Smart Bricks, a frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for real-estate investing, announced it has raised a $5 million pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z speedrun, with participation from funds and angels across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.
Founded in 2024, the company says it is rebuilding how real estate is discovered, underwritten, and transacted by deploying autonomous reasoning systems that help investors identify, evaluate, and execute real estate investments end-to-end. Smart Bricks positions its platform as an AI-native operating system for global real-estate acquisition and ownership, aiming to compress investment workflows that typically take three to six months into minutes.
Smart Bricks argues that real estate remains a massive asset class without an AI-native stack, citing the fragmentation of global information across more than 100 million data sources and the availability of more than 1,000 meaningful variables for asset diligence. The company says investors often still rely on a small set of data points and broker narratives, especially in cross-border transactions.
According to the company, Smart Bricks ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds and uses agentic AI to continuously analyze supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets. The platform ranks opportunities and surfaces the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return, then automates up to 99% of the workflow, spanning valuation and underwriting through due diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support.
The company is targeting both retail and institutional operators, deploying capital across markets including Dubai, London, New York, Miami, and major U.S. cities. Smart Bricks says it is not operating as a marketplace or broker network, but rather as an infrastructure layer that provides ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence, and execution workflows designed to mirror the capabilities of institutional real-estate funds without requiring investors to build in-house AI teams or coordinate fragmented intermediaries.
Smart Bricks also highlighted momentum across AI and proptech ecosystems, noting recognition by TechCrunch as one of the Top 200 startups globally and by Onstage Europe as a Top 20 startup in Europe, along with nominations from proptech and innovation bodies. In addition to a16z and Techstars, the company listed 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, and Cento Ventures among its backers, alongside angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone. The company said it is an alumnus of Google AI First, Microsoft GrowthX, and NVIDIA Inception programs.
Founder and CEO Mohamed Mohamed previously led AI, strategy, and investment initiatives at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company, advising governments, investment funds, and financial institutions, according to the release. He began his career at Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, later worked at Atomico and Greycroft, and is also an active angel investor in more than 30 startups.
KEY QUOTES
“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. Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting, and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind. Smart Bricks closes that gap.”
“Investors in public markets already expect instant insight, scenario analysis, and AI-driven recommendations. We bring that same level of speed, intelligence, and confidence to global real estate, allowing capital to move with institutional precision across borders.”
“Capital and talent have already gone global; the tooling for real-estate investing has not. Smart Bricks is building the intelligence layer that finally allows real estate to operate at the speed, transparency, and scale modern markets demand.”
Mohamed Mohamed, Founder And CEO, Smart Bricks
