69 Best Legal Research Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Legal Research Startups

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There are 835 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $74.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $1.1b.

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Funding Rounds

$66.5b

Money raised

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

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$166.5m

Money raised

Celestia is a stripped-down layer-1 blockchain that focuses solely on ordering transactions and making the data for transactions available. The blockchain does not handle smart contracts or perform computations.

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$140.4m

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Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

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$17.5m

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Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

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$60.0m

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9

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$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

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$269.5m

Money raised

Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.

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$45.8m

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Boundless is a Seattle-based company offering immigrants tools, information, and personalized support to facilitate their immigration journey.

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Hypergiant Industries is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company offering client-focused services and research and development in various fields. The company was founded by Ben Lamm and John Fremont in 2018.

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$3.9m

Money raised

Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

3

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$5.9m

Money raised

Lucigen is a biotechnology company offering research and testing products and services to life science professionals. The company was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

5

Funding Rounds

$2.1b

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.

4

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$92.0m

Money raised

Forethought is a San Francisco-based company providing customer service automation using generative AI technology.

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4

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$51.0m

Money raised

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.

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$71.3m

Money raised

Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.

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$14.5m

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CasperLabs is a Zug-based company and blockchain platform founded in 2018 by Mrinal Manohar, Clifford Sarkin and Medha Parlikar.

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5

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$43.9m

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Via Separations is a Watertown, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2016 by Shreya Dave.

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1

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$100.0k

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Lazarus 3D provides medical training and surgery rehearsal services through their soft-tissue 3D printed models built using MRI or CT images of patient anatomy.

4

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$269.4m

Money raised

Stoke Space is a company manufacturing space vehicle components and performing scientific and technological services associated with the space industry.

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$99.0m

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NOCD provides online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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$49.6m

Money raised

Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.

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$28.9m

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Antidote.me closes the gap between clinical trials and patients

4

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$76.3m

Money raised

AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.

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2

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$15.6m

Money raised

Iris.ai is a Stabekk-headquartered artificial intelligence company developing tools and applications allowing users to research open-access research papers.

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$15.8m

Money raised

Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.

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$411.9m

Money raised

Benchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.

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7

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$64.3m

Money raised

Casetext is an AI legal research technology company. It was acquired by Thomson Reuters Corporation in June 2023.

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$107.0m

Money raised

Drift is a software company offering a conversational marketing platform founded in 2015 by David Cancel.

6

Funding Rounds

$86.6m

Money raised

Prokarium is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing vaccination and cancer immunotherapy solutions based on synthetic biology.

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Funding Rounds

$21.9m

Money raised

Signaturit specializes in digital transaction management and trust services.

10

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$356.8m

Money raised

An automated assistant platform that manages legal paperwork for businesses, founded by Cai GoGwilt and Jason Boehmig.

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6

Funding Rounds

$160.0m

Money raised

Qualia is a technology platform for the closing process in the purchase and sale of homes.

3

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$31.2m

Money raised

Deep Lens is an Artificial Intelligence company matching patients with clinical trials.

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4

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$11.8m

Money raised

Legalpad is an information technology and services company that assists start-ups in getting work visas for their employees.

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8

Funding Rounds

$62.1m

Money raised

Juro is a legal technology company specializing in the creation and maintenance of paperwork used in companies. It is London-based and was founded in 2016.

8

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$217.3m

Money raised

A blockchain and cryptocurrency development company developing blockchain based business solutions for investment funds, administrators, trading firms, exchanges and accounting firms.

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5

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$155.6m

Money raised

Athelas is a company developing blood testing device that utilizes deep learning and computer vision.

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Clinithink is a Natural Language Processing AI for structuring medical chart notations

3

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$34.0m

Money raised

Deep 6 AI is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Wout Brusselaers.

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7

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$24.0m

Money raised

Headset is a tech company providing an IT solution for the cannabis industry.

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2

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$5.3m

Money raised

Fakespot is a New York City-based data analytics platform that works to spot fake online product reviews and help consumers make better choices. Fakespot was acquired by Mozilla in May 2023.

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8

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$100.4m

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A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

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$4.0m

Money raised

Cryptocurrency company/ The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.

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$65.4m

Money raised

Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

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$8.1m

Money raised

Apiax transforms complex regulations into digital compliance rules, which are constantly up-to-date and verified, accessible via an API.

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4

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$9.3m

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Authologic is an unified e-ID verification platform founded in 2020 by Jaroslaw Sygitowicz, Krzysztof Klimczak and Marek Rogozinski.

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8

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$52.8m

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Remesh is an AI-based company to gather collective insights founded in 2013 by Aaron Slodov, Andrew Konya and Gary Ellis.

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3

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$326.0m

Money raised

Harvey is a developer of an AI assistant for lawyers. The company's legal tool aims to help lawyers in their daily workflow.

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2

Funding Rounds

$645.0k

Money raised

CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

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$210.6m

Money raised

Alloy is a technology company that develops identity verification API for banks and financial institutions.

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$106.0m

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Lokalise is a web-based translation system

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$2.5m

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AppearMe is a web application and a mobile application designed to help users hire appearance attorneys and help freelance attorneys find clients.

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$1.0m

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Sanguine is a company that has the mission to accelerate medical research by eliminating the barriers to patient participation.

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$443.5m

Money raised

Biofourmis is a global health IT start-up in Massachusetts that focuses on personalized care and therapies using digital therapeutics.

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6

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$478.8m

Money raised

Reify Health is a company building healthcare system

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3

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$41.6m

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A biotechnology and industrial automation company. It was founded in 2010 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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2

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A company developing cryogenic cooling solutions for research, material science, quantum computing, high-performance electronics, and detector applications.

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$2.5m

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Corvid Technologies is a Mooresville, North Carolina-based supercomputer company founded in 2004.

2

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$40.0m

Money raised

54Gene is healthcare startup company providing a genetics testing platform in Africa. It also offers genetic reports on health, nutrition, fitness and weight loss, carrier status, personal traits and ancestry.

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3

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$68.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company developing immune-modulation therapies for infectious diseases and cancer leveraging its technology platform and understanding of immune system mechanisms. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Vienna, Austria.

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$81.0m

Money raised

Atom Computing Inc. manufactures scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.

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$54.0m

Money raised

YouGov is an international internet-based market research firm founded in 2000 by Stephan Shakespeare, Peter Kellner and Nadhim Zahawi.

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9

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$56.6m

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A company based in Farmington, Connecticut, that develops skin disease treatments using microbiome science and technology.

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7

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$17.6m

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RegTech platform that helps organizations manage compliance and regulatory documents.

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SureFire is a Fountain Valley, California-based company founded in 1979.

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$4.5m

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A mobile platform providing a do-it-yourself (DIY) consumer insights platform that rewards consumers for their participation.

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$37.0m

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An institute for research at Harvard University for developing bioinspired materials and medical devices.

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$1.0m

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Mattereum is a project working on the development of legally enforceable smart contracts.

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$76.0m

Money raised

Premise is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Joseph Reisinger.

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