The Coliving Code Podcast

Rond House is currently in ideation and creation and they are in talks with several real estate developers and investors to find the right partner that shares their vision.

There are experiments happening in Helsinki that are around living as a service or service based living but so far the concept is still very new there. Currently a lot of education is needed to help people understand what coliving is.

Sjoerd is CEO and Co-founder of Rond Production House. He has a background as theater engineer specializing in sound & lighting design. Throughout his career he has been involved in the production of hundreds of events from small local concerts to large scale music and theater festivals. He has developed and operated a cultural hub for a creative community in one of the most Northern cities of the Netherlands and most recently after moving to Finland he has been busy producing b2b conferences for startups and corporations with a strong focus on anything tech and related to our built environment.

Huong is COO and Co-founder of Rond Production House. She moved to Finland only three years ago to study international business and not only has she been involved with the production of multiple conferences and hackathons about the future of work and smart cities she also founded her first company. She has been praised multiple times for her drive and ambition and she is regularly invited as an inspirational speaker to share her story. Most recently she has been nominated out of over 3000 candidates as one of the 5 top founders of the year in the Nordic Startup Awards.

Huong and Sjoerd are both proud graduates from the Founder Institute, an accelerator program based out of Silicon Valley.

https://www.rond.fi/coliving/

Hans Meyer is the Co-Founder and managing director of Zoku, a re-invented apartment hotel concept located in Amsterdam with two more locations launching next year: Vienna and Copenhagen.

Zoku is the future of urban living, facilitating global living and working for the independent traveling professional.

Having launched in 2016 and Co-Founded by Marc Jongerius, Zoku has created a new category in the hotel industry – a home-office hybrid, with the services of a hotel and the social buzz of a thriving neighborhood.

After 150 interviews, over 6000 feedback comments and 7 prototypes they created the multi-award winning Zoku Loft.

As a firm believer of value creation and innovation for the international hospitality industry, Hans started the development of various new hotel concepts and business models. He is also the initial creator and a former founding partner of the award-winning citizenM hotel concept responsible for concept, creativity, design and development for this new international hotel chain.

Before Zoku and HotelsAhead (which Hans founded in 2003), he worked for large international hotel chains like NH Hotels and Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns and Resorts. He has held senior corporate positions in Operations and Development, with a responsibility for projects throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central America. Hans is a mentor for the Rockstart Accelerator start-up programme, a member of the advisory board of The Hub Amsterdam and has been educated at Hotelschool The Hague and Cornell University in The United States.

Hans Meyer is the Co-Founder and managing director of Zoku, a re-invented apartment hotel concept located in Amsterdam with two more locations launching next year: Vienna and Copenhagen.

Zoku is the future of urban living, facilitating global living and working for the independent traveling professional.

Having launched in 2016 and Co-Founded by Marc Jongerius, Zoku has created a new category in the hotel industry – a home-office hybrid, with the services of a hotel and the social buzz of a thriving neighborhood.

After 150 interviews, over 6000 feedback comments and 7 prototypes they created the multi-award winning Zoku Loft.

As a firm believer of value creation and innovation for the international hospitality industry, Hans started the development of various new hotel concepts and business models. He is also the initial creator and a former founding partner of the award-winning citizenM hotel concept responsible for concept, creativity, design and development for this new international hotel chain.

Before Zoku and HotelsAhead (which Hans founded in 2003), he worked for large international hotel chains like NH Hotels and Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns and Resorts. He has held senior corporate positions in Operations and Development, with a responsibility for projects throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central America. Hans is a mentor for the Rockstart Accelerator start-up programme, a member of the advisory board of The Hub Amsterdam and has been educated at Hotelschool The Hague and Cornell University in The United States.

Technology is revolutionizing the property game. It is happening fast and everyone is talking about it. This year the PropTech Summit moved beyond the hype. They cut out the buzz and bring the facts to the table. What is actually happening? What is actually working? And who is doing it?

In this special episode coming all the way from Europe, Christine was one of the Keynote speakers at the annual Proptech Summit XIX in Oslo, Norway.

It was an incredible session talking about her two FAVORITE things: CoLiving + Technology. Incredibly interesting to hear that Norwegians worry that they are falling behind global trends, and how they can innovate in these key ways. After participating in this event, Christine was extremely impressed with their drive for innovation, digitalization, and having a positive impact on the environment.

The speakers here came from so many parts of the world, including a property developer in Shanghai sharing stories of rapidly building and developing huge cities in mainland China.

Enjoy!

Technology is revolutionizing the property game. It is happening fast and everyone is talking about it. This year the PropTech Summit moved beyond the hype. They cut out the buzz and bring the facts to the table. What is actually happening? What is actually working? And who is doing it?

In this special episode coming all the way from Europe, Christine was one of the Keynote speakers at the annual Proptech Summit XIX in Oslo, Norway.

It was an incredible session talking about her two FAVORITE things: CoLiving + Technology. Incredibly interesting to hear that Norwegians worry that they are falling behind global trends, and how they can innovate in these key ways. After participating in this event, Christine was extremely impressed with their drive for innovation, digitalization, and having a positive impact on the environment.

The speakers here came from so many parts of the world, including a property developer in Shanghai sharing stories of rapidly building and developing huge cities in mainland China.

Enjoy!

Romulo is originally from Peru but has been traveling and living abroad for the last years, being based now in Porto, Portugal. He has scouted for the best startups in Latin America with Seedstars (Swiss company that impacts people's lives in emerging markets through technology & entrepreneurship) with whom he also started the Seedspace project: a network of coworking and coliving spaces in emerging markets. Having 5 coliving spaces in 4 continents, Seedspace grew from 2 locations to 10 in one year, and now have 13 hubs around the world. Recently, he has been starting to see a way to promote entrepreneurial education with new programs for startups in the hubs, but also virtually, making birth to the Investment Readiness Program (irp.seedstars.com) a program that challenges the traditional acceleration concept. When he is not in calls in crazy time zones, Romulo likes to cook, swim, karaoke and learn new languages! (he speaks 5!)

www.seedstars.com

www.seedspace.co

Romulo is originally from Peru but has been traveling and living abroad for the last years, being based now in Porto, Portugal. He has scouted for the best startups in Latin America with Seedstars (Swiss company that impacts people's lives in emerging markets through technology & entrepreneurship) with whom he also started the Seedspace project: a network of coworking and coliving spaces in emerging markets. Having 5 coliving spaces in 4 continents, Seedspace grew from 2 locations to 10 in one year, and now have 13 hubs around the world. Recently, he has been starting to see a way to promote entrepreneurial education with new programs for startups in the hubs, but also virtually, making birth to the Investment Readiness Program (irp.seedstars.com) a program that challenges the traditional acceleration concept. When he is not in calls in crazy time zones, Romulo likes to cook, swim, karaoke and learn new languages! (he speaks 5!)

www.seedstars.com

www.seedspace.co

Q Investment Partners is a Singapore-based private equity real estate firm. With deep expertise in the capital and real estate markets. QIP has first-mover advantage in the Co-Living real estate sector, delivering to Asian investors the first private equity real estate Co-Living investment opportunity.

As the Co-Founder and CEO and an active real estate investor, Peter is passionate about investing in institutional grade real estate and creating scalable real estate businesses.

QIP partners with like-minded professional investors who seek overseas alternative real estate. They bring deep understanding and local expertise in real estate country markets to build, develop and operate real estate purpose buildings. They actively invest in the US, UK, Germany & Australia, and these investments are currently focused on Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Co-living Rental Buildings and Retirement Living.

Building on their strong relationships across the debt and equity markets, QIP partners with Institutional, Family Office and High Net Worth Individual investors in Asia (active in Singapore, Hong Kong, and more recently in South Korea). Together with the co-founder and senior management, they have an investment track record of more than US$300M, delivering net returns between 13% IRR to 21% IRR across the UK, US, and Australia in the Student Housing, Multi-family and Co-living sectors.

Peter and his team are passionate about bridging Asian capital to access, invest and operate overseas alternative real estate investments.

Q Investment Partners is a Singapore-based private equity real estate firm. With deep expertise in the capital and real estate markets. QIP has first-mover advantage in the Co-Living real estate sector, delivering to Asian investors the first private equity real estate Co-Living investment opportunity.

As the Co-Founder and CEO and an active real estate investor, Peter is passionate about investing in institutional grade real estate and creating scalable real estate businesses.

QIP partners with like-minded professional investors who seek overseas alternative real estate. They bring deep understanding and local expertise in real estate country markets to build, develop and operate real estate purpose buildings. They actively invest in the US, UK, Germany & Australia, and these investments are currently focused on Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Co-living Rental Buildings and Retirement Living.

Building on their strong relationships across the debt and equity markets, QIP partners with Institutional, Family Office and High Net Worth Individual investors in Asia (active in Singapore, Hong Kong, and more recently in South Korea). Together with the co-founder and senior management, they have an investment track record of more than US$300M, delivering net returns between 13% IRR to 21% IRR across the UK, US, and Australia in the Student Housing, Multi-family and Co-living sectors.

Peter and his team are passionate about bridging Asian capital to access, invest and operate overseas alternative real estate investments.

Bart Sasim is the CEO & Founder of SPX Agency, a creative branding agency based in Amsterdam specialised in creating future-proof real estate brands. With its niche expertise, SPX Agency helps brands adapt fast to the changing landscape of the real estate industry, where the new generation of young professionals and students are changing the way we live, work and learn together. By helping to shape and build student housing, co-living and co-working brands from concept to development, SPX Agency strives to foster a sense of social responsibility & sustainable growth in brands to positively influence the cities & communities of tomorrow.

As creative partners in business, SPX Agency supports its clients in the full spectrum of branding and marketing-related activities to help roll-out their brand and take the overall customer experience to new heights. In addition, it offers innovative tools within new media such as 360-degree video & photo, VR & AR to help its partners adapt to the digital-driven times and take on a more 'hospitality-like' approach to attract customers, providing them with an information-rich & more memorable customer experience.

SPX Agency has worked to help shape brands ranging from The Student Hotel, The Class of 2020 and Staytoo Apartments (operated/managed by MPC Capital) to OurCampus & OurDomain (operated/managed by Greystar) and BONARD (formerly known as StudentMarketing) among others.

https://www.spx-agency.com