Davis, an AI-native real estate company that combines proprietary artificial intelligence with human expertise to accelerate early-stage development and architectural design, has raised $5.5m in a pre-seed funding round.
The round was led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton, with additional participation from Yellow, Evantic and Entrepreneurs First. Angel investors from the founding teams of SpaceMaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, Cleo and Spore.bio also took part.
Alongside the announcement, Davis has unveiled Gaudi-1, its first proprietary model for generating architectural designs under real-world regulatory constraints, achieving state-of-the-art results on established floor-plan generation benchmarks including RPLAN and MSD across IoU, FID and KID metrics.
Founded by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, Davis aims to compress early-stage real estate development timelines from months to days while keeping human experts in the loop. The company converts regulatory, technical and market data into constraints used to generate feasibility studies, covering everything from site constraints to ROI, as well as architectural designs including volumetrics, floor plans and space planning. Human specialists review each output prior to delivery.
Rather than offering software products, Davis operates through a service model, delivering finished outputs directly to developers and investors. At the heart of its approach is a discrete generative modelling system that constructs buildings as structured compositions of architectural elements, such as rooms, walls and layouts.
Balderton partner Rob Moffat 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.”
Davis co-founder & CEO Mehdi Rais 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.
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