Where To Find Co-Working Spaces In Cape Town

Cape Town has slowly turned itself into a tech hub filled with VCs, startups, freelancers and budding entrepreneurs. This do it yourself culture inspired many to seek greener pastures and abandon the safety of the traditional 9-5. But these free spirits still need to find a place to boot up their laptops, meet with clients and remote workers, share ideas and network. This is why co-working spaces are fast becoming a sought-after option for creative freelancers and part-timers. In the interest of Cape Town business owners and freelancers looking for shared office space, we decided to put together a comprehensive list of great places to work from.

Co-working Spaces in Cape Town

Roam Work - The Roamwork office space allows members the opportunity to change their pace without leaving the building, freelancers and startups able to select their preferred workspace for each task of the day and allowing flexibility for productivity. Roam Work is located just east of the CBD, The Harrington is between the main road arteries from the northern and southern suburbs of Cape Town.

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The Planet Art - Cape Town CBD The Planet Art is an established, upmarket commercial and creative hub situated centrally in Cape Town in a quiet cul-de-sac, just off Kloof Street and close to amenities such as My-City bus stops, Lifestyle Centre, Molten Toffee and Spar.

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Inner City Ideas Cartel - Cape Town CBD Describes itself as a luxury coworking & serviced office spaces for visionary urban businesses who need an office that is conducive towards productivity & opportunity.

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The Bureaux - Cape Town CBD, Woodstock & Sea point The Bureau is situated at The Woodstock Exchange at 66 Albert Road and consists of a shared workspace for like-minded photographers and videographers, and a creative office space used for editing, uploading, connecting and sharing ideas.

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Spin Street House - Cape Town CBD Spin Street House is a coworking space and community for individuals and teams doing interesting, innovative and impactful work. We're situated at the edge of Cape Town's central and East city districts where our shared workspace and clubhouse is home to members working in a diversity of disciplines

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Work & Co - Cape Town CBD Work & Co is the new way to work: an innovative, flexible and beautiful co-working space dedicated to a community of entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized enterprises, remote teams and freelancers.

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Meeting place on long - Cape Town CBD Situated in Thibault square on Long Street, with sublime views of Cape Town’s CBD. We offer a wide variety of spaces that can be used for co-working and office spaces, event hosting, book launches, meetings and workshops.

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Cube Work Space - Cape Town CBD & Rondebosch Cube Workspace is a premium, upmarket office letting company for modern-day businessmen and women in South Africa; offering fully serviced, fully furnished executive office suites and services.

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Siyelo - Cape Town CBD Siyelo CoWork is a coworking space in Cape Town for tech startups, freelancers, and remote workers. Conveniently located with truly fast internet (up to 150mbps). They offer memberships with dedicated or shared desks

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This is 09 - Cape Town CBD Situated on Cape Town Art Street, This is 9, Workspace is the perfect home base for your business. The space is conducive to streamline productivity and epic work without the hassle of overheads, giving you the opportunity to focus on your work and brand.

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9Needs Studio - Cape Town CBD 9Needs is a multi-functional, shared creative space, offering meeting space, a movie theatre, and business services. Space offers individuals and small teams a creative environment to work in.

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Cape Town Office - Cape Town CBD Cape Town Office is a creative co-working space in The Fringe, Cape Town’s emerging innovation and creative quarter in the East City. Ideal for the Entrepreneur, Freelancer, Startup and Small Business who simply can’t work from home.

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Cartel House - Cape Town CBD By application only, a Cartel House membership is different. Limited in number, open to all, selective in approval.

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Chips Cape Town - Cape Town CBD CHIPS is brand new a co-working space in the espresso guzzling East City. They offer freelancers a comfy chair, fast internet and a beautiful desk with no fuss or funny hidden charges. You can drop by anytime during working hours at 27 Caledon Street, Zonnebloem.

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Craft + Graft - Can be found in Dunkley Square in Gardens and offers 55 hot desks, dedicated desks, and private offices in a shared office space on two floors. Their co-working space is housed in a beautiful building with a high ceiling, abundant natural light, lots of greenery, and the furniture is modern and comfortable.

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Co-working Spaces at the Waterfront and Greenpoint

Workshop 17 - V & A Waterfront Workshop17 is a converted warehouse. It is an initiative of the V & A Waterfront and is operated by OPEN. The warehouse provides opportunities to share, build and showcase across disciplines, sectors and cultures to accelerate the discovery of new solutions.

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mLab - V & A Waterfront mLabs offer dedicated spaces that provide a range of services to entrepreneurs, innovators, makers, developers and digital creatives through our different programmes. They also host a number of partner events, workshops and training within our labs and technology partners can select to run mLab facilitated activities or simply work with our events team to assist with them with setup and arrangements.

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Greenpoint Coworking (Rebranded and relocated) - Greenpoint Greenpoint Coworking is your unlimited, uncapped serviced desking solution in the heart of Cape Town’s business buzz.

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Co-working Spaces in Woodstock

88mph - Woodstock Investing in start-ups targeting the African market, 88mph also has great co-working desk space available for rent. One of the most exciting creative spaces in Cape Town at the moment, the 88mph working space is a dynamic working environment with fast internet, superb coffee and great networking opportunities.

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Daddy-O - Woodstock Rent a desk by the hour, day or month at Cape Town’s newest shared office space for start-ups and seasoned entrepreneurs alike, Daddy.O. The modern business club is the latest venture by the iconic Daddy’s brand, creators of The Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock Exchange, Old Mac Daddy and Daddy’s Deals.

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Hubspace - Woodstock and Khayelitsha Hubspace provides entrepreneurs in townships with the infrastructure, advisory services and business support they need to run their businesses effectively.

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Company Shared Work Habitat - Woodstock Company Shared Work Habitat offers desk space for like-minded entrepreneurs and small businesses within a creative environment. The office space is light, clean and relaxed.

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Cape Town Garage - Woodstock Membership at the Cape Town Garage gives you the opportunity to join a network of freelancers, entrepreneurs and professionals who are building and growing their businesses.

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Akro - CBD and Salt River Akro is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into businesses. We offer events, venture funding and consulting services, and we have a painfully practical attitude towards entrepreneurship. They provide office and desk space, including unlimited wifi and tea/coffee as well as a separate chill room with full kitchen, separate boardroom, meetup room and hot lunches, ping pong table, basketball hoop and games console.

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Kelvin corner - Is a flexible work-space in Woodstock, Cape Town focusing on creators, designers, filmmakers, and content creators. Offering offices, workshop, creative studio, art gallery, cafe, and event space. Kelvin Corner provides a variety of flexible solutions to accommodate creative professionals with a focus on being cost-effective and provide affiliation benefits.

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Co-working Spaces outside the CBD

Venture Work Space - Claremont Ideally situated in Claremont with easy access to both the M3 and M5 as well as conveniently close to different modes of public transport, Venture Workspace provides you with flexible, fully equipped office space and business support services.

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Codebridge - Newlands Codebridge a civic tech incubator that helps to find and develop technology start-ups. {code}bridge offers training boot camps, mentorship, business strategy, funding assistance in addition to working space

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The Cowork Space - Pinelands The Cowork Space is a coworking space in Pinelands, Cape Town. Whether you need a desk, office, meeting room, or just tired of working from home on your own, we have just what you need. Startups, small businesses, entrepreneurs, freelancers

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CoworKite - Blouberg CoworKite shared workspace is located in the centre of Blouberg, a neighbourhood famous for its postcard view of Table Mountain. Their building is across the street from the MyCiTi Popham bus station.

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CoworKite - Stellenbosch LaunchLab is an initiative of Innovus, the industry interaction and innovation company of Stellenbosch University in partnership with Nedbank.

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Keyboardcolab - Paarl Is envision as a shared office space to work from and collaborate with like-minded entrepreneurs in the Cape Winelands. Ideal for start-ups and freelancers situated in the Paarl and Wellington area.

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Growth Space - Somerset West Growth Space is a shared office space centred around a community of people who share ideas, collaborate and work productively while growing their business networks. Aimed to bring freelancers and creatives a sense of community that can’t be found in a home-office environment, Growth Space is about working independently, not alone.

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If there are any co-working spaces old or new that we may have overlooked let us know about it in the comments section below and we'll gladly update this list

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