Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

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🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Peter Smit has spent half his life on either side of the Atlantic. He has lived in 7 countries and speaks four languages
Raised in the age of matrix management, running programs, initiatives, projects and business globally, he has long been a proponent of collaboration and the tools which enable it.
He is the CEO and founder of Collabogence, a Toronto-based firm which used data to measure the changes in effectiveness and productivity of people and spaces.

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0:00.0	First year was about 70,000.
0:02.0	Okay, yep.
0:03.0	And probably in the hundreds last year.
0:06.9	And right now, because we've done a major shift
0:09.8	toward helping organizations with the workplace strategy,
0:13.2	both the work from home and new office environments,
0:16.8	we see that going up to probably a run rate of close to a million by the second half of this year.
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