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Brick & Mortar Ventures

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

Brick & Mortar Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Real Estate, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

AUM

$97M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

7 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on early investments in construction, real estate, and renovation startups transforming the built environment.

How Brick & Mortar Ventures invests

Brick & Mortar Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Real Estate, Other.

Brick & Mortar Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $97M in assets under management.

Brick & Mortar Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including PlanGrid, BuildZoom.

Meet the Team

DB

Darren Bechtel

Managing Partner

ConstructionTech
Startup Marketplaces
AT

Aditya Thakur

Venture Partner

KP

Kaustubh Pandya

Partner

AL

Alice Leung

Vice President of Product Strategy

GB

Guillaume Bazouin

Regional Partner

AY

Austin Yount

Partner

investment banking
venture-backed technology
land development

Austin spent almost 3 years as an investment banking analyst at Montgomery & Co and 4 years as an early employee of the venture-backed Enjoy Technology. He grew up around his family’s land development business and had a brief career as a professional athlete, ultimately leading to his passion of helping small teams in the built environment.

CR

Curtis Rodgers

Partner

construction process improvement
construction technology

Curtis is a construction technologist with six years of construction process improvement experience at both Kiewit and McCarthy Construction. Curtis founded The Society for Construction Solutions (SCS) in 2014, contributed to the NASA Centennial 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, and participated as a lecturer for the US Dept. of Energy's Project Leadership Institute.

Industry Focus

Invests In

Real Estate
Other

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

PL

PlanGrid

ConstructionTech
BU

BuildZoom

Marketplace
How to pitch Brick & Mortar Ventures
  • Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Real Estate, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Darren Bechtel, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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