Davis
Entrepreneur First '25Paris, FR · Founded 2025 · 7 known investors
Davis provides feasibility studies and architectural designs for real estate projects, delivering them in days rather than months by combining technology with licensed professionals. It operates as a service company for real estate development across multiple geographies and asset classes.
Also known as Davis AI
Founders & leadership
Davis was founded in 2025 by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi.
Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 4
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Davis (Davis AI) is a Paris-based, AI-native real estate company that delivers early-stage real estate development work as a service rather than selling software. Its outputs include feasibility studies — site analysis, regulatory diagnostics, volumetrics, financial modeling and investment/ROI analysis — and architectural designs such as floor plans, unit-mix optimization and space planning. The company states that deliverables that traditionally required multiple firms and weeks or months of coordination are produced through a single integrated process in days, with iterations as fast as the first pass.
The delivery process is described in three stages: ingesting client datarooms and enriching them with regulatory, market and site data gathered by the company's own AI agents; converting that material into regulatory, financial and architectural constraints that shape generated outputs; and delivering ready-to-use results. In-house architects refine and validate outputs at each stage before delivery, a human-in-the-loop model the company presents as essential given the accountability requirements of the industry. Davis positions itself as a full-stack category rather than a tool vendor, aiming to capture value proportional to the work it replaces.
The company was founded in 2025 by Mehdi Rais (CEO) and Amine Chraibi, and employs AI researchers, architects and real estate specialists. In May 2026 it announced a $5.5M pre-seed round and released Gaudi-1, its first proprietary architectural generation model.
Founding story
Davis was founded by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi. Rais states he grew up in a family of architects in Morocco and observed the industry's inefficiencies from the inside before deciding to address them. Chraibi is an AI researcher from École Polytechnique specializing in generative models for structured data who, according to the company's fundraising post, turned down a PhD offer with Google DeepMind to start the company. The stated founding aim was to set a new time standard for real estate development and change how cities are designed and built.
Business model
Service-based rather than license-based: Davis states it does not sell software but delivers the work product itself — feasibility studies and architectural designs — directly to clients, combining proprietary AI systems with in-house licensed architects who validate every output. The company describes embedding into the industry's economics and capturing value proportional to the work it replaces.
Davis states it does not sell software licenses but is paid for delivered outputs (feasibility studies and architectural designs) as a service. Pricing details are not disclosed in the sources.
Traction
Balderton partner Rob Moffat stated that after just a few months the founders had acquired dozens of clients across two continents and performed research in discrete diffusion. Gaudi-1 is reported to achieve state-of-the-art results on the RPLAN and MSD benchmarks.
Latest developments
In May 2026 Davis announced a $5.5 million pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital and introduced Gaudi-1. Proceeds are earmarked for advancing its AI-native real estate platform, developing proprietary architectural generation models, and expanding its team of AI researchers, architects and real estate experts.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Davis positions itself as an AI-native, outcome-delivering entrant in real estate development, contrasting its approach with proptech software vendors that sell tools to professionals. It cites real estate as the world's largest asset class at $400 trillion and argues early-stage development has been largely untouched by software and AI. Balderton partner Rob Moffat characterized the company as unusual in being both fast to market and building proprietary models.
Delivery of finished work rather than software; integration of constraints directly into a discrete generative model instead of post-processing; combination of proprietary model research with human architect validation of every output; stated compression of early-stage development timelines from months to days with consistent speed across iterations.
Technology
Davis operates specialized AI agents that analyze regulations, market data, site constraints and architectural inputs in parallel, retrieving and structuring each dimension into a coherent constraint set. Its first proprietary generative model, Gaudi-1, uses a discrete diffusion approach to generate buildings as structured compositions of discrete architectural elements (rooms, walls, openings, circulation, adjacencies) rather than pixels, with constraints integrated into the generation process instead of applied as post-processing. The company frames this as a third path between image-generation models, which produce plausible but constraint-violating plans, and combinatorial optimization, which handles constraints but does not scale. Gaudi-1 is reported to reach state-of-the-art performance on the RPLAN and MSD floor-plan generation benchmarks across IoU, FID and KID metrics. In-house architects remain in the loop with the model.
Go-to-market
Direct engagement with developers and investors through demo requests on its website, delivering completed feasibility and design work rather than a self-serve product; it also invites partnerships for use cases outside its listed services. Hiring is concentrated in Paris for on-site AI research, AI engineering and architecture roles.
Real estate developers and investors undertaking early-stage development projects; the company states it works across geographies and asset classes.
Geography
Headquartered in Paris, France, with all advertised roles on-site in Paris. The company says it works across geographies and asset classes, and an investor reported clients on two continents.
History
Founded in 2025 in Paris. On 1 May 2026 the company published its technology post introducing Gaudi-1. On 6 May 2026 it announced a $5.5 million pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, publicizing Gaudi-1 alongside the raise. As of the funding announcement it was hiring AI researchers, AI engineers and architects for on-site roles in Paris.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are reported in the available sources. The company itself notes that architectural conception is an extremely hard, highly constrained problem and describes Gaudi-1 as an early step, indicating significant remaining technical risk; it is also an early-stage, pre-seed company operating in a service-delivery model dependent on licensed professionals.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsDavis announced a $5.5 million pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic, Entrepreneur First and P&P, plus angels from the founding teams of Spacemaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, Cleo and Spore.bio. Funds are to be used to advance its AI-native real estate platform, develop proprietary architectural generation models and expand the team.
$5.5M source ↗
Davis introduced Gaudi-1, its first proprietary generative model for automated architectural generation under regulatory constraints, based on a discrete diffusion approach; the company reports state-of-the-art results on the RPLAN and MSD floor-plan benchmarks across IoU, FID and KID.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Davismeetdavis.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Davis do?
- AI-native real estate company delivering feasibility studies and architectural designs in days rather than months.
- Who founded Davis?
- Davis was founded by Mehdi Rais, Amine Chraibi in 2025.
- Who are Davis's investors?
- Davis's investors include Balderton Capital, Entrepreneur First, Heartcore Capital.
- Where is Davis headquartered?
- Davis is headquartered in Paris, FR.