Smart Bricks, a Dubai-based frontier AI lab developing agentic infrastructure for property investing, announced a $5 million pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun) with participation from funds and angels across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Founded in 2024, Smart Bricks rebuilds how assets are sourced, underwritten, and closed through autonomous reasoning systems that enable end-to-end execution in minutes rather than months.
Real estate remains one of the largest asset classes without an AI-native stack. Investors often depend on limited metrics and broker narratives despite vast global data. “Global real estate is one of the largest asset classes in the world, yet most individual and cross-border investors are still operating with PDFs, WhatsApp threads, incomplete data, and opaque fees,” said Mohamed Mohamed, Founder and CEO of Smart Bricks. “Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting, and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind. Smart Bricks closes that gap.”
From Fragmented Data to Autonomous Execution
Smart Bricks processes more than a million proprietary and public feeds, using agentic AI to evaluate supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk worldwide. The system highlights the top 0.1% of opportunities by expected risk-adjusted return and automates nearly the entire lifecycle from valuation and underwriting to diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-close management, forming a unified AI operating layer for acquisition and ownership.
Bringing Institutional-Grade Intelligence to Global Investors
The platform supports both retail and institutional capital active in markets including London, New York, Miami, and other major hubs, delivering ranked deals, live intelligence, and institutional-grade workflows without internal AI buildouts or fragmented intermediaries. “Investors in public markets already expect instant insight, scenario analysis, and AI-driven recommendations,” Mohamed added. “We bring that same level of speed, intelligence, and confidence to global real estate, allowing capital to move with institutional precision across borders.”
Recognition includes selection by TechCrunch among the Top 200 startups globally and by Onstage Europe as a Top 20 company in Europe. Backers include Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, Cento Ventures, and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone, alongside participation in Google AI First, Microsoft GrowthX, and NVIDIA Inception.
Leadership brings experience across frontier technology and capital allocation, spanning roles at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs, Atomico, and Greycroft. “Capital and talent have already gone global; the tooling for real-estate investing has not,” Mohamed said. “Smart Bricks is building the intelligence layer that finally allows real estate to operate at the speed, transparency, and scale modern markets demand.”