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Hire Space

Hire Space is an event tech and services company

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21-100 employees
  • Hospitality
  • B2B
  • Marketplace
  • Marketing
Bermondsey, London, UK

Company mission

Hire Space provides everything needed for businesses to host world-class virtual, hybrid, or in-person events, both in the UK and globally. As long-standing EventTech leaders, we help event organisers with a comprehensive venue marketplace, and world-class event technology

Top investors

55% female employees

0% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Hire Space is a leading and fast-growing technology company in the events space. It operates the most popular online marketplace for venue hire, currently listing over 6,000 venues across the UK.

Originally started to help austerity-hit schools and community centres rent out their spaces for extra income, the company has since become a go-to for event booking and has organised events across the world.

Their platform aims to make booking spaces simple, with a website focused on user experience. Their revenue model is simple: venues can list for free, and if a booking is made, Hire Space charges a 10% commission on the entire cost of an event, which also includes the fees for entertainment and catering.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the company was undergoing significant growth to increase its share of the £15bn domestic events market. Hire Space has since adapted offering several other tech products (virtual event platform, registration, ticketing).

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Free wellbeing coaching and therapy sessions as part of Mental Health initiative
  • EMI share option
  • Personal professional development budget
  • Regular team socials
  • Home office spending allowance
  • Free nights out in London's most exciting venues
  • Free lunch Thursdays (there is such a thing)
  • Summer Hours - 9-3 pm on Fridays while on British Summer Time
  • 30 days holiday (inc bank holidays), and extra days with each year served
  • Flexible working
  • Monthly wellness budget for every employee

Company values

  • Positively Ambitious
  • Action Orientated
  • Continually Self-Improving
  • Adaptive to Change
  • Keen to Help

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2016

$0.7m

SEED

Feb 2016

$1m

SEED

Total funding: $3.4m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Former political advisor and as a speechwriter for the UN.

Prize-winning engineer, former strategy consultant, and teacher.

People progressing

High performing Head of Growth, originally joined in delegate sales 4 years ago

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hire Space

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Lucy Doyle (People and Culture Consultant)

  • We interview at least one under-represented minority for every new hire, without exception
  • We form partnerships with organisations that provide a route to employment for underrepresented minorities
  • We publish annual stats on diversity at Hire Space, with detail on, as a minimum, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, neurodiversity, disability, nationality, socioeconomic status, and age
  • We have opened up the majority of our new roles to remote work to attract a wider and more diverse talent pool than only London
  • We promote diversity in the content and events we produce, and endeavour to be representative of the locations and sectors in which they take place

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Hard working team (2)

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Team energy (2)

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Opportunities to learn (1)

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