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.
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
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