Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
HqO is a Boston-based commercial-real-estate technology company that helps landlords and operators manage tenant relationships, building operations, workplace experiences, and asset performance. Its platform combines tenant engagement, operational workflows, analytics, access, amenities, and AI-oriented intelligence for experience-led properties.
Primary product
Real Estate Experience (REX) Platform, including HqO’s CRM for CRE, tenant lifecycle management, tenant engagement apps, operations tools, intelligence, and REX methodology.
Founded
2018
Headquarters
38 Chauncy Street, Floor 12, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, United States
Team size
51-200
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Commercial real estate technology / proptech / workplace experience software
Offices
Business model
Stage
Series D / late-stage private company
Total raised
$200M
Latest round
Series D · Oct 2023
Latest amount
$50M
Oct 2023 · Koch Real Estate Investments, a subsidiary of Koch Industries
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder
Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Head of People
Senior Managing Director, UK & EMEA
Managing Director
Vinay Sachdev
Senior Vice President, Global Engineering
Petula Lucey
Senior Vice President, Global Marketing
HqO presents itself as mission-driven around improving how people experience real estate and increasingly emphasizes operational excellence, customer outcomes, AI readiness, and systems thinking. Public employee-review signals are mixed to negative: an Exa-indexed employer profile reported a 1.8/5 overall rating, with work-life 2.1, compensation 1.9, culture 1.8, and career 1.9. These reviews are anecdotal and should not be treated as definitive.
Compensation
No reliable company-wide compensation bands were found. Public job listings identify engineering, product, customer success, sales, and implementation roles in Boston, New York, and EMEA, but the researched sources did not provide sufficiently reliable salary data.
Benefits
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing; public evidence points to demo-led sales and negotiated software, implementation, and platform contracts. No public standard price list was found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$20M-$30M annually; an Exa-indexed company profile estimated approximately $21M.
Estimated monthly visits
11.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Public company-data estimates indicate substantial headcount contraction from more than 200 employees reported in February 2023 to approximately 73 employees in the latest Exa-indexed company profile. This may reflect restructuring, data methodology differences, or reductions; a formally announced layoff was not located.
SourceHqO operates in a pressured commercial-real-estate market affected by hybrid work, reduced office demand, and constrained investment. The company’s own 2025 materials describe a major organizational and product reorientation toward AI and operational systems.
SourceHqO acquired Symbiosy, a smart-building technology platform developed by HB Reavis. Terms were not disclosed. The transaction followed HqO’s acquisitions of Office App and Leesman.
SourceBusiness Wire · Oct 2025
HqO launched a purpose-built CRM for commercial real estate that unifies leasing, operations, experience, intelligence, tenant data, and workflows. The release introduced or emphasized the Digital Grid, Quantum Core, and tenant lifecycle capabilities.
HqO · May 2025
HqO announced a platform unifying asset management, tenant lifecycle, and building operations, alongside the REX Framework. The stated goal is to connect tenant outcomes, operational performance, and investor value while improving AI readiness.
Commercial Observer · Jan 2024
HqO acquired Symbiosy from HB Reavis, adding smart-building integrations, IoT, data management, and visualization capabilities, particularly in European markets. Terms were not disclosed.
HqO · Oct 2023
HqO announced more than $50M in Series D funding led by Koch Real Estate Investments, with participation from Accomplice, Insight Partners, Related, and existing investors. HqO said the financing brought cumulative funding to more than $200M.
Taylor Johnson · Feb 2023
HqO announced Vinay Sachdev as SVP of Global Engineering and Petula Lucey as SVP of Global Marketing. The contemporaneous release described HqO as having more than 200 employees across Boston, New York, Amsterdam, London, and Paris and serving more than 100 clients.
1 job at HqO