Smart Bricks, a Dubai-based frontier AI lab, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz via its a16z Speedrun programme. Other participants included major funds and angel investors from the US, Europe and the Middle East. Founded in 2024, the company is building autonomous reasoning systems to change how property is discovered and underwritten globally. The technology aims to compress investment timelines from several months into just minutes.

The firm describes real estate as the final trillion-dollar asset class lacking a native AI stack. Current investors often rely on fragmented data and broker narratives. Smart Bricks instead processes over one million data feeds to analyse pricing, liquidity and local regulations. The platform identifies the top 0.1 per cent of properties based on risk-adjusted returns and automates up to 99 per cent of the investment workflow.

“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 infrastructure is designed for both retail and institutional operators in major markets like London, New York, Dubai and Miami. It provides users with ranked opportunities and execution workflows similar to those used by private equity funds. “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.”

The company has already gained industry recognition from TechCrunch and Onstage Europe. Its backers include 500 Global, Techstars and individual investors from OpenAI, DeepMind and Blackstone. CEO Mohamed Mohamed previously held roles at Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Boston Consulting Group. He believes the industry requires better tooling to match global talent and capital. “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.”