Smart Bricks has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun) as it looks to build what it describes as the AI infrastructure layer for global real estate investing.
Founded in 2024, the frontier AI lab is positioning itself at the intersection of agentic AI and capital allocation. Its core thesis is that real estate, despite being one of the world’s largest asset classes, still lacks an AI-native operating system. This new funding round also saw participation from leading funds and angels across the US, Europe and the Middle East, making for substantial success.
Re-Architecting Real-Estate Investing
Smart Bricks says it is “re-architecting how real estate is discovered, underwritten, and transacted” by deploying autonomous reasoning systems that enable capital to identify, evaluate and execute real-estate investments end-to-end. According to the company, this compresses a process that traditionally takes three to six months into minutes.
At the heart of its pitch is the idea of turning real estate into a computable asset class.
“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.”
The company states that it ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds, applying agentic AI to continuously analyse supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation and risk across global markets. From there, the platform surfaces what it describes as the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return, before automating up to 99% of the workflow, from valuation and underwriting through due diligence, negotiation, financing and post-transaction support.
The result, according to Smart Bricks, is a single AI-native operating system for global real-estate acquisition and ownership.
Built For Retail And Institutional Capital
Rather than positioning itself as a marketplace or broker network, Smart Bricks says it is building infrastructure. The platform is designed for both retail and institutional operators deploying capital across markets including London, Dubai, New York, Miami and major US cities.
Investors receive ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence and execution workflows designed to mirror the sophistication of leading private-equity and institutional real-estate funds, without assembling in-house AI teams or navigating 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.”
Backed By Global Investors And Accelerators
Smart Bricks has already gained recognition across the tech and proptech ecosystems. The company has been recognised by TechCrunch as one of the Top 200 startups globally and by Onstage Europe as a Top 20 startup in Europe. It’s also received nominations from leading global proptech and innovation bodies.
In addition to Andreessen Horowitz, the company is backed by Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone, South Loop Ventures and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, alongside angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Airbnb and Blackstone. Smart Bricks is also an alumnus of Google AI First, Microsoft GrowthX and NVIDIA Inception programmes.
Leadership At the Intersection Of AI And Capital
Mohamed Mohamed, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree, brings experience spanning frontier technology and global capital allocation. Prior to founding Smart Bricks, he led AI, strategy and investment initiatives at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company, advising governments, investment funds and financial institutions.
He began his career as an investor at Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, later working as a venture investor at Atomico and Greycroft. He’s also an active angel investor in more than 30 startups.
“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.”
With fresh capital from a16z and a clear ambition to make real estate AI-native, Smart Bricks is betting that the next evolution of property investing will be driven not by listings and brokers, but by autonomous systems and infrastructure-grade intelligence.
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