Dono.AI Inc. announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in new funding to accelerate its expansion of its property records platform, deepen automation in its property-records infrastructure, and support growing demand from title insurers, lenders, mortgage servicers and real estate investment firms.

Founded in 2023, Dono offers modern, artificial intelligence-powered infrastructure for property records, an area the company describes as foundational but historically antiquated.

The issue Dono is taking on is one where the U.S. real estate market, valued well above $50 trillion, still relies on centuries-old, highly fragmented county systems. Verifying property ownership remains slow, costly and opaque because records are scattered across more than 3,700 county registries. That slows the speed of real estate closings, with title issues delaying nearly 14% of deals.

Dono aims to solve the issue by transforming unsearchable public documents into structured, reliable data using AI and expert verification. The company combines automated AI extraction and human oversight. Its stack pulls raw documents from county sources, applies AI-driven indexing and classification, and then delivers clean, usable ownership data via flexible user interface and application programming interface endpoints.

The company pitches itself as infrastructure underneath the traditional title industry that reduces the need for labor-intensive manual searches and vendor services. Early adopters report dramatically faster turnarounds and higher accuracy compared with legacy title plants and manual processes.

“The gap isn’t just technology. Plenty of tools exist. But they aren’t built on modern infrastructure,” said Chief Executive Tali Gross. “Our mission is to fundamentally improve the home closing experience by giving everyone involved — title professionals, lenders, buyers and servicers — the certainty they need without the friction that’s been accepted as ‘just how it works’ for decades.”

The company’s initial traction has come from its deep collaboration with title insurance underwriters and agencies. Dono identifies it as a market where manual overhead is unavoidable, with high operational costs and a retiring workforce facing a skills gap.

Demand for Dono’s platform is also widening beyond title underwriters, as lenders, mortgage servicers and real estate investment firms increasingly integrate Dono’s property data pipeline into loan origination and servicing workflows.

The seed round was led by Link Ventures with lool VC and Alumni Ventures Group also participating.

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