# Brick & Mortar Ventures

> Brick & Mortar Ventures is a VC fund backing Construction and Software. See 98 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 98
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Fund size: $97M
- Last fund: Aug 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1512594
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/brickmortarvc
- Website: http://brickmortar.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Brickmortarvc

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5.5M |
| Series A | $4.9M–$19M |
| Series B | $11M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Construction | 32 | 33% |
| Software | 21 | 21% |
| Real Estate | 11 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 10% |
| SaaS | 9 | 9% |

103 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 34 | 35% |
| Seed | 30 | 31% |
| Series B | 13 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 46 | 47% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |
| Australia | 4 | 4% |
| France | 3 | 3% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Leung | Vice President, Platform and Product Strategy | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-leung |
| Darren Bechtel | Founder and Managing Director | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darren-bechtel |
| Curtis Rodgers | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curtis-rodgers |
| Guillaume Bazouin | Partner EMEA | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-bazouin-aed3 |
| Kaustubh Pandya | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaustubh-pandya |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 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.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019. | $13.5M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |
| TrustUp | TrustUp is the home contractors platform, connects homeowners with verified quality home improvement. | $5.2M | Series A | Jan 01, 2025 |  |

10 of 98 investments shown.

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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 98 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, $4.9M–$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.

### How do I contact Brick & Mortar Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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