Davis, a Paris-based AI-native real estate company accelerating early-stage development and architectural design, announces €4.6m ($5.5m) raised in a pre-seed round.
The seed round was led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angel investors from the founding teams of SpaceMaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, Cleo and Spore.bio.
Alongside the funding, the company plans to introduce Gaudi-1, its first model for generating architectural designs under real-world constraints.
“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.”
Mehdi Rais, Co-Founder and CEO, Davis
Davis was founded in 2025 by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, and it claims to combine proprietary AI with human expertise to deliver architect-grade outputs in hours and days as opposed to weeks and months.
The company explains that it transforms regulatory, technical, and market data into constraints for feasibility studies, covering everything from site constraints to ROI. This will also include architectural designs, which include volumetrics, floor plans and space planning. Human experts then review each output before delivery.
Davis mentions that moving from site analysis to architectural concept requires multiple stakeholders and fragmented workflows. It claims to compress this into a unified integrated process.
“At the core of Davis’ technology is a new approach to generative modelling for the built environment. Unlike traditional diffusion models that operate in continuous pixel space, Davis’ systems operate in a discrete space, generating buildings as structured compositions of architectural elements such as rooms, walls and layouts.”
Davis
Davis advises this approach provides greater control, faster iteration, and outputs that reliably meet real-world requirements across regulatory, financial and design dimensions.
The French startup will be introducing Gaudi-1, its first proprietary model for automated architectural generation under regulatory constraints. The company mentions it has achieved ‘state-of-the-art’ results on previous floor-plan generation benchmarks, including RPLAN and MSD, across IoU, FID and KID metrics.
Elaborating on its business model, Davis comments that instead of selling software, it uses this technology through a service model to deliver finished outputs directly to developers and investors. The technology operates across asset classes and geographies, adapting to local regulations as input data.
“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.”
Max Niederhofer, Partner, Heartcore Capital
At the moment Davis is collaborating with developers and expects to support hundreds of projects in the coming year. They also plan to expand research, accelerate hiring and continue to verticalise the real estate process.
