Kurt Ramirez is a General Partner and founding member of Nine Four Ventures. See sector focus and contact routes.
Kurt Ramirez is a General Partner and founding member of Nine Four Ventures, a Chicago-based early-stage venture capital firm he established in 2018 alongside Jeffrey Elowe after serving as Vice President at Moderne Ventures and a consultant at Bain & Company. He directs the firm’s PropTech investment strategy, targeting early-stage startups (Seed through Series B) that develop software and hardware for the built environment, residential real estate, commercial insurance, and adjacent sectors like fintech and enterprise SaaS. Ramirez typically leads investments with check sizes ranging from $250,000 to $20 million, reflecting Nine Four’s historical average of $4.1 million and maximum of $39 million. Notable portfolio companies include Built Technologies, Steadily, Stay Alfred, and First.io, with Ramirez serving as a board member at Branch. His distinctive point of view emphasizes deep operational expertise in real estate, a commitment to supporting women-founded companies, and specialized focus on technologies transforming physical assets and insurance processes.
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