Brick & Mortar Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Brick & Mortar Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Construction and Software. Focused exclusively on venture capital opportunities in "technology for the built world," Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, and enables emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of real estate, hospitality, and construction. Its hyper-focused mandate allows Brick & Mortarto continuously develop industry expertise and relationships across these three large and growing verticals and build value to its portfolio by taking a hands-on, active role as an investor and partner to its companies.
- Total investments:
- 101
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $1.5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Brick & Mortar Ventures invests in
Stages Brick & Mortar Ventures invests in
Countries Brick & Mortar Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$5.5M
- Series A
- $3.1M–$19M
- Series B
- $11M–$42M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Construction 32 (32%)
- Software 23 (23%)
- Real Estate 11 (11%)
- Information Technology 10 (10%)
- SaaS 9 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 35 (35%)
- Seed 30 (30%)
- Series B 13 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 46 (46%)
- Canada 4 (4%)
- Australia 4 (4%)
- France 3 (3%)
- Mexico 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alice Leung
Vice President, Platform and Product Strategy
|
Vice President, Platform and Product Strategy | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Darren Bechtel
Founder and Managing Director
|
Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Curtis Rodgers
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Guillaume Bazouin
Partner EMEA
|
Partner EMEA | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Kaustubh Pandya
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Mango
|
Mango offers suppliers and contractors in the construction industry real-time risk analytics, automated B2B payments, and embedded credit. | Seed / Jul 14, 2026 | |
Earlytrade
|
Earlytrade creates a positive change in the way businesses get paid and delivers a powerful two-fold effect.By incentivising early payment, suppliers are in control of when they get paid. Removing the need to pursue other funding options and accrue more debt.Corporate customers deepen their relationships with satisfied suppliers and arerewarded with higher margins. | $10M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | |
Cocoon
|
Cocoon provides environmental consulting services to businesses and develops solutions to analyze and eradicate industrial waste. | $15M / Series A / Mar 18, 2026 | |
Freeda
|
Deliver real-estate projects 10x faster | $3.9M / Seed / Nov 05, 2025 | |
Downstream
|
Downstream is a marketplace simplifying the waste management buying process for commercial customers | $8M / Series A / Nov 03, 2025 | |
Planera
|
Planera is a software company that makes construction industry more efficient & profitable. | $8M / Series A / Oct 07, 2025 | |
|
Mango
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Mango offers suppliers and contractors in the construction industry real-time risk analytics, automated B2B payments, and embedded credit. | $3M / Seed / Jul 15, 2025 | |
Klutch.ai
|
Extracting client insights from clunky CRM systems is time consuming and tedious. Klutch analyses multiple data sources including email, CRM and calendar data to extract critical insights and best 'next action' suggestions to help after-sales teams turbo-charge productivity. | $8M / Seed / Jun 26, 2025 | |
Kraaft
|
Kraaft is a field communication and coordination platform built for subcontractors, specialty trades, and construction teams. Crews share real-time updates, photos, tasks, and jobsite reports directly from the field, while project managers gain clear visibility into progress across every job. Kraaft replaces scattered WhatsApp threads and phonecalls with structured, job-based chats that automatically organize documentation, tracking, and reporting. More than 1,000 contractors use Kraaft to improve field-to-office communication, reduce delays, and standardize jobsite activity across multiple crews and projects. | $13.5M / Series A / Jan 21, 2025 | |
TrustUp
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TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement. | $5.2M / Series A / Jan 01, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Brick & Mortar Ventures invest in?
Brick & Mortar Ventures invests primarily in Construction, Software and Real Estate startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brick & Mortar Ventures's check size?
Brick & Mortar Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5.5M at Seed, $3.1M–$19M at Series A and $11M–$42M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brick & Mortar Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Brick & Mortar Ventures?
The team at Brick & Mortar Ventures includes Alice Leung (Vice President, Platform and Product Strategy), Darren Bechtel (Founder and Managing Director) and Curtis Rodgers (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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