Today, we are announcing $42M in Series A funding, accelerating our mission to transform how law firms access and leverage their collective knowledge through AI. The round was led by Felicis, with continued support from Coatue. With this exceptional group of investors behind us, we’re ready to move into the next phase of growth: deepening product innovation, expanding our partner ecosystem, and scaling internationally.
The legal AI race is not about who has the flashiest chatbot. It is about unlocking the trillion-dollar knowledge trapped inside law firms. Generic AI is the same for everyone. The true advantage comes from a firm’s people and the first derivative of their expertise: decades of work product, precedent matters, and know-how. This is not incremental efficiency. This is transformative.
Elite law firms are evolving into data firms. They are building AI strategies powered by their people’s expertise at scale. These firms are leading the way in turning knowledge into competitive power.
That’s where DeepJudge comes in.
Founded by ex-Google search engineers with PhDs in AI from ETH Zurich, our team’s rigorous technical background in information retrieval is tailor-made for this moment. DeepJudge is retrieval-first, connecting AI workflows to the full scale of a firm’s institutional knowledge. Every document, every precedent, every insight becomes instantly actionable, without ever leaving the firm’s secure systems.
As part of this momentum, Freshfields, a global elite law firm that advises the world's leading national and multinational corporations and financial institutions on business-critical challenges, has selected DeepJudge as a core component of its AI and knowledge strategy after a detailed evaluation process.
“Innovation at Freshfields is about strengthening how we work and preparing for what’s next. DeepJudge supports that by enabling responsible, targeted use of proprietary knowledge and powering bespoke AI workflows tailored to our standards. It will enhance our ability to deliver for clients as the legal industry evolves.”
– Gil Perez, Chief Innovation Officer at Freshfields
Alongside Freshfields, I am proud to share that a growing roster of top-tier law firms has chosen DeepJudge to power their AI and knowledge initiatives. These include Holland & Knight, a U.S.-based Am Law 100 firm with more than 2,200 lawyers across 34 offices worldwide, recognized for its strength in regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters; Cozen O’Connor, an international law firm headquartered in Philadelphia with more than 825 attorneys across 30 offices; ArentFox Schiff, a leading national law and lobbying firm with over 650 lawyers and policy professionals across eight U.S. cities; and Schoenherr, a tech-forward full-service law firm with a strong footprint across Central and Eastern Europe, serving local and international clients on complex commercial matters.
They join previously announced customers such as Gunderson Dettmer, CMS Switzerland, Homburger, and Lenz & Staehelin. These firms are actively turning their institutional knowledge into a strategic competitive advantage.
“DeepJudge stands out in a crowded AI landscape because it is laser-focused on one thing: making search better. What differentiates our firm is our people, experience, and expertise. With DeepJudge, we can surface and reuse the vast knowledge of our lawyers at scale and in context. We expect it to fit seamlessly into our solutions portfolio and to further advance our strategic AI initiatives.”
– Andrei Salajan, Director of Legal Tech and Innovation at Schoenherr
We’re excited to have such a distinct position in the legaltech ecosystem. While many tools take an LLM-first approach, we are laser-focused on giving both people and models the right business context to work with.
Generic AI tools can’t answer questions like “Have we negotiated this term before?”, “What has the firm done for this client?”, or “What was our most profitable strategy in a similar case?” because those answers live across disconnected systems, document management, billing, SharePoint, emails, and matter intake. DeepJudge is data-first, connecting a firm’s entire knowledge base in real time so lawyers and AI can operate with precise, trusted information rather than relying on generic output.
In legal AI, accurate retrieval matters more than anything else. If a system can’t surface the exact piece of knowledge when it’s needed, every subsequent step breaks down. Generic RAG engines fail when confronted with messy, permission-walled legal data. DeepJudge provides a secure, precision retrieval layer that enables generative models to reason confidently with the right context, every time.
“Legal teams are done experimenting with siloed chatbots. They need AI that is deeply wired into their own knowledge so lawyers can move faster, win business, and still meet the bar for confidentiality. DeepJudge’s technical rigor, impressive research, and traction prove they are the platform firms want to work with.”
– Viviana Faga, General Partner at Felicis
Over the past year, we have grown revenues by more than 500 percent. DeepJudge has been recognized as the number one Legal AI tool in a global law firm survey by SKILLS.law and as the likely category leader within one to three years by Legal Technology Hub. Our platform achieves 80 to 90 percent active usage across our customer base, meeting surging demand for AI-native legal tools as firms race to turn knowledge into competitive advantage.
Our mission is to turn law firms’ hidden knowledge into a force multiplier for their people, their clients, and their strategy. The future of legal AI is not generic. It is secure, precise, context-rich, and deeply integrated into the knowledge that makes your firm unique.
We are just getting started.
Paulina Grnarova
CEO and Co-founder, DeepJudge