Kyle Nelson

Chief Business Officer at Snappt | Redefining Trust in Multifamily

📍 DuPage County, Illinois, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, Seed Round
Feb 2025
Tandem is a marketplace for office space. Find great space on short lease terms, and move in within 14 days.
Investor, Seed Round
Sep 2019
Rentgrata is the first renter insights platform that creates connections and builds community for multifamily properties. As the only messaging platform for prospective and current residents to connect and share feedback, Rentgrata facilitates real conversations, while delivering data that helps multifamily professionals better understand renter needs. By helping apartment buildings feel more like communities, Rentgrata reduces resident turnover and increases NOI, while offering residents the chance to capitalize on referral incentives and connect in new ways.
mid stageReal Estate
Advisor & Investor, Seed Round
Sep 2019
Rentgrata is the first renter insights platform that creates connections and builds community for multifamily properties. As the only messaging platform for prospective and current residents to connect and share feedback, Rentgrata facilitates real conversations, while delivering data that helps multifamily professionals better understand renter needs. By helping apartment buildings feel more like communities, Rentgrata reduces resident turnover and increases NOI, while offering residents the chance to capitalize on referral incentives and connect in new ways.
mid stageReal Estate
Investor, Seed Round
Nov 2018
Don’t Be A Pig is a New York City based company providing subscription-based or one-time order meal prep online, apparel, training, dry snacks, and wellness consulting services. Our mission is to improve wellness through the DBAP brand platform.
Investor, Seed Round
Jan 2018
Establishing itself as the fastest growing on-demand luxury housekeeping company in the country, The Minte is rapidly becoming the gold standard in hotel-style services. From Chicago to Washington D.C., and more coming soon, our team has blended service and technology to delivery exceptional experiences in more than 35,000 apartment homes and counting. Our housekeepers are dedicated to their own properties, ensuring residents always come home happy. Built on trust, convenience, and powerfully designed IoT technology, we're on a mission to innovate our customers'​ homes and lifestyles - one apartment, one customer at a time.
early stageHospitality
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2025
Investor, Seed Round
Feb 2025
Tandem is a marketplace for office space. Find great space on short lease terms, and move in within 14 days.
2022
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Jul 2022
Snappt is an AI-powered Applicant Trust Platform for multifamily property managers. Since its inception in 2019, Snappt’s technology has been adept at identifying even the slightest document alterations, saving leasing teams time while reducing bad debt and evictions. As the market leader for fraud detection, Snappt has analyzed over 15 million documents with an impressive accuracy rate of 99.8%. It is the only fraud detection company that conducts proactive fraud research, and it was recently ranked on the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row.
Limited Partner
Feb 2022
Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage software and deep tech companies. Angel List syndicate: https://angel.co/mana-ventures/syndicate
Venture Partner
Feb 2022
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 400 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise ~$1B in follow-on funding from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/
2021
Venture Partner
Apr 2021
This is not your typical startup fund. If youre new to angel investing, a seasoned angel investor, or curious about it, youll fit right in. You can invest with us, at your own pace, regardless of your budget. We leverage our community of Venture Partners (you) to FIND, EVALUATE, FUND, and SUPPORT great founders and companies.
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