Nine Four Ventures Pilot Program
We believe the Pilot Program provides startups, our partners, and Nine Four Ventures with incredible value.
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Read MoreThe Data Advantage: Innovation for the Brokerage of Today
In a space where technology is still uncharted territory, but also celebrated, where can startups make the most impact and how will agencies benefit?
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Read MoreThe WeWork Effect: Stay Alfred’s Relatable Future
We believe that Stay Alfred, and other short term operators, have a similar opportunity as WeWork and that master leasing units is just the beginning.
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Read MoreConstruction Loan Draw Management
The construction industry is massive. It’s one of the largest sectors of the global economy representing $5 trillion in payments annually, with the US construction industry representing a $1T market.
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Read MoreBaby Steps: CRE’s Energy Efficient Future
To achieve the goal of reducing the globe’s net greenhouse gas emissions to zero percent by 2050, we need the vast majority of commercial property owners to become more energy efficient with a focus on renewable energy sources.
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Read MoreShort-Term Rentals: Curated For a New Generation
Nine Four Ventures is very mindful of the disruptive shift that is taking place within the short-term rental space.
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Read MoreFrom Definition to Valuation, “PropTech” is Messy
PropTech refers to products and services that impact the built world and the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with it.
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Read MoreExpansion as a Service
Today, it can be argued that it is easier to start a software company than ever before, as infrastructure (ie AWS, APIs, micro-services, open source, etc) needed to start a software company is more readily available and cost effective than ever.
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Read MoreCRETech Product Adoption Best Practices
Nine Four Ventures’ partnership with the Laramar Group is on the right path to tackle the biggest impediment to growth in CREtech: adoption.
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Read MoreNine Four Partners: A Value-Add Platform
We are building a program that will unify, educate and promote growth through the sharing of information we feel is valuable to real estate practitioners
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Read MoreUnder Pressure: Are Real Estate Commissions at Risk? What Does the Future of Residential Real Estate Look Like?
The traditional real estate operating model is also undergoing some evolution.
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Read MoreNine Four Ventures: A Value Creation Firm
It is our vertically-integrated approach combined with our trusted LP base that enables us to provide creative, flexible investment solutions and always keep the best interests of portfolio company founders at heart.
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Read MoreUnderwriting Software: One Size Does Not Fit All
Underwriting software needs to be flexible in order to achieve mass adoption. Prior to joining Nine Four Ventures, I spent 8+ years in multifamily and commercial real estate acquisitions, where I underwrote nearly $10B in transactions.
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Read MoreVertical Proof
Our tech forward commercial partner, the Laramar Group, believes that proptech is a fundamental component of its current and future operations.
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Read MoreReal Estate-as-a-Sales Channel
Taking advantage of your real estate as a sales channel requires knowledge, understanding, and the right startup pipeline.
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Read MoreNine Four Ventures 2019 Outlook
Nine Four Ventures continues to be excited for the future of real estate tech.
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Read MoreScooters as a Service
Nine Four Ventures believes scooters and micromobility solutions are going to be meaningful part of our everyday lives
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence: The Human Advantage
The advancement of machine learning is undeniably valuable as we look at technologies being conceptualized within the RE space. Whether it be for residential, multifamily, or commercial, the growth potential it creates is something we at Nine Four feel strongly about.
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Read MoreCREtech New York Takeaways
This week I had the opportunity to speak at the CREtech conference in NY, and I think the experience I had at the event is representative of where the PropTech space stands at the moment: lots of momentum, lots of excitement, and a lot of unknowns.
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Read MoreModular Homes
Modular home builders benefit from many cost savings and pass along some of those to prospective buyers. Manual labor is traditionally the biggest expense associated with every construction project.
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Read MoreThe Incumbent Advantage
As we are in the early innings of real estate technology adoption, we are seeing new tech-enabled platforms enter the space. Many of these platforms are challenging the traditional incumbents in the space, ranging from service providers to hardware to property management systems.
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Read MoreTravel Apartments and Multifamily: Less Risk, More Reward
Stay Alfred, a Nine Four Ventures portfolio company, is building something I would categorize as game-changing with respect to multifamily.
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Read MoreSmart Locks: Open The Door to Advancement
The Benefits of Controlled Access and Smart Locks
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Read MoreResidential Market Exposure: How Can Startups Mitigate the Risk?
Owning a home is the American Dream. It represents a path to financial freedom and is typically the largest single asset an individual owns.
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Read MoreHigh Speed Internet: Never Fast Enough
In the “amenities arm race” of the multifamily industry, one often overlooked amenity is providing reliable, fast internet to residents. Internet needs to work immediately when a resident moves in to their new home.
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Read MoreMultifamily Marketing: The Missing Links
Marketing professionals in today’s multifamily space can all agree that standing out is a full-time job. Understanding where processes can be more streamlined may potentially answer some fundamental questions when building technology around this category.
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Read MoreTravel Apartment Pioneer Stay Alfred Raises $47 Million in Series B Funding
Alternative accommodation leader Stay Alfred to continue rapid expansion of its travel apartments with Series B funding.
Read MoreSpace-as-a-Service: Multifamily Edition
“Space-as-a-service” is a term that generally refers to an asset-light business model that allows a consumer or business to rent space that suits their needs rather than going through a more traditional capital and time-consuming buy, build, and own process.
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Read MoreDemocratizing Retail Investor Access to Investment Real Estate
If retail investors do not have the necessary capital on hand to buy rental income properties, how do we solve this problem?
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Read MoreSmart Locks and Controlled Access – The Keys to Opening New Services
Controlled access and smart locks will ease the friction of implementing new technologies and services in multifamily buildings.
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Read MoreThe Scooter Effect
Given the implications that mobility has for real estate, we believe that real estate owners and operators should pay close attention to how mobility networks can impact the demand for properties
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Read MoreFor the Vanity of it All: Tech Trends for Multifamily Marketing
When trying to set yourself apart from the competition, first impression is everything.
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Read MoreWhat to do with all those Packages?
Five main solutions to this problem, all with their own pro’s and con’s.
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Read MoreThe Connected Building and Smart Apartment: Where do Landlords Start?
By now, most multifamily owners have been pitched, or seen, just about every connected device that can go inside and outside apartments and buildings. There’s a long list of hardware and software to choose from, all with varying price points, promises, and integrations. The question…
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Read MoreWe Are Nine Four Ventures
With 30 years of industry experience, Nine Four Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in innovative #proptech companies across the globe.
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Read MoreSmart Lighting: Is it Worth it?
On the surface, smart lighting seems like a relatively simple and easy way to “smarten” your communities. Just screw in a smart light bulb or add a smart outlet! However, this is a category where there is more than one route to take, all with different pros and cons.
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Read MoreCapturing Resident Spend in Multifamily
For a building owner to capture spend I believe they need to own a platform that their residents access those products and services through
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Read More9 Suggestions For RE Tech Startups
I’ve sat in on a lot of meetings between industry players and startups targeting the residential real estate space. Something that surprises me is the frequency with which I hear the same pieces of feedback and “things you should understand” from industry professionals.
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Read MoreAgent Competition and Efficiency
Predictive analytics is a sliver of a broker or agent’s technology stack, but it’s a very meaningful one. Winning business is the first step to success, followed by delighting a client to the point where they’ll refer you and drive more business.
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Read MoreSmart Apartments: The Future of Multifamily
Today, smart home technology may be viewed as a “wow factor” that differentiates one apartment community from another. Tomorrow, smart home technology will be a requirement…
Read MoreWhat Threatens the Real Estate Agent Profession?
t seems like there are a few camps of thinking when it comes to how technology is going to impact the residential real estate agent. One end of the spectrum is the camp believes that real estate agents will always be around and the things agents do aren’t going to change much.
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Read MoreWe are Nine Four Ventures
Nine Four Ventures, a vertically integrated venture capital firm that invests in technology companies impacting real estate and its stakeholders across and between each phase of an asset’s lifecycle.
Read MoreSeries A funding of First.io.
The funding round was led by MATH Venture Partners, Nine Four Ventures, and @properties brokerage firm’s co-founders Thad Wong and Mike Golden, Chicago-based investors who have all backed various startups using real estate technology in innovative ways.
Read MoreIs proptech the future of real estate?
Over the last few years, funding for tech companies in the real estate and construction sector, commonly called proptech, has been on the rise. A number of trends have already emerged in the proptech space in 2018. One, real estate companies will have an increased…
Read MoreThe Impending Opportunity In Real Estate Technology
Things are starting to simmer in real estate technology. The first phase of technology development in the category, which was primarily focused around listing services for the residential side of the market, has paved the way for industry leaders to broadly reconsider how technology can make…
Read MoreFive Real Estate Technology Predictions For 2018
With all its ups and downs, 2017 was a year of significant change — in politics, pop culture, science, technology and more. In tech, advancements in areas like AI and Bitcoin had far-reaching implications across industries. What were once cutting-edge technologies have made their way…
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