Brickwise
YC F25London, GB · Founded 2025 · 2 employees · Hiring · 2 known investors
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 AI
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (F25)
Brickwise was founded in 2025 by Ismail Jeilani and Elias Kassell.
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Ismail JeilaniinCo-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 KassellinCo-FounderElias Kassell previously worked at Google and joined Dataform as an early employee. He is now focused on automating property management.
Investors · 2
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.
Competitors · 10
by search overlapDoorloop41 shared keywordsDoorLoop is a cloud-based property management platform that combines rent collection, tenant screening, e-leases, maintenance, and accounting in one system, with AI automation across leasing, maintenance, and communications. It serves landlords, property managers, and real estate investors managing portfolios of any size.
Appfolio29 shared keywordsAppFolio provides a property management software platform, powered by AI, that automates administrative tasks and offers services aimed at generating revenue and serving residents and investors. It targets property management operators and their teams.
Turbo Tenant26 shared keywordsTurboTenant provides tenant screening reports and rental application services for independent landlords managing rental property investments. The platform uses identity verification and background checks to help landlords evaluate prospective tenants.
RealPage25 shared keywordsRealPage provides an AI workforce for the multifamily real estate industry, with AI agents that coordinate and execute tasks across leasing, operations, resident engagement, and portfolio management. Its Lumina AI workforce is aimed at property management teams.
Second Nature23 shared keywordsSecond Nature offers Maestro, an experience orchestration tool that lets property managers personalize resident onboarding and Resident Benefits Packages by property type, location, or resident profile. It automates workflows, leases, ledgers, and resident communications across property portfolios.
Revela22 shared keywordsRevela provides property portfolio management software that automatically posts transactions across management companies, owners, vendors, and tenants to the correct ledger. It uses AI to review operations workflows, flag discrepancies, and reduce manual accounting work for property managers and owners.
Re Leased21 shared keywordsRe-Leased is a cloud-based commercial property management software that helps real estate teams manage leases, tenants, maintenance, and credit control while connecting finance and operations. It offers AI features for task automation, document extraction, and property advisory, along with two-way integrations to accounting platforms such as Oracle NetSuite.
Zillow20 shared keywordsZillow operates an online real estate marketplace where consumers can search homes for sale and rentals across US and Canadian cities, view mortgage rate information, and access home financing through Zillow Home Loans. It covers residential property listings, apartments and houses for rent, and mortgage services nationwide.
MagicDoor19 shared keywordsMagicDoor is an AI-native property management platform for property management companies, self-managed landlords, and multi-portfolio operators, with its Genie AI handling leasing, maintenance, accounting, tenant screening, and communication workflows. It automates tasks such as rent collection, tenant messaging, maintenance work orders, lease renewals, and trust accounting across portfolios of any size.
Landlordstudio18 shared keywordsLandlord Studio is property management software for landlords that combines rental accounting, online rent collection, tenant screening, listing syndication, maintenance tracking, and Schedule E tax reporting in a single desktop and mobile app. It targets individual landlords and small rental portfolios as a lower-cost alternative to tools like QuickBooks, AppFolio, and Buildium.
Companies competing with Brickwise for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
In the news
YC's Summer 2026 cohort floods construction and proptech with AI back-office toolsmarketscale.com · Jul 2026Frequently 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 TRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital), Y Combinator.
- Where is Brickwise headquartered?
- Brickwise is headquartered in London, GB.