# Darren Bechtel

> Darren Bechtel is a Series A investor at Brick & Mortar Ventures backing Construction. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Brick & Mortar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brick-mortar-vc)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenbechtel
- Website: http://www.brickmortar.vc

Darren Bechtel is a Series A investor at Brick & Mortar Ventures in San Francisco focused on Construction and Software. Darren Bechtel is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Founder & Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures. Darren Bechtel attended the Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$3.2M |
| Series A | $5M–$21M |
| Series B | $10M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Construction | 6 | 30% |
| Software | 3 | 15% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 10% |
| Insurance | 2 | 10% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 10% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 45% |
| Seed | 5 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 50% |
| Australia | 2 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| dili | Dili provides an AI-powered compliance automation platform for construction, infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing projects. The platform automates prevailing wage compliance, certified payroll review, apprenticeship tracking, wage validation, compliance reporting, and audit workflows to help organizations manage regulatory requirements forfederally funded projects. | $15M | Series A | Jul 30, 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 |  |
| RodRadar | Rod Radar provides high-performance and cost-effective radar sensors. | $6M | Series A | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Stellar | Integrity First Maintenance and Restoration was founded in 2016 by long-time friends and colleagues, Dustin Marx and Danny Feldman. The two had a goal to disrupt and reshape the maintenance industry. By putting integrity first and crafting hassle-free experiences for residents, contractors and clients, their business boomed. By 2017, IFM was on itsway to becoming a multimillion dollar business.Flash forward to 2018 and Integrity First Maintenance & Restoration is a national brand that employs 70 team members, partners with more than 100 contractors and serves dozens of clients. The progressive company culture is a strong contributor to this fast success. Dustin and Danny have assembled a resourceful, accountable, and passionate team of ‘IFMers’ who desire to change the world!IFM is revolutionizing the industry with a first-to-market business model serving the single-family and multi-family rental sectors. This model allows contractors to work as much or as little as they desire while incentivizing hard work and top-notch customer service. With steadfast determination and innovation, IFM has quickly become one of the largest maintenance providers in its space. Through all this growth, IFM’s purpose has remained the same: To positively impact the lives of others by delivering integrity first maintenance. | $20M | Series B | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| Stellar | Integrity First Maintenance and Restoration was founded in 2016 by long-time friends and colleagues, Dustin Marx and Danny Feldman. The two had a goal to disrupt and reshape the maintenance industry. By putting integrity first and crafting hassle-free experiences for residents, contractors and clients, their business boomed. By 2017, IFM was on itsway to becoming a multimillion dollar business.Flash forward to 2018 and Integrity First Maintenance & Restoration is a national brand that employs 70 team members, partners with more than 100 contractors and serves dozens of clients. The progressive company culture is a strong contributor to this fast success. Dustin and Danny have assembled a resourceful, accountable, and passionate team of ‘IFMers’ who desire to change the world!IFM is revolutionizing the industry with a first-to-market business model serving the single-family and multi-family rental sectors. This model allows contractors to work as much or as little as they desire while incentivizing hard work and top-notch customer service. With steadfast determination and innovation, IFM has quickly become one of the largest maintenance providers in its space. Through all this growth, IFM’s purpose has remained the same: To positively impact the lives of others by delivering integrity first maintenance. | $20M | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| Rhumbix | Rhumbix develops a mobile platform designed for the construction craft workforce. It modernizes construction field operations, helping builders go paperless in the field, and improving how they measure and manage labor productivity to be more profitable. Rhumbix was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $11M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| handdii | handdii is an online marketplace that connects customers directly with contractors for insurance companies. handdii is a savvy tech that can save insurance companies significant claims costs, while producing happy customers at the same time. handdii can identify with the frustrations of making a property insurance claim. This is because thetraditional fulfilment process is both complicated and cumbersome. When the damage to your home or business is relatively small, this lengthy and inconvenient process makes no sense.handdii is on a mission to put the control back into the hands of the customer and help trades excel at the work they do. handdii's product is unique and focuses on a specific problem area in claim fulfilment and property repair. handdii doesn’t want to be all things to all people but it wants trades to be able to show up, fix the problem, be awesome, and free customers up to focus on their lives. | $3M | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Curri | Curri is a construction materials provider that develops a last-mile delivery app that connects supply stores to customers.The Y Combinator-backed logistics startup company delivers construction supplies and materials with an “Uber-like” last-mile delivery model. App users arrange an order, open the Curri app, and enter pickup and dropofflocations to book the service. Curri’s drivers then pick up the supplies and ensure the order is correct before fulfilling the delivery. It offers live updates via the app to let customers follow and share the status of their deliveries. It also provides proof-of-delivery signatures and photos for tracking, regulatory, and compliance purposes.The Los Angeles, California-based company was founded in 2018 by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez. | $6M | Series A | Apr 02, 2021 |  |
| Foresight Risk and Insurance Services | Foresight Risk and Insurance Services is an innovative workers compensation market for brokers. | $20.5M | Series A | Dec 18, 2020 |  |
| Trade Hounds | Trade Hounds is a mobile application for the hard-working trades people of America. If you're in the trades, join our community to share job site experiences with people like you across the country. Store, organize and share your work photos with both friends and employers. Our mission is to serve as a valuable resource for the workers thatare building a better America! | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 12, 2020 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s3-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Alerion Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alerion-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Blackhorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackhorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Navigate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/navigate-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rainfall Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainfall-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Weatherford Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weatherford-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Brick & Mortar Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Brick & Mortar Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Darren Bechtel invest in?

Darren Bechtel invests primarily in Construction, Software and InsurTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 20 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 Darren Bechtel's check size?

Darren Bechtel typically joins rounds of $1M–$3.2M at Seed, $5M–$21M at Series A and $10M–$20M 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 Darren Bechtel participates in.

### When did Darren Bechtel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Darren Bechtel closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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