CLM Investment
ContractPodAi Bags $115m in SoftBank-Led CLM Funding
ContractPodAi (CPAi), the NLP-driven CLM company, has raised $115m in a funding round led by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank – its second legal tech investment this …
Month: September 2021
Zuva - In-depth Interview
Noah Waisberg on Zuva’s Strategy – In-Depth AL Interview
Following on from the news piece today, here is an in-depth interview with Noah Waisberg, Zuva’s CEO, and the former co-founder of Kira Systems. We …
Document AI
Zuva Bags $15.75m, Sets Out ‘DocAI’ Strategy
Zuva, the spin-out from Kira Systems, has completed a $15.75m (CAD $20m) Series A funding round, with Insight Partners leading, and with Litera’s owner Hg …
Legal AI + ALSP
Robin AI Joins Tech Nation’s ‘Applied AI’ Accelerator
NLP-driven contract review ALSP, Robin AI, has been chosen as one of 32 companies to join Tech Nation’s Applied AI accelerator programme. US law firm …
Investment
SoftBank Makes 1st Legal Tech Investment With MarqVision
Giant Japanese conglomerate, SoftBank, which has backed WeWork and Uber, has made its first legal tech investment in the shape of MarqVision, an IP protection …
Investment + CLM
‘CLM 2.0’ Funding Increases as Malbek Bags $15.3m
CLM startup, Malbek, has just bagged $15.3m in Series A funding, showing that interest in the new wave of ‘CLM 2.0’ companies is only growing …
Legal Tech M&A
Onit Buys BusyLamp – 5th Acquisition Since 2019
Onit, the enterprise workflow and CLM platform, has bought BusyLamp, the legal spend and matter management company, in what is its fourth M&A deal in …
Product Walk Through
Product Walk Through: Cortical.io – Semantic Folding Doc Analysis
Cortical, or Cortical.io as it likes to be known, started 10 years ago as an academic research project and has evolved into a contract analysis …
Legal AI Moves
Brian Kuhn Leaves Elevate for Baker McKenzie ‘Moon Shot’ AI Project
Brian Kuhn, previously with IBM, and most recently with law company, Elevate, where he was its VP for Digital Strategy & Solutions, has joined Baker …
Law + Code
Law Isn’t Code – And That’s A Good Thing
The law isn’t code, and that’s a good thing. Here is why. Theory and Reality From time to time you’ll hear the refrain that the …