Coworking spaces are officially the new places to do business, with office-rental companies like WeWork (valued at $16 billion) leading the pack.
But across the world, there are new and innovative coworking companies popping up to accommodate remote workers, a segment that’s growing extremely quickly. Intuit predicts that by 2020, 40% of the U.S. workforce will be freelancers (more than 60 million people).
Investors are making big bets on the industry's future. Coworking startup Industrious, with 12 locales around the U.S., just landed a $37 million Series B round last week.