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Today kCura announced a 50,000 square foot expansion at its current office on LaSalle. The story behind this expansion though is not a new one: kCura, the maker of legal software Relativity, is exponentially growing.
The company will be hiring 150 this year (a hiring pace consistent with last year’s) to pass the 500 employee mark in 2014, media specialist Trish Rios said.
“Our two biggest areas of people expansion focus on software developers and sales, to keep up with the demand for our Relativity product,” Rios said.
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About 45 percent of the 150 hires this year will be on the product development team, which is especially famous for its personality-filled culture (developers are split up into internal teams with catchy names like ‘Sharktopus’).
235 team members will be moving into the new space in November. Currently, kCura’s office at 231 S. LaSalle features eight breakout corners named after Chicago neighborhoods and a kCura café that serves as a “town hall” for employees (it’s where they host everything from happy hours to cook-offs).
Since kCura’s early days located at 333 W Wacker in a 1,000 square foot space to their 2008 move to an 8,000 square foot space on Jackson to today’s biggest expansion yet, Brad Serot, SVP of commercial real estate firm CBRE, has accommodated the growth of the company led by CEO Andrew Sieja.
“We have been working with Andrew Sieja and kCura since they were a small company of only a handful of employees,” Serot said. “Not all companies are as forward thinking as kCura. As they grew, Andrew Sieja had the ability to follow what was the best real estate opportunity/solution for his company. He is not afraid to make decisions…and kCura has flourished as a result of his leadership.”
Despite multiple moves in past few years, kCura’s space has always kept one endearing momento: a famous, old green couch that was bought by kCura’s founders in the early days and has served as a bed, waiting room and an intern’s desk throughout its lifetime. No doubt the couch will still have a home in this expanded 133,000 square foot office.
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