Basha Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of Priori, a legal marketplace that uses data instead of firm letterhead to match in-house teams with vetted outside counsel. She started the company in 2013 straight out of Yale Law School with classmate Mirra Levitt, at age 25 and with no business or technology background. A decade later she has raised more than $20 million, built a network spanning the $800 billion legal-services market, and become one of the most recognized voices arguing that how companies buy legal help is broken and fixable.
Ryan Daniels is the cofounder and CEO of Crosby, a hybrid AI law firm that pairs licensed lawyers with proprietary AI agents to review commercial contracts (MSAs, NDAs, DPAs) in under an hour at fixed per-document pricing. A Stanford Law graduate and former startup general counsel who got tired of being the bottleneck on his own company's deals, Daniels built the product he wished he had. Since emerging from stealth in 2025, Crosby has negotiated more than $1 billion in contracts for clients like Cursor and Clay, and raised about $85.8M from Sequoia, Index, Lux Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.
Viraj Bindra is the co-founder and CEO of Finch, a New York-based legal technology company that pairs experienced U.S.-based paralegals with purpose-built AI agents to automate pre-litigation work for personal injury law firms. He spent roughly eight years at DoorDash, joining as its founding designer and growing into senior product roles that scaled new lines of business, before leaving to build Finch in 2024 with longtime friend Benjamin Weems. Finch raised a Seed round led by Sequoia Capital, launched publicly in April 2025, and announced a $20 million Series A led by Redpoint Ventures in October 2025.
EvenUp is a San Francisco-based legal-AI company building a Claims Intelligence Platform for personal injury law firms. Its proprietary Piai model and human-in-the-loop experts produce demand letters, medical chronologies, case insights, and drafting tools, helping over 2,000 firms resolve more than 200,000 cases and secure over $10 billion in damages for injury victims.
Andrew Antos is the Czech-born Founder and CEO of Klarity, a San Francisco-based AI platform that automates document-intensive workflows for enterprise finance and accounting teams. Born in Brno one year before communism fell, he grew up in a family of scientists, studied law in Europe, then pivoted to entrepreneurship after Harvard Law School and an MIT startup course. He co-founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni, raised $90M+ from Y Combinator, Scale Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross, and counts DoorDash, Zoom, Cloudflare, and OpenAI among his customers. Klarity's AI platform achieves 82%+ pass-through rates on contract and invoice processing, reduces month-end close by 2-3 days, and automates up to 87% of manual finance work.
Rami Karabibar is the CEO and co-founder of EvenUp, a San Francisco-based AI legal tech company he co-founded in 2019 with Raymond Mieszaniec and Saam Mashhad. After observing the massive inefficiencies in personal injury claim handling during his time at Waymo, he built EvenUp into the dominant AI platform for plaintiff personal injury law - now valued at over $2 billion following a $150M Series E in October 2025. The platform has resolved 200,000+ cases and secured over $10 billion in damages for injury victims, serving 2,000+ U.S. law firms.
Cesar Donofrio is the co-founder and CEO of Making Sense LLC, a Palo Alto-based technology consulting and software development company he built from a startup in Mar del Plata, Argentina into a 350-person nearshore powerhouse serving mid-market U.S. enterprises. Over 20+ years, he has co-founded five companies - including Doppler (email marketing), Lander (acquired by a Silicon Valley firm), and Viallion (AI-driven investment platform) - while championing a talent model where 90% of the workforce is Latin American. Named Top Midmarket IT Executive of the Year in 2017 and a Nearshore Americas Power 50 Leader, Donofrio blends engineering precision with UX philosophy and AI strategy to deliver measurable business transformation.
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.
John Haddock is the Chief Business Officer at Harvey, the $5 billion AI platform purpose-built for the legal industry. He joined in May 2025 after a decade at Stripe, where he scaled enterprise sales and led the Banking-as-a-Service division. A Stanford JD/MBA with roots in Big Law and a courtroom clerkship, Haddock now oversees a 50-person team of former Big Law lawyers helping the world's top firms embed AI into their daily workflows — from contract review to litigation briefs.
Ryan Alshak is the CEO and co-founder of Laurel, an AI-powered time platform that automates timekeeping for lawyers, accountants, and consultants. A former corporate litigator who billed $650 an hour while manually recording every six minutes of his day, Alshak founded the company in 2018 under the name 'Time by Ping' after experiencing firsthand the absurdity of high-value professionals tracking their own time by hand. Laurel raised a $100M Series C in June 2025 at a $510M valuation, backed by IVP, GV, DST Global, Alexis Ohanian, and Kevin Weil, bringing total funding to over $149M.
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.
Wayco is a New York-based AI operator built for the medlegal industry, automating the full lifecycle of personal injury and medical-legal cases from first intake call to settlement. Founded by 19-year-old Tajikistani prodigy Iqbol Temirkhojaev - who had his first VC-backed startup at 13, his first exit (to the United Nations) at 14, and a software patent at 15 - Wayco uses voice AI and intelligent case coordination to replace the days of phone calls and paperwork that currently define medical case management. Backed by Y Combinator (W26) with $500K in seed funding, the company is positioning itself not just as a software vendor but as an AI-native law firm that expands access to justice for Americans.