Davis AI, a French AI startup building tools for early-stage real estate development, has raised $5.5 million in a pre-seed round. Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital led the fundraise, with participation from Entrepreneurs First, Yellow and Evantic Capital, alongside a group of angels.
Moving from site analysis to architectural concept currently requires multiple stakeholders, fragmented software, and workflows that can take weeks or months. Davis compresses that into a single integrated process by transforming regulatory, technical, and market data into constraints that its systems use to generate feasibility studies, as well as architectural designs, including volumetrics, floor plans, and space planning. Human experts review each output before delivery, keeping architectural judgment in the loop while removing the coordination overhead.
Mehdi Rais, Co-founder & CEO, Davis AI, said, “Real estate is one of the world’s largest asset classes, yet some of its most important workflows still move at a pace that no longer makes sense. We started Davis to set a new time standard for real estate development and ultimately to reshape how cities are designed and built.”
Max Niederhofer, partner at Heartcore Capital, said, “What’s distinctive about Davis is how three elements reinforce each other: a generative model operating in a discrete architectural space under regulatory constraints, an architect-in-the-loop validation layer, and the resulting compression from months to days in an industry where time drives returns. We’re excited to back Mehdi and Amine as they reshape how the built world is designed and developed.”
Rob Moffat, partner at Balderton Capital, said, “There are many AI companies which are fast to market and some which are building proprietary models, but very few are doing both. After just a few months, Mehdi and Amine have acquired dozens of clients on two continents and performed cutting-edge research in discrete diffusion.”
The fresh capital will be used to expand research, accelerate hiring and scale the platform to support hundreds of projects over the next year. With this, the company is positioning itself to set a new speed standard for early-stage development.
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