Smart Bricks and a16z Speedrun Close $5M Pre-Seed to Deploy Agentic AI in Global Real Estate
Dubai, UAE – February 12, 2026 — Smart Bricks announced a $5 million pre-seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z Speedrun to build agentic AI infrastructure for real estate investing. The platform automates sourcing, valuation, underwriting, and transactions, compressing months-long processes to minutes across markets including Dubai, London, New York, and Miami.
Announcement Specifics
Smart Bricks, founded in 2024 by CEO Mohamed Mohamed, closed the round with participation from Cornerstone VC, Techstars, and angel investors from OpenAI, Airbnb, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind spanning the US, Europe, and Middle East. The AI aggregates over one million public and proprietary data feeds on pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk, ranking opportunities by risk-adjusted returns and automating workflows for retail and institutional investors.
Stakeholder Perspective
“Global real estate is one of the largest asset classes in the world, yet most investors still rely on fragmented data and manual processes.”
— Mohamed Mohamed, Founder and CEO at Smart Bricks
Why it matters: This inefficiency underpins Smart Bricks’ mission to democratize institutional-grade tools beyond traditional gatekeepers.
“Institutions have sophisticated tools; everyone else largely does not. Our aim is to close that gap.”
— Mohamed Mohamed, Founder and CEO at Smart Bricks
Why it matters: Equity in access is critical for emerging markets where retail investors dominate real estate capital flows.
Industry Context
Proptech innovation accelerates as agentic AI systems tackle complex decision-making in the $300+ trillion global real estate market. Smart Bricks positions itself as infrastructure rather than brokerage, reflecting venture capital’s pivot toward AI automation. Dubai emerges as a prime market, reinforcing the UAE’s proptech hub status amid an ongoing real estate boom. MENA investors benefit from Middle East backers in the round, fostering cross-border opportunities, though city-specific transaction volumes remain undisclosed.
Conclusion
Smart Bricks will deploy funds to scale infrastructure and expand globally, aiming to accelerate adoption as AI narrows the institutional-retail gap and reshapes real estate investing across MENA and beyond.
Sources: Fintech News, TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Smart Bricks, LinkedIn
