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Worksphere

Winter 2021 · Acquired

Manage your hybrid workplace

Location: Seattle, WA, US

Founded: 2020

Team size: 6

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About

Worksphere helps companies manage a hybrid workplace where employees work from the office and from home. We allow employees to reserve a desk, know who will be in office, and better coordinate in-person meetings. Companies can let go of unused office space and save money.

Founders

  • Aakhil FardeenFounder

    Aakhil is a startup CEO and product leader. He loves to solve problems and make people's lives better. He has held product leadership positions at Amazon and Zillow. At Amazon he started the e-textbooks business, grew it to $150M in revenue and received a patent for a business model he developed. Most recently he co-founded Lish and built it to a $12M business. He has been featured in Geekwire, Seattle Times and other leading media. He is an Electrical Engineer and has an MBA from Dartmouth.

  • Theresa KlaassenFounder

    Theresa is an entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience in leadership. She's led Customer Success and Sales teams at multiple tech startups, including the new market expansion team at a Series-B funded company. Prior to co-founding Workpshere, she worked with her fellow co-founders at their previous startup Lish, building it to a $12M ARR business.

  • Mark PiperFounder

    Mark is co-founder and CTO of Worksphere. Previously he co-founded Lish, a tech-enabled corporate catering marketplace based in Seattle. He is an ex-Amazon alumni, where he started a team within Kindle and worked for 10 years as a senior engineer leader and manager. He earned a BS in Computer Science from Tufts and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Carnegie Mellon with a MS in Software Engineering.