Crealead

What Crealead does

Crealead is a French non-profit cooperative founded in 2001 and headquartered in Montpellier, operating as an integrated support ecosystem for independent entrepreneurs. The organization combines coworking infrastructure, HR and business consulting, and multi-sector community resources under a single cooperative framework in which members join as co-entrepreneurs. Its service portfolio is organized across five activity domains: formation (training), habitat de demain (housing and building), coachs et consultants (coaching and consulting), le numérique (digital), and le design. The cooperative's primary offerings include La Coopérative Crealead as the umbrella membership structure, physical coworking spaces and meeting rooms, Le Portail de Crealead (a member-facing dashboard for login and resource access), and regularly scheduled réunions d'information (information meetings) for prospective entrepreneurs.

The underlying technology footprint is minimal: the company discloses no proprietary software, APIs, SDKs, integrations, or AI capabilities, and its primary digital surface is a member portal and an eco-design-compliant public website (targeting EcoIndex B* certification). Differentiation therefore derives from the cooperative structure and the cross-domain professional community rather than from technology. No patents, trademarks, awards, partnerships, or alliances are disclosed, and the technology stack does not constitute a defensible technical moat.

The business model is membership-based recurring revenue, with entrepreneurs paying to access shared workspace, community, and cross-sector services. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market motion is community-led: prospective members are recruited through recurring information meetings and organic social media, rather than paid acquisition or enterprise sales. The customer base consists primarily of individual entrepreneurs and independent professionals, with no named enterprise logos or anchor accounts. Crealead serves only the French market (regional Montpellier footprint) and has no disclosed plans for geographic expansion. The company is a private non-profit, with no funding rounds, M&A, leadership changes, or strategic investments recorded in the source data.

Name

Crealead

Website

https://crealead.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Crealead is a Montpellier-based non-profit cooperative founded in 2001 that provides coworking spaces, HR and business consulting, and a multi-domain professional community to independent entrepreneurs across training, housing, coaching, digital, and design sectors in France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cooperative Business Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (81399)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

CRM Strategy & Consulting (BPAFAFAA)

Keywords

• Entrepreneur cooperative services
• Coworking space services
• Business coaching consulting
• Professional training services
• Shared workspace community

Headquarters

HQ city

Montpellier

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cooperative membership and workspace services: Crealead operates as a cooperative (La Coopérative) providing services to entrepreneurs including co-working spaces, meeting rooms, and community membership across multiple business domains.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Crealead operates a non-profit cooperative that provides shared coworking spaces, meeting rooms, and business support services to entrepreneurs who join as co-entrepreneurs. Activities are organized across five professional domains — training (Se former), housing/building (Habitat de demain), coaching/consulting (Coachs et consultants), digital (Le numérique), and design (Le design) — with prospective members onboarded through recurring information meetings (Réunions d'information) and accessing services through the Crealead member portal.

Product overview

Crealead is a cooperative organization that provides a multi-service ecosystem for entrepreneurs. The core offering includes La Coopérative Crealead as the umbrella structure, supplemented by coworking spaces and meeting rooms. The cooperative organizes its activities across five distinct domains: Formation (training), Habitat de demain (housing/building), Coaches et consultants (coaching/consulting), Le numérique (digital), and Le design. Members access services through Le Portail de Crealead (member dashboard), and prospective entrepreneurs can attend information meetings to learn about the cooperative.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coworking Spaces and Meeting Rooms

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Crealead_scop

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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