Smart Bricks raises $5M led by a16z speedrun to build the AI infrastructure layer for global real estate

A Dubai-based company and frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for real-estate investing today announced a $5 million pre-seed round led by a16z speedrun, with participation from leading funds and angels.

Real estate remains the last trillion-dollar asset class without an AI-native stack. Despite more than 100 million fragmented data sources globally and over 1,000 meaningful variables available to diligence any asset, most investors still rely on two or three data points and broker narratives to make decisions.

“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.”

Smart Bricks ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds and applies agentic AI to continuously analyze supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets. The platform surfaces only the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return, then automates up to 99% of the workflow, from valuation and underwriting through due diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support. The result is a single AI-native operating system for global real-estate acquisition and ownership.

Smart Bricks is designed for retail and institutional operators deploying capital across markets such as Dubai, London, New York, Miami, and major US cities, who want to outperform competitors by leveraging the most advanced AI capabilities. Rather than acting as a marketplace or broker network, Smart Bricks serves as the AI infrastructure layer for modern real-estate investing.

Investors receive ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence, and execution workflows that mirror the sophistication of leading private-equity and institutional real-estate funds, without the need to assemble in-house AI teams or navigate 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.”

Mohamed is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree with deep experience at the intersection of 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, and later worked as a venture investor at Atomico and Greycroft.

“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.”