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Chill — Los Angeles’ PropTech scene is coming along just fine
JLL Spark Partner Laurent Grill contributes to the Commercial Observer article on the city’s proptech ecosystem.
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GCV Powerlist 2025: Raj Singh
Real estate is estimated to be a $32tn business worldwide, and during the past decade, real estate services provider JLL has built one of the premier real estate-focused portfolios in corporate VC, under Raj Singh.
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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…
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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…
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JLL Spark’s Laurent Grill on Investing in Proptech’s Evolution
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, JLL Spark’s Laurent Grill talks about the world of proptech, COVID’s impact on the office and lowering buildings’ emissions.
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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.
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ecoworks rakes in €7.7 million to boost carbon-free retrofitting for housing
The Berlin-based modular carbon-neutral housing retrofit startup designs façade and roof elements that can be built around existing buildings as a second skin
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JLL’s tips for avoiding ‘dead ends’ in proptech adoption
How do you start figuring out what tech your offices, shops or warehouses need when there are thousands of startups in the industry? PlaceTech speaks to JLL Spark’s Raj Singh for his advice on getting it right.
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Proptech Data Firms Race To Scale Up Amid Tech Turmoil, Looming SEC Rule
A confluence of factors has supercharged interest in the technology of monitoring, tracking and reducing building emissions, especially the expansion of ESG investment.
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Proptech’s Golden Age
By leveraging proptech to meet the challenges of COVID-19, commercial real estate hopes to ready itself for the future.
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JLL Spark Leads Re-Leased’s $15m Funding Round
Used in more than 50,000 properties worldwide, Re-Leased is a cloud-based platform that allows real estate companies to manage lease events, arrears, document storage, building maintenance, reporting and other processes.