Dono Raises $6.5m To Expand Property Records Platform

Property records platform Dono has raised $6.5 million in a seed round to support geographic expansion and broaden its customer base beyond title insurance, the company announced Tuesday. 

Link Ventures led the round, with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures. The investment brings total funding for the Tel Aviv–headquartered Dono — which also operates in Palm Beach, Florida — to $10.2 million.

Dono aims to address the long-standing fragmentation of U.S. property records across more than 3,700 counties — a system that makes ownership verification slow, costly and opaque. Many organizations still rely on manual processes, offshore vendors and legacy title plants, resulting in unpredictable fees, multiday turn times and inconsistent quality. 

The company estimates that title-related issues delay about 14% of real estate closings by three to seven days. Dono says its platform can deliver turnaround times that are up to 80% faster while enabling customers to triple operational capacity with the same staffing levels. 

The company is initially focused on the title industry, where it expects roughly half of the current workforce to retire by 2030, but it also sees growing demand from mortgage lenders, 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 and co-founder of Dono.

The platform aggregates data from counties, title plants and client sources, then uses artificial intelligence to extract, index and deliver information alongside underwriting intelligence and customized data outputs. Human experts verify the results.

Dono currently covers more than 700 U.S. counties and plans to reach half of the country’s population by year’s end. The company is building modular infrastructure designed to make property records clear, accessible and nearly instant at a fraction of current costs, delivered through both user interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs) that integrate into existing workflows.

“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,” Gross said.