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JLL and VergeSense partnership: From investment vision to client value
The investment thesis is clear: enterprises need technology that answers critical questions such as whether to renew leases, how to right-size spaces, and how to balance cost optimization with user experience. Through a solid partnership between JLL Spark, VergeSense, and JLL’s partnership and account teams, we have been able to successfully deliver these outcomes to many clients.
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FEATURED RESEARCH – Is the tipping point for robotics in real estate coming? The rediscovery of robotics as physical AI
Traditional robots have been around in commercial real estate for years, doing tasks like construction work, cleaning, and building inspections. While functional, the results are not changing the game. Leveraging JLL’s latest Global Technology Survey, authors Yuehan Wang and Christine Langston of JLL’s Global Research team finds that the combination of better technology, willing clients,…
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JLL’s Global Technology Survey: JLL Spark investments align with client and investor tech focus
In the face of challenges within the VC market and the persistent uncertainties of the broader economic landscape affecting the commercial real estate sector, technology remains a paramount focus for investors, landlords, and occupiers.
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JLL Spark’s CVC series, part 2: Achieving financial and strategic returns
In a recent blog post, JLL Spark introduced our corporate venture capital (CVC) series, and discussed why corporations establish CVC units. In the second part of this series, we’ll talk about how to structure a CVC unit to achieve maximum value for the parent corporation.
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Founder Profile: Dealpath’s Mike Sroka and the Next Generation of Real Estate Investment Performance
Dealpath, a JLL Spark portfolio company, is transforming how real estate investment managers maximize their investment pipelines and portfolio performance.
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Proda’s AI power: Increasing the value of data for real estate markets
FinTech applications will particularly benefit from the increased access to qualitative and large data sets generated by AI models. Proda is a perfect illustration of how this will play out in the specific case of rent roll data.
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FinTech: The pivotal role financial services and technology will play in the future of CRE
It’s all connected. Nothing could be truer when analyzing the symbiotic relationship of the financial and real estate markets.
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JLL Spark’s CVC series, part 1: The goal of corporate venture capital
Corporate venture capital (CVC) has captured our attention for a couple of decades, having started off in high tech companies and steadily expanded more broadly into other industries such as FinTech as well as carbon and emissions tech in recent years.
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Founder Profile: Infogrid’s William Cowell de Gruchy on the importance of smart buildings
Our portfolio company, Infogrid, is a trailblazer in harnessing the IoT to create smart, efficient buildings that prioritize sustainability, occupant health, and well-being.
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Building a sustainable future: Veev’s pioneering approach to PropTech
As sustainability becomes an increasingly important consideration for businesses and consumers alike, companies are exploring innovative ways to reduce their environmental impact.
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JLL Spark’s investment approach to sustainability
This year, as we reflected on our investment priorities at our annual offsite, we agreed that we could no longer consider sustainability a siloed PropTech theme; instead, it has become a foundational dimension that cuts across all our investment focus areas.