LegalTech Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Contracts are business decisions trapped in administrative tasks. Ironclad is software that does all the administrative work better left for a robot, freeing legal teams to do more substantive work and drive business strategy. By automating contracting processes and extracting intelligence from contracts, Ironclad lets legal teams focus on legal work, rather than paperwork. Legal teams at companies like Gusto, HotelTonight, GoFundMe, Glassdoor, Procore use Ironclad to get their contracts done more efficiently and accurately, and to maintain a single source of truth regarding their contents. Headquartered in San Francisco, Ironclad is backed by Accel, Greylock, SV Angel, Formation 8, and was incubated in Y Combinator. For more information, visit https://www.ironcladapp.com.

Darrow is an AI-Powered Justice Intelligence Platform that scans real world data to detect harmful events, determine the number of victims, predict the outcome, and assess the financial value of a case. Using generative AI, Darrow detects impactful legal violations, matching plaintiff's lawyers with their next big case so they can stop spending valuable hours on business development and focus primarily on litigation. Darrow is based out of Tel Aviv and New York City.

Draftwise is redefining contract work for lawyers with AI that streamlines drafting, review, and negotiation. Draftwise empowers lawyers with intelligent, data-driven tools that use a firm’s own knowledge base—drawing from past deals, preferred language, and internal guidance to improve the entire contract workflow—from first draft to signed deal.

Docsum is a contract intelligence platform designed for legal and finance teams. Using AI, Docsum extracts critical data like renewal dates, obligations, and more into a searchable database. The platform is fully customizable with features like custom field reporting, alerts, and playbook-powered redlining. Getting started is simple—upload contracts or connect Docsum to tools like Google Drive, DocuSign, and more.

Clerky builds software to make legal paperwork easier for startups and their attorneys. From formation to fundraising to hiring - everything a startup needs. Thousands of top startups use Clerky to get legal paperwork done safely and efficiently.

Codes automates patient record collection. Today, documents are scattered across EHRs, providers, and faxes; we use AI to compile & analyze docs for those who need them.

Incorporation, compliance, bookkeeping, and taxes – all in one place.

Blee easily integrates across the content creation workflow, combining instant feedback and faster approvals with scalable review and recordkeeping. Helping companies maximize revenue by moving faster to market while minimizing risk

Tower accelerates transactional due diligence via an AI-powered, centralized diligence platform. By consolidating disparate diligence workflows, Tower helps lawyers stay organized, spot issues earlier, and close deals faster.

Pincites makes contract negotiations faster and more consistent for legal teams. Using LLMs, Pincites takes a first pass at reviewing contracts, helping lawyers focus on riskiest parts of their negotiations.

Pearson builds AI agents to automate corporate transactions. Large law firms use us to run gigantic books of businesses with AI, reducing their cost of delivery 40-60%. We work with Orrick as our first design partner, starting with M&A due diligence and financings. $3-6T dollars flow through corporate transactions a year and lawyers take home 1-3% as their cut for every transaction ($150B / year). In the long run, we will capture 50% of the corporate transaction market with the top 30 law firms. We will then provide our AI to companies so they can execute these transactions themselves.

Attorneys at small- and medium-sized law firms juggle dozens of matters, context-switching throughout the day – and often failing to record their billable time for every task they worked on. Inlet records these tasks automatically – eliminating painful admin time and increasing their revenue.

Solo, formerly SoloSuit, helps Americans resolve debt. People use our first product, SoloSuit to respond to debt lawsuits and create other legal documents. Then they use SoloSettle to connect with the collector and settle the debt. We're targeting the $35B debt resolution market.

Regology is an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform that enables compliance, legal, risk, and operations teams to navigate complex regulatory environments across U.S. Federal, all 50 states, and global jurisdictions. At its core, the Smart Law Library™ provides a curated, continuously updated repository of applicable laws and regulations. Three specialized AI agents drive the platform: the Regulatory Change Agent tracks and alerts on jurisdiction-specific developments; the Compliance Agent maps changes to policies, controls, and risks; and the Regulatory Research Agent delivers plain-language summaries, multi-jurisdictional comparisons, and actionable insights—helping teams anticipate change, mitigate risk, and act decisively in fast-evolving regulatory landscapes.

Upsolve is a tech-driven nonprofit that helps low-income Americans overcome debt and rebuild credit at scale. Upsolve was founded in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab in 2016. Since then, Upsolve has become the nation’s most visited nonprofit financial education site. Upsolve.org educates approximately 2.9 million people a year with 2,000 articles on an array of debt and credit topics. To date, Upsolve’s free DIY bankruptcy filing tool has been used by over 14,000 families to relieve over $600,000,000 in debt. Upsolve users are disproportionately Black and Brown with an average household income of $25,000. Upsolve is now launching a suite of AI tools to help low-income Americans resolve their financial distress earlier.

We run background checks on businesses using data from public records in Panama. Trusted locally by largest banks, law firms, banking regulators, ports, foreign embassies, law enforcement. Our main use cases are due diligence, commercial intelligence and compliance.

Lawdingo gets people in touch with a lawyer very quickly. Lawdingo gives people seeking legal services direct access to independent lawyers who can help them. Such attorneys usually have more flexible hours, lower rates, and greater interest in customer service than to their larger firm counterparts. The problem is that there is so many such lawyers; how is someone supposed to figure out who is right for them, and who has some time to take on their case? Fair question. Coincidentally, we started Lawdingo to answer just that. If you're looking for a lawyer, we encourage you to try finding an easier way to get one to work for you. If you are a lawyer working in solo or small practice, we encourage you to find a more effective way to grow your law practice. We also encourage you not to take our word for it. Read what Solo Practice University, the ABA Journal, FindLaw, AboveTheLaw, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, and others say about us. This isn't some fly-by-the-night company. This is the future of the legal industry. We hope you'll get in touch. Lawdingo was started by Nikhil Nirmel (nikhil@lawdingo.com), an entrepreneur with a background at Yelp and Wharton Undergrad, and Dan Langevin , a ridiculously talented technologist who was formerly CTO of Lifebooker. Lawdingo has backing from Y Combinator and other investors.

OpenIntake boosts law firm revenue by converting callers into clients 24/7.

Wevorce is fixing divorce by ensuring kids come first, costs stay affordable, and the transition is appropriately paced, so that couples can focus on parenting, not fighting. For families, the Wevorce experience stands in stark contrast to the traditional adversarial approach. Instead of each spouse "lawyering up,"​ Wevorce brings them together to work with a specially-trained attorney-mediator who guides the couple through a defined, but fully customized, settlement process. Additional experts in finance and parenting are brought in as needed to ensure the settlement g... See More

Asset management firm that specializes in esoteric private credit assets in litigation and bankruptcy

MarqVision’s mission is to protect and build a future shaped by original ideas, innovations, and creativity. As a leading online brand protection solution, we help global brands identify and remove counterfeits and combat piracy from over 1,500 platforms and thousands of rogue websites in over 118 countries. In a time when counterfeiting poses an increasingly serious challenge, we believe that democratizing legal expertise and access to the latest in generative AI technology is critical for continuing to support the inventors, developers, and artists of the world who work tirelessly to deliver safe, high-quality products. MarqVision’s technology powers everything from detection, monitoring, and even enforcement to protect brands at scale. Founded in 2020 by Harvard Law graduates, MarqVision is proudly backed by Altos Ventures, DST Global Partners, Softbank, Atinum Investments and Y Combinator. Our commitment to innovation has also been recognized with a prestigious 2022 Innovation Award from LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), and we are honored to be part of the LVMH accelerator program, La Maison des Startups, at the Station F incubator. As we bring forth the next evolution of brand protection, we invite businesses everywhere to join us in safeguarding the creativity that drives our world.

Parley automates flat-fee legal work using LLM’s, starting with visa applications for immigration lawyers. Currently, immigration lawyers spend 20+ hours putting together writing-intensive work visas and green cards. We integrate directly into a lawyer's workflow and do all the reading, writing, and compiling — which is 80% of the work required to file a visa application.

Caribou is the full-stack transfer pricing platform for “micro-multinationals.” Built for the next generation of global startups, Caribou brings together automation, compliance, and deep tax intelligence to solve one of the most complex problems in finance: transfer pricing. With our AI-powered functional analysis, Caribou structures the messy mix of tax, law, and accounting data automatically—delivering near-perfect tax advice. The result: startups expand internationally faster, unlock trapped cash, and stay fully compliant without the need for costly consultants. From YC companies to high-growth scale-ups, businesses choose Caribou to eliminate compliance risk, reclaim R&D incentives, and achieve a 5-10x ROI—turning transfer pricing from a burden into a growth advantage. Learn how Caribou is building a new global tax infrastructure for startups at usecaribou.com

At Brighterway, we use AI to speed up the medical record review process for physicians in medlegal exams. Physicians spend hours reviewing thousands of pages of medical documents– our technology highlights the information that is most relevant to a doctor's specialty, streamlining their review process and saving them time. Brighterway structures and deduplicates disorganized medical records (PDFs) and extracts the content that is medically relevant and related to a doctor's specialty, so they can focus on what matters most.

&AI is a collaborative workspace that delivers trial-ready work product for patent litigators — fast enough for pitches, strong enough for court.

Rescript helps regulatory compliance and advocacy teams effortlessly track the constant stream of legal developments to always stay ahead and compliant. Rescript intelligently scans the web and analyzes regulatory changes and emerging issues, enabling teams to respond proactively and efficiently. Rescript helps Fortune 100 compliance officers juggling multi-state regulations, lobbyists tracking late-night amendments on the Hill, and trade association analysts scanning dozens of agencies at once. We’re profitable and backed by seed funding from YC, General Catalyst, and Floodgate.

Kodex makes it easy for companies to process, and respond to, subpoenas from governments around the world. Agencies, like the FBI, subpoena user data from customers like Coinbase, and thousands of other companies - without Kodex, companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. Kodex is a SaaS tool that helps private sector companies manage relationships, workflows, and secure file transfer with government agencies who are seeking confidential information on a company's users. We streamline compliance operations, protect the privacy of their users, reduce error, and validate the legitimacy of government agents who are requesting information.

Version Story tackles the inefficient and risky process of managing legal document versions that plagues legal teams. Inspired by powerful software development tools like GitHub, Version Story's visual platform provides intuitive version control and redlining, freeing lawyers to focus on high-value work instead of file management.

Keynua is an E-sign platform that uses short video signatures which serve both to approve specific documents and provide the visual identity of the signatory, which is then confirmed using official records and social network profiles. All transactions are "notarized" on the Blockchain. Keynua stores encrypted versions of the identities of all signatories so that users may reuse them with other companies affiliated to the Keynua platform.

Agentic compliance software that makes GRC teams 10x more efficient. Already trusted by global leaders and the largest EU enterprises. What it does: - Extracts requirements from any file - Maps them to controls and policies - Shows gaps and monitors changes - Advises on maturity and next steps

At Lexi, we are building AI-powered associates for law firms. Our associates learn your firm's standards and improve with every case, having already handled 135,000+ documents across 7,000+ cases.

Platus delivers fast, reliable legal infrastructure with a no-code platform and API, designed to support SMBs with instant access to notarization, legal drafting, e-signing, and workflow automations. Our solution removes the high costs and slow processing of traditional legal services, by empowering businesses to seamlessly manage compliance and legal tasks.

Legora is an AI-powered workspace for law firms and legal professionals. Legora lets lawyers automate their repetitive tasks and access public sources and their own data on one single platform. Learn more at https://www.legora.com/

We automate patent infringement detection. Our software interprets patents, identifies competing products, and generates claim charts showing who’s infringing and how. Teams use us to: - Find licensing and litigation targets - Send cease-and-desist letters - Find counter litigation - Sell IP in wind-downs - Accelerate M&A diligence We also run AI invalidity and prior-art searches to help your patents hold up in court. Companies spend up to $50k to file and maintain a single patent over its lifetime, but once it's granted, they let it collect dust. With Patent Watch, you can start turning your patent portfolio into revenue in 10 minutes.

Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. We build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cycles, and making the data within the contracts programmatically accessible to other business systems. Tens of thousands of people have downloaded our standard contracts, and 63% of the contracts on our system close within 24 hours.

Blueshoe is an AI platform for legal research and reasoning designed to capture the structure of legal thought and allow users to work directly within the logic of caselaw. By combining advanced AI with curated legal and proprietary data pipelines, the system allows users build and test arguments with unprecedented clarity.

Kalinda helps class action law firms qualify potential cases in minutes with AI. The nature of class action/mass torts involves thousands of cases for a single lawsuit. For every plaintiff (injured person), law firms involved in these cases compile everything from the products they used to the injuries they have. This data is extensive, granular, and buried deep in thousands of pages of medical, financial, and employment records and others. Kalinda extracts, summarizes, and aggregates data from these records for attorneys with AI. When scaled across an entire litigation, Kalinda works tirelessly and in parallel—turning a process that once took months into just a few hours. Kalinda provides firms with the equivalent manpower of hundreds of paralegals and legal nurses, allowing them to quickly determine which claimants are eligible and helping them file faster and in greater volume. To date, we’ve processed 600k pages of records and are live with 2 of the largest plaintiff law firms in the U.S!

We help founders and in-house counsels streamline their contract negotiations to close deals faster. We do this by building your contract negotiation playbooks and automating them with AI.

Lexter is the first legal LLM company in Brazil, already working with 3 out of the top 5 law firms in the Country

Pigeon is a relationship based technology platform that facilitates the creation and management of loans between friends, family, loved ones, and anyone who trusts one another. By providing smarter ways for people to mix money with their relationships, Pigeon seeks to empower individuals to borrow and lend money with the people they trust.

Willing makes it easy for people to make wills without a lawyer. Answer simple questions and we'll instantly create all the legal documents you need to name guardians for your children and transfer your assets. We were acquired by MetLife and our technology now powers the world's largest legal insurance company.

AXDRAFT analyzes patterns in your legal documents and transforms drafting process from erroneous and time consuming copy and paste to a mistake-free simple Q&A. The average time to draft a document with AXDRAFT is less than 4 minutes. On top of this AXDRAFT allows to integrate data into the document from public registers and your internal databases, eliminating the need to double check every data input. Data validation, e-signatures, access control, document id, visibility and personal accountability for drafted documents. All of this is possible with AXDRAFT. 45 corporations using AXDRAFT reduce time spent on drafting legal documents by up to 90% and shorten their approval cycles by up to 4 days. Both of these improvements mean more deals and better financial results for your company every quarter. And the best part is that from the moment we sign the contract AXDRAFT can be up and running in 2 weeks. Few case studies are available here: https://www.axdraft.com/customers