London-based Orbital, a burgeoning AI-driven legal tech company specializing in real estate law, has successfully secured $60 million in Series B funding. This capital boost is set to accelerate its expansion into the U.S. market. The financing round was spearheaded by Brighton Park Capital, a New York-based growth fund, and featured diverse investment participation from players within both the legal and real estate sectors.
New investors such as REV—RELX’s venture capital arm, owners of LexisNexis—along with The LegalTech Fund, Moderne Ventures, and Grosvenor Group joined the round. Existing backers, including JLL Spark, Outward, and Seedcamp, also continued their support. The addition brings Orbital’s cumulative fundraising to $75 million since its inception in 2018.
Orbital’s platform appears to fill a noticeable void in the AI landscape tailored for real estate law, which, as the company asserts, remains “materially underserved” by other legal tech AI solutions. Aimed at automating traditionally manual, document-heavy processes, the platform integrates AI optimized for real estate legal work with spatial visualization, mapping, and real estate data management.
The complexity inherent in real estate transactions, often involving numerous interdependent records and historical deeds, is targeted by Orbital’s technology to streamline processes, thereby enhancing transaction speed and transparency. Orbital concluded 2025 with support for 200,000 real estate transactions, serving a clientele that includes multiple Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms, alongside in-house legal teams, real estate developers, title companies, and REITs.
With a solid foothold as a market leader in the U.K., Orbital opened a New York office in 2025 and now plans to further deepen its U.S. presence by doubling its workforce and setting up more hubs across the country. Will Pearce, CEO and co-founder, noted the tardiness and fragmentation still prevalent in real estate legal work, observing how Orbital is disrupting these age-old methods through purpose-built AI, thus improving transparency and reliability across transactions involving what is widely considered the world’s largest asset class.
Kevin Magan from Brighton Park Capital, who is set to join Orbital’s board, recognized the innovative attack on a critical gap in the legal AI sector. He emphasized the complexity of the global real estate law market, pointing out how it remains significantly under-automated. Orbital’s fund utilization plans include spreading adoption across the real estate transaction ecosystem, aiming to construct what they describe as a “single, secure workspace for real estate legal work” throughout the lifecycle of real estate assets.
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