What Hub-Grade does

Hub-Grade SAS is a French digital real estate marketplace founded in 2015 and headquartered in Lyon, specializing in flexible office space rental across France. The platform aggregates more than 4,000 listings — including coworking spaces, private closed offices, workstations, independent offices, business centers, and company colocation arrangements — from major operators such as WeWork, Spaces, Wojo, Kwerk, Deskopolitan, Newton Offices, and The Bureau, as well as independent property owners. Coverage spans seven French regions, with the deepest inventory in Paris (1,115+ listings) and Lyon (913 listings).

The core technology stack comprises four components: an office listing aggregator that consolidates all flexible workspace types into a single searchable interface; a 100% digital rental management platform handling contract drafting, electronic signatures, rent collection through Hub-Grade's own account, and notice-period administration; an online contract comparator that breaks down bail 3/6/9 versus prestation de services costs over 1-year and 3-year horizons; and a multi-criteria search tool with email-alert functionality. The platform is supported by a team of licensed French real estate professionals (cartes G & T) who provide assisted advisory services for enterprise and complex searches.

Hub-Grade operates a transaction-based marketplace revenue model — listing deposition is free for property owners, and the company earns commissions only on successfully completed rentals. A complementary advisory service generates professional services revenue. The customer base is segmented horizontally across freelancers and solopreneurs, startups and SMEs, large enterprises seeking satellite or multi-city deployment, and property owners monetizing underutilized space. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, or institutional investors identified in the source material.

Name

Hub-Grade

Legal name

Hub-Grade SAS

Website

https://hub-grade.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hub-Grade is a French digital real estate marketplace founded in 2015 that aggregates 4,000+ flexible office listings across France, serving freelancers, SMEs, large enterprises, and property owners via a commission-based rental platform with licensed agent advisory support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Commission on Successful Listings: Hub-Grade acts as a digital real estate agent and earns revenue when office listings are successfully rented. Property owners deposit free listings and the company only earns when a rental transaction is completed. This is essentially a transaction-based / success-fee model aligned with marketplace commission.
2. Advisory and Accompaniment Services: Hub-Grade provides personalized real estate advisory services to businesses seeking office space, including customized proposals, negotiation assistance, and bespoke solutions from initial search through lease signing, complementing the digital platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hub-Grade operates a digital marketplace that aggregates all flexible office space listings across France — including coworking spaces, business centers, private closed offices, workstations, independent spaces, and company colocation/subletting — connecting businesses seeking office space with property owners seeking tenants. The platform is complemented by a team of licensed real estate advisors (cartes G & T) who provide personalized accompaniment from search through lease signing, and a 100% digital rental management workflow covering contract drafting, online signature, rent collection, and notice period administration.

Product overview

Hub-Grade is a digital real estate agent platform dedicated to flexible office space rental in France. The core offering is a marketplace aggregating over 4,600 office listings across the country, featuring coworking spaces, private closed offices, workstations, independent spaces, business centers, and business colocation options. The platform operates through its main digital marketplace augmented by complementary services: personalized expert accompaniment guiding businesses from search through contract signing; a 100% digital rental management platform handling contract drafting, online signatures, and payment processing; and an online contract comparator tool enabling cost comparison between traditional 3-6-9 year commercial leases and flexible service provision contracts. The platform covers all major French cities including Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, and Toulouse.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Flexible Office Space Marketplace Platform Online marketplace compiling thousands of flexible office listings across France from operators including WeWork, Spaces, Kwerk, Deskopolitan, Newton Offices, Wojo, and The Bureau; lets businesses search, filter, compare, and shortlist coworking, private offices, workstations, business centers, independent spaces and subletting/colocation options across Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Nantes, Toulouse and other French cities.
• Personalized Real Estate Advisory Service Advisory service delivered by Hub-Grade's in-house licensed real estate advisors (holding cartes G & T) that provides businesses with bespoke office search support, tailored shortlists, proposal preparation, and negotiation assistance from initial search through lease signing, complementing the self-serve marketplace.
• Digital Rental Management Platform End-to-end online rental management service that drafts the lease, enables electronic signature of the contract, processes tenant rent payments through Hub-Grade's account, manages notice periods, and provides landlords with detailed monthly management statements covering their listed spaces.
• Online Contract Comparison Tool (Bail 3/6/9 vs. Prestation de Services) Self-serve online tool that lets businesses model and compare the all-in cost of a bail commercial 3/6/9 against a contrat de prestation de services for any combination of location, headcount and fit-out level, producing cost-per-workstation-per-month and total-cost breakdowns to support lease-structure decisions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 10 years of experience serving businesses in finding flexible office solutions in France
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• WeWorkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWeWork is one of the major coworking operators whose listings are aggregated on Hub-Grade's platform. Hub-Grade compiles WeWork's flexible office offerings alongside other providers, making them discoverable through Hub-Grade's search and comparison tools. WeWork provides the inventory (office spaces) listed on Hub-Grade's marketplace.
• SpacescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSpaces, a global flexible workspace operator, is listed on Hub-Grade's platform alongside other major providers. Hub-Grade aggregates Spaces' office listings as part of its comprehensive inventory of flexible workspace options across France.
• KwerkminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorKwerk is a coworking and flexible workspace operator whose listings appear on Hub-Grade's platform as part of the aggregated flexible office inventory.
• DeskopolitanminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDeskopolitan is listed as a coworking provider on Hub-Grade's platform, contributing to the platform's aggregated inventory of flexible office spaces.
• Newton OfficesminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNewton Offices, a French flexible workspace operator, is listed on Hub-Grade's platform alongside other coworking and business center providers.
• WojocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWojo (a major French flexible workspace operator) is listed on Hub-Grade's platform as part of the aggregated coworking and flexible office inventory available to businesses searching on the platform.
• The BureauminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Bureau, a coworking and flexible workspace operator, is among the providers aggregated on Hub-Grade's platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cushman & Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services firm with a meaningful French tenant-representation and office-leasing brokerage practice. Competes for the same enterprise and project-based flex-office mandates that Hub-Grade's advisor team pursues, with broader portfolio services.
• CBRE: World's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with deep French tenant-representation and office-leasing brokerage practices. Overlaps with Hub-Grade for enterprise and mid-market flex-office mandates but at much greater scale and with broader capital-markets and valuation services.
• Knight Frank: Global commercial real estate consultancy with French office-agency and flexible-workspace advisory practices. Competes for the same enterprise and mid-market flex-office mandates that Hub-Grade's advisors pursue, with broader capital-markets and advisory services.
• Savills: Global commercial real estate services firm with significant French commercial-office and flex-space advisory practices, and parent of Workthere. A broad incumbent competing for the same enterprise flex-office mandates Hub-Grade pursues, with international reach and capital-markets capabilities.
• JLL: Global commercial real estate services firm with a large office-leasing brokerage practice across France serving enterprises and investors. A broad incumbent competitor to Hub-Grade for flex and traditional office mandates, with much larger marketing and advisor headcount.

Direct peers

• Coworker.com: International coworking and flex-workspace marketplace aggregating coworking, private office and meeting-room listings across thousands of cities including French metros. Overlaps with Hub-Grade on the marketplace side and competes for the same search-driven SMB and freelancer demand.
• Workthere: International flexible-workspace marketplace launched by Savills to help companies find coworking and serviced offices globally, including France. Directly comparable to Hub-Grade's core aggregator-plus-advisory offering for flex-office discovery.
• BureauxLocaux: French commercial real estate marketplace listing offices, coworking and flexible workspaces across France. Directly comparable to Hub-Grade in the office-rental aggregator category with similar SMB/mid-market customer segments and similar Paris/Lyon/Marseille geographic footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hub-grade
• Instagraminstagram.com/hubgrade/?hl=fr

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Valuation estimate

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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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