About
Ben Shafii is building OpenWork, an open-source platform in the coworking software space.
Founder at OpenWorkYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Ben went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran OpenWork's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ben can intro founders to OpenWork's investors below.
OpenWork's investors · 1
Experience
- openwork (YC X26)Foundercurrent2025 — present
- Gnosis PayFounding Engineer2023 — 2024Berlin, Germany
- Orange DAOFounder Fellow2023San Francisco, California, United States
- EmbedbaseCo-Founder2023San Francisco Bay Area
- prologe.ioCo-Founder2019 — 2022Berlin, Germany
- RequestEngineering Manager2018 — 2019Amsterdam
- RequestFull Stack Developer2018Singapore
- FAMOCOFront End Consultant2017 — 2018Berlin Metropolitan Area
- FAMOCOFront End Developer2016 — 2017Brussels Metropolitan Area
- FAMOCOInternship: Developer2014 — 2016Brussels Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
ManagementMentoring1JavaScript8React7HTML1Linux2Python2Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)2Docker1Node.jsGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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FirebaseReact NativeReact.jsMongoDBHTML5gitProject ManagementElixirPhotographyWMS ImplementationsSoftware DevelopmentTypeScriptLanguages English · French · German
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ben Shafii?
- Ben Shafii is building OpenWork, an open-source platform in the coworking software space.
- Where does Ben Shafii work?
- Ben Shafii is Founder of OpenWork.
- What companies did Ben Shafii found?
- Ben Shafii founded OpenWork.
- Where did Ben Shafii go to school?
- Ben Shafii studied at Y Combinator; SUPINFO (Associate's degree, Computer Science); SUPINFO (Associate's degree, Computer Science).
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