Rajdeep Gahir - CoCreations Founder
Entrepreneur, Operator, Executive, Forbes List Honouree
Rajdeep has spent her career launching and scaling disruptive businesses. She has built businesses from zero to over £50m in annual revenue, launched acclaimed startups and advised international corporations. Her background experience spans venture capital, private equity and corporate innovation. She leads all of CoCreations projects and assembles a collective of experts to facilitate larger projects and co-ventures. In acknowledgement of her accomplishments at a young age, she has been awarded by the likes of Forbes in their 30 Under 30 list in 2019, Property Week (Resi Trailblazer) and JP Morgan (Winning Women).
Rajdeep formally founded CoCreations in 2016. In just it’s first few years, CoCreations incubated a new startup for eBay, led the creation and development of a startup innovation group within Bank of America Merrill Lynch, advised on the launch of FORA (a luxury workspace business) backed by a real estate private equity fund and has worked with multiple SMEs on realising new revenue streams. As an entrepreneur Rajdeep has founded and led the vision and execution of Cocreations, Vivahouse and Wing it Cosmetics and co-founded Aikito - a fintech startup in the USA. Rajdeep also advises and sits on the board of Humble Works, who create ergonomic study furniture and has been a trustee for Macintyre charity; a charity supporting the less able to gain education and care throughout their lifetime.
Previous to this; Rajdeep joined WeWork as an early employee and led the European rollout from 2014, responsible for taking WeWork in London from inception to 8 buildings, over 6000 members, a team of 200 people. She also launched the brand in the Netherlands and oversaw the first site. She has also worked as an intrapreneur in the technology space, incubating new technology marketplaces in London and San Jose. Rajdeep started her career on a trading floor in London, working at Goldmans Sachs and Barclays Capital following a degree from the LSE.
Speaking Engagements
Rajdeep has keynoted international conferences, led leadership workshops and contributed to national publications. To enquire about engagements, contact chartwell.
Previous keynotes:
The London Real Estate Forum (Mayfair, London) - Unconventional paths in real estate
BCO (Berlin) - Disruptive experiences, blending technology and the built environment
Propmodo (NYC) - Reimagining buildings at a human scale
Realty (Brussels) - Future trends in living
Her thoughts on real estate have been featured in: The Guardian, Tatler , CEO Today, Property Week and The Telegraph. She also regularly host events to integrate the real estate, tech startup founder and investor communities. Sign up to the newsletter to stay in touch.
“You can build faster and further when you CoCreate”
CoCreations was built on the principle of BETTER TOGETHER. I’ve seen first hand that funding partners and corporates can often have incredible resources and distribution networks but struggle to create new businesses. or maximise operating businesses. CoCreation allows for bringing in the execution prowess to go from zero to one on a new concept or from one to ten on a growth plan.