Orbital raises $60M to modernize real estate law with AI

Orbital Witness Ltd., an artificial intelligence platform for real estate law, said today it has raised $60 million in early-stage funding led by New York-based growth fund Brighton Park Capital to grow its market share in the United Kingdom and the United States.

New investors in the Series B round included REV, the venture capital arm of RELX, which owns LexisNexis Legal and Professional. Also participating are the LegalTech Fund, Moderne Ventures and Grosvenor Group, the international real estate company and an existing Orbital customer. Existing investors, including JLL Spark, Outward and Seedcamp, also joined.

The company said technology is designed to meet industry demands specific to real estate work, an area underserved by the legal tech AI landscape.

“Real estate is, by far, the world’s largest asset class, said co-founder and Chief Executive Will Pearce. “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 traces its roots to the space industry, Pearce said in a recent interview with SiliconANGLE. He first developed the idea while working at the European Space Agency, where a major theme was using AI and computer vision to interpret satellite imagery and turned that inspiration into signals for professional decision-making for hedge funds. When that approach didn’t gain traction, the company pivoted toward automating legal workflows in real estate.

The reality of the situation turned out to be that overworked analysts often find themselves overwhelmed by “stacks of paper,” which become the core real estate bottleneck. The name “Orbital” remained the spiritual nod to the company’s space heritage.

The company provides a platform with multiple components, including an AI assistant, reporting and visualization capabilities. The system can also ingest arcane and almost unintelligible, handwritten texts and old documents, draft and analyze commercial coding across numerous domains to apply legal knowledge across different regions and assist legal professionals in their domains by providing reports.

“We looked to Orbital to deliver a more streamlined approach that supported quality and speed,” said Aubrey Bishai, chief innovation officer of Vinson & Elkins, a real estate law firm. “We wanted a system that would free up our lawyers to focus on the more substantive aspects of legal work.”

The company opened a New York office in 2025 and now plans to double its headcount and establish additional U.S. hubs from where it can best serve North American customers.

Orbital ended the same year supporting more than 200,000 real estate transactions across the U.S. and U.K. The company’s products are used by hundreds of law firms within in-house legal teams, real estate developers, title companies and real estate investment.

“Real estate law is one of the most complex legal markets globally, yet it has remained dramatically under-automated,” said Kevin Magan, partner at Brighton Park Capital, who will be joining the board. “Orbital’s focus on accuracy, real estate domain expertise, and real-world workflows positions them to define a new category in legal automation.”

The funding round will support the company’s expansion into the broader real estate ecosystem and allow the company to invest deeply into product development for legal work.

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