More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down tekMountain's in-person coworking space, company officials said recently that it will continue to operate virtually.

CastleBranch opened tekMountain in 2014 and has pushed out several startups out of the space since then.

Company officials in June 2020 sent out a notice to tekMountain members stating that the tech startup space would transition into a virtual setting. Members left the coworking spaces in mid-March of last year as cases of the coronavirus began to spread.
 
"This decision was not made lightly," company officials said at the time. "tekMountain was built to encourage entrepreneurs to grow and flourish – and we believe the sharing of ideas, network and knowledge will continue, even if it no longer takes place between our four walls. But the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us – and all coworking spaces – to re-examine how these spaces physically function and operate."

In the past year, while tekMountain's space remained off the area's space inventory, several other coworking spaces have opened up.