Kurt Ramirez

Nine Four Ventures | Bain & Co. | Harvard Business School

📍 United States🔄 Updated July 2026💼 13 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021
VC🌍 United States
13
Total investments
6
Early stage
6
Mid stage
1
Late stage
7y
Years active

Portfolio

13 investments · sorted by recency
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Nov 2021
Pronto Housing makes affordable housing compliance efficient, intuitive, and inclusive through software and service solutions. By using Pronto Housing for leasing and compliance, we can make a higher quality of living more accessible, while ensuring real estate owners achieve their financial goals.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Oct 2021
Wasting hours using spreadsheets for your construction workforce planning? Meet Bridgit Bench - the #1 workforce planning software trusted by top ENR general contractors like Balfour Beatty, Rogers-OBrien, Ryan Companies, Skanska, and more. Bridgit Bench provides your team with real-time updates, people and project visibility, next-generation forecasting, and seamless integrations that easily connect to your existing tech solutions – no manual updates required. Say goodbye to mountains of emails, phone calls, and outdated information. With Bridgit Bench youll get back to what you do best – managing your people, not spreadsheets. Learn more about Bridgit at gobridgit.com.
late stageConstruction
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Aug 2021
Kojo is the leading materials procurement platform for trade and self-perform general contractors. By connecting office teams, field crews, the warehouse, and vendors on one all-inclusive procurement platform, contractors control their procurement process from takeoff to closeout, saving on material costs, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.
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Aug 2021
TrustLayer is a collaborative risk management platform that helps reduce friction between businesses. We automate the verification of insurance, licenses, and compliance documents that you receive from your business partners (vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants,...), building trust between you and all of your counter parties.
mid stageInsurance
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Jun 2021
handdii connects insurance companies and their customers to a pre-qualified network of local contractors to fast-track property claims. The platform drives cost and timeliness control, provides transparency of the repair process and delivers a convenient and delightful experience for the insured. handdii prides itself on playing a collaborative role in creating a positive and inclusive community in insurance. As the center point bringing parties together handdii has a point of influence to drive a more harmonious claims outcome.
early stageInsurance
Investor
Jun 2021
Finleys software simplifies debt capital management for banks and asset managers. By automating due diligence, ensuring compliance, and streamlining ongoing reporting, Finley helps ensure that capital is always available when companies need it. Finleys investors include CRV, Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, Haystack, and Nine Four Ventures.
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Mar 2021
AgentSync builds modern insurance infrastructure that connects carriers, agencies, MGAs, and producers. With customer-centric design, seamless APIs, automation, and unparalleled service AgentSync’s solutions create onboarding, licensing, and appointing processes insurers and producers love while ensuring growth and compliance never compete. Founded in 2018 by Niranjan “Niji” Sabharwal and Jenn Knight, and headquartered in Denver, Colo., AgentSync has been recognized as one of Denver’s Best Places to Work, as a Forbes Magazine Cloud 100 Rising Star, an Insurtech Insights Future 50 winner, and is ranked 88 in Forbes – America’s 500 Best Startup Employers 2022. Candidates: AgentSync Recruiting & Talent teams will only communicate with you using @agentsync.io email addresses. When you receive communication from AgentSync, check the email address domain to ensure youre connected with our team (and not a scammer!).
mid stageInsurance
Investor
Jun 2020
We built Steadily to serve landlords who want their insurance to work like other modern tools they love: fast and affordable with excellent service. Were headquartered in Austin, Texas where we combine our decades of insurance experience with strong tech and design to delight our customers.
early stageInsurance
Investor
Feb 2020
OpenSpace is the global leader in reality capture and AI-powered analytics for builders with projects of all sizes. With OpenSpace, you can easily capture a comprehensive visual record of your jobsite to verify work-in-place, simplify dispute resolution, and keep teams accountable. Our AI-powered computer vision and analytics tools give your team the visibility and insights they need with the power to compare BIM to as-built, automatically track progress, and stay on schedule. OpenSpace streamlines workflows for better communication, smarter resource allocation, and faster decisions. More than 250,000 users in 95 countries rely on OpenSpace to get the job done.
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Dec 2019
SmartRent is the leading provider of smart communities and smart operations solutions for the rental housing industry. SmartRents platform, comprised of smart hardware and cloud-based SaaS solutions, gives operators seamless visibility and control over real estate assets, empowering them to simplify operations, automate workflows, benefit from additional revenue opportunities and deliver exceptional site team and resident experiences. We serve 15 of the top 20 multifamily owners and operators, and our solutions enable millions of users to live smarter every day. For more information, please visit www.smartrent.com. Awards: Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List, 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year Pacific Southwest - CEO Lucas Haldeman, 2023 HousingWire Tech 100, 2021, 2022, 2023 #1 on Growjos 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Arizona, 2021 Best Places to Work in Multifamily®, 2021 Best Companies Multifamily Award, 2020 Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, 2020 AZ Central Top Companies to Work for in AZ, 2020
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Nov 2019
Bungalow is the largest and fastest growing rental company in the United States, rethinking the residential real estate market by providing renters with more convenient, flexible, and affordable living solutions. Interested in learning more? Reach out: careers@livebungalow.com
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Jun 2019
Bowery is redefining the commercial appraisal space through big data, advanced technology, and extensive expertise. Our proprietary platform allows our appraisers to work smarter and faster, which means we can deliver unparalleled accuracy and consistency, in a fraction of the time. Our appraisers work hand-in-hand with our tech team to add new features and functionality to the Bowery platform. As the first venture capital-backed commercial appraisal firm, Bowery has raised over $80MM to redefine industry standards.
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Apr 2019
Built is a leading provider of construction and real estate finance technology used by nearly half of the top 100 construction lenders in the U.S. By making it simple to connect and do business in real estate, Built enables increased efficiency, collaboration, transparency, and business agility—allowing customers to build and manage the communities around us more profitably and with more confidence. Built is used by hundreds of leading North American lenders and asset managers, and thousands of developers, home builders, and contractors. Built has a quarter of a trillion in real estate dollars being actively managed on its platform, representing approximately 10% of all U.S. construction spend. To learn more, visit www.getbuilt.com.
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2021
Investor
Nov 2021
Pronto Housing makes affordable housing compliance efficient, intuitive, and inclusive through software and service solutions. By using Pronto Housing for leasing and compliance, we can make a higher quality of living more accessible, while ensuring real estate owners achieve their financial goals.
early stageReal Estate
Investor
Oct 2021
Wasting hours using spreadsheets for your construction workforce planning? Meet Bridgit Bench - the #1 workforce planning software trusted by top ENR general contractors like Balfour Beatty, Rogers-OBrien, Ryan Companies, Skanska, and more. Bridgit Bench provides your team with real-time updates, people and project visibility, next-generation forecasting, and seamless integrations that easily connect to your existing tech solutions – no manual updates required. Say goodbye to mountains of emails, phone calls, and outdated information. With Bridgit Bench youll get back to what you do best – managing your people, not spreadsheets. Learn more about Bridgit at gobridgit.com.
late stageConstruction
Investor
Aug 2021
Kojo is the leading materials procurement platform for trade and self-perform general contractors. By connecting office teams, field crews, the warehouse, and vendors on one all-inclusive procurement platform, contractors control their procurement process from takeoff to closeout, saving on material costs, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.
Investor
Aug 2021
TrustLayer is a collaborative risk management platform that helps reduce friction between businesses. We automate the verification of insurance, licenses, and compliance documents that you receive from your business partners (vendors, subcontractors, suppliers, borrowers, tenants,...), building trust between you and all of your counter parties.
mid stageInsurance
Investor
Jun 2021
handdii connects insurance companies and their customers to a pre-qualified network of local contractors to fast-track property claims. The platform drives cost and timeliness control, provides transparency of the repair process and delivers a convenient and delightful experience for the insured. handdii prides itself on playing a collaborative role in creating a positive and inclusive community in insurance. As the center point bringing parties together handdii has a point of influence to drive a more harmonious claims outcome.
early stageInsurance
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