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November 4, 2025

This AI-powered proptech got into YC without writing a single line of code

Elias Kassell and Ismail Jeilani impressed the famed accelerator with a product built in Lovable


Martin Coulter

3 min read

Brickwise, an AI-powered proptech platform, won a spot in Y Combinator’s winter batch, bagging $500k of investment without writing a single line of code. 

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Martin Coulter

Martin Coulter is Sifted's news editor, based in London. You can follow him on LinkedIn and X

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