Dono, an AI-powered property records platform, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, bringing its total capital to $10.2 million. Link Ventures led the round, with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures.
The platform addresses a persistent challenge in American real estate: property ownership runs on 300 years of fragmented records scattered across more than 3,700 counties. While Treasury bonds worth billions can trade in nanoseconds, real estate transactions remain tied to a county-level system built centuries ago. This creates delays, uncertainty, and significant operational costs.
In the United States, the world's largest asset class is valued at over $50 trillion. Yet verifying who owns what property is still slow, expensive, and opaque. About 14% of real estate closings face delays of three to seven days, usually because of title-related issues. This makes real-time or near-real-time closings difficult to scale.
Dono currently covers more than 700 counties across the United States. The company is building modular infrastructure to make property records clear, accessible, and instant at a fraction of current costs. The platform delivers data through both UI and API to integrate with existing workflows.
Dono started in title insurance, working with title underwriters and national title agencies where the need is immediate and manual work unavoidable. This model faces mounting pressure as more than 50% of the current workforce is expected to retire by 2030.
"The gap isn't just technology. Plenty of tools exist. But they aren't built on modern infrastructure," said Tali Gross, CEO of Dono. "Our mission is to fundamentally improve the home closing experience by giving everyone involved—title professionals, lenders, buyers, servicers—the certainty they need without the friction that's been accepted as 'just how it works' for decades."
Most organizations still depend on manual processes, offshore vendors, and legacy title plants. These come with unpredictable fees, multi-day turnaround times, and inconsistent quality. That approach breaks down as companies expand into more markets because traditional solutions require proportional increases in headcount.
The company is already seeing demand grow in adjacent markets, including lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Dono's platform includes four modular capabilities that work independently or together: data collection across counties, title plants, and customer sources; AI-powered extraction and indexing of information from complex documents; underwriting intelligence that encodes title expertise into AI adaptable to specific standards; and configurable data delivery in formats that work for each customer. The platform is backed by expert human verification because, as Dono puts it, "accuracy isn't negotiable in this industry."
The company says its product can deliver 80% faster turnaround and help customers triple capacity with the same team.
"Organizations face an impossible tradeoff: accuracy, speed, or cost…pick one, maybe two," said Tali Gross, CEO and Co-Founder of Dono. "We eliminate that choice."
The seed funding will accelerate geographic expansion by building county-level infrastructure market by market. Dono aims to cover nearly 50% of U.S. states by population by the end of the year.
The capital will also deepen the company's technology by increasing automation and efficiency without compromising accuracy. Dono plans to expand beyond title insurance to support growing demand from lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Dono is an AI-powered, modular property records intelligence platform building the infrastructure to make property data clear, accessible, and instant. The company turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data through software delivered via both UI and API, backed by expert human verification.
Dono is headquartered in Tel Aviv with operations in Palm Beach, Florida. The company is advised by Shay Wininger (Lemonade Co-Founder & President), Matan Bar (Melio Co-Founder & CEO), Ron Gura (Empathy Co-Founder & CEO), and Eyal Gura.
