Legal AI is coming for real estate - and this UK startup just raised $60m

Real estate legal AI platform Orbital has raised a $60 million Series B funding round as it looks to accelerate adoption in the UK and expand aggressively in the US market.

The round was led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital, and included REV, the venture arm of RELX which owns LexisNexis, The LegalTech Fund and JLL Spark, the venture capital arm of real estate services giant JLL.

Underserved market

Founded in 2018, Orbital has raised $75 million to date and is firmly positioning itself around real estate work, a practice area it says has been "underserved" by the broader legal AI wave.

Its technology combines AI with spatial visualisation, mapping and property data, aiming to automate workflows that support residential and commercial transactions, with the aim of increasing speed and transparency.

Scaling up

Orbital has been growing its presence on both sides of the Atlantic and said it supported around 200,000 real estate transactions in 2025, with customers spanning law firms, in-house teams, developers, title companies and REITs. City firm customers include Clifford Chance, Slaughter and May, BCLP, Macfarlanes and Freshfields.

The funding comes as Orbital steps up its US expansion following the opening of its New York office in 2025, where the company plans to double headcount and establish additional US hubs over time.

Chief executive and co-founder Will Pearce said: "Real estate is, by far, the world’s largest asset class. Yet the legal work that underpins it remains slow, fragmented and largely manual: opaque work that in many cases hasn’t meaningfully changed since the 19th century.

Orbital is changing that with AI purpose-built for real estate, making transactions more transparent and reliable for all parties."

The rise of specialist legal AI platforms

Orbital isn’t the only legal AI player built for a specific practice area. A growing number of startups have raised fresh funding for similarly focused tools.

London-based Wexler is targeting disputes teams and already counts elite litigation players like HSK Kramer as customers. The company raised a $5.3 million seed round in September. TrialView, which operates out of London and Dublin, is also focused on litigation and closed a $4.1 million funding round in November to support its international expansion.

Elsewhere, Navys, founded by a former Kirkland lawyer, is taking aim at the funds market by streamlining limited partner transfers for private capital firms.