Lovable and OpenAI operators back Stockholm’s Vessla in $3.3M round to automate property operations

Vessla, a Stockholm startup, has pulled in $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Seedcamp. The company wants to use AI agents to handle property work on top of the software property firms already run, rather than ripping those systems out and starting over.

That is the pitch, anyway. In Vessla’s view, property operations are a relay race across tenants, managers, suppliers and finance teams, with staff constantly moving information between systems, checking details from different sources and making sure somebody actually does the next step. Its answer is a common AI layer that works with existing tools, follows each organisation’s rules and helps with tasks through connected software. The human part stays in the loop for decisions that need judgment or approval.

The bigger ambition is more than task automation. Vessla says it wants to build an operating system for entire property portfolios, connecting leasing, building operations and investment planning. Property teams would still set priorities and take action, while the agents look for ways to lift income and cut costs. That puts it in a busy field, not a lonely one.

New York’s Uniti has raised a $12 million Series A for agents aimed at leasing, maintenance and collections in self-storage and multifamily housing. ProptechOS is building an agentic suite for real estate companies, and EliseAI has raised a $250 million Series E. The wider proptech money is following the same logic: in 2025, AI-native proptech companies raised around $4.5 billion in venture financing, and their share of all proptech venture financing rose by 42%, according to the Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation.

The founding team is a big part of why Vessla got attention so quickly. Kasper Janehag worked on NASA’s Mars 2020 mission before moving into AI; at QuantumBlack, McKinsey’s AI arm, he led major AI projects. Chief scientist Arash Dabiri has worked on agentic AI at Andon Labs and QuantumBlack. CEO Orman Gazvini has advised software companies at McKinsey and worked in strategy and mergers and acquisitions at Pophouse. Other founders have backgrounds at Legora, Stanford and Netlight. Investors in the round also include the Inception Fund, Tiny VC, operators from Lovable and OpenAI, Lukas Saari from Tandem Health, Fredrik Hjelm from Voi and Pit, plus several angel investors.