Tech-heavy property services firm Lessen announced Thursday that it has acquired SMS Assist, an industry-leading facilities maintenance technology company, in a $950 million deal. The deal is the ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SMS Assist today announced the hiring of Becky Lowe as its new chief human resources officer. A high-energy HR executive with a wealth of experience, Lowe will be responsible ...

Property-services startup Lessen agreed to acquire competitor SMS Assist for $950 million in the first major proptech deal of the year. Lessen raised $500 million in debt and equity to finance the ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. SMS Assist, a large, fast-growing Chicago company seen as ...

Chicago-based technology company SMS Assist said Wednesday it plans to open a second Chicago-area office in Naperville, with room for up to 400 employees. Launched in 1999, SMS Assist connects ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SMS Assist, an industry-leading facilities maintenance technology company, today announced that it has signed a long-term lease to move to the 114,000 square-foot, four-floor ...

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SMS Assist announced today the hiring of Graham Blackwell as chief strategy and revenue officer. A deeply experienced operating executive, Blackwell will lead SMS Assist’s ...

Chicago tech company SMS Assist, maker of a property management platform and one of the city's "unicorn" tech companies valued at $1 billion or more, has a new chief executive. Chicago tech company ...

When Lessen acquired SMS Assist last year in the largest proptech acquisition in history, the merged companies were valued at more than $2 billion. Thirteen months later, Jay McKee, founder and CEO of ...

One of the largest tenants in the former John Hancock Center is leaving the Mag Mile for a bigger office farther south on Michigan Avenue, where it will become the biggest tenant in another prominent ...