London-based GoCanopy has raised €2.1M in seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI-powered operating platform for institutional real estate investors, targeting one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: fragmented data and lost institutional knowledge.
The seed round was led by ISAI, with participation from BNP Paribas Développement, Yellow, and a group of angel investors. Among them are Andrew Baum, Emeritus Professor of Real Estate Investment at the University of Oxford, and Ludovic Jacquot, CEO of Batipart Europe and former Chairman of EMEA Real Estate Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley.
Turning Scattered Documents Into Institutional Intelligence
Institutional real estate teams generate vast volumes of data across deals, tenants, and portfolios, but much of it remains locked in emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, and personal expertise. GoCanopy addresses this gap by providing a single AI-driven layer that ingests and structures unstructured internal documents into a shared system of record.
Using human-in-the-loop, agentic AI workflows, the platform processes materials such as offering memoranda, rent rolls, and asset management reports to create a living institutional memory. Unlike static databases, this intelligence compounds over time and persists beyond individual team members.
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Supporting Both Investment And Asset Management Workflows
On the investment side, GoCanopy enables teams to search, compare, and analyse historic deal data, supporting workflows from deal screening and underwriting to investment committee preparation. This improves decision speed, consistency, and defensibility.
For asset management teams, the same data foundation powers proactive portfolio execution. Features include lease expiry detection, rent review tracking, and identification of leasing opportunities, allowing investors to continuously unlock value across existing assets.
All insights remain directly traceable to their original sources, meeting the transparency requirements expected by investment committees and boards.
Founder Vision And Market Timing
GoCanopy was founded in 2023 by William He, formerly a real estate investor at Morgan Stanley and Davidson Kempner, and Yash Pabbisetti, an enterprise software engineer with experience at Google and Pointy. The founders launched the company after recognising that advances in large language models finally made it possible to overcome long-standing data fragmentation in real estate.
The platform has already been adopted by major institutional players, including Brookfield and certain Apollo-managed funds, validating demand from the upper end of the market.
What The Funding Enables
The new capital will be used to accelerate development of GoCanopy’s enterprise-grade capabilities and support international expansion. The company plans to grow its presence in London alongside Paris and expand its commercial and engineering teams as it scales globally.
About GoCanopy
GoCanopy is an AI-native platform that helps institutional real estate investors turn fragmented internal data into actionable institutional intelligence. By automating the ingestion and structuring of unstructured documents, the platform creates a searchable system of record for investment and asset management teams, enabling faster decisions, stronger execution, and compounding insight over time.
