GoCanopy Raises £1.8m Seed Led by ISAI to Build the Operating System for Institutional Real Estate

January 27, 2026

GoCanopy, the AI-powered operating system for institutional real estate investors, has raised £1.8 million (€2.1 million) in its first outside funding round. The seed investment was led by ISAI, the French venture capital firm with approximately €1.1 billion under management, with participation from BNP Paribas Développement, Yellow, and a group of angel investors including Andrew Baum, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate Investment at the University of Oxford and chairman of Newcore Capital, and Ludovic Jacquot, CEO of Batipart Europe and former Chairman of EMEA Real Estate Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. The company was founded in 2023 by William He, who spent seven years in private equity real estate at Morgan Stanley and Davidson Kempner, and Yaswanth Kumar Pabbisetti, a senior software engineer with experience at Google and B2B SaaS startup Pointy, which was acquired by Google.

Institutional real estate investment teams generate continuous streams of valuable data—offering memoranda, rent rolls, lease agreements, asset management reports—but this information is typically scattered across inboxes, PDFs, spreadsheets, and the heads of individual analysts. When people move on, institutional knowledge disappears. When deal volumes grow, historical context becomes harder to access. This fragmentation limits both investment decision-making and day-to-day asset management execution, creating revenue leakage that spreadsheets are structurally incapable of revealing.

GoCanopy addresses this through a human-in-the-loop agentic AI layer that ingests and structures unstructured internal documents into a shared, searchable system of record. On the investment side, teams can screen historic deals, benchmark transactions, and prepare investment committee materials with greater speed and defensibility. On the asset management side, the same intelligence base powers proactive portfolio execution: lease expiry detection, rent review tracking, and leasing opportunity identification. Unlike a static database, the platform's institutional memory compounds with every deal, becoming more valuable over time. Early customers include Brookfield and certain Apollo-managed funds.

The round marks GoCanopy's exit from a bootstrapped phase following strong commercial validation. The new capital will accelerate enterprise platform development, fund expansion of commercial and engineering teams, and support the opening of a London office alongside the company's existing Paris base.

ISAI partner François Collet framed the investment around vertical AI—the conviction that the strongest category-defining companies in AI are built by founders who understand the operational reality of their markets from the inside. With both co-founders bringing direct experience of the workflows they are automating, GoCanopy fits that thesis closely.

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