- The Stockholm-based Vessla raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round, led by Seedcamp.
- The AI agents perform property tasks using the software companies already have.
- Vessla’s main goal is to develop an operating system for entire property portfolios that links leasing, building operations, and investment planning.
Kasper Janehag began his career in the space industry working on NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. He has since turned his attention to practical problems.
Vessla, a Stockholm-based startup he founded in 2026, just raised $3.3 million to automate property coordination using AI agents.
Seedcamp led the oversubscribed pre-seed round. Other backers include the Inception Fund, Tiny VC, operators from Lovable and OpenAI, Lukas Saari from Tandem Health, Fredrik Hjelm from Voi and Pit, and several angel investors.
Why property operations are hard to automate
According to Vessla, property operations rely on coordination between tenants, managers, suppliers, and finance teams, and staff carry out this coordination by transferring information between systems, verifying details from different sources, and ensuring the next steps are carried out.
Vessla offers a common AI layer which works in conjunction with the software that property companies currently use. Its agents collect relevant information, adhere to each organisation’s rules, and assist with tasks through the connected software; existing systems stay in place, and people still make decisions that require judgment or approval.
Vessla’s main objective is to develop an operating system for entire property portfolios that links leasing, building operations, and investment planning. Property teams set priorities and take the necessary actions, while the AI agents search for ways to increase income and reduce costs.
It is not alone in this field. New York’s Uniti raised a $12 million Series A, led by Pathlight, to fund agents who handle leasing, maintenance, and collections for self-storage and multifamily housing operators. ProptechOS provides an agentic suite for real estate companies. And EliseAI has raised a $250 million Series E.
In 2025, AI-native proptech companies raised around $4.5 billion in venture financing, and their share of all proptech venture financing increased by 42%, according to the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation. Agents are also moving into other industries. FLÆ Robotics has installed an AI receptionist in more than 60 hotels, and Causa Prima has raised a $20 million seed round to enable AI agents to handle business-to-business invoices.
A founding team from space, consulting and legal AI
Vessla’s key asset is its team, which has experience putting AI into large organisations.
Janehag has led major AI projects at QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI arm. Chief scientist Arash Dabiri has developed and tested agentic AI applications at Andon Labs and at QuantumBlack. CEO Orman Gazvini has advised several major software companies at McKinsey and has also been involved in strategy and mergers and acquisitions at Pophouse. The other founding team members gained experience at Legora, Stanford, and Netlight.
“We believe AI will fundamentally change how property companies operate, from maintenance and costs to leasing and rental income. The hard part is making it work at scale across the systems and processes those companies already rely on. That is what we are building. As AI takes on more of the execution, people’s judgment, relationships and responsibility become even more important,” said Gazvini.
“AI can look impressive in a demo. The real test is whether it can handle the messy, consequential work of a complex business. That requires deep integrations with vast amounts of context, rigorous evaluation and clear limits on what agents can do. We are building Vessla to meet that standard across entire property portfolios,” added Janehag.
What Seedcamp and Inception are backing
Property operations involve a combination of routine tasks and complex procedures together with exceptions that call for judgment. Vessla is addressing both.
According to Felix Martinez, a partner at Seedcamp, the Vessla team has experience developing cutting-edge AI applications, and this experience, particularly their track record of deploying them in high-stakes enterprise environments, is responsible for the considerable interest leading companies in the industry have shown in them so quickly.
“AI is advancing faster than most companies can keep up. What is built in-house today could be outdated in three months. The winners in vertical AI will become their customers’ external AI R&D department, continuously turning the latest technology into practical value. Vessla has the technical depth to help property companies stay ahead. That is why we invested,” added Oliver Molander, founder and partner at the Inception Fund.
To stay ahead of new AI models, the company must name customers and show real savings before larger competitors such as Uniti and EliseAI get ahead.
