Alabama Futures Fund seeks to be the first significant investment in an early-stage venture that can reach attainable milestones leading to series A financing within 12-24 months. It invests companies with adaptable and coachable founding teams that have identified a significant customer problem and are working towards product market fit. This includes companies at the minimum viable product, pre-revenue and early revenue stages. Because of the risks involved in investing this early, its preference is to stage capital relative to milestones achieved. Therefore, it reserves significant capital for follow-on investments in its most promising companies.

Alabama Futures Fund

Starting a company is an act of courage. Defiance against the status quo. A statement. But scaling a company is an act of determination. It requires boundless energy, tenacity, creativity, resiliency, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. At BIP Capital, we get that. We’re the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneurs. Visionaries. Doers. Partners in the journey. Late nights. Writing on walls. Side-by-side, long after the honeymoon is over. And long after everyone else has gone home. They get that it’s hard, and disruption gets messy. Winning demands grit and an indomitable warrior spirit – in ourselves, our leaders, and in the entire tribe. And those are the types of partners we are looking for. We’re looking for daring entrepreneurs and partners who want to go to battle…and win.

BIP Capital

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars' accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Redhawk VC is an early stage venture capital firm that manages funds focused on supporting and growing startups and entrepreneurial activity. At Redhawk, we value entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs. We focus on finding and developing outstanding founding teams that are adaptable, coachable and able to overcome the obstacles that all founders face. We are always on the lookout for opportunities in under-served and under-represented capital markets.

Redhawk VC

VentureSouth is an early-stage venture firm that develops and manages angel investment groups and funds throughout the Southeast.  Since our inception with the Upstate Carolina Angel Network in 2008, VentureSouth has grown to include more than 550 investors across a dozen angel groups and funds, making us one of the largest angel investment organizations in the United States. To date, VentureSouth has deployed over $80 million in more than 100 companies.  Follow us to learn how we Make Money. Have Fun. Do Good.

VentureSouth

Meeting Street Capital invests in early-stage B2B SaaS and other tech-enabled companies founded by domain experts and vertical markets.

Meeting Street Capital

Creative Co Capital is a growth equity studio.

Creative Co Capital

BIP Ventures, the North American-focused venture capital division of BIP Capital, is one of the Southeast's largest and most active VC firms. BIP Ventures partners with extraordinary founders to drive exceptional outcomes. Since 2007, BIP Ventures has invested in the success of B2B software and tech-enabled service businesses at all stages of maturity. In addition to capital, it supports entrepreneurs with access to infrastructure, acumen, and talent, resulting in category-leading companies.

BIP Ventures

Alerion Ventures is an evergreen venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in scalable startups.

Alerion Ventures

Grayhawk Capital provides venture capital to outstanding early and growth stage companies located in the Southwest.  The partners of Grayhawk Capital have experience managing 8 separate venture funds, totaling more than $500 million with a collective 60+ years of experience. Grayhawk is currently investing an $80 million fund.  Our investment philosophy has remained consistent through the years and we target companies with the following type of characteristics:  - Serial entrepreneurs and exceptional management teams  - Dynamic, rapidly growing technology markets  - Innovative and disruptive product offerings  The current sectors for investment include mobile computing, cloud/SaaS, security, enterprise & application software, business intelligence, healthcare IT, and financial.

Grayhawk Capital

Since 1999, the team at Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners has been investing in growth stage businesses. Stonehenge aims to catalyze rapid growth of companies in up-and-coming markets by backing passionate entrepreneurs solving business problems.   Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners spun out of Stonehenge Capital Company in 2013. Prior to founding Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners (SGEP), the investment team managed the growth equity investment activities of Stonehenge Capital Company (SCC). Executive management and key professionals from Bank One Capital Markets formed SCC in 1999 as a spinoff from Bank One. SGEP maintains a proprietary deal flow network based on deep relationships in Florida and the Southeast, and continues to receive deal flow support from SCC’s eight regional offices. SGEP also benefits from SCC’s institutional financial and regulatory infrastructure.  The geographic markets that Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners serves enjoy very compelling growth dynamics and a friendly business climate. Yet, competition among growth capital providers is limited both at the stage of company and the dollar amount we are willing to invest.  With a nationwide network of relationships, Stonehenge plays an active role in leading growth stage investments, introducing other financial partners and identifying and recruiting talent. Our rich investment history enables us to collaborate with entrepreneurs to achieve success.

Topmark Partners

Front Porch provides accredited investors and family offices properly diversified exposure to the Southeast’s top venture capital firms and startups.

Front Porch Venture Partners

Case Status

Case Status operates as a cloud-based, client engagement tool for the legal services industry. It develops an application that provides solutions, including tracking and measuring client happiness, sends updates to clients, and communicates with clients.  Andrew Seavers and Lauren Sturdivant founded Case Status in 2017. It has its headquarters in Birmingham, AL.

Case Status is a legal technology company that provides a comprehensive Client Experience platform designed to streamline communication and enhance engagement between law firms and their clients. At the core of their solution is the Case Status mobile app, a highly rated and user-friendly tool that empowers clients with real-time access to case updates, important milestones, and relevant documents.

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Case Status is a legal technology company that provides a comprehensive Client Experience platform designed to streamline communication and enhance engagement between law firms and their clients. At the core of their solution is the Case Status mobile app, a highly rated and user-friendly tool that empowers clients with real-time access to case updates, important milestones, and relevant documents.
The platform leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, including the proprietary Casey AI engine, to power a suite of innovative capabilities. Casey Response assists firm staff by suggesting pre-drafted replies based on machine learning models, while Casey Translate enables seamless communication in 138 languages through Google's Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) integration.
Case Status' unique selling proposition lies in its seamless integration with existing case management software, automating communication processes and optimizing client interactions. By leveraging automation and data-driven insights, the platform streamlines operations, freeing up valuable time for legal professionals to focus on strategic tasks.
Furthermore, Case Status equips firms with robust client sentiment tracking, enabling proactive addressing of concerns and amplification of positive experiences – a formula that nurtures relationships and cultivates a steady stream of referrals and positive reviews.
In April 2024, Case Status announced the acquisition of a legal technology startup, further solidifying its position as a trailblazer in the industry.

Anecdotes is a compliance technology company that offers Compliance OS, the first operating system designed to meet the needs of modern compliance and governance. Compliance OS serves as a central workspace where teams can collaborate seamlessly on compliance activities. It employs a multi-layered architecture that collects data from various sources, processes it, and integrates it into different applications within the platform.
Compliance OS automates manual compliance tasks, enabling continuous compliance monitoring. It provides a unified view of an organization's compliance posture, allowing teams to manage all aspects of their program from a single platform. The platform offers customizable frameworks, requirements, and controls, ensuring precise alignment with an organization's specific needs. As of January 2024, Anecdotes claimed to have over 120 integrations with identity providers, security tools, collaboration software, ticketing systems, and cloud infrastructure platforms.
Compliance OS transforms compliance from a burden into a driver for growth by providing business-impacting insights to leadership. It caters to the needs of fast-growing companies, publicly traded organizations, and enterprises of all sizes. As of January 2024, Anecdotes' customer base included notable names like Lifelabs, Snowflake, Coinbase, Aristocrat, SoFi, Grafana, and Payscale.
In June 2023, Anecdotes released the industry's first toolkit for secure implementation and consumption of generative AI, comprising risk registers, policy templates, and a dedicated AI framework. The toolkit aimed to assist organizations in integrating generative AI while maintaining compliance and mitigating associated risks.

Anecdotes

Exterro is a legal governance, risk, and compliance (Legal GRC) software company that provides an integrated platform to automate the interconnected processes of privacy, legal operations, digital investigations, cybersecurity response, compliance, and information governance. The company's flagship product is a comprehensive Legal GRC platform that empowers legal teams to proactively and defensibly manage their Legal GRC requirements.
Exterro's software leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to generate summaries, translations, and labels, guiding reviewers to insights faster. It offers industry-leading e-discovery, privacy, and data governance solutions with unmatched ingestion and processing speeds. The company's forensic toolkit, FTK, pioneered the field of digital forensics software and is widely trusted for its ability to acquire and analyze data admissible in court proceedings.
Exterro's solutions are designed to be easy to use, requiring no expensive certifications or training courses. The company's customizable workflows ensure that each project matches clients' unique needs and preferences. Exterro's project management software provides real-time dashboards, improving collaboration and eliminating fire drills with external partners by coordinating activities and connecting stakeholders through auditable workflows.

Exterro

Transcend is a data privacy and governance platform that helps companies manage personal data, automate privacy tasks, and oversee AI systems across their tech stacks. The company offers a suite of products designed to streamline privacy operations by encoding controls directly into business systems.
Transcend's platform covers the full privacy lifecycle, including continuous data discovery, mapping, classification, consent management, and automated workflows for privacy requests. It enables companies to understand where personal data resides, implement privacy controls, respond to data subject access requests (DSARs), and ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA.
A key differentiator of Transcend's approach is encoding privacy directly into data systems rather than relying on manual processes. This allows for end-to-end automation, reducing the need for repetitive tasks and minimizing compliance gaps.
Transcend's technology comprises over a dozen integrated products, including Data Inventory, Data Lineage, Silo Discovery, Structured and Unstructured Data Discovery, DSR Automation, Consent Management, Preference Store, Privacy Center, Contract Scanning, Assessments, Pathfinder for AI governance, and Prompt Manager.
As of May 2024, Transcend has raised USD 90 million in funding from investors like Accel, Index Ventures, StepStone Group, and others. The company partners with Fortune 500 companies, Global 2000 firms, and fast-growing startups, delivering actionable data rights to over 1.2 billion people globally. Some of its customers include LG Electronics, Plaid, Brex, Hims & Hers, and Rippling.

Transcend

Evisort is an artificial intelligence (AI) powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that enables organizations to streamline and automate various stages of the contract management process. At its core, Evisort leverages proprietary AI trained on millions of contracts to extract and analyze critical data points and clauses from agreements. This provides users with valuable insights, identifies risks and opportunities, and facilitates data-driven decision-making.
Evisort's flagship offering, Document X-Ray, is a generative AI solution that allows organizations to customize their AI models based on natural language queries. By simply posing questions like "Are any rebates or discounts available?", users can train the AI to automatically populate relevant data fields across their contract portfolio. Document X-Ray goes beyond traditional clause extraction by generating summaries, calculating dates and amounts, assigning risk scores, and more.
Complementing its AI capabilities, Evisort provides a comprehensive suite of features spanning the entire contract lifecycle. This includes intelligent contract drafting with clause libraries and in-app editing, automated workflows for approvals and negotiations, e-signature integration, and robust reporting dashboards. Evisort seamlessly connects with enterprise systems like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP Ariba, enabling organizations to share contract data across departments and drive strategic business decisions.
In December 2023, Evisort achieved a significant milestone by creating the first large language model (LLM) specifically designed for legal agreements, further elevating its AI prowess in the contract intelligence space. The company has garnered recognition from industry leaders, with Microsoft lauding its ability to train custom algorithms, and Workday highlighting its effectiveness in rapidly extracting and sharing contract data.
Key customers and partnerships
Evisort boasts an impressive client roster that includes prominent global corporations such as Microsoft, BNY Mellon, NetApp, Western Union, and Workday. These industry leaders have leveraged Evisort's AI-powered platform to streamline their contract management processes, gain visibility into contractual obligations, and drive strategic business decisions.
In May 2023, Evisort announced a strategic integration with ServiceNow's Legal Service Delivery application. This collaboration combines Evisort's innovative contract data extraction capabilities with ServiceNow's advanced workflow capabilities, enabling enterprises to automate manual processes, deliver valuable contract data across departments, and drive enterprise-wide business workflows powered by AI-driven connected contract data.

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Icertis is a leading provider of AI-powered contract intelligence solutions. The company's flagship offering, Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform, turns contracts from static documents into strategic assets by structuring and connecting critical contract data. This enables organizations to automate processes, maximize contract value, ensure compliance, and manage risk through insights derived from their commercial agreements.
Icertis serves a diverse range of industries, and its solutions are used by major enterprises such as Google, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, and 30% of the Fortune 100 companies. The ICI platform processes over 10 million contracts worth more than USD 1 trillion across 90+ countries and 40+ languages.
Key product capabilities of the ICI platform include advanced AI for contract data analysis, industry-specific vertical solutions, integrations with enterprise systems like SAP and Microsoft, and robust enterprise-grade features for handling complex contracting needs at scale. In March 2023, Icertis earned top ratings from analyst firms like MGI Research and IDC MarketScape for its innovative product strengths and industry leadership.
In October 2022, Icertis launched a Contract Intelligence solution tailored for the Banking and Financial Services industry to address challenges like regulatory compliance, risk management, and contract authoring complexities. The company has also expanded its vertical solutions to sectors such as healthcare, Medical Technology, Consulting & IT Services, Technology, and Wholesale & Distribution.

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Platforms that connect lawyers to clients (includes online listing, reputation, comparison, and booking systems) and those that support networking among lawyers.

Includes tools for intelligently extracting information from documents and flagging anomalies, the automated creation and simplification of legal documents, filing and serving documents online, and exchanging documents for discovery. Also includes providers of white-labeled digital legal documents and notarization tools that allow the notarization of documents online, assuring their security, authenticity, and integrity.

Tools to manage and digitize the legal practice of individual lawyers and law firms. Features include intake management, legal case/project management, team and client management, team collaboration, client communication and engagement, document storage systems, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing.

Includes platforms that provide legal content from various publishers; tools that support legal teams with conventional and contextual search of relevant case law and authoritative sources; and tools that search, analyze, and organize copious numbers of documents and large datasets. AI-based legal research systems replicate the work of a human legal research assistant and are referred to as AI lawyers/attorneys, digital lawyers/attorneys, or virtual lawyers/attorneys. Analytics tools include those that support lawyers with tracking trial cases, receiving email alerts for cases, and predicting trial timelines, along with those that mine big data to determine lawyers' success rates, when to settle, and when to press the advantage. It also includes tools for corporations that predict the outcomes of litigation.

Includes tools to manage large volumes of data; identify key issues for litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects; and select relevant web content for use as evidence.

Software solutions that support regulatory compliance. Includes platforms that promote compliance among employees by providing simplified summaries of applicable legislation on-demand, and those that support compliance teams with tracking changes in legislation, sharing and tracking documents within the organization, and collecting evidence. IP/trademark management platforms include those that protect brands from online counterfeiting, digital piracy, and distribution fraud by scouring online marketplaces and social networks, along with those that offer simplified licensing solutions using digital rights technology.

Includes platforms that offer contract lifecycle management from their creation, negotiation, compliance, review, and approval, to execution, tracking, and monitoring. They can automate the processing of routine contracts with a high degree of accuracy and may include technology to organize, understand, and extract data from contracts. Also comprises tools for identity verification, electronic signatures, electronic registered delivery, and electronic time stamp.

Includes commoditized law solutions and do-it-yourself legal services for consumers (individuals, families, and business owners), as alternatives to engaging a lawyer or law firm. Examples include platforms that aid with immigration and asylum applications, consumer claims, class actions, closing funding rounds, and drafting simple contracts, wills, and divorce documents. Litigation finance platforms facilitate third-party funding for litigation. Such pre-settlement funding allows victims to pay their legal fees while awaiting a resolution.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for legal tech

AI reviews documents and contracts and derives insights from multimedia data sources

LegalTech companies use GenAI to enhance efficiency in areas such as document review, document generation, legal research, litigation strategy, and client communication

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