Nine Four Ventures

Nine Four Ventures, established in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in the property technology sector. It invests in startups that aim to transform the built world by innovating in areas such as people, processes, and ecosystems within the real estate industry.

Jeffrey Elowe MD

Founder and General Partner

Sophia Ghadamian

Investor

Paul La Londe

Partner

Past deals in Real Estate

Inspectify

Venture Round in 2023
Inspectify is a technology-driven platform that streamlines the home inspection process for real estate professionals, inspectors, and homebuyers. The service builds a nationwide network of licensed inspectors, supports customized data collection, and coordinates logistics to deliver timely, standardized property assessments. By integrating inspector performance, data capture, and streamlined reporting, the platform helps users accurately assess property conditions and estimate repair costs, improving decision making for transactions and post-purchase planning. Inspectify aims to modernize home inspections by reducing manual workflows and enabling faster, more reliable insights, ultimately enhancing transparency and value for buyers and sellers alike.

Bowery Valuation

Series B in 2023
Bowery Valuation is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based appraisal software and mobile applications. The company provides its appraisers with innovative tools that enable them to produce comprehensive commercial appraisal reports more than twice as quickly as their leading competitors. By utilizing a robust backend database and natural language generation technology, Bowery enhances efficiency, quality, and consistency across its operations. This approach allows appraisers to deliver more consistent reports at a reduced cost and within shorter timeframes, positioning Bowery as a significant player in the appraisal industry.

Vontive

Series B in 2022
Vontive is a developer of an embedded mortgage platform designed to finance investment properties. The platform offers a no-code, white-label solution that allows businesses serving real estate investors to launch their own investment-property mortgage operations in 1-2 weeks. It creates a direct conduit to finance investment property mortgages, connects to a debt marketplace, and streamlines capital allocation at scale, enabling real estate investors to access predictable, cost-effective financing and compete with cash buyers.

OpenSpace

Series D in 2022
OpenSpace develops automated 360-degree video capture and mapping for construction sites, providing photo documentation software that captures images frequently and ties them to project plans. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenSpace offers reality capture and AI-powered analytics that create navigable, complete photo representations of job sites, enabling faster data capture from preconstruction through operations, improving collaboration and reducing risk compared with traditional text-based workflows.

Inspectify

Series A in 2021
Inspectify is a technology-driven platform that streamlines the home inspection process for real estate professionals, inspectors, and homebuyers. The service builds a nationwide network of licensed inspectors, supports customized data collection, and coordinates logistics to deliver timely, standardized property assessments. By integrating inspector performance, data capture, and streamlined reporting, the platform helps users accurately assess property conditions and estimate repair costs, improving decision making for transactions and post-purchase planning. Inspectify aims to modernize home inspections by reducing manual workflows and enabling faster, more reliable insights, ultimately enhancing transparency and value for buyers and sellers alike.

Pronto Housing

Seed Round in 2021
Pronto streamlines affordable housing processes by offering a software platform that simplifies resident qualification, compliance certification, marketing administration, and digitization of past records. This enables property owners to expedite lease-up and residents to meet annual certifications efficiently.

Bungalow

Series C in 2021
Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with flexible, communal living by signing long-term leases with homeowners and listing multi-bedroom, furnished homes in desirable urban neighborhoods across major U.S. cities. It offers private bedrooms with handpicked housemates, with furnishings, wifi, utilities, and housekeeping, plus monthly community events. The platform also handles digital applications and leasing, resident screening, online rent payments, maintenance requests, and roommate matching to streamline urban rentals for renters and to reduce administrative work for property owners.

Bowery Valuation

Series B in 2021
Bowery Valuation is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based appraisal software and mobile applications. The company provides its appraisers with innovative tools that enable them to produce comprehensive commercial appraisal reports more than twice as quickly as their leading competitors. By utilizing a robust backend database and natural language generation technology, Bowery enhances efficiency, quality, and consistency across its operations. This approach allows appraisers to deliver more consistent reports at a reduced cost and within shorter timeframes, positioning Bowery as a significant player in the appraisal industry.

OpenSpace

Series B in 2020
OpenSpace develops automated 360-degree video capture and mapping for construction sites, providing photo documentation software that captures images frequently and ties them to project plans. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenSpace offers reality capture and AI-powered analytics that create navigable, complete photo representations of job sites, enabling faster data capture from preconstruction through operations, improving collaboration and reducing risk compared with traditional text-based workflows.

SmartRent

Series C in 2020
SmartRent is an enterprise home automation company specializing in smart home and smart building technology tailored for multifamily communities. The company develops a comprehensive platform that enables property owners and managers to monitor and control their assets effectively, enhancing operational efficiencies while also creating opportunities for additional revenue. SmartRent’s offerings include software and hardware solutions that provide seamless visibility and control for property managers, while also delivering an integrated home control experience for residents. Operating primarily in the United States, SmartRent is committed to improving the management of multifamily properties through innovative technology solutions.

OpenSpace

Convertible Note in 2020
OpenSpace develops automated 360-degree video capture and mapping for construction sites, providing photo documentation software that captures images frequently and ties them to project plans. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, OpenSpace offers reality capture and AI-powered analytics that create navigable, complete photo representations of job sites, enabling faster data capture from preconstruction through operations, improving collaboration and reducing risk compared with traditional text-based workflows.

Bungalow

Series B in 2019
Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with flexible, communal living by signing long-term leases with homeowners and listing multi-bedroom, furnished homes in desirable urban neighborhoods across major U.S. cities. It offers private bedrooms with handpicked housemates, with furnishings, wifi, utilities, and housekeeping, plus monthly community events. The platform also handles digital applications and leasing, resident screening, online rent payments, maintenance requests, and roommate matching to streamline urban rentals for renters and to reduce administrative work for property owners.

Bowery Valuation

Venture Round in 2019
Bowery Valuation is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in cloud-based appraisal software and mobile applications. The company provides its appraisers with innovative tools that enable them to produce comprehensive commercial appraisal reports more than twice as quickly as their leading competitors. By utilizing a robust backend database and natural language generation technology, Bowery enhances efficiency, quality, and consistency across its operations. This approach allows appraisers to deliver more consistent reports at a reduced cost and within shorter timeframes, positioning Bowery as a significant player in the appraisal industry.

SmartRent

Series B in 2019
SmartRent is an enterprise home automation company specializing in smart home and smart building technology tailored for multifamily communities. The company develops a comprehensive platform that enables property owners and managers to monitor and control their assets effectively, enhancing operational efficiencies while also creating opportunities for additional revenue. SmartRent’s offerings include software and hardware solutions that provide seamless visibility and control for property managers, while also delivering an integrated home control experience for residents. Operating primarily in the United States, SmartRent is committed to improving the management of multifamily properties through innovative technology solutions.

First

Series A in 2018
First is a software company that uses artificial and predictive intelligence on when and why people move to predict sales and marketing. It brings predictive marketing to real estate. Fundamentally changing how service providers find their next customer. They discover when and why people will buy or sell a house, so they can connect realtors with new clients at the perfect time. Thus, the company predicts who will sell by tracking 700+ signals across 214 million people nationwide.
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