Foundry is a venture capital firm focused on providing early-stage technology investments. The firm was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Foundry Group

Fenwick & West provides legal advisory services focusing on high technology and life sciences industries. The firm's practice areas include antitrust and unfair competition, appellate, complex business litigation, copyright, corporate and securities, employment and labor, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, and IP litigation. Additionally, it offers legal advisory services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, patent prosecution, privacy, and information security, securities litigation, start-ups, and venture capital, domestic and international tax, tax controversies, technology transactions, and trademarks. The firm's clientele includes Blue Sky Research, Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., ICTV, Inc., Siemens Technology, Inc., Sunrise Telecom, Inc., Ubicom, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Adforce, Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., and Exodus Communications, Inc.

Fenwick & West

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning them to help companies with their legal needs around the world. DLA Piper strives to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to their clients.  DLA Piper achieves this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help their clients succeed. DLA Piper delivers consistent services across their platform of practices and sectors in all matters they undertake.  DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. They also advise governments and public sector bodies.  In 2005 DLA Piper became one of the largest business law firms in the world through a merger of unprecedented scope. The strategy was simple – to create a truly global firm capable of handling the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business.  Building strong client relationships is the compass for their business strategy and future development.

DLA Piper

With 19 offices and more than 1,000 lawyers across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie has provided legal service to great companies ranging from startups to industry giants in a variety of fast‐moving industry sectors for more than 100 years.   **What We Do**  With one of the nation’s largest and most active technology‐oriented business practices, Perkins Coie’s [Emerging Companies and Venture Capital](www.perkinscoie.com/emerging_companies) practice offers one of the premier legal resources in the nation for venture capital funds and high‐growth, venture‐backed companies in a number of regions and industries, including among others technology, life sciences, healthcare, Internet, software, digital media, retail, telecommunications and cleantech. From incorporation to exit, we are committed to helping our clients build great companies.  Our clients act quickly to take advantage of rapidly changing markets, and they face significant financial, management and competitive opportunities and challenges as they grow. Having handled thousands of venture financings over the years and with significant experience dealing with a variety of private debt and equity financing transactions for both emerging company and venture capital fund clients, we provide practical, strategic advice to help our clients overcome difficult challenges throughout various stages of their growth.    Our work goes beyond just financings. We are well‐versed in all VC related matters, so our clients regularly look to us for strategic, mission‐critical guidance related to corporate governance for newly formed startups, IP protection and enforcement for cutting‐edge technologies, strategic partnering transactions, crisis management and government relations and policy, to name a few.   **For more information, contact**  **[Buddy Arnheim](www.perkinscoie.com/barnheim)** Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital BArnheim@perkinscoie.com  **[Melanie Rubocki](www.perkinscoie.com/mrubocki)** Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital MRubocki@perkinscoie.com  **[Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Team]**(http://www.perkinscoie.com/emerging_companies/?op=professionals)

Perkins Coie

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. They represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm's broad range of services and practice areas are focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders, and in-house counsel of their clients.  The firm is nationally recognized for providing high-quality services to address the legal solutions required by its enterprise and financial institution clients. Their services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law, among other areas. Their distinguished international roster of clients span a wide variety of industries, including information technology, life sciences, energy and clean technology, media and entertainment, communications, retail, and financial services.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Cooley is a legal services company that solves legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies. Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP matters, and bet-the-company litigation, often where innovation meets the law. Cooley was founded in 1920 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Cooley

PSL Ventures is a venture fund that focuses on technology-driven companies. The firm is closely affiliated with Pioneer Square Labs' startup studio, investing in both studio and non-studio companies.

PSL Ventures

UNDERDOG LABS IS A BOUTIQUE STARTUP STUDIO LOCATED IN THE SF BAY AREA AND NEW ENGLAND.

Underdog Labs

Investing in companies transforming the world of law

The LegalTech Fund

SingleFile Technologies

SingleFile helps companies and law firms fill out reports, manage filings, maintain internal records and remain in good standing.

SingleFile is a legal technology company that provides a digital platform to streamline corporate compliance filings and entity management for businesses, law firms, and investor organizations. Their cloud-based solution automates the process of filing various secretary of state documents, such as formations, annual reports, and certificates of good standing, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

SingleFile

Aiming to Be the Stripe of Corporate Compliance Filing, SingleFile Raises $6.5M, For Total Funding of $15.1M

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SingleFile, a legal tech startup that helps companies manage state filings, lands $3.2M

Singlefile Technologies Inc.

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

SingleFile is a legal technology company that provides a digital platform to streamline corporate compliance filings and entity management for businesses, law firms, and investor organizations. Their cloud-based solution automates the process of filing various secretary of state documents, such as formations, annual reports, and certificates of good standing, across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
SingleFile's platform leverages artificial intelligence technology to simplify filing workflows, minimizing confusion and maximizing efficiency. It incorporates current state rules and guidelines, ensuring compliance and reducing the chances of errors. The platform intelligently utilizes existing data to avoid repetitive data entry, further enhancing the user experience.
SingleFile's business model revolves around offering a comprehensive suite of services, including entity formation, filing services, registered agent services, and monitoring of beneficial ownership changes. Their platform acts as a centralized system of record, enabling companies and law firms to manage and monitor all compliance-related information and activities in one place.
In March 2024, SingleFile completed an extension of its seed round, raising USD 6.5 million and bringing their total funding to USD 15.1 million. The company has experienced steady growth over the past couple of years, with the introduction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in 2024 driving a surge in their business pipeline due to the new beneficial ownership filing requirements it imposes.
SingleFile acquired a company in August 2022, further expanding their offerings and capabilities. As of March 2024, the company employed around 30 people and aimed to utilize the new funding for product development, user interface improvements, and hiring additional sales, marketing, and support personnel.

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.

Evisort

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.

Icertis

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

SingleFile

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