The virtual office to start and grow your business in Berlin

Berlin is a city of distinct neighbourhoods, and the district you choose says something about your business. Here is where you can get an Olea address today, and how Berlin’s main business areas compare:

• Mitte – Berlin’s commercial and political heart, and where most of our addresses are, from the landmark Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate to the café-and-gallery stretch of Torstraße near Rosenthaler Platz. The most central, prestigious option – ideal for professional services, finance, consultancies and any business that wants an instantly recognisable, blue-chip Berlin address.
• Charlottenburg – established West Berlin, anchored by the Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard, where our Ku’damm location sits. A more traditional, settled reputation that appeals to law firms, consultancies and established Mittelstand companies. Home to the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, where every Berlin company is entered in the commercial register.

Weighing up the rest of the city? Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain are Berlin’s creative-and-tech heartland – startups, agencies and media – while Prenzlauer Berg is a polished creative-professional quarter. These are areas we are expanding into, with new locations opening soon. Wherever you choose, every Olea location includes the same complete virtual office – only the address and the price change.

Berlin is Germany’s capital and largest city, with around 3.8 million residents and an economy that has shifted from its industrial past into services, technology, media and science. It is the undisputed centre of the German startup ecosystem: companies including Zalando, Delivery Hero, N26, HelloFresh and SoundCloud were built here, and the city draws a large share of German venture capital along with the accelerators, investors and tech talent that follow it.

It is also one of Europe’s most international business cities. English is widely spoken across the startup and tech economy, which makes Berlin a natural landing point for founders and companies expanding into Germany from abroad. Combined with deep transport links – Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), Berlin Hauptbahnhof and one of Europe’s most extensive U- and S-Bahn networks – and a cost of living still below London or Paris, it is a capital that works for everyone from a solo founder to an expanding international company.

Whatever you are setting up, an Olea Berlin address is a serviceable address (ladungsfähige Anschrift) accepted by all the relevant authorities:

• GmbH or UG (company formation) – your company is entered in the Handelsregister kept by the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, which handles registrations for the whole of Berlin. You will need a notary, and we provide the consent-to-use documentation they require.
• Gewerbe (trade registration) – sole traders and trading companies file a Gewerbeanmeldung with the Gewerbeamt of their Berlin district (Bezirk); Berlin has twelve, and many now accept online registration.
• Tax registration – your local Finanzamt issues your tax number (Steuernummer); which office handles you depends on your business district.
• Freelancers (Freiberufler) – genuinely freelance professions skip the Gewerbeanmeldung and register directly with the Finanzamt.

In every case you can use your Olea Berlin address, keep your home address private, and rely on us to receive and digitise the official post these authorities send.