PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 10, 2026--
Dono, an AI-powered property records platform that turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data, today announced it raised a $6.5 million seed round ($10.2 million in total funding). The round was led by Link Ventures with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures.
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In the United States, the world's largest asset class—valued at over $50 trillion—is effectively built on a foundation of unsearchable paper. While billions of dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds can trade in nanoseconds, U.S. real estate transactions are still tethered to a fragmented county-level system built centuries ago.
Property ownership in the U.S. runs on 300 years of fragmented records across 3,700+ counties. Verifying who owns what is still slow, expensive, and opaque. Approximately 14% of real estate closings are delayed, spanning at least three to seven days, usually due to title-related issues, making real-time or even near-real-time closings difficult to achieve scale. Today, Dono covers more than 700 counties across the United States. Dono is building modular infrastructure to make property records clear, accessible, and instant at a fraction of current costs, delivered via both UI and API to fit into existing workflows.
Dono started in title insurance, working with title underwriters and national title agencies, where the need is immediate, and the operational cost of manual work is unavoidable. That model is becoming increasingly strained as more than 50% of the current workforce is expected to retire by 2030. The company is already seeing demand expand into adjacent markets, including lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
“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 rely on manual processes, offshore vendors, and legacy title plants, 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 to keep up.
Dono is designed to remove that staffing-dependent bottleneck by building the infrastructure layer underneath ownership verification. The platform includes four modular capabilities that work independently or together. These include data collection across counties, title plants, and customer sources; AI-powered extraction and indexing of critical 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.”
Dono 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 be used to accelerate geographic expansion by building county-level infrastructure market by market, with a goal of covering nearly 50% of U.S. states by population by the end of the year. The funding will also be used to deepen the company’s technology by increasing automation and efficiency for customers without compromising accuracy and expand beyond title insurance to support growing demand from lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Dono is headquartered in Tel Aviv with operations in Palm Beach, Florida.
About Dono
Dono is an AI-powered, modular property records intelligence platform building the infrastructure to make property data clear, accessible, and instant. Property records are fragmented across 3,700+ counties with no unified system, making verification slow, expensive, and opaque. Dono turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data through software delivered via both UI and API and backed by expert human verification. Dono is advised by Shay Wininger (Lemonade Co-Founder & President), Matan Bar (Melio Co-Founder & CEO), Ron Gura (Empathy Co-Founder & CEO), and Eyal Gura. Learn more at https://www.dono.ai/
Dono co-founders Eyal Stern (COO), Tali Gross (CEO), and Ron Likvornik (CTO)
