The boon has benefited vendors like SwiftConnect, which sells a platform for managing access to physical offices. Chip Kruger and Matt Kopel founded the company in 2020 after selling their previous company, Waltz, to WeWork in 2019.
Kopel says he had the idea for SwiftConnect while at WeWork, where he briefly worked after the Waltz acquisition. The on-demand, mobile-centric access control WeWork wanted, he believed, was going to become the standard for many offices going forward.