Dono secures $6.5M seed to modernize U.S. property-record infrastructure

A startup focused on cleaning up the chaotic patchwork of county property records has closed fresh seed financing to fund rapid rollouts across U.S. jurisdictions. The new capital will be deployed to build the underlying data and operational footprint needed to make ownership checks faster and less reliant on manual labor. Dono packages county filings, title plants, and third-party inputs into a modular platform that applies automated extraction, indexing, and underwriting logic while retaining human verification at key steps. The company says this architecture allows customers to reduce turnaround times and increase throughput without a proportional increase in staff. Investors led the round to capture demand from traditional title players and adjacent buyers of accurate ownership data, including lenders and mortgage servicers that face growing volume and regulatory scrutiny. Management positions the product as an infrastructure layer that can be consumed via API or interface, enabling partners to embed verification into existing workflows rather than reworking legacy systems. Executing county-level builds is operationally intensive: success depends on indexing diverse document formats, encoding title expertise into models, and maintaining high auditability. Dono’s plan to reach roughly 50% of U.S. population coverage by year-end signals an aggressive, market-by-market approach rather than a single technical breakthrough. If achieved, that footprint would materially reduce friction in many transactions where title issues now cause multi-day delays. The company’s traction and product claims will invite closer attention from incumbent title underwriters and data vendors, who may respond with partnerships or price competition. Beyond efficiency gains, wider machine-assisted access to recorded documents could shift where operational risk resides—less in manual search error and more in model and ingestion accuracy. For customers, the central tradeoffs to monitor are throughput gains against the need for continued human review and the legal defensibility of AI-derived title conclusions. The funding round buys time and resources to expand coverage, but the longer-term test will be whether the platform can deliver consistent, auditable results across thousands of county record offices. Investors betting on Dono are effectively wagering that digitizing the plumbing of property records will unlock measurable cost savings and operational scalability across the mortgage and title ecosystem.