Why We Invested in Orbital

We are excited to announce our investment in Orbital, a company transforming how real estate law is practiced. Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, yet the legal processes underpinning it have barely evolved in over a century. Transactions remain slow, expensive, and opaque, creating friction in an industry where speed, certainty, and transparency matter deeply. Orbital is changing that by bringing AI-native automation to the legal backbone of real estate transactions. 

Real estate legal work has long relied on manual document review, fragmented data sources, and institutional knowledge locked inside individual law firms. These outdated workflows drive billions of dollars in legal spend each year while introducing unnecessary risk, delay, and inconsistency across transactions. Orbital was founded on the insight that real estate law requires more than generic legal AI. It demands software that understands the asset itself, its location, its history, and the unique context of each transaction. 

Orbital has built what it calls the world’s first AI assistant that can truly think like a real estate attorney, an agentic AI platform purpose-built for real estate transactions and the work that real estate teams undertake, everyday. The product analyzes documents with legal rigor, visualizes legal risk directly on maps and property data, and automates complex, multi-step workflows that mirror real-world real estate practice. By combining text, spatial data, historic records, and proprietary real estate knowledge, Orbital delivers a complete view of transactional risk, something generalist legal AI tools simply cannot replicate. 

The traction behind the platform is compelling. Orbital already powers more than 200,000 real estate transactions annually for over 5,000 professionals and is embedded across many of the world’s leading law firms, in-house legal teams, developers, title companies and REITs. Customers consistently report dramatic time savings and improved accuracy, allowing legal teams to focus on judgment-driven, higher-value work rather than repetitive diligence tasks. Best-in-class retention metrics underscore how deeply Orbital becomes embedded in customer workflows once adopted.

Global legal spend on real estate transactions exceeds $140 billion annually, with $60 billion concentrated in the US and UK alone. As Orbital automates more of the legal lifecycle, its AI penetrates deeper into each transaction, driving expansion within accounts and creating durable data and workflow advantages over time.

We are particularly excited about Orbital’s growing presence in the United States. Building on its position as a market leader in the UK, the company is now deeply embedded across leading US real estate law firms and ecosystem partners. With a repeatable go-to-market motion, a strong and expanding pipeline, and an established New York presence, Orbital is scaling across the largest and most complex real estate legal market in the world.

At The LegalTech Fund, we invest in companies that bring clarity, efficiency, and scale to complex legal systems. Orbital exemplifies this mission. By transforming real estate law from a slow, manual process into a fast, transparent, and software-driven experience, Will Pearce, Ed Boulle, and the entire Orbital team are redefining how one of the world’s most important asset classes transacts.

We are proud to welcome Orbital to The LegalTech Fund family and look forward to supporting them as they build the future of real estate law.