2018
Founded in Boston
Chase Garbarino, Kevin McCarthy, Greg Gomer, and Jared Stenquist start HqO with a simple premise: buildings should work for the people inside them.
Company
Built by people who love cities.
HqO exists to drive economic prosperity in cities by transforming commercial real estate into an experiential platform for growth. Buildings are where cities work. We make them work better.
400M+
Square feet powered
1,500+
Properties
32
Countries
185+
Customers
The Story
Founded in Boston. Operating worldwide.
HqO was founded in 2018 by Chase Garbarino (CEO), Kevin McCarthy (CTO), Greg Gomer (CCO), and Jared Stenquist. The company has raised more than $200M from investors including Insight Partners, Accomplice, Koch Real Estate Investments, Related, and JLL Spark.
What started as tenant experience software is now the AI platform for commercial real estate — the operating system, the data foundation, and the operator that runs on top of both.
Milestones
2021
Acquired Office App
HqO expands across Europe, bringing workplace experience software to a global customer base.
2022
Acquired Leesman
Leesman — which has measured workplace experience for roughly a million office respondents across 100+ countries — joins HqO. Experience becomes something you can measure, benchmark, and improve.
Today
Building the AI platform for CRE
REX, HqOS, the Digital Grid, and HqOX. One platform that runs the work, powered by one data foundation, connected across portfolios.
Offices
Five cities. One team.
Careers, newsroom, and everything else about the company live on the HqO corporate site.
- BostonHeadquarters
- New York
- London
- Amsterdam
- Paris