Dubai-based Smart Bricks has closed a $5 million pre-seed round to redefine how real estate investments are discovered, underwritten, and executed. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun), with participation from prominent funds and angel investors across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Founded in 2024, Smart Bricks operates as a frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for global real estate markets — positioning itself not as a marketplace, but as the intelligence layer powering modern property investing.
Turning Real Estate into a Computable Asset Class
Despite being one of the world’s largest asset classes, real estate remains largely fragmented and analog. Investors often rely on limited data, broker-driven narratives, and manual due diligence processes that can stretch over three to six months.
Smart Bricks aims to compress that cycle into minutes.
The platform ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds, applying autonomous reasoning systems to continuously analyze pricing, supply, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets. Instead of presenting endless listings, the system surfaces only the top 0.1% of properties ranked by expected risk-adjusted return.
From valuation and underwriting to negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support, Smart Bricks automates up to 99% of the acquisition workflow — effectively creating a unified AI-native operating system for global property ownership.
“Institutions already operate with AI underwriting and integrated execution,” said Founder & CEO Mohamed Mohamed. “Everyone else is flying blind. We’re closing that gap.”
Built for Cross-Border Capital
Designed for both retail and institutional investors, Smart Bricks supports capital deployment across markets such as Dubai, London, New York, Miami, and major US cities.
Rather than acting as an intermediary, the company provides ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence, and institutional-grade execution workflows — without requiring investors to build in-house AI teams or navigate fragmented broker networks.
The ambition: bring the speed, transparency, and data-driven precision of public markets to global real estate.
Backed by Global AI & Venture Leaders
Beyond a16z, Smart Bricks is supported by globally recognized investors and operators, including:
- Techstars
- 500 Global
- Google (AI First Program)
- Microsoft (GrowthX)
- NVIDIA (Inception Program)
The company has also earned recognition from TechCrunch as one of the Top 200 startups globally and was named a Top 20 startup in Europe by Onstage Europe.
Leadership at the Intersection of AI and Capital
Founder Mohamed Mohamed brings experience across global finance and frontier AI. Prior to launching Smart Bricks, he led AI, strategy, and investment initiatives at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company, advising governments and financial institutions.
He previously worked at Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, and later invested at Atomico and Greycroft.
The Bigger Picture
As capital and talent move fluidly across borders, infrastructure for property investing has lagged behind. Smart Bricks is betting that agentic AI — capable of autonomous reasoning and execution — will finally make real estate a truly computable asset class.
For a sector still dominated by PDFs, spreadsheets, and opaque intermediaries, that shift could mark a structural turning point for global real estate investing.
