Smart Bricks Secures $5M to Build AI Infrastructure for Property Investors

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Published by Stephen Oluwadara at February 11, 2026

Inside Smart Bricks’ Plan for Global Real Estate

Founded in 2024, Smart Bricks is building an AI platform that identifies and underwrites real estate opportunities, then helps close and monitor deals end-to-end.

The product aggregates millions of public and proprietary data points across pricing, liquidity, transaction history, supply dynamics, and financing terms. It layers in autonomous reasoning to recommend and continuously adjust real estate investment strategies.

“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 doesn’t just search for properties; it models expected deal outcomes. Its system blends automated valuation models, cash-flow projections, downside risk analysis, and market reasoning to produce scenario-based recommendations. The goal is to compress weeks of manual work done by lawyers, analysts, and brokers into a software-led workflow.

Once a target is identified, the platform’s agents coordinate due diligence, document parsing, and data checks, and surface financing options based on current credit conditions.

After closing, the software keeps portfolios “alive” by ingesting fresh data, monitoring performance, simulating refinancings, and proposing actions if markets, rents, or rates shift. The proptech startup currently operates in the U.S., UK, and UAE, with plans to expand its coverage.

What this New Fund Enables for Smart Bricks’ Next Phase

Mohamed describes the product as an intelligence layer for private real estate markets. It’s similar to how quant systems reshaped public-market workflows. He argues the challenge is no longer just data availability, but the ability to reason over it and execute consistently across fragmented systems.

Smart Bricks enters a sector that includes established players like reAlpha and Roofstock, which have popularized new distribution models and marketplace dynamics.

The startup argues its differentiation lies in building the data and decisioning stack itself – more Bloomberg than property portal. This allows sourcing, underwriting, and closing to happen within one reasoning engine.

Before founding Smart Bricks, Mohammed’s career was at the intersection of capital allocation, strategy, and technology. His work experience spanned Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

The venture capital firms that participated in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Harvard Business School, Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Cento Ventures, Anker Capital AG, and Tomahawk.VC. The angel investors were OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone.

The new capital will expand Smart Bricks’ market coverage beyond its current U.S., UK, and UAE footprint. The investments would also go into data ingestion pipelines, model robustness, and integrations with lenders and service providers.

The company will also focus on compliance features. These include identity verification, AML checks, and document provenance, alongside enhanced capabilities for cross-border flows, where currency, tax, and legal nuances complicate execution.

The team will improve its AI agents to handle tasks like analyzing leases, comparing contractor bids, and optimizing debt as market conditions change. Additionally, Smart Bricks plans to bolster post-close asset management by using live inputs to trigger alerts and propose actions, moving beyond static quarterly reporting.