# Nine Four Ventures

> Nine Four Ventures is a VC fund in Chicago backing Software and SaaS. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nine-four-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NineFourVC
- Website: https://ninefour.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NineFourVC

Nine Four Ventures is an early-stage PropTech fund that invests in startups impacting the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with the built world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$8.7M |
| Series A | $5M–$25M |
| Series B | $16M–$47M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 26% |
| SaaS | 7 | 15% |
| Construction | 7 | 15% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 13% |
| Real Estate | 5 | 11% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 12 | 26% |
| Seed | 10 | 21% |
| Series A | 7 | 15% |
| Series C | 5 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 49% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kurt Ramirez | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kurt-ramirez |
| Paul La Londe | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-la-londe |
| Avi Pradhan | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avi-pradhan |
| Jeffrey Elowe | Founder and General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-elowe |
| Sophia Ghadamian | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sophia-ghadamian |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumion | Connecting students and schools to the future of fair education payments through payment plans and other custom payment solutions. At Mia Share, we build, manage, and fund custom tuition solutions for high-quality trade and technical schools that prioritize student outcomes. Through our specialized software and human support, we facilitate customSingle Payments, Payment Plans and Hybrid structures. We give more students the ability to pursue affordable, valuable education while helping our partner schools improve enrollment, retention, and outcomes. | $10.7M | Seed | Jun 16, 2025 |  |
| Steadily | Steadily provides property and liability insurance tailored for rental property owners and investors. The company focuses on simplifying the insurance process, offering various coverage options that address the specific needs of landlords. Steadily emphasizes a user-friendly platform, enabling customers to obtain quotes and manage their policiesefficiently. The services include comprehensive coverage for property damage, liability protection, and additional endorsements to enhance policy flexibility. By streamlining the insurance experience, Steadily aims to support property owners in safeguarding their investments effectively. | $30M | Series C | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Latii | Latii is a producer and supplier of building materials. They provide products that include windows and doors, structural steel, metal, casting, and fastening. They offer services for the construction industry. | $8.7M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Torque AI | Conversational AI built for construction field teams |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Lumion | Connecting students and schools to the future of fair education payments through payment plans and other custom payment solutions. At Mia Share, we build, manage, and fund custom tuition solutions for high-quality trade and technical schools that prioritize student outcomes. Through our specialized software and human support, we facilitate customSingle Payments, Payment Plans and Hybrid structures. We give more students the ability to pursue affordable, valuable education while helping our partner schools improve enrollment, retention, and outcomes. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 12, 2024 |  |
| Inspectify | We founded Inspectify with the goal to make a platform that helps inspectors, real estate professionals, and homebuyers alike. We see a tremendous opportunity to apply the latest technology to make inspectors more proficient and effective and make home inspections more engaging and value add to home buyers. We are just getting started, but areexcited to provide much-needed disruption in the space! | $5.8M |  | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| Bowery Valuation | Bowery powers its appraisers with a cloud-based commercial appraisal writing software and mobile application, allowing them to write full appraisal reports more than twice as fast as its leading competitors. Its backend database and natural language generator create increased efficiency, quality, and consistency firm-wide that help appraisers toproduce more consistent reports, faster and at lower cost. | $16.3M | Series B | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Steadily | Steadily provides property and liability insurance tailored for rental property owners and investors. The company focuses on simplifying the insurance process, offering various coverage options that address the specific needs of landlords. Steadily emphasizes a user-friendly platform, enabling customers to obtain quotes and manage their policiesefficiently. The services include comprehensive coverage for property damage, liability protection, and additional endorsements to enhance policy flexibility. By streamlining the insurance experience, Steadily aims to support property owners in safeguarding their investments effectively. | $28.5M | Series B | Jul 05, 2023 |  |
| Latii | Latii is a producer and supplier of building materials. They provide products that include windows and doors, structural steel, metal, casting, and fastening. They offer services for the construction industry. | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 06, 2023 |  |
| Finley Technologies | Finley simplifies debt capital raise and management. Finley's software helps growing companies automate due diligence, ensure compliance, and streamline ongoing reporting with their capital providers. Customers like Ramp rely on Finley to manage hundreds of millions in debt capital from capital providers. The Finley team brings experience fromGoldman Sachs, Nova Credit, and Palantir Technologies, and is backed by Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures. | $17M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Nine Four Ventures invest in?

Nine Four Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Construction startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 47 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 Nine Four Ventures's check size?

Nine Four Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$8.7M at Seed, $5M–$25M at Series A and $16M–$47M 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 Nine Four Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Nine Four Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Nine Four Ventures?

The team at Nine Four Ventures includes Kurt Ramirez (General Partner), Paul La Londe (Partner) and Avi Pradhan (Analyst). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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