NOW · 2026
Design with the community
Publish the concept, invite founding members, café operators, partners and cities, and refine the services and affiliation standards together.
A FOUNDING CONCEPT IN DEVELOPMENT · 2026–2028
Good things begin
around a table.
A welcoming place to meet, work, learn and belong—for entrepreneurs and everyone around them.
01 · THE CAFÉ
More than a café.
A place that moves ideas forward.
Wicreation Café combines everyday hospitality with practical infrastructure, purposeful introductions and programmes that make entrepreneurship less isolated.
02 · A 24-MONTH FOUNDING JOURNEY
We are building this
step by step.
Wicreation Café is currently a concept and development programme. We do not yet operate cafés around the world. This website opens the process so the first locations can be shaped with the right people.
Help shape the first cafés →NEXT · 2026–27
Build and test the first pilots
Select candidate cities and existing café partners. Test the Gazelle and affiliated-café models before scaling.
THEN · 2027–28
Open founding locations
Launch the first carefully selected cafés, document what works, strengthen the operator playbook and connect the locations.
BEYOND · FROM 2028
Grow a trusted network
Expand city by city only when the experience, economics and local leadership meet the shared Wicreation standard.
FOUNDING CAFÉ NO. 01 · UNICORN FORMAT
Build the full idea.
Learn from the whole experience.
Café No. 01 is proposed as the first complete Unicorn format: a real public café and entrepreneurial destination designed to test hospitality, membership, business services, programmes and community economics together.
Approximately 500–800 m²
café, workspace and event seats
registered local members before opening
from founding group to evaluation
WHAT IT INCLUDES
- Full public café and professional host team
- Flexible workspaces and fast connectivity
- Four to eight meeting rooms and call booths
- Stage, podcast and recording area
- Bookshop, reading area and product market
- Address service, mail and secure storage
- Full member and partner programme
WHAT IT MUST PROVE
- Members and public visitors return every week
- The café works beyond events
- Hospitality, work and programmes coexist
- Multiple services create sustainable revenue
- Programmes lead to measurable connections
- A professional team can operate the model
- Unicorn and Gazelle formats can later be refined
18-MONTH FOUNDING PLAN
- MONTHS 01–04Form the founding coalition
Choose the candidate city, recruit the operator team, register 250 founding members and secure partners.
- MONTHS 05–08Validate property and business case
Select the 500–800 m² location, confirm demand, service mix, capital, partnerships and operating agreement.
- MONTHS 09–13Design and prepare
Complete the spatial design and fit-out, train the team, build the calendar and pre-sell memberships.
- MONTHS 14–18Open, learn and document
Operate the founding café, measure use and economics, publish lessons and derive the repeatable formats.
CAFÉ NO. 01 · SPACE BRIEF
What the first café
needs to contain.
This is an operational brief—not a floor plan. A professional architect will design the building once a suitable property and local requirements are known.
Public café
150–200 m²Everyday hospitality, community tables and an open welcome point.
Stage and event area
80–120 m²Talks, recordings, launches and community gatherings.
Flexible workspace
100–150 m²Quiet work positions, project tables and reliable connectivity.
Meeting rooms
60–100 m²A mix of small rooms, one larger room and acoustic call booths.
Books and local products
30–50 m²A visible bookshop and small marketplace within the café experience.
Member services
30–50 m²Address service, mail reception, lockers and small storage boxes.
Operations
80–120 m²Kitchen, toilets, staff facilities, technical space and storage.
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Open and welcoming from the streetPublic café activity at the heartQuiet work deeper insideEvents without disrupting daily useAccessible to everyoneOperationally realistic
CAFÉ NO. 01 · REFERENCE MODEL
Walk through the
future café.
A coherent architectural model makes the concept tangible from several viewpoints. These are design illustrations—not photographs of an existing Wicreation Café.
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Enter the full Café No. 01 model →02 · SERVICES
Come for coffee.
Stay for what becomes possible.
Work
Workspace, meeting rooms, call booths and fast connectivity.
Explore services →Business
Address service, mail reception, storage boxes and practical support.
Explore services →Community
Introductions, founder tables, mentor hours and opportunities.
Explore services →Culture
A stage, live recordings, bookshop and local products.
Explore services →03 · MEMBERSHIP
Your place in
the community.
Start with events and connections, add workspace and café benefits, or choose the business services your journey needs.
Explore membershipCommunity
Events, network and member benefits
Café
Regular workspace and café access
Business
Address, storage and room credits
Partner
For companies and institutions
04 · PROGRAMMES
A rhythm of useful
encounters.
01
Founder breakfasts
→02
Open-table conversations
→03
Mentor office hours
→04
Book talks
→05
Community dinners
→06
Investor introductions
→05 · TWO WICREATION FORMATS
Different scale.
The same shared promise.
UNICORN FORMAT
Wicreation Unicorn Café
500–800 m²The complete entrepreneurial destination with café, workspaces, meeting rooms, stage, bookshop, business services and programmes.
Explore the Unicorn format →GAZELLE FORMAT
Wicreation Gazelle Café
100–250 m²An agile, complete café, meeting and community model for neighbourhoods, smaller cities, campuses, hotels, libraries and mixed-use destinations.
Explore the Gazelle format →06 · GROW WITH US
Open one.
Or bring your café with you.
07 · LOCAL NAME · SHARED FORMAT
The place stays local.
Wicreation is the endorsement.
The local café name always comes first. The line underneath identifies its Wicreation format or affiliation.
GARE DU NORD
A WICREATION UNICORN CAFÉ
CAFÉ MOKKA
A WICREATION GAZELLE CAFÉ
HARBOUR HOUSE
A WICREATION AFFILIATED CAFÉ
NEXT IN DEVELOPMENT · WICREATION CENTER
Begin around a table.
Grow into a complete environment.
The Café is the informal public front door. Wicreation Center will provide the deeper physical infrastructure for offices, programmes, institutions and entrepreneurial development.
See how Café connects to Center →FOUNDING LOCATIONS · MEMBERS · PARTNERS