Raj Singh, managing partner at JLL Spark Global Ventures, is one of the 100 leading corporate venturing professionals in our 2026 Powerlist.

JLL Spark Global Ventures is the corporate VC arm of JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle), a global real estate services company. Led by managing partner Raj Singh since 2021, the unit invests in early-stage technology startups specifically within the built world technology sector.

JLL Spark Global Ventures’ 12-strong team has invested a total of $445m in more than 55 startups, including unicorns Roofstock and EliseAI. Its core offer for the portfolio is access to strategic capital, industry expertise and a powerful route to market, accelerating growth by connecting the startups to JLL’s global network of clients in facilities management, capital markets, leasing and property management.

Beyond capital, JLL Spark provides a “Growth Team” of experts to help startups refine their strategies and scale their solutions.

JLL Spark prioritises investments in five specific themes across the built world, with a core thesis centred on data and sustainability: fintech, contech, smart buildings, future of work and industrial, with a heavy emphasis on data and AI throughout.

Investments in companies, such as qbiq, which automates architectural design using artificial intelligence, Alice Technologies and Orbital since the start of 2019 reflect a clear thesis: the next wave of value in commercial real estate will come from software that compresses time, increases profits or enables an entirely new process.

Beyond its San Francisco headquarters where Singh is based, the unit has invested across North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.

Singh is a veteran investor with over 20 years of experience. Before joining JLL Spark, he held the head of investing role at JetBlue Technology Ventures and co-founded companies like Sooqini.

The friction inherent in deploying innovation across a global enterprise: the same scale that gives JLL Spark its edge can slow implementation. Singh’s challenge and opportunity is to turn that complexity into a defensible moat.

If he succeeds, JLL Spark may become a blueprint for what corporate venture capital was always supposed to be: capital, capability and customers, all pulling in the same direction and at a scale that matches the opportunity.

The GCV Powerlist represents the 100 individuals spearheading the future of the corporate venturing industry.

These individuals excel in terms of their venturing approach and structure, number and quality of portfolio companies and in their contributions to the corporate venturing profession.

See the full 2026 Powerlist here.

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