A new coworking area has been opened in Bodrum for those who want to create a life they do not need a vacation from: CoBodrum (www.cobodrum.com)
One of the lessons of the pandemic has been to show that we are not obliged to usual study models. Offices moved to home-offices, meetings moved to online platforms. The pandemic has also made us realize how important social interaction is. While the hybrid working model has come to the fore after the pandemic, coworking spaces, especially preferred by start-ups and freelancers in recent years, also by corporate companies’ innovation departments lately, started to rise.
Developing technology projects for the world she wants to live in, Ahu Yurtoğlu decides to manage his start-ups from Bodrum, and he seeks to experience the coworking environment in Istanbul in Bodrum as well; however, unable to find a community-based alternative, she decides to open her own coworking space. With Pelin Dumanlı, the founder of Bodrum's leading gastronomy brand Foodrum, whom she met while looking for a suitable place, sharing her dream, they brought the CoBodrum brand to Bodrum.
CoBodrum offers daily, flexible and monthly coworking packages to its users. For those who will experience the coworking space for the first time, it offers a one-day free trial within the capacity. It provides advantages for people who already use a coworking space to experience Bodrum.
In addition to advantageous coworking services, CoBodrum provides discounts for Foodrum's healthy cuisine, special tastes and pleasant workshops, while increasing the motivation of its members with surprise treats.
With a community-oriented perspective, CoBodrum aims to be Bodrum's technology and entrepreneurship meeting point, with coffee and dinner meetings hosted by Foodrum.
Collecting virtual office demands to support incorporation processes of entrepreneurs from Bodrum, CoBodrum breaks new ground in Turkey and offers the new coworking trend virtual coworking service free of charge. Thus, those who cannot physically reach CoBodrum can experience the pleasure of working in Bodrum online.
CoBodrum plans to carry the culture of sharing, formed by coworking, which is a community-based structure, to other areas of life with CoEat, CoEnjoy, and CoLive, and to bring together like-minded people.
Bodrum is an attractive destination for digital nomads not only in Turkey but around the world. It is certain that attracting global start-ups to Bodrum will bring a year-round economic activity diversity to Turkey's tourist attraction. In this context, CoBodrum aims to attract new investors to the start-up ecosystem while providing technology-oriented global investment areas for Bodrum's economic resources. Focusing on pre-seed and seed early stage investment processes, which are lacking in the Turkish start-up ecosystem, it aims to accelerate the access of start-ups with global potential to local success stories.
Ahu Yurtoğlu and Pelin Dumanlı, two entrepreneurial women who came to Bodrum from Istanbul in line with their professional goals and have a global vision, invite those who want to experience the new generation coworking experience to CoBodrum.