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Eve

Unicorn · $1B

4 known investors

eve.legal

Eve provides software that helps plaintiff law firms manage casework more efficiently, allowing them to serve more clients and reduce operational costs while delivering legal representation to plaintiffs.

Also known as Butler Labs, Inc. · EveOS

AI & Machine LearningLegalTech

Founders & leadership

DZDavid Zeng
David ZenginCo-Founder
MNMatt Noe
Matt NoeinCo-founder, Chief Product Officer

Investors · 4

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$103M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds · 2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Valuation · disclosed

Disclosed events
$1Bvaluation at Series BSep 2025
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Source: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Eve is a San Francisco-based legal AI company whose platform is purpose-built for plaintiff-side law firms. Its product spans the case lifecycle from intake through resolution: 24/7 phone and email intake with lead scoring and live contract signing, medical chronologies and record review, legal research with citations, drafting of demand letters, complaints and good-faith letters, propounding and responding to discovery, deposition summarization, and cross-examination preparation. The company markets the offering as EveOS, described as an AI operating system for plaintiff law that consolidates case, attorney and financial data in one place.

EveOS is organized around named components: Analyst (natural-language questions and dashboards about firm revenue, margins and settlement pacing), Intake (24/7 call and email handling in 28 languages, transcription, scoring and CRM sync), Auditor (nightly review of active matters to surface injuries, treatment gaps and next actions), Agents (drafting demands, discovery and motions, chasing records, routine calls), and Atlas (a data layer that structures records, bills and calls without manual data entry). The platform is positioned to work alongside an existing case management system or to stand alone. Targeted practice areas include personal injury, labor and employment, medical malpractice, Social Security and disability, and workers' compensation.

The corporate entity behind the product is identified in website copyright notices as Butler Labs, Inc. Publicly cited traction includes more than 450 firm customers at the time of the September 2025 Series B and 1,200+ firms cited on the company website, more than 200,000 cases processed annually, and over $3.5 billion in settlements and judgments recovered by customer firms.

Founding story

Eve was founded by Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO), Matt Noe (Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer) and David Zeng (Co-Founder and Chief Architect). Madheswaran has more than 15 years in AI and machine learning at companies including Facebook and Rubrik and was previously with Lightspeed Venture Partners; Noe was a founding engineer at Rubrik; Zeng has over 10 years of experience in AI and machine learning. The stated motivation was that plaintiff firms face heavy workloads, case backlogs and well-resourced defense teams.

Business model

Eve sells software to plaintiff law firms, engaging prospects through a "Schedule a call" sales motion and supporting deployments with a client transformation team that tailors the platform to a firm's processes. Specific pricing terms are not disclosed in the sources; the site references a Master Service Agreement and Service Level Agreement.

Not stated in the sources beyond the sale of its AI platform to law firm customers; the company frames its value in terms of increased case capacity, higher settlement values and reduced time on desk for customer firms.

Traction

Eve reported more than 450 firm customers as of September 2025, having added over 350 firms in the eight months following its January 2025 Series A; its website later cites 1,200+ firms and a company press release announced surpassing 1,000 plaintiff law firm customers. The platform processes over 200,000 cases annually, and customer firms have collectively recovered more than $3.5 billion in settlements and judgments, including a $27 million settlement by Hershey Law and a $15 million case by Geiger Legal Group. The company reports a 4.9/5 G2 rating and claims some customers more than doubled case capacity within a year.

Latest developments

Following the Series B, Eve introduced EveOS along with Research, Comms Agent and Intake Signing features, and marketed Eve 2.0 as a "proactive AI workforce" built around Agents and Auditor. The company announced it had surpassed 1,000 plaintiff law firm customers and powered more than 200,000 cases, its website cites 1,200+ firms, and it launched the inaugural Torties Awards for personal injury advertising.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

Eve is positioned in the plaintiff-side legal AI segment, an area investors have increasingly funded; press coverage frames it alongside EvenUp, which reached a $1 billion valuation on a $135 million raise in 2024, and Supio, which raised $60 million in 2025, while Filevine raised $400 million in the broader legal practice-management market. Eve's own leadership argues legal tech funding historically favored defense-side tools and that plaintiff firms are now adopting AI more quickly. A Spark Capital general partner described Eve's traction as serving hundreds of firms within less than two years of launch.

Eve positions itself as covering the entire plaintiff case lifecycle—intake, pre-litigation and litigation—rather than automating discrete tasks, and as combining that coverage with firm-level analytics. It emphasizes legal-specific safeguards absent from general AI tools: matter-based collaboration, confidentiality and privilege protections, in-line source citation, a validation framework, SOC II Type 2 certification and HIPAA compliance. It also stresses co-development with law firm owners and a client transformation team.

Technology

The platform applies AI and large-language-model-based automation to legal documents and communications, with stated emphasis on legal accuracy and verifiability: in-line sourcing that links answers back to underlying documents, an AI validation framework allowing one-click verification, and ongoing engineering work to reduce hallucination risk. Data handling features include auto-extraction and structuring of records, bills and calls (Atlas), integration with existing case management systems, and security and compliance controls: SOC II Type 2 certification, HIPAA compliance, AES-256 end-to-end encryption, isolated and privilege-protected client data, and annual independent audits. The company contrasts its matter-based, multi-user architecture with general consumer AI tools.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise-style sales to law firms via scheduled calls and demos, supported by customer stories, a referral program for firms, and content marketing (the Tort Report blog, webinars, guides and a resource library). The company also runs an industry award program, the Torties Awards for personal injury advertising, and cites G2 reviews and named marquee firms as social proof.

Plaintiff-side law firms in the United States, spanning personal injury, labor and employment, medical malpractice, Social Security and disability, and workers' compensation practices. Named customers include Mike Morse Law Firm, The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, Barrett & Farahany, Disparti Law Group, Frontier Law Center, Laurel Employment Law, Hershey Law, Ricci Law Firm, Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, Smith Clinesmith LLP, Freeburg & Granieri, Geiger Legal Group and Hershey Law.

Geography

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with customers described as plaintiff firms across the United States.

History

Sources indicate Eve launched its product less than two years before September 2025. It raised a Series A in January 2025 and a $103 million Series B in September 2025 led by Spark Capital at a valuation above $1 billion, bringing total funding to $164 million. Over that period it expanded from a document- and intake-focused toolset to the broader EveOS platform and Eve 2.0 agentic products, and grew from roughly 100 firm customers implied at the Series A to more than 450 by the Series B and later over 1,000.

Risks & controversies

No controversies are reported in the sources. Risk-relevant context includes the company's own acknowledgment of hallucination risk in legal AI and of court findings that using consumer AI on active matters may eliminate attorney-client privilege, plus a competitive and heavily funded legal AI market (EvenUp, Supio, Filevine). Many traction figures, including customer counts, settlement totals and efficiency claims, are self-reported by the company.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Client settlements and judgments recovered (cumulative)Sep 2025$3.5B
Customer law firmsJan 20261,200 firms
G2 customer ratingJan 20264.9 out of 5
Intake language coverageJan 202628 languages
Legal cases processed annuallySep 2025200,000 cases per year
New firm customers added since Series ASep 2025350 firms
Total funding raisedOct 2025$164M
ValuationSep 2025$1B

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Eve went on to found or lead other companies.

Competitors · 2

by search overlap

Companies competing with Eve for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 7

launches, deals, and filings
Sep 2025
Eve raises $103M Series B at over $1B valuation

Eve announced a $103 million Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures, valuing the company at over $1 billion and bringing total funding to $164 million.

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Jan 2025
Eve launches Torties Awards for personal injury advertising

Eve presented the inaugural Torties Awards, a national award recognizing personal injury law firm advertising, with six firms named winners.

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Jan 2025
Series A round

Eve closed a Series A round in January 2025; the company reported adding over 350 new firm customers in the eight months that followed.

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Jan 2025
Eve surpasses 1,000 plaintiff law firm customers

A company press release announced Eve had surpassed 1,000 plaintiff law firm customers and powered more than 200,000 cases on its platform.

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Jan 2025
Eve 2.0 announced

Eve announced 'Eve 2.0: The Proactive AI Workforce for Plaintiff Firms', including Agents and Auditor.

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Jan 2025
Launch of EveOS

Eve introduced EveOS, described as an AI operating system for plaintiff law, alongside newly announced Research, Comms Agent, and Intake Signing capabilities and components named Analyst, Intake, Auditor, Agents, and Atlas.

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Jan 2025
SOC II Type 2 certification and HIPAA compliance

Eve states it is SOC II Type 2 certified—claiming to be the first legal AI to achieve this—and HIPAA compliant, with policies vetted annually by independent audits.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed
  • Eveeve.legal · web

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Eve do?
Eve builds an AI platform, EveOS, that automates intake, pre-litigation and litigation work for plaintiff law firms.
Who are Eve's investors?
Eve's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Spark Capital.
How much funding has Eve raised?
Eve has disclosed $103M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.