Rev is an American speech-to-text company that pairs the world's most accurate AI speech recognition with a global network of human transcriptionists to deliver transcription, captions, and subtitles at up to 99% accuracy. Founded in 2010 by six MIT-connected entrepreneurs, Rev serves over 100,000 customers and more than a million users across legal, media, education, and enterprise, and has increasingly focused its AI on the legal market with tools for depositions, evidence, and case prep.
Kourosh Zamani is the Co-Founder of Laurel, the AI-native time platform automating timesheet creation for professional services firms. Starting as Ping Inc. in 2016 alongside co-founder Ryan Alshak - a fraternity brother from UC Berkeley - Kourosh shepherded the company from bootstrapped startup through five funding rounds to a $100M Series C in June 2025, with investors including IVP, Google Ventures, Alexis Ohanian, and Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI). Before building Laurel, he ran VP of Business Development at Bailard Inc. and founded the Young Professionals of San Francisco, a non-profit that grew to 8,000+ members. His career arc from investment management to COO to Head of Sales to Strategic Partnerships lead mirrors the evolution of Laurel itself: from scrappy time-tracking app to a platform processing over $5B in gross market value for 100+ enterprise clients.
Praful Saklani is the Founder and CEO of Pramata, an enterprise contract AI company he built from a bootstrapped startup in Minnesota into a 300-person global platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies. Inspired by watching attorneys manually search through contracts during a 2001 acquisition, he spent nearly two decades turning that frustration into a radically simple contract lifecycle management platform now powered by generative AI. Along the way he's been named to Comparably's Best CEOs for Diversity lists, grown Pramata to $49.7M in annual revenue, and attracted backing from Volition Capital.
Pramata is an enterprise contract intelligence platform that turns messy contract portfolios into structured, AI-ready data. Founded in 2005 by Praful Saklani and Christian Misvaer, the Brisbane, California company helps large enterprises like Comcast Business, HPE, NCR, and McKesson unlock the commercial commitments buried inside thousands of executed agreements - using a blend of NLP, generative AI, and human-in-the-loop validation.
Harvey builds domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Founded in 2022 by a former litigator and a former DeepMind researcher, the company sells AI agents and workflows that help lawyers draft, review, research and run due diligence. As of March 2026, it counts more than 100,000 lawyers and 1,300+ organizations as users and is valued at $11 billion.
Icertis is the AI-native contract intelligence company that turns enterprise strategy into faster execution at scale. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Icertis helps 1 in 5 Fortune Global 500 companies manage millions of commercial agreements across 90+ countries through its Icertis Contract Intelligence platform - powered by Vera AI, a proprietary model trained on 17+ million contracts. With $496M in total funding, a $5B valuation, and nearly $350M in annual recurring revenue, Icertis has redefined what contract lifecycle management can do: turning buried legal text into live business intelligence.
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.
Joe Ruiz is the CEO and Founder of DPS (Digital Postal Service), an AI-driven blockchain-based communications company that has certified over 3 million documents across U.S. courts and pioneered the first blockchain-generated ePostage certified by USPS. A descendant of Declaration of Independence signer John Hart, Ruiz has spent a decade bridging traditional postal infrastructure with Web3 technology - building CaseMail, integrating NFT Digital Stamps into USPS Connect eCommerce, and expanding his certified AI email platform to Microsoft's Azure Marketplace.
Tanguy Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of Paxton AI, a Palo Alto-based legal tech company building an AI-powered assistant for lawyers. A Belgian-born, MIT-trained chemical engineer who competed for Belgium in sailing and chemistry olympiads, Chau spent seven years as a venture capitalist at Formation 8 and Mayfield Fund before co-founding Paxton in 2022. Under his leadership, Paxton raised a $22M Series A in January 2025 (total $28M), achieved a 94% non-hallucination rate on the Stanford Legal Hallucination Benchmark, and grew 14x in monthly recurring revenue over nine months - serving clients from solo practitioners to the nation's 20 largest law firms.
Pedro Paulino is the 25-year-old Harvard dropout CEO and co-founder of Tavrn, an AI-powered case preparation platform transforming personal injury law firms. A former competitive chess player who honed strategic thinking before stints at Kalshi and PearPop, Paulino pivoted from building a creative-professional networking app into one of legal tech's fastest-rising companies - raising $21.6M total to automate medical chronologies, demand letters, and client intake for contingency-fee attorneys across the US.
Matt Cote is the Technical Lead at Forum Ventures, New York's leading pre-seed B2B SaaS venture studio. A seasoned software engineer with a career spanning IBM, Kira Systems (legal AI), and Zuva, Matt brings deep technical leadership to one of the most active early-stage startup ecosystems in North America, helping founders go from zero to product in record time.