Dono Raises $6.5M Seed Round to Build Modern Infrastructure for U.S. Property Records

Dono, an AI-powered property records platform that turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data, has 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.

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, with more than 50% of the current workforce 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.”

Dono is designed to remove 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 seed funding will be used to accelerate geographic expansion by building a 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.

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