Davis, a Paris-based AI-native real estate company accelerating early-stage development and architectural design, today announced a €4.6 million ($5.5 million) pre-Seed round.
The round was led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital, with participation from Yellow, Evantic and Entrepreneurs First, alongside angels from the founding teams of SpaceMaker, Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, Supabase, Cleo and Spore.bio.
Alongside the funding, the company is also introducing Gaudi-1, its first model for generating architectural designs under real-world constraints.
Mehdi Rais, co-founder and CEO of Davis, 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.”
Founded in 2025 by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, Davis claims to combine proprietary AI with human expertise to deliver architect-grade outputs in hours and days rather than weeks and months. It aims to compress early-stage development timelines from months to days, while keeping humans in the loop.
The company explains that it transforms regulatory, technical, and market data into constraints for feasibility studies, covering everything from site constraints to ROI, as well as for architectural designs, which include volumetrics, floor plans, and space planning. Human experts then review each output before delivery.
Davis states that today, moving from site analysis to architectural concept requires multiple stakeholders and fragmented workflows. It claims to compress this into a single 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,” the company explained in the press release.
This provides significantly greater control, faster iteration, and outputs that reliably meet real-world requirements across regulatory, financial, and design dimensions, says Davis.
The French startup is also introducing Gaudi-1, its first proprietary model for automated architectural generation under regulatory constraints. The company notes that it has achieved “state-of-the-art” results on established floor-plan generation benchmarks, including RPLAN and MSD, across IoU, FID and KID metrics.
Explaining its business model, Davis mentions that instead of selling software, it uses this technology through a service model to deliver finished outputs directly to developers and investors. The technology works across asset classes and geographies, adapting to local regulations as input data.
Max Niederhofer, Partner at Heartcore Capital, said, “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.”
The company is currently collaborating with developers and expects to support hundreds of projects in the coming year. It is also planning to expand research, accelerate hiring and continue to verticalise the real estate process.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/french-ai-real-estate-startup-davis-raises-e4-6-million-and-unveils-gaudi-1-for-automated-architectural-generation/
