UAE-based Smart Bricks raised $5M led by a16z Speedrun to scale its agentic AI platform for real estate investing and automate property transactions.
UAE-based Smart Bricks has raised $5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun), with participation from funds and angel investors across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Founded in 2024 by Mohamed Mohamed, Smart Bricks positions itself as a frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for real estate investing. The company aims to redesign how investors discover, underwrite, and transact property by deploying autonomous reasoning systems that can identify, evaluate, and execute real estate investments end-to-end.
According to the company, its platform seeks to compress a process that traditionally takes three to six months into minutes. “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 chief executive of Smart Bricks. “Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting, and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind. Smart Bricks closes that gap.”
The platform reportedly processes more than one million proprietary and public data feeds, applying agentic AI to continuously analyse supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets. Smart Bricks says it surfaces only the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return, while automating up to 99% of the workflow — from valuation and underwriting through due diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support.
By combining data infrastructure, autonomous analysis, and transaction execution, the startup is building what it describes as an AI-native operating system for global real estate acquisition and ownership.
The new capital will support product development, infrastructure scaling, and expansion into key real estate corridors.
Why Smart Bricks Matter to MENA
Real estate remains one of the largest and most important asset classes across MENA — yet much of the transaction process is still manual, fragmented, and opaque. Smart Bricks’ raise signals a push to modernize property investing using agentic AI and data infrastructure, not just listing platforms.
The backing from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Speedrun) is particularly notable. It reinforces growing global investor interest in AI-native startups emerging from the Gulf, especially those targeting large, traditional industries like real estate.
For the UAE, this fits neatly into its ambition to position itself as both a global real estate hub and an AI innovation center. If Smart Bricks can truly compress underwriting and transaction timelines from months to minutes, it could reshape cross-border investment flows into and out of the region
