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Brickwise
YC F25London, GB · Founded 2025 · 2 employees · Hiring · 10 known investors
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Brickwise AI offers an AI-powered property management platform called Alice that automates tenant communication, maintenance, and rent collection for property managers, landlords, and real estate investors.
Also known as Brickwise Labs, Inc. · Brickwise AI · Brickwise, Brickwise AI
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (F25)
Brickwise was founded in 2025 by Ismail Jeilani and Elias Kassell.
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Ismail JeilaniCo-FounderIsmail Jeilani is a former Google employee and has previously founded two venture-backed companies. He is now building an AI-powered property management platform targeting landlords and estate agents.
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Elias KassellCo-FounderElias Kassell previously worked at Google and joined Dataform as an early employee. He is now focused on automating property management.
Investors · 10
CapitalTlisted by CapitalTAmsterdam
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Look AI Ventureslisted by Look AI VenturesPrague
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TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)listed by TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)San Francisco · $250K – $2Mvia Fred Campbell · inferred
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Y Combinatorlisted by Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K
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C Square Capitalreported
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Cherry VenturesreportedBerlin · $2.2M – $7.7M
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Fractalreported
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Raigad VenturesreportedLos Altos
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Xoogler Venturesreported
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The YC application· Fall 2025 batch
Alumni Q&A
- How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
- Brickwise, founded by Ismail and Elias, is building an AI property manager that automates maintenance for landlords and property managers. The founders note that landlords typically hire property managers to handle the workload, with roughly one manager per 60 properties, and aim to use AI to improve the economics of property management.
- What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
- The founders point to about 240,000 property management firms in the US spending roughly $56bn per year on salaries, and 214,000 firms in Europe spending about $35bn, while an estimated 50% of landlords self-manage to avoid these costs. They argue the work scales linearly with headcount, and draw on their own experience running a property management firm overseeing 130 properties.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Brickwise do?
- Brickwise AI offers an AI-powered property management platform called Alice that automates tenant communication, maintenance, and rent collection for property managers, landlords, and real estate investors.
- Who founded Brickwise?
- Brickwise was founded by Ismail Jeilani, Elias Kassell in 2025.
- Who are Brickwise's investors?
- Brickwise's investors include CapitalT, Look AI Ventures, TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital), Y Combinator, C Square Capital, Cherry Ventures, Fractal, Raigad Ventures and 2 more.
- Where is Brickwise headquartered?
- Brickwise is headquartered in London, GB.