it takes a village.
Cahoots is a passion project built to support innovators with a modern, unique place where they can come together, share ideas, learn from each other, and make amazing things.
Cahoots is so much more than a coworking space. It’s a gathering place, an event space, and even a coffee shop — but most of all, it’s a community.
This is a place of endless possibilities. To make it all happen, we need corporate partners and sponsors to be in Cahoots with us!
42 Companies
From the single person upstart to operations with hundreds of people working together - all are creative, hungry, growing and ambitious.
320 Members
Founders, CEOs, Software Engineers, Designers, Product Managers, Marketers, Sales Execs, and more on board.
>$100 Million
Cahoots is home to a variety of venture-backed technology companies that are attracting the resources required to build our future from Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor deserves a world-class Tech Hub SPACE
Source credit to PitchBook, SVB, CB Insights and others via Hyde Park Angels (HPA) Report —
The right ingredients
Top talent, affordable housing, and quality of life is moving the midwest, and specifically Ann Arbor, into a strong geography for startups.
$4.3BN and going up
Deal activity is shifting beyond coastal concentrations and venture activity is growing in the midwest. According to Silicon Valley Bank, midwestern states received 4.3BN of investment in 2018 — up over 59% from prior years.
5.6X returns
Chicago is leading the country on Multiple On Invested Capital (MOIC) at 5.6x versus the bay area at 4.2x and Austin at 3.3x. Investment in the midwest is producing better returns.
Ann Arbor as #3 tech hub city
According to Bloomberg’s Brain Concentration Index, Ann Arbor ranks as the #3 tech hub city nationally. High tech research expertise flowing from University of Michigan combined with the accelerating private sector startup activity is putting Ann Arbor on the technology map quickly.
partners make it possible
Events at Cahoots host tech workers from hundreds of companies from near and far across a broad range of exciting tech related activities.
entrepreneur scholarships
Workspace scholarships at Cahoots provide free desk space to ambitious entrepreneurs with an emphasis on supporting people underrepresented in the tech industry.
tech meetup groups
Cahoots is an ideal home-base for vibrant technology groups. Our inaugural 9/10/19 event was A2Gophers’ first meeting. Nine days later, four more groups booked meetings.
educational programming
We endeavor to continuously increase access to professional development content to invest in our region’s collective talent pool and help people grow.
hackathons
There’s nothing quite as exciting as putting a group of smart people in a room to solve a real problem. Cahoots is the perfect venue to produce solutions.
