Second Home is a creative workspace and cultural venue, bringing together diverse industries, disciplines and types of social businesses.
Second Home brings together a diverse range of creative people and industries, from fashion and technology, through to film-making and design.
Second Home's auditorium plays host to a regular programme of talks, film screenings and live music performances. Recent events include talks by fashion designer Stella McCartney and Harvard evolutionary biologist EO Wilson, arts events with the Gagosian Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, film screenings with Secret Cinema's Future Shorts, and live music performances by Kindness and Eat Your Own Ears.
Second Home brings together a diverse range of creative people and industries, from fashion and technology, through to film-making and design.
Second Home's auditorium plays host to a regular programme of talks, film screenings and live music performances. Recent events include talks by fashion designer Stella McCartney and Harvard evolutionary biologist EO Wilson, arts events with the Gagosian Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, film screenings with Secret Cinema's Future Shorts, and live music performances by Kindness and Eat Your Own Ears.
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Phone: +44 20 3818 3240
Total raised: $60.82M
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| 16.06.2021 | Talis Capi... | taliscapit... |
| - | Pembroke V... | pembrokevc... |
| - | Firestartr | firestartr... |
| - | Index Vent... | indexventu... |
| - | Morningsid... | morningsid... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 28.11.2018 | - | $25.65M | - |
| 31.10.2016 | - | $24.47M | - |
| 24.01.2016 | - | $10.7M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.09.2021 | Michelin Announces 2021 Stars For California: A Staggering 22 New One-Star Restaurants Are Added To The List | Avery chef and co-owner, Rodney Wages, likes to complement his dishes with sake and Champagne, which ... [+] enhances his food's distinctive flavor profiles.Joseph Weaver |
| 02.03.2021 | Los Angeles, Seattle And New York Among The World’s ‘Ideal’ Cities, Says New Book | What kind of city do people want to live in? What do they believe is important for a good life? And what constitutes a good home for everyone? New book The Ideal City explores these questions by rethinking how to design, plan, build and sha... |
| 21.12.2020 | Top 10 Los Angeles Design Hotspots For The Post-Pandemic World | This year has brought more than its fair share of challenges and, for urban planners and architects, Covid-19 has raised a host of new questions. With densely populated cities and enclosed spaces for living, working and socializing emerging... |
| 27.06.2019 | Assistive technologies will be a $26 billion-dollar market, and investors are only now addressing it | Rohan Silva is obsessed with social mobility and why certain groups are so under-represented in the technology industry. He co-founded Second Home, a coworking space looking to bring together disparate civic-minded, cultural, creative and c... |
| 28.11.2018 | Second Home closing in on new £20M funding round to bring its ‘creative workspace’ to more locations | Second Home, the “creative workspace” company co-founded by Rohan Silva, a former tech and startup policy advisor for then British Prime Minister David Cameron, is closing in on a new funding round, TechCrunch has learned. According to sour... |
| 29.11.2017 | 4 Startup Mega Campuses Coming to Europe | Mega startup campuses, the latest trend in coworking, are spreading their wings in Europe. They are different from the traditional coworking space not just in size, but also in scope and ambition. As the founding head of Campus London, Goog... |
| 14.02.2017 | In 2016 Lisbon fired-up its startup engines — 2017 will hear them roar | In the first of a new series focusing on city eco-systems, TechCrunch Editor-at-large Mike Butcher gets under the skin of one of Europe’s hottest startup cities. During the last financial crisis Portugal was one of the hardest hit countries... |
| 31.10.2016 | Second Home scores £20 million to expand its tech workspaces to Portugal and the US | Second Home, the London-based operator of trendy workspaces for tech startups, has raised £20 million (approx. €22 million) to continue its expansion in the UK, Portugal and the US. Co-founded by Sam Aldenton and Rohan Silva, Second Home ha... |
| 24.01.2016 | Second Home Raises £7.5M in Funding | Second Home, a London, UK-based co-working space startup, raised £7.5m (approximately $10.7m) in funding. Backers included Index Ventures, Yuri Milner, and Martin Lau (Tencent). The company intends to use the funds to expand operations star... |
| 18.01.2016 | Second Home Raises $10.7M From Yuri Milner, Martin Lau, Index And Plans Lisbon Home | Co-working spaces and membership clubs with a heavy tech bent have proliferated across the planet in recent years as the industry itself has exploded, and startups look to find flexible spaces to work. But not many have gone for such an ecl... |
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