LegalTech Startups

Apperio provides a legal spend management platform that connects to law firms' time and billing systems and uses generative AI to give in-house legal teams visibility into work before invoicing and to help law firms submit compliant invoices. It serves corporate in-house legal teams and external law firms, with products including invoice approval, BillClear pre-invoice checking, and AI analytics.

5 investors

Athennian is a governed entity management platform that centralizes fund, SPV and portfolio company data, including ownership hierarchies, cap tables, approvals and compliance records, in a single system. It serves private equity and fund management teams and their legal and compliance staff, providing automated filings, audit trails, ownership visualizations and document generation across multi-jurisdictional structures.

5 investors

Blue J is an AI-powered platform providing tax research and analysis tools for tax professionals and accountants across North America and the UK. The company uses generative AI to help navigate complex tax law and deliver clarity on tax regulations.

5 investors

Checkbox is legal intake and automation software that converts Microsoft Teams messages into legal matters with automatic tracking, history capture, and audit trails. It helps in-house legal teams reduce manual administrative work and gain visibility into legal requests and workflows.

5 investors

Crosby is an AI-powered law firm that combines custom legal agents with attorney oversight to review contracts and answer legal questions submitted via Slack, email, or CLM triggers. It targets sales teams to reduce time to signature on commercial agreements, offering fixed per-document pricing as a registered law firm with malpractice insurance.

5 investors

Farewill offers online services for dealing with death in the UK, including will writing, probate support, and direct cremations with prepaid funeral plans. It targets consumers seeking simpler, lower-cost alternatives to traditional solicitors and funeral providers.

5 investors

Firstbase builds an all-in-one business operations platform that automates back office tasks for founders globally, including company incorporation, management, and growth services.

5 investors

FreeWill provides a free online platform for creating legally valid estate plans and charitable giving tools. The service enables users to document their wishes and commit gifts to nonprofit organizations.

5 investors

GC AI builds an AI platform for in-house legal teams, designed around company-specific playbooks, cross-functional stakeholders, and deal-specific risk tolerance. It also runs training classes on AI prompting for legal professionals.

5 investors

JusticeText builds technology solutions for the criminal justice system, serving public defenders and marginalized communities to improve legal representation access regardless of income.

5 investors

Lawmatics offers client intake and case management software for law firms, providing customizable intake form templates and automation for follow-ups, scheduling, and converting inquiries into booked consultations and signed agreements. It serves legal practices in the legal software category.

5 investors

LawVu is a legal workspace platform that integrates matters, contracts, and spend management for in-house legal teams. It enables collaboration between legal departments and the wider business while providing document storage and external counsel engagement capabilities.

5 investors

Lightbringer is a full-service patent management provider that combines AI agents with licensed patent attorneys to draft, file, and prosecute patents, including office action management and portfolio maintenance. It serves growth-stage and deeptech companies, offering fixed monthly pricing and international filing across jurisdictions such as the US, Europe, and Japan.

5 investors

MarqVision provides brand protection and intellectual property management services using AI technology for creators, developers, and artists globally. The platform helps innovators identify and defend against threats to their intellectual property and livelihoods.

5 investors

Osano is a data privacy platform that helps companies manage compliance with global privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD through cookie consent management, subject rights (DSAR) automation, preference management, website compliance scanning, and vendor risk assessment. It serves compliance, privacy, and security teams across industries and includes a $500,000 "No Fines, No Penalties" guarantee.

5 investors

Paxton is an AI assistant for legal professionals that conducts legal research, drafts documents, and analyzes documents, identifying relevant case law and regulations. The platform is SOC 2 compliant, follows ISO standards, and complies with HIPAA, operating within a secure closed model.

5 investors

Priori provides a platform for legal teams to manage and source outside counsel, offering capabilities for matter intake, firm intelligence, RFP evaluation, and spend alignment to optimize legal resourcing decisions.

5 investors

Proof provides online notarization and identity verification tools to establish trust for agreements and records executed remotely. It serves businesses and consumers across all 50 U.S. states with digital notarization products.

5 investors

SimpliContract is an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, powered by its proprietary mNemoAI engine, that extracts and structures contract data to track obligations, SLAs, rebates, and pricing terms. It serves procurement, legal, finance, and operations teams at global enterprises in sectors such as CPG, manufacturing, and EPC.

5 investors

Streamline AI provides a workflow platform for legal intake, triage, and management designed for in-house legal departments. The product helps legal teams improve efficiency and collaboration with other business functions.

5 investors

TermScout provides contract intelligence software that analyzes agreements, benchmarks commercial terms against market data, and generates risk signals to help legal, sales, and procurement teams execute deals faster. The company offers two products: Certify for internal contract analysis and benchmarking, and TrustMark for external certification signaling contract fairness.

5 investors

Relativity applies AI, including generative and agentic AI, to legal data challenges such as litigation, investigations, and data breach response. Its tools help legal teams review documents, identify sensitive information, and analyze case data. (Text IQ, referenced in the page, was acquired by Relativity to apply AI for identifying sensitive data.)

5 investors

Ultimarii develops AI-powered solutions tailored for regulated industries including energy, utilities, and mining, helping professionals accelerate workflows and reduce regulatory friction. The company builds verticalized tools that apply large language models to the specific compliance and legal requirements of these sectors.

5 investors

UpCounsel offers an online platform for businesses to work with lawyers, providing tools for team messaging, document storage and e-signature, time tracking, and invoicing and payment management for legal engagements. It is aimed at companies managing their legal work and communication with attorneys.

5 investors