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DQventures Head of Venture Building, Leanne Beesley

1 Sept 2026 · 2 min

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In this short introductory video, Leanne Beasley, Head of Venture Building at Deque Ventures, presents herself as a rapid‑execution builder who helps partners launch, operate, and grow digital products. She highlights her most notable achievement: founding and scaling the world’s largest coworking‑space booking platform, which reached over $2 million in monthly booking requests and listed about 10,000 spaces across 165 countries before being acquired by a public company. Leanne describes her role as turning visions into live websites, MVPs, and supporting systems, emphasizing a fast‑testing mindset over lengthy planning and a commitment to maintaining energy during tough phases. She shares her international background—born in Liverpool, educated in London and Paris, and having worked in Bangladesh, Togo, Canada, Malaysia, and San Francisco—while now living a location‑independent lifestyle between Chiang Mai and London. She positions herself as a “skill collector,” learning new capabilities as needed, and cites unconventional experiences such as spending a week with Richard Branson on Necker Island and unintentionally placing seventh in a North Korean half‑marathon. The pitch concludes with an invitation to collaborate and build something great together.

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Hi, I'm Leanne Beasley, Head of Venture Building at Deque Ventures, and if we work together, my job is getting things built and live fast. Track record: what I'm most known for is starting the world's largest platform to find, book, and review coworking spaces. It was acquired by a public company, but before that, we scaled it to over $2 million in booking requests a month, uh, with about 10,000 coworking spaces listed in 165 countries. And where I'll help. So with you, I'll build the things that the business needs to launch, operate, and grow, whether that's the website, the product, the MVP, the systems behind them. I'm a builder, so I'll be the one bringing your vision to life. Before that, so I'm originally from Liverpool. You might hear from the accent. I studied in London and Paris. I've worked in Bangladesh, Togo, Canada, Malaysia, San Francisco. I'm based between Chiang Mai and London now, but I consider myself location independent, so I look to work remotely from different places wherever I can. So I'm a skill collector. If I can't do something, I learn how, and I believe in putting myself in unusual situations, getting myself in the room. That's how I ended up hanging out with Richard Branson for a week on Necker Island, running a half marathon in North Korea. And accidentally coming 7th place in that by mistake, which is a story for another day. What you could expect from me: so, I move fast. I'd rather test things, you know, right now than spend a month, you know, planning them out. I'll do the building either for you or alongside you, depending on your skill set, and I'll keep the energy up when things get hard. Looking forward to working with you. Let's build something great together!