Vertical Coworking

What Vertical Coworking does

Vertical Coworking, operated by Feel Venture – Mediação Imobiliária, Lda., is a privately held coworking and accommodation operator founded in 2021 and headquartered in Porto, Portugal. The company operates three downtown Porto locations — Vertical Bolhão (2021), Vertical Firmeza (2023), and Vertical Dom Henrique (2025) — offering dedicated desks, flex passes, private offices, meeting rooms, virtual offices, event spaces, and specialized environments such as a streaming room and an Oasis Hub wellness area. It serves freelancers, digital nomads, startups, SMBs, and larger companies seeking flexible workspace in Porto, with a secondary line of short-term apartment and studio rentals marketed as a workcation offering under the Feel Porto Accommodation sub-brand.

The underlying technology stack is conventional rather than proprietary: bookings are processed through the Officernd SaaS platform (vertical-coworking.officernd.com), on-site infrastructure includes 24/7 access control, high-speed Wi-Fi, and standard video-conferencing hardware, and accommodation is sold through a separate booking storefront at apartments.verticalcoworking.com. No AI/ML capabilities, patents, certifications, or external integrations are disclosed. The business combines subscription-based recurring revenue (memberships, dedicated desks, private offices, virtual office subscriptions) with usage-based and transactional revenue streams (day/hourly passes, meeting rooms, event space rental, and accommodation bookings), supplemented by multi-year Business Plan contracts for corporate clients.

Name

Vertical Coworking

Legal name

Feel Venture – Mediação Imobiliária, Lda.

Website

https://verticalcoworking.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Vertical Coworking operates three downtown Porto locations offering coworking desks, private offices, meeting rooms, event spaces, virtual offices, and integrated short-term apartment rentals, serving freelancers, digital nomads, startups, and SMBs seeking flexible workspace and workcation accommodations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Coworking and Flexible Workspaces

NAICS

Facilities Support Services (561210)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Workplace Hospitality & Office Services (Pantry, Refreshments, Supplies) (BPABAEAF)

Keywords

• Coworking spaces
• Flexible workspaces
• Virtual office services
• Meeting room rentals
• Serviced apartments

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Coworking Memberships: Recurring subscription revenue from dedicated desks, private offices, and flex desk memberships. Members pay monthly fees for workspace access with various amenities included.
2. Day/Hourly Passes: Pay-per-use revenue from hot desk access, flex passes, and hourly meeting room bookings. Offers daily, weekly, and monthly plans.
3. Virtual Office Services: Business address services providing prestigious Porto location for mail handling and business registration, with access to meeting room hours.
4. Event Space Rental: Revenue from renting versatile event spaces including rooftop, auditorium, lounge, and conference rooms for corporate events, workshops, and conferences.
5. Accommodation Rentals: Short-term rental income from fully-equipped apartments and studios in Porto, including corporate housing and holiday rentals through the apartments.verticalcoworking.com platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Vertical Coworking operates flexible workspace products across multiple Porto locations, providing dedicated desks, flex passes, private offices, meeting rooms, virtual offices, a streaming/content creation room, event spaces, and integrated serviced apartments under the Feel Porto brand. Customers include individual professionals, freelancers, digital nomads, startups, and international companies requiring a Portuguese business address and flexible workspace.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Vertical Dom Henrique: Coworking location at R. do Bolhão 221 B, featuring hotdesks, flexdesks, private offices, meeting rooms, phonebooths, and event space up to 200 people.
• Vertical Bolhão
• Vertical Firmeza

Products and services

• Dedicated Desk

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 500 members have experienced the space since founding in 2021
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Mindspace: European coworking and flexible office operator with a premium design-led positioning across multiple cities. Comparable as a multi-location coworking provider serving SMBs and enterprise teams in Europe; potential competitor as Mindspace expands across the Iberian Peninsula.
• WeWork: Global coworking and flexible office operator with thousands of locations. Comparable as a coworking space provider offering dedicated desks, private offices, and meeting rooms, though WeWork operates at vastly greater scale and without Vertical Coworking's integrated accommodation offering.
• IWG (Spaces / Regus): World's largest flexible workspace operator with Spaces and Regus brands. Comparable as a multi-location coworking and private-office provider serving SMBs and enterprises; competes in the same flexible workspace category though without Vertical Coworking's hospitality-plus-accommodation positioning.
• Industrious: Premium flexible office and coworking operator focused on enterprise and mid-market clients. Comparable as a coworking and private-office provider, particularly relevant to Vertical Coworking's Business Plans tier targeting companies with distributed teams.

Direct peers

• Hubud: Coworking space in Bali (Indonesia) targeting digital nomads and remote workers. Comparable on the digital-nomad-focused coworking positioning and emphasis on community, location-driven lifestyle, and flexible memberships.
• Outsite: Workation-focused brand offering coliving and coworking stays in destinations popular with remote workers. Highly comparable to Vertical Coworking's integrated work-plus-stay model and overlapping target segment of digital nomads and remote professionals.
• Selina: Hospitality and workcation brand combining accommodation with coworking spaces for digital nomads. Most directly comparable to Vertical Coworking on the integrated work-live 'verticality' proposition, though Selina operates globally and is primarily accommodation-led.
• Second Home: Design-led coworking operator with a hospitality and creative-community focus across multiple cities. Comparable as a coworking operator blending workspace with events, cultural programming, and member experience — overlapping with Vertical Coworking's community and event-led positioning.
• Impact Hub: Global network of impact-focused coworking spaces. Comparable as a community-driven coworking operator targeting entrepreneurs, freelancers, and purpose-driven startups — overlapping with Vertical Coworking's primary customer segments.
• Cowork Central: Portuguese coworking operator (with a strong Lisbon presence and Iberian expansion) offering flexible workspaces, private offices, and meeting rooms. Comparable as a direct regional competitor in the Iberian coworking market with overlapping SMB and freelancer customer segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xfacebook.com/verticalcoworking
• Facebookfacebook.com/verticalcoworking
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/verticalcoworking
• Instagraminstagram.com/verticalcoworking

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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