Smart Bricks, a Dubai-based startup building agentic AI infrastructure for real estate investing, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun), with participation from funds and angel investors across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Founded in 2024 by Mohamed Mohamed, a former investor at Blackstone and Goldman Sachs who went on to lead AI and strategy work at BCG and McKinsey, Smart Bricks is designed to compress the real estate investment process from months into minutes.
The platform ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds, applies agentic AI to analyse supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets, and surfaces what the company says is the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return. From there it automates up to 99% of the workflow, covering valuation, underwriting, due diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support.
The premise is straightforward: real estate remains one of the largest asset classes in the world but lacks an AI-native stack. Most individual and cross-border investors are still working with fragmented data and manual processes, while institutions have proprietary tools and integrated execution capabilities.
"Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting, and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind," said Mohamed. "Smart Bricks closes that gap."
The platform is built for both retail and institutional investors deploying capital across markets including Dubai, London, New York, and Miami. Rather than operating as a marketplace or broker network, Smart Bricks positions itself as the infrastructure layer, delivering ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence, and execution workflows.
Smart Bricks is also backed by Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, and Cento Ventures. The company is an alumnus of Google AI First, Microsoft GrowthX, and NVIDIA Inception.
The funds will be used for platform development, expansion of AI-driven underwriting and execution workflows, and scaling coverage across key global real estate markets.
