In our latest team feature, get to know Daniel Correa, JLL Spark Growth Principal based in New York City. He is the powerhouse behind accelerating our portfolio companies within JLL’s transaction businesses – Leasing Advisory, Capital Markets, and LaSalle Investment Management.
With operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of more than 110,000 employees, we face the immense challenge of managing vast amounts of property data from multiple sources, markets, and formats. To address this complexity data challenge, we invested in and deployed PRODA — a solution that has been essential in building a unified, scalable, and effective enterprise data platform for one of our industry’s most fragmented data sets: rent rolls.
Our recent investment in Acelab reiterates JLL’s commitment to tech-enabling our core business functions and represents a strategic leap forward in enhancing one of our critical processes: material discovery and procurement. Acelab’s Material Hub, an all-in-one materials management platform, enhances efficiency for architects and designers in JLL’s PDS group, providing superior quality control and economic advantage, in addition to supporting sustainability objectives.
JLL Spark and Goodwin Law hosted, with sponsorship from Andersen, an audience of almost 90 people, expertly curated to speak and network about some of the most pressing issues in our business at Unstable Foundations: An analysis of CRE’s relationship with tech.
Persistent challenges facing the construction technology industry boil down to three critical issues: inefficient communication among project stakeholders, siloed systems and processes, and poorly adapted technology ecosystems. The result? Unnecessary manual work, added complexity, and ultimately, project delays and cost overruns. In this post, we showcase how a strategic partnership between JLL Spark, our portfolio company INGENIOUS.BUILD, and JLL’s Project and Development Services (PDS) team
Growth Principal Carolyn Trickett has lived and breathed the intersection of real estate operations and technology innovation at ground level for many years.With over 30 years of experience driving technology transformation across a range of industries, Carolyn brings a unique perspective shaped by hands-on systems delivery. Get to know Carolyn and how her role positions our tech investments for success in Making innovation work: A conversation with JLL Spark’s Carolyn Trickett.Â
Following a groundswell in adoption among individual brokers across the organization, JLL Spark invested in Ren’s sales intelligence technology in 2024. Fast forward to today, nearly 1,000 brokers from various sectors utilize our AI to serve clients better and generate deals.
Ren is dedicated to escalate JLL sales teams to perform at 10x the average. Read more in our latest blog post by CEO Canay Deniz.
With energy demand forecasted to rise and electricity prices surging in the last five years, property owners and occupiers face unprecedented challenges in accessing reliable and affordable energy supplies. How are AI and emerging technologies helping these companies optimize building operations to reduce energy consumption?
JLL’s Head of Energy Advisory and Sustainability Josephine Tucker weighs in on the energy crisis and the tech investments that represent JLL’s commitment to bringing innovative tech to market.
Rounding out the JLL Spark investor series, Managing Partner Raj Singh shares a glimpse of his road to venture capital and what he admires in startup founders. With an innate curiosity for technology and over 20 years of investing, Raj is an example of resilience and empathy in a market-driven industry. Despite the turbulence, he is steadfast in JLL Spark’s mission to deliver innovation in the built world.
In 2023, JLL Spark invested in Noro’s portal technology to bring cutting edge collaborative tools to modern workplaces. Today, our relationship with Noro has grown to include a use case for our own employees at JLL. Growth Principal Arnaud Bouzinac shares an update on our portfolio company’s growth in our latest blog post.
