Alice Raises €1m Pre-Seed For Litigation Platform

Belgian startup Alice has raised €1m in pre-Seed funding for their new AI-driven litigation platform, which provides a range of skills, from drafting, to legal data analysis, and more.

For example, Alice, which only launched last summer, offers ‘Draft’, which creates litigation documents using modular blocks covering facts, arguments, positions, and citations, and where each draft can be refined with its Word add-in.

There is also ‘Argue’, which transforms case facts and research into structured arguments and rebuttals, ‘ensuring consistency and reducing omissions’, they said.

And there is also ‘Analyze’, which automatically detect facts, issues, and connections across documents, and where you can query your file directly with Ask Alice in natural language. They also underlined that Alice helps to ensure hallucinations don’t get through into your final work product.

In short, it’s bringing together what LLMs can do to the field of litigation – and thus joins multiple other legal tech companies already working in this area. Alice is however from Ghent, and also – according to a review on their website – very affordable. They’ve picked up a lot of local clients very quickly already, and as you can see, operates in English as well.

They also stressed that ‘rather than a collection of standalone AI features, Alice is designed as one continuous workflow, where the output of each step directly feeds the next’, which is a nice approach.

This, they added, ‘mirrors how legal casework universally unfolds. From analysis of the case documents to research of the legal principles, from research to argumentation, and from argumentation to letters and court-ready documents, covering the full end-to-end case chain in a single intuitive flow’.

Jeroen Villé, co-founder and CEO of Alice, commented: ‘We are convinced that AI will only have a lasting place in legal practice if lawyers can fully trust it and when it covers all aspects of a case. Alice is built to help legal teams work faster and more consistently, without the risks of hallucinations and without losing control over their cases.’

The round was led by NewSchool and Seeder Fund, with participation from a group of experienced Belgian angel investors.

Isabelle Tennstedt, Partner at Seeder Fund, concluded: ‘Alice solves one of the biggest blockers in legal AI: trust. Built by lawyers and already adopted by law firms, the platform aligns AI innovation with the realities of legal practice.’

More about Alice here.

(Main pic: the founding team of Alice.)