
Role 1331
Company Overview
Zinko is building a scalable marketplace and SaaS platform that transforms underutilised hospitality venues into flexible professional work environments. By combining workspace booking, venue optimisation tools and live networking functionality, Zinko creates recurring revenue from existing city infrastructure.
- Cafés with empty weekday capacity
- Professionals seeking affordable workspaces
- Seamless, pass-based booking platform




Zinko enables proximity-based professional discovery. When users are working within a partner venue, the platform identifies relevant professionals nearby and facilitates natural introductions.
This transforms cafes from passive workspaces into active professional eco-systems - increasing retention, engagement & repeat bookings.



Expansion
Scaling Beyond The Initial Market
Zinko is designed as a city by city platform, starting with London and expanding into other high-density urban markets. Once market-place liquidity is achieved in the UK, the model lis structured to replicate across international cities where cafe culture & flexible work demand are already established.
From Year 3 onwards, the company plans to expand into key European cities such as Paris, Berlin & Amsterdam and many more followed by selective entry into North American Markets. The asset-light model enables expansion without real-estate investment, allowing rapid & capital-efficient scaling.
Why Zinko Wins
Zinko builds its advantage by becoming the first platform to organise and connect both cafés and professionals within a city.
Once this local network is built, it becomes difficult for new entrants to compete, as they would need to build both venue supply and active users at the same time.
In addition, Zinko’s live networking feature increases user engagement and repeat usage, making the platform part of daily work behaviour rather than a one-time booking tool.
Over time, the platform also improves through data understanding user preferences, peak times and venue performance allowing better matching and higher utilisation.

Investing NED Opportunity
Zinko Seeks 2–3 Investing Non-Executive Directors
Help shape a new layer of urban work infrastructure from the earliest stage.




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Closing date: 4 weeks from today
