GoCanopy Raises €2.1m Seed Funding to Build the AI Operating System for Institutional Real Estate Investors

GoCanopy, the AI-powered operating system for institutional real estate investors, today announces that it has raised €2.1m in seed funding. The round was led by ISAI, with participation from BNP Paribas Développement, Yellow and angel investors, including Andrew Baum, University of Oxford Emeritus Professor in Real Estate Investment, and Ludovic Jacquot, CEO of Batipart Europe and ex-Chairman of EMEA Real Estate Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley.

Institutional real estate investment teams sit on a mountain of valuable deal, tenant, and financial data related to their assets. But this data is fragmented across countless inboxes, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, and team knowledge siloes. As a result, firms lack a single system of record that captures and compounds intelligence across historic activity, limiting both investment decision-making and asset management execution.

GoCanopy's platform provides this single source of truth through a shared AI-driven extraction layer that transforms fragmented internal documents into institutional intelligence related to assets. Using Human-in-the-Loop agentic AI workflows, GoCanopy ingests unstructured internal documents, including offering memoranda, rent rolls, and asset management reports, into one platform to build a living institutional memory. Unlike static databases, this creates a system of compounding intelligence that exists beyond individuals and strengthens with every deal.

On the investment side, GoCanopy enables teams to search, compare, and analyse data across historic deals, while actively augmenting core investment workflows, from deal screening and underwriting to investment committee preparation, improving decision quality, speed, and defensibility.

Independently, on the asset management side, the same institutional memory powers proactive portfolio execution, including lease expiry detection, rent review tracking, and leasing opportunity identification, enabling teams to unlock value continuously across existing portfolios.

The platform ensures every insight is directly traceable to its source, providing the level of transparency and defensibility required for investment committees and board reporting.

William He, Co-founder and CEO of GoCanopy, said, "Over years spent as a real estate investor at Morgan Stanley and Davidson Kempner, I saw firsthand how data fragmentation blocks revenue. When intelligence is captured and made available across both investment and asset management, it compounds. It can be harnessed to uncover millions in potential revenue opportunities that spreadsheets simply can't reveal.

I built GoCanopy because the first LLMs made it clear that such data fragmentation could finally become a thing of the past. Just as Bloomberg transformed finance, we are creating the system of record for real estate. This is the industry's "Bloomberg moment". We are here to help institutions leverage data that makes up institutional intelligence – something that the majority has yet to seize."

GoCanopy was founded in 2023 by William He, who brings seven years of experience in private equity real estate investment, including at Morgan Stanley and Davidson Kempner, and Yash Pabbisetti, whose enterprise-grade software engineering expertise and full-stack leadership were honed working at Google and Pointy (acquired by Google). The pair launched GoCanopy driven by a mission to transform how real estate investors interact with institutional intelligence using new institutional-grade AI.

Having bootstrapped the business to date and been accelerated by CentraleSupélec's '21st' impact accelerator, GoCanopy decided to raise funds following strong validation for its proposition and growing client demand, including contracts with Brookfield and certain Apollo-managed funds.

GoCanopy will use new funding to accelerate the development of its enterprise-grade platform capabilities and support its international expansion, including opening an office in London alongside Paris and expanding its commercial and engineering teams as it scales go-to-market efforts globally.

François Collet, Partner at ISAI said, "At ISAI, we believe the strongest vertical AI companies are built by founders who deeply understand the real operational pain points of their market. GoCanopy is a strong example of this: a team with deep institutional real estate expertise, a product already validated by leading players in the sector, and an AI approach closely aligned with real-world investment and asset management workflows. This positioning enables rapid integration and supports a highly effective land-and-expand growth strategy."

Andrew Baum, University of Oxford Emeritus Professor in Real Estate Investment said, "Over my career there have been a very small (3 or 4) number of points in time at which we knew that innovative technology would change the way we worked. The recent breakthrough AI/LLM is the latest. The real estate industry needs guidance and applied tools or agents that will harness the power of this technology. The combination of domain expertise and engineering in the founding team made it easy for me to want to support GoCanopy."