News Category: In The Media

  • Propmodo: Building Engines’ CEO on His Company’s Plans to Become the “Third Platform” in CRE

    Tim Curran is the kind of person you call when you are ready to take your company past the startup stage and into the pantheon of “big tech.” He has helped numerous companies scale to a place where many founders only dream such as Vela Systems, a field management solution for the construction industry, that…

  • TechRadar: Best Property Management Software of 2020: Organize Real Estate in the Cloud

    Manage your real estate portfolio with the best software Managing multiple real estate units without software would be difficult, but having the right software to manage your property is another matter. It’s not simply that it needs to be able to handle documents like office software, but also needs to cover accounting needs and financial management as well. Managing tenants…

  • Mann Report: Building Engines Acquires Synlio, Adding RFP Automation to its CRE Operations Platform

    Building Engines, the leading building operations platform for commercial real estate owners, operators and occupants, today announced it has acquired Synlio, the automated RFP solution for commercial real estate property managers. Synlio manages the RFP process from beginning to end, from creation and management to vendor communications and comparisons, saving time, increasing transparency, reducing costs and…

  • Boston Business Journal: Boston Firm Acquires Scottsdale Real Estate-Focused Software Company

    A Boston-based web and mobile building operations software firm has acquired Arizona company Synlio in a bid to integrate its request-for-proposal automation technology for commercial real estate property managers. Building Engines closed the deal to buy Synlio on Nov. 1 and plans to keep its Scottsdale office open with its seven employees, said Lou Jordano, Building…

  • Phoenix Business Journal: Scottsdale Real Estate-focused Software Company Acquired by Boston Firm

    A Boston web and mobile property management software firm has acquired Scottsdale-based Synlio to integrate its request-for-proposal automation technology for commercial real estate property managers. Building Engines closed the deal to buy Synlio on Nov. 1 and plans to keep its Scottsdale office open with its seven employees, said Lou Jordano, Building Engines’ chief marketing officer.…

  • Connect Boston Commercial Real Estate News: Building Engines Acquires Synlio to Bolster CRE Operations Platform

    Boston-based building operations platform for commercial real estate owners, operators and occupants, Building Engines, has acquired Synlio, the automated RFP solution for commercial real estate property managers. Synlio manages the RFP process from creation and management, to vendor communications and comparisons. Synlio’s technology quickly finds quality vendors that meet requirements of a given project. On…

  • Boston Real Estate Times: Building Engines Acquires Synlio, Adding RFP Automation to its CRE Operations Platform

    Boston– Building Engines, a building operations platform for commercial real estate owners, operators and occupants, announced that it has acquired Synlio, the automated RFP solution for commercial real estate property managers. Synlio manages the RFP process from beginning to end, from creation and management to vendor communications and comparisons, saving time, increasing transparency, reducing costs…

  • FinSMES: Building Engines Buys Synlio

    Building Engines, a Boston, MA-based building operations platform for commercial real estate owners, operators and occupants, acquired Synlio, an automated RFP solution for commercial real estate property managers. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The acquisition bolsters Building Engines’ AI capabilities abd expand its product portfolio. The deal also extends its employee presence.…

  • BostInno: VC Funding Update: Over 58 Boston Startups Raised More than $624M in October

    Venture capitalists loosened their purse strings as we near the end of the decade, pouring over $624 million into 58 Boston-area startups. Some notable funding rounds included Cambridge-based epigenetics company Constellation Pharmaceuticals’ $65 million in equity, Watertown-based microbiome company Arranta Bio’s $82 million funding round and Cambridge-based hematology company Disc Medicine’s $50 million Series A. Investors raised a significant sum…

  • Mann Report: The Most Important People Your CRE Tech May Be Leaving Behind in 2020

      In 2019, more commercial real estate (CRE) firms than ever invested in technology for their properties. In the 20 years our organization has been embedded in the world of CRE technology, we’ve never seen such momentum (and such large opportunity ahead) in this field. But many firms are experiencing slow uptake and low use…