Proptech Startup Smart Bricks Raises $5M Pre-Seed Led By a16z

Smart Bricks secures $5M pre-seed funding to bring institutional-grade AI tools to everyday real estate investors.
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Proptech Startup Smart Bricks Raises $5M Pre-Seed Led By a16z
How Smart Bricks Is Closing Real Estate's Technology Gap Smart Bricks has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding to bring Wall Street-caliber artificial intelligence tools to everyday real estate investors. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, the round backs a London and San Francisco-based startup building an autonomous platform that analyzes millions of data points to identify high-potential properties, forecast cash flows, and even manage transaction workflows. Founder Mohamed Mohamed left Boston Consulting Group in 2024 after witnessing a stark divide: while institutions deployed sophisticated computational models for property decisions, individual investors relied on WhatsApp threads and scattered PDFs to coordinate million-dollar deals. Credit: Smart Bricks From Institutional Insights to Democratized Intelligence Mohamed's career at BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey exposed him to how elite financial firms treat real estate as a computational challenge rather than a purely intui…