Global Ventures builds, and partners with innovative startup ventures, and ecosystem partners. We aim to harness ingenuity of built world venture-based innovation to reduce value risk and act as a force multiplier for portfolio value creation. Our goal is to ambitiously leverage the next wave of technology and business models impacting the future of the built world.
Global Ventures
Catalyzing transformative ideas in the built world to deliver impact to Hines partners, customers, and communities.
Leveraging the Power of Hines
As one of the largest institutional owners of real estate, Hines owns the ecosystem upon which the next generation of innovations will be deployed. With a portfolio that spans near 400 cities in 30 countries, and more than 200 development projects active at any given time, the Hines platform is an ideal test-bed for piloting, adopting, and accelerating winners among the most innovative new companies.
Our Core Functions
Our Global Ventures team consists of two core functions with distinct yet collaborative roles in the selection, development and acceleration of all our ventures: Venture Studio and Venture Partnerships & Platform Engagement
Take a look at our current portfolio of startup ventures:
CQuel, Fabrik, and Varuna operate as independent companies, each with Hines continuing as an investor, and maintaining positions on each company's Board of Directors. To learn more about the successful spin-out of three incubated ventures, click here.
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cquel.io
CQuel
CQuel (based in EU) is a digital marketplace for asset managers, decarbonization solutions providers & government incentives.
The first of its kind, end-to-end decarbonization marketplace, CQuel is partnered with hundreds of providers and leading asset developers and owners across Europe.
Pal Hvattum, CEO
Pal Hvattum is a seasoned entrepreneur, with experience scaling marketplace and renewable energy businesses across Europe, and Latin America.
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joinfabrik.com
FABRIK
FABRIK activates, enables and promotes communities of any size by activating underutilized spaces.
Fighting the loneliness epidemic, FABRIK is home to hundreds of unique communities, and individuals seeking connectivity leveraging vacant spaces.
Jaclyn Pascocello, CEO
Jaclyn Pascocello is an experienced proptech and co-working entrepreneur. She is also the former COO of Spacious, leading co-working startup, acquired by WeWork in 2019.
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joinvaruna.com
Varuna
Varuna is building a community of fractionalized commercial real estate investors.
Creating unique access to institutional grade real estate deals, Varuna provides distinctive and attractive features not found on other real estate investment platforms.
Ed Spiegel, CEO
Ed Spiegel is a multi-time founder, with experience scaling businesses to acquisition in the medical and proptech spaces.