Hines Venture Studio

Hines Venture Studio

Hines Venture Studio builds startups to address the built world’s most critical pain points.

We leverage Hines’ scope, expertise and customer insights to pilot innovations in the built world across our own portfolio and beyond to support the customers, partners and communities we serve.

We bring in talented entrepreneurs to partner alongside our real estate expertise. We access channels, customers & insights through the Hines ecosystem to accelerate learnings for our startups. We work across the entire venture lifecycle, from ideation and incubation to acceleration and scale; from pre-seed, through Series A and beyond.

Take a look at our current portfolio of startup ventures:

As of September 2024, CQuel, Fabrik, and Varuna will 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.

  • 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.

    cquel.io
    Pal Hvattum headshot

    Pal Hvattum, CEO

    Pal Hvattum is a seasoned entrepreneur, with experience scaling marketplace and renewable energy businesses across Europe, and Latin America.

  • 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.

    joinfabrik.com
    Jaclyn Pascocello headshot

    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.

  • 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.

    joinvaruna.com
    Ed Spiegel headshot

    Ed Spiegel, CEO

    Ed Spiegel is a multi-time founder, with experience scaling businesses to acquisition in the medical and proptech spaces.

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