Legora builds software that sits next to a lawyer and makes the slow parts of the job faster. It reads large sets of documents, drafts from a firm's own precedents, runs cited legal research across jurisdictions, and does most of it inside the tools lawyers already open every morning - Microsoft Word and Outlook.
The company was founded in Stockholm in 2023 as Leya, then rebranded to Legora in 2025. Its co-founder and chief executive, Max Junestrand, was 23 and had no legal background. A former esports player and business-school graduate, he teamed with two technical co-founders when access to GPT-3.5 turned a previously hard problem into a tractable one.
What followed was steep. The team grew from 40 to 400 people in under a year. Its client base widened from roughly 200 organisations to more than 1,000 across upwards of 50 markets. In 2026 it crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and raised a $600 million Series D that valued it at $5.6 billion.
The bet underneath all of it is simple: lawyers keep the judgment, strategy and creativity; the software takes the volume, the speed and the first pass. That division of labour is Legora's whole pitch, and so far the market has agreed with it.
