JLL Leans Further Into ‘Exploding’ Office Proptech Space With New Deal

JLL has inked a new partnership with a proptech firm as part of its effort to build an ecosystem of tech solutions for office landlords and tenants. 

The global commercial real estate firm reached a deal to sell one of its own workplace tech applications to HqO, a startup it invested in last year, as a way to combine two types of office tech offerings into one platform, JLL Technologies President Sharad Rastogi told Bisnow

Proptech startup CEO on valuation woes: “Flat is the new up”

HomeLight, a San Francisco-based proptech firm that facilitates contingency-free, cash transactions, bought the Denver-headquartered fintech Accept.inc — its third acquisition in as many years — making it the largest ā€œagent-focused cash offer programā€ in the U.S.

Proptech Bubble Deflates As Startups Swallow Lower Valuations

After years of exuberant dealmaking, the proptech industry is facing a reckoning. 

Proptech unicorns that raised boatloads of cash and went public with promises to disrupt the multitrillion-dollar commercial real estate industry have seen their valuations plummet in recent months. The sector’s losses have outpaced the overall market drop this year as the Federal Reserve has taken aggressive measures to curb inflation.

ALICE Technologies Raises $30M in Series B Funding

AI-based scheduling and project management tech firm ALICE Technologies announced June 13 that is has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round.

ALICE specializes in an AI-driven analysis of preconstruction data to generate a full construction sequencing plan. Everything from erection of the structure to the management of labor and materials is handled by the AI, which can adjust parameters to find more optimal scheduling paths.

Weekend Interview: JLL Spark Managing Partner Raj Singh

This series gets into the heads of the decision-makers of CRE, the people shaping the industry by setting investment strategy, workplace design, diversity initiatives and more.

He isn’t a train driver like he wanted to be, but Raj Singh is responsible instead for driving the proptech industry forward.