South Florida AI real estate startup raises millions

By Mark Dovich – Reporter, South Florida Business Journal

Feb 10, 2026

An artificial intelligence-powered South Florida real estate startup has raised millions of dollars in its latest fundraising round.

West Palm Beach-based Dono raised $6.5 million in a new seed round led by Link Ventures, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm. Tel Aviv, Israel-based Lool Ventures and Manchester, New Hampshire-based Alumni Ventures also participated.

The new seed round, together with money raised earlier, takes Dono’s total funding to more than $10 million. 

Dono uses AI to scrape and collate public property records, making ownership information more immediately accessible for lenders, mortgage services and real estate investment firms. 

The United States does not have a unified property data system, with records fragmented across thousands of counties. Some 14% of real estate closings are delayed by at least several days due to issues that stem from this, according to the startup.

“Organizations face an impossible tradeoff: accuracy, speed or cost. Pick one, maybe two,” said Dono CEO and cofounder Tali Gross. “We eliminate that choice.” 

The startup plans to use the new funding to expand county by county, with the aim to cover at least 50% of the U.S. by population by the end of the year.

Dono currently covers about 400 counties, including all of Florida and North Carolina and parts of Arkansas, Nevada, Ohio and Illinois. A spokesperson told the Business Journal the startup is focused in the immediate term on expansion in the Northeast and Midwest.

Dono’s headquarters is located at 7750 Okeechobee Blvd. in West Palm Beach. The company's number of employees was not provided.

South Florida is seen as an emerging technology hub, particularly for startups in finance and defense. There’s also a growing cluster of ‘proptech’ companies that focus on the real estate industry.

These include Propy, which made headlines last month when it announced a $100 million private credit facility for nationwide expansion. Others include Beycome, DoorLoop, Finance Lobby, Titl and Togal.AI.

Related Ross CEO and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has bet big on the tri-county region’s tech future, launching a new initiative last October to support local startups.

The eight-week Gold Coast Tech Accelerator program, developed by Related Ross, eMerge Americas and the Florida Council of 100, connects participants with office space, corporate partnerships, market access, investors and mentorship from some of the Sunshine State’s top business leaders.