AI法務プラットフォームが55億ドルの評価額に到達

2 Min ReadLegora, a rapidly expanding AI platform for legal work, completed a Series D funding round of $55 million.The investment marks the third fundraise in a year for the Stockholm-based company and comes amid a shakeup in the market for legal information and services as leading AI vendors target the legal profession.Legora styles itself as a collaborative AI platform for lawyers and is built on a number of large language models, chiefly Anthropic's Claude, to deliver a wide array of AI legal capabilities.Among the features it offers are structured review processes for thousands of documents; generating edits in bulk; deep integrations with tools such as Outlook, Word, iManage, NetDocs and SharePoint; and agentic workflows to orchestrate multi-step tasks and citation-backed legal research.And because it is focused on legal work, enterprise-grade security is built in to enable collaboration within organizations and externally.Related:Siemens Trials Nvidia-Powered HumanoidThe vendor said collaboration is key to its operations, as it prioritizes working closely with clients from the early stages of exploring the potential of AI through all elements of the integration process, including rollout and further optimization. That approach has won business from some of the world’s leading legal firms, including White & Case, Linklaters and Dentons, with Legora now supporting tens of thousands of lawyers across 800 customers in more than 50 markets, according to the vendorThe past year has seen the number of staff increase from 40 to 400 in six locations -- Stockholm, London, New York, Denver, Sydney, and Bengaluru. But now the focus is on expanding in the U.S, with new offices planned for Houston and Chicago, plus an American workforce of 300 by the end of the year.“The pace of adoption in the U.S. has exceeded our expectations, as leading firms and in-house teams move decisively from experimentation to embedding AI across their organizations," CEO Max Junestrand said in a release. “This funding enables us to accelerate our U.S. growth -- investing in talent and infrastructure, strengthening our presence in key markets, and ensuring we can support customers on the ground as they integrate AI into their core workflows.”“Work is quickly shifting to end-to-end workflows run by agents, and more of that work is happening on Legora,” Arum Mathew, a partner in global venture capital firm Acell, leader of the funding round, said in the release.The vendor doesn’t have the field to itself, though, with U.S. rival Harvey -- which started out providing chatbots to legal companies -- at $8 billion following its most recent wave of investment in December.Related:AI Chipmaker Cerebras Files for IPOThe latest Legora funding included participation from existing investors Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, Redpoint Ventures, and Y Combinator. Other new investors joined the round as well.About the AuthorContributing WriterGraham Hope has worked in automotive journalism in the U.K. for 26 years, including spells as editor of leading consumer news website and weekly Auto Express and respected buying guide CarBuyer.