Nine Four Ventures is a vertically integrated, multi-stage real estate technology venture fund. It invests in companies impacting the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world, which transcends the real estate asset lifecycle and includes industries that sell to and through real estate such as insurance and maintenance.
The firm is backed by institutional owners and managers across real estate asset classes such as the Laramar Group, family offices, and globally-recognized firms such as Ace Hardware, State Farm Insurance and Valley National Bank to offer lifecycle capital, customers at scale, deep real estate operating expertise, and a safe laboratory environment for companies to test new markets, technologies, and strategies before launching publicly. Nine Four also has a unique investor network made up of home services executives that have built businesses such as ServiceMaster, Sears Home Improvement, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and some of the largest companies in roofing, pest control, and maintenance.
In 2018, we noticed the venture investing landscape lacked a pool of capital dedicated to the unique needs of PropTech startups. Many firms lacked the expertise needed to identify real estate technology and/or an ability to help scale it across the built world. Nine Four Ventures fills that void with experience and a collective approach to steward startups across the PropTech ecosystem.
The firm is backed by institutional owners and managers across real estate asset classes such as the Laramar Group, family offices, and globally-recognized firms such as Ace Hardware, State Farm Insurance and Valley National Bank to offer lifecycle capital, customers at scale, deep real estate operating expertise, and a safe laboratory environment for companies to test new markets, technologies, and strategies before launching publicly. Nine Four also has a unique investor network made up of home services executives that have built businesses such as ServiceMaster, Sears Home Improvement, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and some of the largest companies in roofing, pest control, and maintenance.
In 2018, we noticed the venture investing landscape lacked a pool of capital dedicated to the unique needs of PropTech startups. Many firms lacked the expertise needed to identify real estate technology and/or an ability to help scale it across the built world. Nine Four Ventures fills that void with experience and a collective approach to steward startups across the PropTech ecosystem.
Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2018
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Portfolio 23
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.07.2023 | Bowery Val... | boweryvaluation.com | $63.3M | United Sta... |
| 29.06.2022 | Vergo Bank | getvergo.com | $4.1M | - |
| 31.05.2022 | KOJO | usekojo.com | $39M | United Sta... |
| 03.05.2022 | Vontive: T... | vontive.com | $135M | United Sta... |
| 03.05.2022 | Crosswalk | crosswalk.co | - | - |
| 01.12.2021 | Inspectify | inspectify.com | $10.96M | United Sta... |
| 21.11.2021 | Pronto Hou... | prontohousing.com | $2.5M | United Sta... |
| 21.11.2021 | Bridgit | gobridgit.com | $44.1M | Canada, On... |
| 19.08.2021 | TrustLayer | trustlayer.io | $21.7M | United Sta... |
| 13.08.2021 | Agora | helloagora.com | $79M | United Sta... |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.07.2023 | Bowery Valuation Closes $16.3 Million Extension of Series B Funding, Accelerating Growth Trajectory | Bowery Valuation Founders and Co-CEOs John Meadows and Noah Isaacs with CTO Cesar Devers (middle) "This latest capital raise will enable us to further enhance our data infrastructure, expand our team, and accelerate our growth trajecto... |
| 07.01.2023 | 4 survival strategies for proptech housing startups as they enter the sector's hardest year yet | Nima Wedlake, a principal at Thomvest Ventures. Thomvest Ventures This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Real-estate tech is challenged as it enters the new year. Startups still ... |
| 15.03.2022 | Real Estate In The Digital Age | By Caroline Giroux |
| 11.01.2021 | Multifamily Property Management Is About To Be Radically Disrupted | Co-Founder of Simplifyy, the first tech-enabled multifamily property management company - we help owners make more money & get better data. |
| 31.10.2019 | Investing In Advancing Property Management Technology | STRATIS IoT is among the many companies and solutions being introduced to help streamline property ... [+] management.Statis IoT |
| 23.05.2018 | First.io Closes $5M Series A | Chicago-based startup investors, MATH Venture Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and @properties' co-founders Thad Wong and Mike Golden, led a $5 million Series A investment round in First.io, a technology startup that uses artificial intelligen... |