Powering the Future of the Office: Why we Invested in Envoy

By the mid-2010s, Visitor Management Systems began to increase in adoption as companies looked to create a seamless guest check-in experience and utilize technology to enhance corporate security and reduce unnecessary process friction. However, in March 2020, COVID-19 forced organizations to close their workplaces with tens of millions of people working from home for the foreseeable future. Nearly two years into the pandemic, many of these organizations (corporate offices, schools, production sites, and manufacturing facilities) around the world are in various stages of reopening — some are fully back on site, some are embracing a hybrid workforce, while others are just now looking into reopening protocols. The common thread is how to facilitate a safe return to the workplace.

While remote work has proliferated in a COVID-19 environment, we believe vibrant physical workplaces will remain important as they are critical to company culture. A safe return to the workplace and the transition to a more inviting space will require new, innovative technologies to facilitate the enforcement of new policies and operate a modern workplace in a post-Covid-19 world.

Envoy is the technology expression of this thesis. Larry and the Envoy team have built a dynamic workplace platform that maximizes productivity and improves the employee and guest experience by eliminating the friction in office leading to a safer, more engaging office that adapts space for flexibility and collaboration. Envoy’s platform powers more than 14,000 office locations in 100+ countries. It is designed to create a unified, data-driven workplace that removes the stale norms and broken systems throughout the office.

As one of the world’s largest owners and operators of real estate, Brookfield is uniquely positioned to support Envoy’s vision for the future of the office.

Brookfield Growth is excited to announce our Series-C lead investment in Envoy. We are thrilled to partner with Larry, Sinohe, and the entire team at Envoy in its next chapter of growth and to be working alongside our new co-investors at Andreesen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, Initialized Capital, Haystack, BAM Elevate, Seven Seven Six Fund, Triple Point Capital, Elad Gil, and others.

We thank Envoy for their trust and partnership; we could not be more excited to support them in becoming the industry-standard platform to power the future of the office!