bonfire makes remote work a social experience
bonfire makes remote work a social experience
Enjoy the social benefits of a physical office.
Experience the freedom of remote work.

Enjoy the social benefits of a physical office.
Experience the freedom of remote work.
Feel visible and connected.
bonfire keeps remote teams engaged, visible and psychologically healthy.



communication

"Bringing distributed teams closer together, professionally and personally, enabling them to build their own day-to-day-structures, routines and culture has never been more important. The connection of people and knowledge is key for our mission, and we are looking forward to work with bonfire to bring our 10 global hubs closer together."
Florian Bogenschuetz
CEO @ Wayra Germany
"In the digital world, teams increasingly consist of experts from all over the world who work together in complex environments towards a common goal. A strong relationship with colleagues including social aspects helps to define personal strengths and enforces the team spirit. All of this leads to high quality work and improves the overall result."
Philipp Minges
DevOps Engineer @ SAP
This is why we build bonfire,
to make the digital future of work a social experience.
Benefits of a
physical office
Remote teams become visible and can communicate synchronously with revolutionary video streaming.
Freedom of
working remote
Work from anywhere and still experience unity by sharing a fun and customizable virtual office.
Bonding with
colleagues
Socialize like never before, thanks to avatar-based interactions and gamified team-building features.
bonfire
Early Access

Be among the first to experience an avatar-based office space and truly connect with remote colleagues and employees.
Free
limited trial period
- Create your individual Avatar
- Revolutionary video streaming
- Productive & social interactions
bonfire
Office

Bring your remote team together in one place. Enable synchronous communication, rich team insights and socializing.
Soon
Everything from Early Access, plus:- Customizable virtual office
- Health promoting team insights
- API support
bonfire
Campus

Transform your offline institution into an avatar-based, remote first virtual space. Enable collaboration and provide a feeling of belonging.
Later
Everything from Office, plus:- Build, modify and expand your space
- Team building Mini-Games
Pricing

StartUpValley.news
A german article from StartUpValley.news in their category "FoundersTalk" about the founding process and the purpose behind bonfire.

Medium
A personal reflection from our founder Raphael about the underlaying principles of bonfire and why online gaming could lead the way to a new era of remote work.

Sidepreneur Podcast
In this german Podcast Raphael talks about the decision to found bonfire, the remote work landscape with its challenges, and how his education in psychology helps him to lead people.

NEW WORK Podcast by Alissa Stein
Our Founder talks about the thought process that lead to bonfire, what the future of remote work holds and why it is important to always consider both productivity and sociality.
Press
After his Business Administration degree Raphael worked several years for mid-size IT companies as a Sales Key Account Manager. He then studied Business Psychology and Clinical Psychology.
Before starting bonfire, he worked as a Organizational Psychologist fostering Psychological Safety and facilitating great teams. With bonfire he wants to empower remote companies to build and preserve their culture, enable seamless communication and personal interactions.
Johannes holds a degree in Business Informatics. Having worked in various industries, from economics to system administration and consulting, he discovered his true passion for coding early on.
bonfire enables Johannes to combine his previous experiences and his interest in modern technology to realize bonfires vision: to bring people together. At bonfire, he is responsible for developing the main application and everything techy.
Verónica is an architect and tech entrepreneur, she has Masters in Landscape and Territorial Design and a LEED® GA professional accreditation. She has several years of international experience in architectural design, sustainable consulting and project management, working for a global engineering firm.
More recently, she founded EnlightAID a tech4good firm providing real-time transparency to donations. Through this work she has acquired extensive UX/UI design experience.
Domenik is a physical scientist. He specialized on molecular self-assembly and 2-D nanosheets. After the first couple of publications, he focused on becoming a full time developer for graphical applications.
At bonfire he boosts development through a wide range of tasks, incorporating his background as a physicist. His algorithmic thinking is used to evolve movement behavior, real time communication and visual representation within bonfire.

Raphael Herkommer
CEO
After his Business Administration degree Raphael worked several years for mid-size IT companies as a Sales Key Account Manager. He then studied Business Psychology and Clinical Psychology.
Before starting bonfire, he worked as a Organizational Psychologist fostering Psychological Safety and facilitating great teams. With bonfire he wants to empower remote companies to build and preserve their culture, enable seamless communication and personal interactions.

Johannes Rieger
CTO
Johannes holds a degree in Business Informatics. Having worked in various industries, from economics to system administration and consulting, he discovered his true passion for coding early on.
bonfire enables Johannes to combine his previous experiences and his interest in modern technology to realize bonfires vision: to bring people together. At bonfire, he is responsible for developing the main application and everything techy.

Veronica Celis Vergara
Design
Verónica is an architect and tech entrepreneur, she has Masters in Landscape and Territorial Design and a LEED® GA professional accreditation. She has several years of international experience in architectural design, sustainable consulting and project management, working for a global engineering firm.
More recently, she founded EnlightAID a tech4good firm providing real-time transparency to donations. Through this work she has acquired extensive UX/UI design experience.

Domenik Zimmermann
Developer
Domenik is a physical scientist. He specialized on molecular self-assembly and 2-D nanosheets. After the first couple of publications, he focused on becoming a full time developer for graphical applications.
At bonfire he boosts development through a wide range of tasks, incorporating his background as a physicist. His algorithmic thinking is used to evolve movement behavior, real time communication and visual representation within bonfire.