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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.
Learn more about the discussions in Managing Partner Raj Singh’s Unstable Foundations event recap and join the conversation with your thoughts on topics we should cover next.

Persistent challenges facing the construction technology industry result in unnecessary manual work, added complexity, and ultimately, project delays and cost overruns. In our latest blog post Transforming project management: How JLL Spark’s partnership with Ingenious.Build is revolutionizing client service, we demonstrate how a strategic partnership between JLL Spark, our portfolio company Ingenious.Build, and JLL’s Project and Development Services team is solving these challenges while delivering enhanced value to our clients.

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.

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.

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 Noro portals at JLL: Connecting long-distance teams via large format video conferencing.

Our latest post in the JLL Spark investor series is a feature on Sean Wright, JLL Spark’s Investment Principal covering the EMEA region. Originally from the United States, he is based in Germany where he has lived and worked for many years. His investment career began in private equity before becoming an entrepreneur and eventually moving into venture capital.

In an industry long defined by handshakes and paper trails, commercial real estate brokerage continues to undergo a significant transformation as it embraces technology. The commercial leasing space is being reshaped by shifting occupier demands, rising expectations for speed and data transparency, and the breakthrough potential of AI.

To meet this moment, JLL has built a unique innovation engine—pairing internal product and development expertise with a dedicated corporate venture arm. Read more from JLL Spark Growth Principal Daniel Correa in The evolution of leasing technology: How JLL is transforming the brokerage landscape.