Hukumonline is Indonesia's most established legal technology and regulatory-technology company. Founded in 2000 by a group of leading legal practitioners at the start of the country's reform era, it began as an online portal for legal news and grew into the archipelago's largest integrated database of laws, regulations and court decisions. Today it pairs that database with subscription products, expert-verified regulatory content, bilingual translations, a flagship AI-based Regulatory Compliance System, and Ask Hukumonline - billed as Indonesia's first generative-AI tool for legal research - serving corporations, law firms, government bodies and legal professionals.
Cody Barbo is the founder and CEO of Trust & Will, the leading digital estate planning and settlement platform in the United States. A two-time founder from San Diego, he launched Trust & Will in 2017 to make wills, trusts, and estate planning affordable and accessible for everyday families. Under his leadership the company has grown past one million users, raised more than $80 million in venture capital, and partners with names like AARP, Northwestern Mutual, UBS, and USAA. Before Trust & Will he founded Industry, a professional network for the hospitality sector, and served as CEO and president of Associated Students at San Diego State University.
DraftWise is a New York-based legal AI company that helps lawyers draft, review, and negotiate contracts faster by turning a firm's own precedent, playbooks, and deal history into searchable, actionable intelligence. Working inside Microsoft Word, its platform generates lawyer-quality drafts and redlines grounded in institutional knowledge rather than generic AI output. Founded in 2020 by former Palantir engineers and a practicing corporate lawyer, DraftWise serves top law firms and legal departments across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
Dev Shrotri is the founder and CEO of CloudLex, a New York based cloud platform built exclusively for plaintiff personal injury law firms. An engineer by training with an MBA from Columbia Business School, he spent years running legal support services before building CloudLex in 2015 to replace the antiquated legacy systems and one-size-fits-all tools that trial lawyers had been stuck with. The company has grown to roughly 110 employees, raised about $7.7 million, and in 2025 launched Lexee, an AI assistant designed specifically for personal injury practice.
Lawtrades is a New York-based legal talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted freelance attorneys, paralegals, and legal operations professionals, on demand. Founded in 2016 by Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, the platform lets in-house legal teams scale capacity up or down without full-time hires, offering hourly, project-based, and contract-to-hire engagements alongside newer AI tools for contract review and legal data work. Customers include DoorDash, Pinterest, Yelp, Gusto, and Headspace.
Legora is a Stockholm-founded collaborative AI platform built for legal work. It helps lawyers research, review, and draft across complex matters, running inside familiar tools like Microsoft Word and Outlook. Formerly known as Leya, the company (founded 2023) serves tens of thousands of legal professionals at 1,000+ law firms and in-house teams across more than 50 markets, and crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue before raising a $600M Series D at a $5.6B valuation in 2026.
Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) is a London- and New York-based legal AI company building software that automates the paperwork-heavy work of real estate law. Its flagship product, Orbital Copilot, is a domain-specific AI agent that reads title reports, leases, surveys and contracts the way a real estate lawyer would - extracting key terms, flagging risk and drafting reports in a fraction of the usual time. Founded in 2018 by Will Pearce and Edmond Boulle, Orbital supports around 200,000 property transactions a year for more than 5,000 professionals at firms including Clifford Chance, Slaughter & May, Mishcon de Reya and BCLP, and raised a $60M Series B in January 2026 to expand in the United States.
Patlytics is a New York-based, AI-native software platform built specifically for patent and intellectual property work. It gives corporate IP teams and law firms one system to run the full patent lifecycle - invention harvesting, application drafting, infringement detection, invalidity analysis, claim charts, prosecution, due diligence and portfolio management - replacing the disconnected legacy tools attorneys traditionally stitch together. Founded in 2024 by CEO Paul Lee and CTO Arthur Jen, the company reached roughly $58.5M-$65M in total funding in under two and a half years and counts more than 40% of the Am Law 100 among its users.
Evan Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, a legal AI company he started in Sydney in 2016 and now runs from New York. Checkbox builds an AI 'legal front door' that lets in-house legal teams intake, triage and automate routine work through a no-code, drag-and-drop platform. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 17, Wong studied Commerce and Law at UNSW, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019, and in early 2026 raised a US$23M Series A that valued Checkbox at roughly US$100M. His customers include large enterprises such as PepsiCo, SAP, Telstra and Woolworths.
François-Xavier (FX) Leduc is a French serial entrepreneur and CEO who builds AI companies that turn technical breakthroughs into products for large enterprises. He is currently co-founder and CEO of DeepIP, a New York-based AI patent assistant used by law firms and in-house IP teams, which he started in 2024 with longtime partner Edouard d'Archimbaud. The two previously built Kili Technology, a data-labeling platform for enterprise AI that raised over $30M and served customers like Airbus, SAP and Louis Vuitton. Across ventures, Leduc pairs a commercial, go-to-market instinct with a conviction that AI should augment expert professionals rather than replace them.
Jim Delkousis is the founder and CEO of PERSUIT, a New York-based legal technology company that helps corporate legal teams run competitive, transparent processes for hiring outside counsel. A former DLA Piper litigation partner with 25 years in BigLaw, he left the partnership in 2016 to build a platform that shifts legal buying from billable hours toward outcomes and value. PERSUIT now works with Fortune 1000 legal departments and thousands of law firms, and in 2025 expanded into legal spend and matter management by acquiring Apperio.
Joshua Schwadron is the founder and CEO of Mighty, a New York legal-technology company reworking how injured people navigate the personal injury system. A lawyer turned repeat entrepreneur, he built and sold the consumer marketplace Betterfly, co-founded a litigation-finance firm, then launched Mighty in 2015. He is known for publicly picking a fight with what he calls 'billboard lawyers,' and in 2026 Mighty launched a free, AI-driven platform that values and negotiates car-accident claims directly for consumers.
Katherine Allen is the co-founder and CEO of Flo Recruit (branded as Flo), an Austin-based vertical SaaS company that builds recruiting and hiring software for the legal industry. She started the company as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, went through Y Combinator in 2019, and left school to build Flo full time with co-founder Atreya Misra. Today Flo partners with more than 125 law firms, including close to 70% of the AmLaw 100, and over 100 law schools serving 25,000-plus students, and has raised roughly $5.5 million-plus across seed and a 2025 Series A round.
LegalOn Technologies is a legal AI company that builds contract-review and legal-workflow software for in-house legal teams. Founded in Tokyo in 2017 by former corporate lawyers Nozomu Tsunoda and Masataka Ogasawara, it pairs large language models with attorney-authored playbooks so its flagship product, Review, flags risks and suggests edits inside Microsoft Word. Used by more than 7,000 organizations across Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. - including roughly a quarter of Japan's public companies - LegalOn raised a $50M Series E led by Goldman Sachs in July 2025 and struck a technology partnership with OpenAI to build legal AI agents.
Making Sense is a Palo Alto-headquartered software and technology consultancy founded in 2006 by brothers Cesar and Damian D'Onofrio. Using a nearshore delivery model spanning the United States, Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia, the firm builds custom software, UX-driven products, cloud architectures, and AI systems primarily for mid-market and private equity-backed companies. With roughly 300-350 employees and clients that have included Dell, AMD, Rackspace, Bloomberg, and Royal Canin, Making Sense positions itself as a long-term technology partner that turns innovation into measurable business outcomes rather than a pure staffing shop.
Ivo is a San Francisco AI company that helps in-house legal teams review, redline, negotiate and search contracts. Its tools live inside Microsoft Word and a searchable contract repository, flagging risks and suggesting edits against a team's own playbook. Founded in 2022 by former lawyer Min-Kyu Jung and ex-Xero engineer Jacob Duligall, Ivo counts Uber, Shopify, Canva, Atlassian, Reddit, Pinterest and IBM among its customers, and raised a $55M Series B in January 2026.
Paul Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Patlytics, an AI-native platform for patent workflows used by law firms and corporate IP teams. He previously spent a decade in venture capital as a partner at Tribe Capital and Global Founders Capital, and started his career under Peter Thiel at Mithril Capital. In April 2026, Patlytics closed a $40M Series B, and Lee was named to the IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders list.
Philipp Thurner is the Austrian-born founder and CEO of Nexl, an AI-powered growth and CRM platform for law firms. He built the company in Sydney in 2018 after seeing spreadsheets of global lawyers being updated by hand at Gilbert + Tobin, pivoted through a 'LinkedIn for lawyers' phase, and now runs the business from Brooklyn as it serves more than 150 firms worldwide, including AmLaw 100 members. In October 2025 Nexl closed a $23M Series B (reported as A$35M) led by Tidemark, bringing total funding to roughly $45M.
Will Pearce is the co-founder and CEO of Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness), a real estate legal AI platform that powers roughly 200,000 property transactions a year for the world's leading law firms and property companies. He and co-founder Ed Boulle started out in the space industry with a plan to monitor real estate from orbit, were told the idea was bad, and pivoted into automating the slow, manual legal work that underpins property deals. In January 2026 the company raised a $60m Series B led by Brighton Park Capital, and Pearce relocated to New York to lead its US expansion.
IP Author is an AI-powered patent drafting and prosecution platform for corporate patent teams and IP law firms. Founded in 2023 and based in Fremont, California, it unifies invention disclosure, patent drafting, prior art search, and office action responses into a single generative-AI workspace. The company says its tools cut drafting time by 40-60%, generating full applications - claims, specifications, abstracts, and diagrams - in hours instead of days. Customers include Qualcomm, ResMed, Chevron, and Elmos Semiconductor.
Legal Karma is an Austin-based B2B legaltech company that gives banks and credit unions a white-label engine for offering wills, trusts, and powers of attorney directly to their account holders. It handles the document automation, 50-state attorney-reviewed legal infrastructure, compliance, member support, and marketing so a financial institution can stand up a profitable estate planning department in about four weeks - while keeping 100% of the revenue and ownership of the customer relationship.
Parambil is a New York-based AI company building litigation-grade software that turns tangled, high-volume medical records into structured, source-linked case intelligence for complex litigation. Its agentic platform investigates, drafts, researches, and organizes cases for mass tort, medical malpractice, birth injury, and nursing home matters - reading tens of thousands of pages, building timelines, flagging missed diagnoses, and tying every conclusion back to the underlying record. Founded by a McKinsey-trained operator, a founding engineer, and a former Chair of Medicine at Yale and Stanford, Parambil raised a $6M seed round in January 2026 led by Bling Capital and serves hundreds of plaintiff and defense firms.
Sandstone is an AI-native operating system for in-house legal teams. It unifies a company's legal data, workflows, and business context into a single system that lives inside the tools teams already use - Slack, email, Salesforce, Jira - and deploys AI agents to handle intake, triage, drafting, and redlining. Founded in 2025 by ex-McKinsey and practicing-lawyer trio Nick Fleisher, Jarryd Strydom, and Liam Germain, the New York company launched publicly in January 2026 with a $10M Sequoia-led seed and followed with a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed five months later.
TermScout is a legaltech company that turns contracts into data. It analyzes and benchmarks B2B agreements against thousands of real-world contracts, then issues an independent TrustMark certification - a public badge signaling that a contract's terms are fair, balanced, and ready to sign. The goal is simple: replace slow, adversarial negotiation with trusted, data-backed agreements that close faster. Its Certify engine scores contracts on nearly 1,000 points, and its newer TrustMark AI program certifies the AI-specific terms buried in modern software contracts.
Alejandro Castellano is the co-founder and CEO of Caddi, a Seattle AI startup that turns a screen recording of someone doing their job into working, API-driven automation - a method the company calls 'record-to-code' or 'automation by demonstration.' Born in Lima, Peru, where he wanted to be an inventor, he started his first company at 19, learned to scale businesses inside a family office he calls his 'on-the-streets MBA,' then earned a master's at Cornell Tech focused on computer vision and machine learning. Caddi emerged from the AI2 Incubator and raised a $5M seed round in 2025 to free lawyers, accountants and financial advisors from repetitive back-office work.
Nick Fleisher is the co-founder and CEO of Sandstone, the first platform built for AI-native in-house legal departments. An engineer who once tried to drop out of college to build apps, he later led McKinsey's legal tech and AI practice in New York before reuniting with his freshman-year roommate and a lawyer-turned-engineer to launch Sandstone in 2025. The company raised a $10M seed round led by Sequoia Capital and runs out of Brooklyn, where Fleisher is betting that institutional legal knowledge can become a company's competitive advantage instead of a bottleneck.
Ofer Bleiweiss is the founder and CEO of Everchron, a cloud-based litigation management platform built for lawyers by lawyers. A former litigator at Irell & Manella who studied math and psychology at Berkeley before law school at USC, he built the software he wished he'd had during high-stakes cases: a single place where case teams chronology evidence, auto-generate witness files, sync deposition transcripts, and now interrogate entire matters with AI. From Los Angeles, his roughly 20-person, distributed team serves AmLaw 100 firms, litigation boutiques, and corporate counsel.
Olga V. Mack is the CEO of TermScout, an AI-powered contract certification platform that grades contracts as fair, balanced, and market-ready before negotiation even begins. A serial legal-tech CEO and former general counsel, she earlier ran Parley Pro through its 2022 acquisition by LexisNexis and stayed on to lead CounselLink. She is a six-time TEDx speaker, a Stanford CodeX fellow, the Generative AI Editor of the MIT Computational Law Report, an adjunct professor at UC Law SF, and the author of multiple books on boards, blockchain, and legal operations. Born in Ukraine and educated at UC Berkeley, she has spent her career trying to make law less of a bottleneck and more of a service.
Sara Dwyer (who also goes by Sara Cordrey) is the co-founder and CEO of Parambil, a New York startup building agentic AI for complex litigation. Parambil reads tens of thousands of pages of medical records, pharmacy data and legal files to tell a law firm what happened medically, why it matters legally, and what a case is worth. A University of Pennsylvania computer scientist who spent nearly four years as a McKinsey engagement manager at the intersection of AI and life sciences, she launched the company in 2023 and raised a $2M pre-seed (Daybreak Ventures, Jan 2025) followed by a $6M seed led by Bling Capital (Jan 2026).
Alex Sappington is the Co-CEO of Page Vault, the legal web-capture company whose software turns a tweet, a TikTok, or a vanishing webpage into court-admissible evidence. He bought the business in 2022 alongside his Stanford classmate Luke Suydam through a search fund, taking the wheel from founder Jeffrey Eschbach. Under their shared leadership Page Vault has landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies three years running. A Princeton economist turned BCG consultant turned operator, Sappington talks evidence law at the dinner table too - his spouse is a federal prosecutor.