The company, founded 18 months ago, is developing a native AI software layer for real estate investments. Instead of brokers, spreadsheets, and weeks of back-and-forth diligence, it runs autonomous systems that scan markets, rate assets, and handle much of the paperwork. Smart Bricks says its platform can reduce a process that often takes months to just a few minutes.
Real estate remains one of the few trillion-dollar asset classes without a modern data stack. The information is scattered in local registries, listings and private networks. Smaller investors still build decisions on partial data, while large funds rely on proprietary tools.
“Global real estate is one of the largest asset classes in the world, but most individual and cross-border investors continue to operate with PDF files, WhatsApp threads, incomplete data and opaque fees,” said founder and CEO Mohamed Mohamed. “Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind. Smart Bricks closes that gap.”
The platform draws from over a million public and proprietary feeds and continuously models supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation and risk. It then surfaces what it classifies as the top 0.1% of opportunities and automates valuation, underwriting, due diligence, negotiation, and financing workflows.
Smart Bricks is not positioning itself as a marketplace. It is presented as plumbing: infrastructure for the deployment of capital in cities such as Dubai, London, New York and Miami.
“Capital and talent have already been globalized; the tools for real estate investment have not,” Mohamed said. “Smart Bricks is building the layer of intelligence that finally allows real estate to operate at the speed, transparency and scale that modern markets demand.”
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Sponsors alongside a16z include Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, and Cento Ventures, as well as angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone.
For Dubai, the deal adds another AI and proptech startup to a growing list as the emirate seeks to anchor global capital and digitize core sectors. Property is central to that story. If software can make cross-border deals faster and less opaque, the region could capture a larger share of that flow.