Great Jones

Great Jones is an American property management firm focused on the operation and maintenance of residential rental properties. The company combines conventional property-management services with technology intended to let homeowners oversee rental homes through a smartphone or web interface. Its platform is designed to centralize tasks associated with owning rental property, including maintenance coordination and other operational processes. The firm also operates as a group purchasing organization for property maintenance. By consolidating demand for materials and related services across the properties it manages, Great Jones seeks to coordinate purchasing and maintenance more efficiently than individual rental-property owners might be able to do on their own. This model positions the company between a traditional property manager, a technology platform, and an operating partner for small and medium-sized rental-property owners. Great Jones attracted venture financing in 2018, raising $8 million in Series A funding from Crosslink Capital, Juxtapose, and individual technology entrepreneurs including Jason Finger, Kevin Ryan, and David Rosenblatt. The financing reflected investor interest in technology-enabled services for the growing residential rental and property-management sector. The available reference material does not identify a founding year, founder, headquarters, website, parent company, or publicly traded securities. According to the referenced Wikipedia entry, Great Jones managed more than 1,000 properties with an aggregate value exceeding $150 million, across locations ranging from Naples to Jacksonville. These figures describe the company’s reported operating scale at the time of that source and should not be treated as current figures without newer evidence. Great Jones is therefore best understood as a United States-focused, technology-enabled property-management brand rather than a consumer real-estate marketplace or a conventional real-estate investment company.

Great Jones operates in the residential rental-property-management sector, where property owners commonly need help coordinating leasing operations, repairs, vendors, purchasing, and ongoing oversight. Its stated approach is to use technology to make these activities accessible through a smartphone or the internet, while also providing the underlying management and maintenance functions. A distinguishing element of the company’s model is its use of group purchasing. Great Jones acts as a group purchasing organization by consolidating procurement for materials used in property maintenance. The approach is intended to use the scale of a managed portfolio to coordinate purchases that would otherwise be made separately for individual homes. This gives the company an operational role in addition to its software-facing role: it is not described merely as an information or listing service, but as a firm involved in running and maintaining rental properties. Great Jones received $8 million in Series A financing in 2018. The round was led or participated in by Crosslink Capital and Juxtapose, with participation from entrepreneurs Jason Finger, Kevin Ryan, and David Rosenblatt. The funding placed the company within the venture-backed property-technology movement, in which software and centralized operations are applied to traditionally fragmented real-estate services. The referenced account reports that Great Jones managed more than 1,000 properties valued at more than $150 million, with operations extending from Naples to Jacksonville. The source does not specify the states, exact dates of the portfolio measurement, or whether those figures remain current. It also does not provide verified details about the company’s founders, headquarters, later financing, ownership, executive team, website, or subsequent corporate activity. Accordingly, the available historical record supports a concise account of Great Jones as a U.S. property-management firm with a technology platform and group-purchasing model, but does not support a fuller chronology without additional sources.

1. 2018Series A financing

   Great Jones raised $8 million in Series A financing from Crosslink Capital, Juxtapose, Jason Finger, Kevin Ryan, and David Rosenblatt. The source identifies this as a financing event in 2018 but does not provide further terms.

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2. Reported expansion to more than 1,000 managed properties

   The referenced account reported that Great Jones managed more than 1,000 properties valued at more than $150 million, with locations ranging from Naples to Jacksonville. The source does not state the measurement date beyond its surrounding company history.

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A technology-enabled operating and property-management partner for residential rental-property owners, combining digital oversight with coordinated maintenance and group purchasing.

Product categories. Residential rental property management · Digital property-management tools · Property maintenance coordination · Group purchasing for rental-property maintenance materials

• 2018Great Jones raises $8 million in Series A financing

  Great Jones raised $8 million in Series A financing from Crosslink Capital, Juxtapose, and entrepreneurs including Jason Finger, Kevin Ryan, and David Rosenblatt. The financing supported the company’s technology-enabled approach to residential rental-property management.

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