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The AI Agents Fixing European Real Estate

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Sep 03, 2025


Authors:

Toby Triebel

Samantha Wulfson

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Asset Management

Published:

Sep 03, 2025


Authors:

Toby Triebel

Samantha Wulfson


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We are thrilled to announce FTC’s lead role in Zefir's €15m raise to create the future of residential real estate. FTC joins existing investor Sequoia, as well as real estate experts including Zigg Capital and TX Ventures.

The Paris-based company’s use of AI agents to streamline operational tasks and expedite end-to-end home buying processes immediately caught our attention, with the mission to create a paradigm shift throughout the industry.

Zefir is already making waves. Their agentic workflows optimise efficiency and align incentives for buyers, sellers, and brokers alike, ultimately driving homes sales that are twice as fast as the national median. Zefir has reached more than €600m worth of homes transacted annually, and this is just the beginning of the journey.

Company Description


Zefir was founded by childhood friends Remy Fabre (CEO) and Louis Lambert (CTO) with a vision to reinvent European property transactions. After successfully building a crypto investment company together, they turned their focus to real estate, motivated by their parents’ firsthand experience and exasperation with the industry.

In the residential real estate sector, the current status quo benefits no one: all stakeholders suffer from misaligned incentive structures and a lack of transparency that prevent price discovery and swift turnover. Fundamental inefficiencies abound. Sellers are difficult to source, brokers waste time on low-return prospecting, and buyers must navigate multiple seller agents without dedicated representation.

Zefir created a managed marketplace with a crucial differentiator: their "business in a box" AI-first solution integrates directly into brokers' workflows. Unlike traditional listing platforms, Zefir automates manual, back-office operations from listing creation to customer support, allowing brokers to focus exclusively on high-value, in-person interactions.

Now, beyond supporting broker workflows with customized agents, Zefir has launched ZIA, their AI-driven home-search assistant for buyers. Until now, the French real estate market has lacked buyer agent representation common in markets such as the US, leaving individuals to work directly with a fragmented network of 100,000+ listing brokers. The first of its kind, Zefir's AI agent acts as a buyer’s digital broker, simplifying search, comparison, and decision-making.

FTC Summary


The potential for Zefir to reshape the residential real estate market stood out upon first meeting Remy and Louis. The combination of the “why now” and “why Zefir” was clear: a deeply aligned, lightning-in-a-bottle founding team, combined with an industry whose monotonous, manual workflows were ripe for AI disruption.

The more time we spent with the founders, the more their grit, maturity, and foresight were reinforced. They’ve already demonstrated their resilience, weathering multiple market cycles to build a cutting edge product and become the fastest growing real estate marketplace in all of Europe.

Our thesis on the industry is long-held, yet has continuously evolved in the face of AI’s transformative debut. Zefir leverages capabilities that were not possible even two years ago to create genuine operational transformation rather than incremental improvements. The relationship between stakeholders in the home-buying process is being completely reshaped for the first time; for everyone’s benefit.

The market opportunity is substantial. France alone represents a €10B revenue opportunity in Zefir’s target home segment. While winners have emerged in countries such as the UK and Germany, France has endured as an enormous, untapped market…until now.

Zefir is already well on their way to capturing this opportunity, and we look forward to partnering with the team as they transform the residential real estate market.

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