EMEA Entrepreneur. Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson, Co-Founders, Hubble. Are you a remote working employee with your office’s headquarters in another city or just inconveniently far from your house? You’re not alone. To search, narrow down, and book or reserve a workspace for hybrid working, part-time, or full-time offices, or even if you may need to book an on-demand meeting room, event space, day office, or co-working space, there is good news for you! Redefining hybrid working spaces with conventional office environments are here today and they are going to stay!
Across Europe, and amidst the hustling and bustling capital of England – London, a dynamically influential and professional flexible workplace platform called the Hubble was established just for this reason. With a vision “for every business to have the right workspace,” Hubble was founded and established by Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson in 2013, in London, England. While combining the perks of remote work with the advantages of physical office spaces, Hubble has become increasingly popular, with flexibility, time-saving, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced productivity for both businesses and employees. In London and across Europe and even around the globe, this approach for hybrid workspaces is particularly prominent. As they meet the demands of the city or country’s vibrant workforce, being able to encourage innovation, network, productivity, and maintain a work-life balance in the heart of a bustling economic hub, is everyone’s dream job.
Therefore, this article shall delve into the journey of founders – Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson with Hubble. The article shall also cover the various services provided by Hubble’s flexible workspace platform in London, England.
Tushar Agarwal and Tom Watson – The Entrepreneurial Disruptors of Innovation in Real Estate:
With a mission to provide businesses and employees with the required real estate infrastructure that allows for seamless, continued, and undisrupted hybrid working, Hubble aims to “improve the working lives of 1 million people by 2025, allowing employees to have flexibility, optionality, and autonomy in where and how they work.”
With Tushar and Tom taking the reins and leading the company forward since its inception in 2013, Hubble has always been customer-focused and prioritizes other businesses and employees to have their own deserving workspace – “one that will help them grow, win work, attract amazing people and build a brilliant reputation.”
Tushar Agarwal at Hubble is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, of The UK’s largest digital marketplace for flexible workspace, and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Having started his career at a young age, Tushar worked in various roles in many distinguished companies, like – Investment Banking Intern at Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking Division Analyst at RBS, and Investment Banking at Greenhill & Co. In 2013, Tushar participated as a Member of the 2014 Cohort in a six-month program for enthusiastic founders of business start-ups called Entrepreneur First. This was where Tushar met Tom and together the business idea behind Hubble was born.
Tom Watson, the Co-Founder and Ex-Chief Technology Officer overseeing everything tech, product, design, business growth, and team building, managing and leading the engineering of the company at Hubble’s hybrid workspace platform, forged bravely through 2020’s COVID-19 alongside Tushar, to bring their company out unfaced with an immediate surge in queries and bookings, regardless of an almost 95% plunge in business activity during the worldwide pandemic. Having an inspiring, influential, innovative, entrepreneurial, and free-spirited persona, Tom has a Bachelor’s Honors Degree and an Intercalated Year in Computer Science from the University of Warwick. A Software Developer, Rational Tools Consultancy and Support Specialist, Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Cohort Member, CTO, Mentor, and Venture Partner, Tom has an experienced career in mostly senior roles leveraging his skills and expertise in leading a company.
Both Tushar and Tom have been recognized in Forbes’ 2019 “Forbes 30 Under 30 for Europe in Technology.” The founders have also won – “Deloitte’s 26th Fastest Growing Technology Company in The UK”, and “Property Week’s Innovative Company of The Year”, won two years in a row for “Property Week’s Best Place to Work”, and the most recent was “Amazon’s Young Entrepreneur of The Year Finalist.” The company has raised more than £15 million from top tech and real estate investors.
Hubble – Trusted Brand of Thriving Workspaces:
A cross between WeWork and Booking.com, Hubble has made its mark in the real estate, B2B, and digital marketplaces by establishing the future of office space in the UK and providing up-to-the-mark flexible and convenient workspaces for both businesses and employees alike.
There are numerous companies, organizations, and especially start-up businesses that are just beginning their operations and have difficulty narrowing down an office space or building. Another reason can be that the employees of an organization or business are all located in different parts of the town, city, state, or country, with their office’s headquarters at quite a distance. Such companies choose to have their employees work remotely or through hybrid working spaces that require them to meet at a workplace maybe 2-3 times a week at the most.
But finding such a workplace can be quite a task by itself. This is where Hubble comes in, taking away your troubles and stress through its innovative ‘office search alchemy’ feature. Technology, Data Analytics, and most importantly the People, are the three essential elements that drive the digital B2B marketplace at Hubble, which ensures the search for an office space seem simple, efficient, and convenient to access, communicate, reserve, and book.
Hubble provides part-time and full-time office spaces and on-demand meeting rooms, day offices, coworking spaces, event spaces, and serviced and leased offices. With a booking plan of daily or monthly, Hubble offers a rate of almost 75% lower in office spaces. With the company’s ultimate and flexible workspace, many businesses and organizations like Monzo, FOX, Trustpilot, NHS, Citymapper, Accenture, TaskRabbit, LiveRamp, Brolly, and many more esteemed and well-known companies have already used Hubble’s digital marketplace and saved large expenses, time, and space, while increasing innovativeness, productivity, and flexible healthy working. Now in-person and hybrid working business models in England are made easy!