What wayCO does

WayCO (legal entity: WAYCO IDEAS, S.L., founded 2013) is a Valencia-based coworking operator running four shared workspace locations — Ruzafa (2,400 m²), Abastos (1,800 m²), Cabanyal (2,600 m²), and the forthcoming Pizarro (2,000+ m²) — totaling 8,450 m² of infrastructure across key Valencia neighborhoods including the city center and the maritime Cabanyal-Canyamelar district. Its product surface spans hot desks, fixed desks, and private offices for teams of 2-40, supplemented by meeting rooms, training classrooms, event venues, photo studios, audiovisual filming locations, virtual office services, an in-house cafeteria brand (Café de CO), and corporate catering. The Flex Multicentro membership enables cross-location access across all four sites.

The company's underlying technology is a third-party stack rather than proprietary software: Nexudus powers space management, member bookings, tour reservations, and access control via per-location portals (e.g., waycoruzafa.spaces.nexudus.com), while Stripe handles payment processing. No public API, SDK, or mobile app is offered, and there is no evidence of in-house AI/ML capability. WayCO is family-led, with founder Víctor Cambralla as CEO and three Cambralla family members holding director-level roles in technology, brand, and operations.

WayCO's business model is primarily subscription-based recurring revenue from monthly memberships (tiered from €80 Flex 5 to €280-330 Fijo Plus plans, with private offices at €310-450), supplemented by usage-based revenue from day passes (€25-40), half-day passes (€14-21), terrace passes (€10.50), meeting/event room rentals, and professional services revenue from catering. The go-to-market is a hybrid of community-led growth (events such as Breakfast CO, Creative Mornings, and the Beca Wayco women entrepreneur scholarship) and product-led self-serve booking through the website. Target customer segments are freelancers and digital nomads, small and medium businesses, remote-first companies, event and creative production clients, and entrepreneurs and startups — all concentrated in Valencia, Spain, with no disclosed international footprint or external funding.

Name

wayCO

Legal name

WAYCO IDEAS, S. L.

Website

https://wayco.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WayCO operates four coworking spaces totaling 8,450 m² in Valencia, Spain, offering flexible desks, private offices, meeting rooms, event venues, and in-house catering to freelancers, SMEs, and creative professionals through subscription and usage-based pricing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Coworking Spaces

NAICS

Office Administrative Services (5611), Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars (722515), Caterers (722320)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Hybrid Work Enablement & Desk/Room Booking Operations (BPABAFAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Coworking Cafes / Work Cafes (THAFADAJ)

Keywords

• Coworking spaces
• Flexible workspaces
• Private office rental
• Virtual office services
• Event space rental

Headquarters

HQ city

Valencia

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Coworking Memberships: Monthly subscription memberships providing access to flexible desks, fixed desks, private offices, and meeting rooms. Tiered pricing from basic Flex plans (5-10 days/month) to unlimited access and premium fixed desks with added amenities.
2. Day Passes and Half-Day Passes: Single-use day passes for hot desking, morning or afternoon sessions, and specialty passes like cafeteria and terrace passes forcafé and outdoor workspace access.
3. Meeting and Event Room Rentals: Hourly and daily rental of meeting rooms, training classrooms, event spaces, and podcast/audiovisual recording studios.
4. Catering Services: In-house catering service for events including business breakfasts, corporate lunches, company meals, paella experiences, and after-work gatherings. Made with local ingredients and homemade recipes.
5. Virtual Office Services: Virtual office packages providing a fiscal, social, and commercial address with mail reception and package handling services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

wayCO operates four coworking spaces in Valencia, Spain (Abastos, Cabanyal, Pizarro, Ruzafa), totaling approximately 8,450 m². The company sells flexible workspace solutions including hot desks, fixed desks, and private offices for teams of 2-40 people, supplemented by meeting rooms, event spaces, training classrooms, virtual office services, photo shoot locations, audiovisual recording spaces, and an in-house cafeteria/catering service (Café de CO). Members can access multiple locations through the Flex Multicentro membership, and bookings are managed via the Nexudus platform with Stripe payment processing.

Product overview

WAYCO operates a multi-location coworking platform in Valencia, Spain, offering four distinct coworking spaces (Abastos, Cabanyal, Pizarro, and Ruzafa) totaling approximately 8,450 m² of shared workspace. The platform provides flexible workspace solutions including hot-desks, fixed desks, and private offices for teams of 2-40 people. Additional modules include virtual office services, meeting rooms, event spaces, training classrooms, photo shoot locations, and audiovisual recording spaces. The ecosystem is complemented by Café de CO (in-house cafeteria/catering service) and the Beca Wayco scholarship program for women entrepreneurs. Membership options include flexible day passes, monthly plans, and the Flex Multicentro membership enabling access across all locations. The platform uses Nexudus for booking and membership management and Stripe for payment processing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Café de CO: Cafeteria brand born from Wayco's philosophy, offering daily cafeteria service with homemade recipes and local ingredients across Wayco locations.

Products and services

• Wayco Abastos 1,800 m² coworking space located in a historic building that was formerly a thread factory in the centre of Valencia. Features creative, cozy workspaces with authentic neighbourhood atmosphere.
• Wayco Cabanyal Five-floor, 2,500 m² coworking space near the sea in Valencia, featuring bright interiors, an interior patio and terrace with views of the port, connected by metro, bus and tram.
• Wayco Pizarro An exclusive 6-floor building with over 2,000 m² in the business district of Valencia, a 7-minute walk from Valencia Nord station, offering private offices for companies, teams and professionals.
• Wayco Ruzafa 2,400 m² bright and dynamic coworking space in the heart of Valencia's Ruzafa neighbourhood, surrounded by restaurants and shops in a vibrant urban area.
• Private Offices Private office spaces for teams of 2 to 40 people with turnkey services including kitchen, bathroom, exclusive meeting rooms and 24/7 independent access.
• Virtual Office Virtual office service providing a fiscal, social and commercial address without physical space requirements, including mail and package reception with email notifications.
• Meeting Rooms Various-sized meeting rooms fully equipped with technology and furniture for professional meetings, available for hourly or daily booking with optional catering.
• Event Spaces Versatile and creative event spaces for professional events including presentations, conferences and group activities, with customizable configurations and in-house catering.
• Training Rooms and Classrooms

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Sonia Arenas (Innoventures Capital)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Sonia Arenas, financial analyst at Innoventures Capital and wayCO Abastos coworker, provides business advisory services to women entrepreneurs winning the wayCO scholarship. She assists with financial projections, investment applications, and business model development.
• Social Nest FoundationminorOthers · 1 January 2022Social acceleration program that supported Mariola Marcet (Upcyclick) before she joined wayCO. The foundation runs programs for social projects and awarded Upcyclick as most impactful startup.
• NexuduscoreTechnology or IntegrationNexudus provides the coworking management platform powering WayCO's space management, member bookings, access control, and billing across all four Valencia locations.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Utopicus: Spanish coworking operator with multiple locations across Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia). Most direct competitor to WayCO given overlapping Iberian geography, multi-location network model, and similar SME/freelancer target customer base.
• OneCoWork: Premium coworking brand operating in Barcelona, Madrid, and Lisbon with design-forward historic-building spaces and curated community programming, closely mirroring WayCO's positioning and member experience philosophy.
• Talent Garden: European coworking network focused on digital and innovation communities across Italy, Spain, Ireland and the Nordics. Comparable as a multi-location European operator targeting entrepreneurs, SMEs, and corporate innovation teams.
• Impact Hub: Global network of impact-focused coworking spaces with a presence in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona). Comparable through its community programming, social-entrepreneurship positioning, and Beca-Wayco-style support initiatives.

Broad incumbents

• IWG (Spaces / Regus): World's largest flexible workspace operator under brands including Spaces and Regus. Competes with WayCO in Valencia and across Spain but at much broader scale, with an enterprise-oriented offering rather than a curated community model.
• WeWork: Global coworking incumbent now operating under post-restructuring footprint with locations in Madrid and Barcelona. Competes for SME and enterprise flexible-office demand but lacks WayCO's Valencia community-density positioning.

Regional players

• LOOM Coworking: Premium Spanish coworking brand with locations in Madrid and other major Spanish cities. Comparable in design-led, hospitality-integrated model but does not currently operate in Valencia, making it an adjacent regional competitor.
• Aticco: Barcelona-headquartered coworking and event-space operator with multiple sites in Catalonia. Comparable as a Spanish multi-location coworking player focused on community and event programming, though geographically focused on Barcelona.
• The Office (Espacio The Office): Spanish flexible-workspace chain with multiple locations in Madrid and other Spanish cities. Comparable as a domestic Spanish operator serving SMEs and freelancers, though with a more corporate/transactional positioning than WayCO.

Emerging players

• Second Home: Design-led coworking and cultural-space operator (London, Lisbon, LA). Comparable through its membership-based community model and design-forward historic-building interiors, even though it does not currently operate in Valencia.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/waycoideas
• Facebookfacebook.com/culturawayco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wayco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries1 record

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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