belgian premium coworking and meeting space operator founded by serial entrepreneur Christian Boedts. Like Transforma, it serves entrepreneurs and SMEs with curated spaces and community events, but at higher price points and with a more design-led, hospitality-driven brand.
• BeCentral: BeCentral is a Brussels-based non-profit tech and innovation campus located above Brussels Central Station. It offers free workspace, training, and community events for digital entrepreneurs, making it a direct peer in the Brussels startup ecosystem with a stronger focus on coding education.
• NeueHouse: NeueHouse is a member-based creative workspace and cultural community operating in major US and European cities. Like Transforma, it emphasizes curated community, programming, and design-led experiences rather than pure desk rental, though at a more premium, creative-industry positioning.
• Silversquare: Silversquare is a Belgian premium coworking chain operating multiple locations in Brussels, Antwerp, and beyond. It competes directly with Transforma for SME and corporate members seeking flexible office space in Belgium, though at a more premium, less community-curated positioning.
• Impact Hub Brussels: Impact Hub is a global network of impact-focused coworking spaces with Brussels as one of its flagship locations. Both Transforma and Impact Hub Brussels target mission-driven entrepreneurs and pair workspace with programming, making them the closest direct competitor in the Belgian impact-entrepreneurship segment.

Broad incumbents

• Industrious: Industrious is a premium flexible-workspace provider operating across the US, UK, and increasingly Europe. It serves enterprise clients with high-quality offices and hospitality, comparable to Transforma's higher-end private office offering but at greater scale and with stronger institutional capital backing.
• Spaces (IWG): Spaces is a global flexible-workspace brand operated by IWG (International Workplace Group). It competes broadly with independent coworking operators like Transforma in Brussels and across Europe, offering coworking and private offices as part of a multi-brand portfolio at greater scale.
• WeWork: WeWork is the global coworking incumbent offering flexible office space across major cities. While historically absent from Brussels at scale, WeWork represents the broad competitive backdrop and the type of well-capitalized operator Transforma would face if expanding into larger European markets.

Emerging players

• Galvanize: Galvanize operates tech-focused campuses combining coworking, education (data science bootcamps), and events. Similar to Transforma's integration of workspace with innovation programming, but more education-anchored and structured as a for-profit training-and-workspace hybrid at greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/transformabxl
• Facebookfacebook.com/TransformaBxl
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/transforma-bxl

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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