# Laurel

> Laurel is a San Francisco AI company that automates timekeeping for the world's largest law, accounting, and consulting firms. Its platform watches the digital exhaust of professional work - email, documents, browsers, calls - and turns it into ready-to-review timesheets, so billable hours stop being a chore reconstructed from memory on Friday afternoons.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Ryan Alshak (Co-Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~200-254
- **Products:** Laurel AI Time Platform, Work Intelligence, Firm-Specific Models
- **Notable:** Won the first ABA Startup Alley competition in 2017, Named #700 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies, Raised $100M Series C in June 2025 led by IVP

## Products & services

- **Laurel AI Time Platform** — Automated timekeeping that integrates with email, Office, browsers, PDFs, and video conferencing to generate timesheet entries and narratives.
- **Work Intelligence** — Analytics layer that maps time data to client matters, fixed-fee management, capacity planning, and profitability.
- **Firm-Specific Models** — AI models trained on a firm's own billing rules, work codes, and historical entries.

## Achievements

- Won the first ABA Startup Alley competition in 2017
- Named #700 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies
- Raised $100M Series C in June 2025 led by IVP
- Reports lifting average billable time by ~28 minutes per lawyer per day

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — Closed $100M Series C led by IVP with participation from GV.
- **2023** — Rebranded from Time By Ping to Laurel.
- **2024** — Named to Inc. 5000.

## Links

- Website: https://laurel.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/laurel-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/timebyping
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timebyping/

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Last updated: 2026-05-19