Dono, an AI-powered platform that converts fragmented county property records into usable ownership data, announced it has secured a $6.5 million seed funding round. This latest investment brings the company’s total funding to $10.2 million. The round was led by Link Ventures, with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures.
The United States real estate market, valued at over $50 trillion, relies on a centuries-old, fragmented county-level system across more than 3,700 counties. This structure, built on 300 years of diverse records, results in slow, expensive, and opaque processes for verifying property ownership. Approximately 14% of real estate closings experience delays of three to seven days, often due to title-related issues, hindering the scalability of real-time transactions.
Dono aims to address these inefficiencies by building modular infrastructure to deliver clear, accessible, and instant property records at a reduced cost. The platform is accessible via both user interface (UI) and application programming interface (API) to integrate with existing workflows. Currently, Dono covers over 700 counties nationwide.
The company initially focused on the title insurance sector, working with title underwriters and national title agencies, where manual operational costs are significant and increasing. With over 50% of the current title workforce projected to retire by 2030, this model faces growing strain. Dono is now observing demand extending into adjacent markets, including lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Tali Gross, CEO of Dono, noted the underlying issue: “The gap isn’t just technology. Plenty of tools exist. But they aren’t built on modern infrastructure. 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.” Many organizations still depend on manual processes, offshore vendors, and legacy title plants, which lead to unpredictable fees, multi-day turnaround times, and inconsistent quality, particularly as companies scale into new markets.
Dono’s platform is designed to eliminate this staffing-dependent bottleneck by providing an infrastructure layer for ownership verification. Its four modular capabilities include data collection from various sources, AI-powered extraction and indexing of critical document information, underwriting intelligence that embeds title expertise into adaptable AI, and configurable data delivery formats. The platform emphasizes accuracy, stating it is “not negotiable in this industry,” and is backed by expert human verification. Dono reports its product can achieve an 80% faster turnaround and help customers triple capacity with existing teams.
Gross added, “Organizations face an an impossible tradeoff: accuracy, speed, or cost…pick one, maybe two. We eliminate that choice.” The new seed funding will be used to accelerate geographic expansion, with a goal of covering nearly 50% of U.
S. states by population by the end of the year. It will also be used to enhance the company’s technology, increasing automation and efficiency for customers while maintaining accuracy, and to further support demand from lenders, mortgage servicers, and real estate investment firms.
Dono’s headquarters are in Tel Aviv, with operations also located in Palm Beach, Florida. The company is advised by industry figures such as Shay Wininger (Lemonade Co-Founder & President), Matan Bar (Melio Co-Founder & CEO), Ron Gura (Empathy Co-Founder & CEO), and Eyal Gura.
