Orbital secures £44m to digitise real estate law using AI and mapping
This article covers Orbital, a legaltech startup that has raised £44m ($60m) in a growth funding round led by New York growth fund Brighton Park Capital to accelerate its AI platform for real estate law across the UK and US. The funding aims to support product development and expansion to help law firms, in-house legal teams, title companies, developers and REITs digitise and speed up document-heavy real estate transactions.
Orbital, a legaltech startup, has raised £44m ($60m) in a growth funding round led by New York growth fund Brighton Park Capital to accelerate its AI platform for real estate law across the UK and US. The deal matters because Orbital aims to digitise and speed up the dense, document-heavy legal processes that underpin the world’s largest asset class.
Why it matters
Real estate transactions are supported by complex chains of deeds, maps and linked records that have changed little in many jurisdictions for decades. Orbital says its product addressed that complexity across 200,000 transactions in 2025, and is already used by hundreds of law firms — including teams from AM Law 100 and Magic Circle firms — as well as in-house legal teams, developers, title companies and REITs.
If the company can convert that usage into broader adoption across the transaction lifecycle, the market impact could be significant: the announcement cites a £102.7bn ($140bn) opportunity to modernise the legal backbone of real estate.
Inside the product
Orbital combines AI trained specifically for real estate legal work with spatial visualisation, mapping and property data. The product is positioned to automate repetitive, document-heavy reviews that currently require manual inspection of interdependent records and historic deeds. The company frames its work as creating a single, secure workspace for real estate legal processes, with the aim of introducing greater speed and transparency to transactions.
The platform’s traction across law firms, title firms and corporate real estate teams suggests the product is being used at multiple points in a deal lifecycle rather than in a single niche workflow.
Who are the investors?
The £44m growth round was led by Brighton Park Capital (BPC). New investors named in the round include REV, the venture capital arm of RELX Group (which owns LexisNexis Legal & Professional); The LegalTech Fund; Moderne Ventures; and Grosvenor Group, an international real estate company and an existing Orbital customer. Existing backers JLL Spark, Outward and Seedcamp also participated.
REV links Orbital to RELX’s legal information and analytics business through LexisNexis. JLL Spark is the corporate venture arm of JLL and brings property-sector reach. Seedcamp is a European early-stage investor that frequently backs technology startups scaling in and out of Europe. Grosvenor’s participation is notable because it is both an investor and a customer, signalling operator interest from a large property owner.
In the announcement, Kevin Magan, Partner at Brighton Park Capital, said:
We recognized immediately that Orbital is targeting a critical gap in the legal AI sector. Real estate law is one of the most complex legal markets globally, yet it has remained dramatically under-automated. Orbital’s focus on accuracy, real estate domain expertise, and real-world workflows positions them to define a new category in legal automation. We are incredibly excited to partner with Orbital in this next stage of growth as they expand more aggressively into the US market.
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Founder perspective
In the announcement, Will Pearce, CEO and co-founder at Orbital, 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. This funding round brings together investors and operators who understand these challenges firsthand and share our conviction that the real estate legal category is ready for transformation.
Orbital says the capital will support product investment, UK and US growth, and expansion across the broader real estate transaction ecosystem. The company opened a New York office in 2025 and plans to double headcount and establish additional US hubs to serve customers locally.
The bigger picture
This funding round sits at the intersection of two active trends: increasing use of specialised AI in legaltech and growing investor attention to applications built specifically for real estate workflows. The participation of both legal-data and property-sector investors underlines the cross-industry nature of the opportunity.
For the UK and European ecosystem, the deal highlights continued outbound expansion by domestic-founded legaltech startups into the US market and signals that investors remain willing to fund category-specific, workflow-focused AI businesses. As startups like Orbital scale operation and integrate with incumbent players, regulators and practitioners will watch how accuracy, data governance and liability in AI-assisted legal work are handled across jurisdictions.
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