Davis secures $5.5M to accelerate real estate design workflows

Paris-based Davis has raised $5.5 million in a pre-seed funding round to accelerate its approach to early-stage real estate development and architectural design. The round was led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic, and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angel investors from several technology companies.

Founded by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, Davis is developing a platform designed to streamline early-stage real estate processes. The company aims to reduce timelines from months to days by combining proprietary AI systems with human expertise.

Real estate development remains a large but traditionally slow-moving industry, with early-stage workflows often fragmented and reliant on legacy tools.

Davis addresses this by integrating regulatory, technical, and market data to generate feasibility studies and architectural designs, including floor plans and spatial layouts. These outputs are then reviewed by human experts before delivery.

At the core of the system is a generative modelling approach tailored to the built environment. Unlike traditional image-based methods, Davis produces structured architectural outputs, enabling greater control and alignment with real-world requirements.

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,

said Rais.

Alongside the funding, the company has introduced Gaudi-1, its first proprietary model for automated architectural design under regulatory constraints, designed to generate compliant and optimised layouts across geographies and asset classes.

The newly raised capital will support further development of its AI technology, expansion of the team, and scaling of operations. Davis also plans to increase adoption among developers as it supports a growing number of projects and continues to build its end-to-end platform.