Crew Collective & Café

What Crew Collective & Café does

Crew Collective & Café (CC&C) operates a hybrid coworking, café, and private event venue business from a single restored 1926 Royal Bank of Canada heritage building at 360 Rue Saint-Jacques in Old Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 2016 by a group of entrepreneurs who transformed the former bank headquarters through architect Henri Cleinge, the company serves multiple customer segments simultaneously: freelancers and remote professionals seeking flexible workspace, SMBs needing dedicated desks or private offices, corporate clients booking event venues for galas and meetings, wedding parties, film and photography productions, and general café patrons. The business is structured around three integrated pillars: a specialty café serving brunch daily (9am-3pm) with custom coffee roasted by Traffic Coffee; the Collective coworking operation offering floating desks ($300/month), dedicated desks ($675/month), private offices (starting at $6,000/month), meeting rooms, conference rooms, booths, and virtual office plans ($50-105/month); and the Crew event venue business renting spaces including the 250-capacity Main Venue (3,000 sq ft), East/West Wings, Zen Room, Balconies, and the 3,700 sq ft South Lounge.

Name

Crew Collective & Café

Legal name

Crew Collective & Café

Website

https://crewcollectivecafe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crew Collective & Café operates a hybrid coworking, café, and private event venue business from a restored 1926 Royal Bank of Canada heritage building in Old Montreal, serving freelancers, SMBs, corporate event clients, and general café patrons with flexible workspace, specialty coffee, and event rentals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Coworking, Café and Event Venue Services

NAICS

Limited-Service Restaurants (722513)

akta.pro primary industry

Coworking Cafes / Work Cafes (THAFADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Independent Neighborhood Cafes (THAFADAC)

Keywords

• Heritage coworking space
• Specialty coffee café
• Private event venue
• Virtual office services
• Flexible workspace memberships

Headquarters

HQ city

Montreal, Quebec

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Coworking Memberships: Monthly subscription memberships for 24/7 access to flexible workspaces including floating desks ($300/month), dedicated desks ($675/month), private offices (starting at $6,000/month), and virtual office plans ($50–$105/month). Members also receive café discounts, meeting room access, and use of shared amenities.
2. Day Passes and Hourly Workspace Rentals: Day passes and hourly rentals for meeting rooms, booths, and open workspaces provide non-recurring revenue from transient users. Meeting rooms are priced at $45–50 per session; booths at $15/hour; the Crew Suite at $80 per booking; conference rooms at $125 per booking.
3. Event Venue Rental: Private event bookings across multiple unique spaces (Main Venue with 250-person capacity, East Wing, West Wing, Balconies, Zen Room, South Lounge) for corporate events, galas, weddings, cocktails, photoshoots, and film productions. Revenue is generated through per-event rental fees, with free tours available to convert prospects.
4. Café Food and Beverage Sales: On-site café serving espresso-based drinks, signature lattes, matcha lattes, teas, pastries, sandwiches, bagels, soups, salads, and seasonal specials. Food and beverages are ordered via the Koomi online platform. Members receive a 20% discount on all café purchases. The café sources from local Montreal partners including Traffic Coffee, Fairmount Bagel, Aube Boulangerie, Hof Kelsten, and Briz Cuisine.
5. Virtual Office Services: P.O. Box service ($50/month), Full Service Plan ($80/month, includes mailing address, printing, scanning, photocopying, shredding), and Executive Office Plan ($105/month, adds 40 meeting room credits). These generate recurring revenue from businesses seeking a prestigious Old Port of Montreal business address.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Crew Collective & Café operates a heritage coworking space and specialty café in a former Royal Bank of Canada building in Montreal. It sells flexible workspace memberships (floating desk, dedicated desk, private offices), meeting and event venue rentals, and virtual office/mailing address services to professionals, small businesses, and event organizers.

Product overview

Crew Collective & Café operates as a unified hospitality and workspace platform combining a heritage café, coworking spaces, and event venues in the former Royal Bank of Canada headquarters (built 1926) in Old Montreal. The core offering integrates three service pillars: (1) Café services featuring specialty coffee roasted by Traffic Coffee and signature drinks like Latte Dulce de Leche and Lavender Latte; (2) Collective workspace solutions spanning day passes ($15-50), floating desks ($300/month), dedicated desks ($675/month), private offices ($6,000+/month), meeting rooms, conference rooms, booths, and virtual office plans ($50-105/month); and (3) Crew event spaces including the Main Venue (250 capacity), East/West Wings, Balconies, Zen Room, and South Lounge (3,700 sq ft) available for corporate events, weddings, and film productions. A membership program provides 24/7 access to amenities including the Zen Room, meeting rooms, and café discounts. Booking is facilitated through ArchieApp for workspaces and Koomi for café orders.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Floating Desk Membership

Quantifiable outcome

• 15 minutes maximum wait time for members and guests
• +4 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Traffic CoffeecoreTechnology or IntegrationTraffic Coffee is a local Montreal-based coffee roaster that supplies the custom filter coffee blend and espresso beans used by CC&C's trained baristas. The partnership is featured prominently on the café page as a point of pride, positioning the café as a local, quality-focused operation. CC&C's baristas work with Traffic Coffee to serve classic hot and cold espresso-based drinks and the café's signature custom blend.
• Archie AppcoreTechnology or IntegrationArchie App is the online booking platform used by CC&C for all workspace reservations, including day passes, meeting rooms, booths, the Crew Suite, conference rooms, floating desks, and dedicated desks. It serves as the primary transaction and scheduling infrastructure for the Collective (coworking) arm of the business, enabling 24/7 self-serve bookings.
• KoomicoreTechnology or IntegrationKoomi is the online ordering platform used by CC&C for café food and beverage orders, enabling customers to browse the full menu (espresso-based drinks, signature lattes, matcha, kitchen items, baked goods, etc.), place dine-in or takeout orders, and pay online. It is referenced on the café page as the platform for 'Commandez maintenant' (Order now).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Spaces (by IWG): IWG's design-led coworking brand offering offices, meeting rooms, virtual offices, and event-friendly common areas across a global network. Comparable in product breadth (dedicated desks, private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms) and SMB target market.
• WeWork: Largest global coworking and flexible-office operator, offering private offices, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, and event space across hundreds of locations. Comparable in workspace product mix and self-serve booking model, though WeWork lacks Crew's integrated café and heritage-venue positioning.
• Soho House: Global private members' club operator combining restaurants, coworking, event spaces, and member communities in distinctive heritage and design-led buildings. Closest comparable in combining a paid membership community, heritage setting, F&B program, and venue rentals under one roof — though at much larger scale.

Direct peers

• Common Desk: Coworking and flexible-office operator focused on distinctive, design-led locations with strong F&B and community programming. Comparable emphasis on hospitality-grade coworking environments and event-friendly common areas.
• NeueHouse: Premium hybrid workspace and cultural venue operator with locations in landmark buildings (e.g., NYC, LA, Venice). NeueHouse combines private offices, event programming, and a strong F&B/café identity — a near-direct model match to Crew's heritage café + workspace + events hybrid.
• Industrious: Premium flexible-workspace operator offering private offices, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, and virtual-office plans with hospitality-grade service. Comparable in tier mix (floating/dedicated/private + meeting rooms + virtual office) and in targeting SMB and enterprise clients seeking upscale environments.
• Ace Hotel: Design-led hotel brand with integrated lobby cafés, coworking-friendly common areas, and event programming in restored or architecturally distinctive buildings. Comparable hybrid hospitality + workspace + café model anchored on a strong architectural identity.
• Make Office: Canadian flexible-workspace operator with locations in Montreal and Toronto offering coworking, private offices, meeting rooms, and event space. Direct Canadian-market comparable competing for similar SMB and freelancer segments in the same city.
• The Hoxton: Lifestyle hotel group whose properties function as hybrid work, dining, and event spaces — combining a public café/restaurant, coworking-friendly lobbies, and private meeting/event rooms in distinctive urban buildings. Direct comparison in café + meeting + event + flexible-workspace composition.

Emerging players

• Workfrom: Café and workspace discovery/marketplace that lists bookable coworking, meeting rooms, and cafés for remote workers. Overlaps with Crew's day-pass and hourly meeting-room offering through discovery and booking; smaller scale and not a direct venue operator.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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