Dono raises $6.5 million Seed to modernize U.S. property records with AI
The Israeli startup seeks to digitize old U.S. property records to improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
Amid a real estate market still constrained by centuries-old paper systems, Dono, an AI-powered property records platform, has secured $6.5 million in a Seed funding round, bringing its total funding to $10.2 million. The round was led by Link Ventures, with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures.
The U.S. real estate sector, the world’s largest asset class valued at over $50 trillion, remains surprisingly anchored in fragmented county-level records, some dating back 300 years. While financial instruments like U.S. Treasury bonds can trade in nanoseconds, verifying property ownership is slow, expensive, and opaque. Approximately 14% of real estate closings are delayed by three to seven days due to title-related issues, making near-instant transactions difficult at scale. Dono currently covers over 700 counties and is building modular infrastructure to simplify property records, making them instantly accessible through both user interfaces and APIs.
“The gap isn’t just technology. Plenty of tools exist. But they aren’t built on modern infrastructure,” said Tali Gross, CEO and co-founder of Dono. “Our mission is to fundamentally improve the home closing experience by giving everyone involved, the title professionals, lenders, buyers, servicers, the certainty they need without the friction that’s been accepted as ‘just how it works’ for decades.”
Initially focused on title insurance, where the need for immediate, accurate property data is most acute, Dono is expanding into related markets such as lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms. The company highlights that more than half of the current workforce in the title industry is expected to retire by 2030, creating an urgent need for scalable solutions.
Dono’s platform combines four modular capabilities: data collection across counties and title plants; AI-powered extraction and indexing of complex documents; underwriting intelligence that encodes human expertise into AI adaptable to local standards; and configurable data delivery tailored to each customer’s workflow. Human verification underpins the system, ensuring that accuracy, the cornerstone of property verification, is never compromised.
“Organizations face an impossible tradeoff: accuracy, speed, or cost…pick one, maybe two,” Gross said. “We eliminate that choice.” According to the company, the platform can deliver turnaround times up to 80% faster and allow customers to triple capacity without adding headcount.
The new funding will accelerate Dono’s geographic expansion, aiming to cover nearly half of U.S. states by population by year-end, while deepening automation and efficiency. Beyond title insurance, Dono is positioning itself to meet growing demand from lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Headquartered in Tel Aviv with operations in Palm Beach, Florida, Dono counts industry veterans among its advisors, including Shay Wininger, co-founder and president of Lemonade, and Matan Bar, co-founder and CEO of Melio.
