Legora

Legora is a Swedish multinational legal-technology company that develops an AI-driven collaborative platform and digital AI agents specifically for lawyers and law firms. Founded in Stockholm in May 2023 under the name Leya by Max Junestrand (CEO), Sigge Labor and August Erseus, the company set out to automate time-consuming legal processes using large language models. It participated in the American accelerator Y Combinator in 2024 and subsequently raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Benchmark, followed by a $25 million Series A in the summer of the same year. In February 2025 the company officially changed its name from Leya to Legora to avoid brand confusion and to support continued global expansion. Legora's platform functions as an AI-powered workspace that automates routine legal work and assists with advanced legal analysis. It integrates a law firm's own data — such as internal documents in systems like iManage and SharePoint — with public legal sources. Key features include Tabular Review, a tool for reviewing and extracting data from tens of thousands of documents simultaneously (often used in due diligence); Microsoft Word integration that lets lawyers use AI directly in the word processor to draft quickly, rework texts and ensure documents follow firm standards; and agentic web search, in which autonomous AI agents can formulate search queries, evaluate internet sources and compile legal analyses on their own. The system meets strict international security requirements, including GDPR, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, which is a fundamental requirement for handling sensitive legal client data. The company has completed several large funding rounds in a short time. In May 2025 it raised $80 million in a Series B, and in October 2025 it reached unicorn status with a valuation of $1.8 billion in its Series C. On 10 March 2026 a Series D round of $550 million led by Accel was announced, more than tripling the company's valuation to $5.55 billion. By March 2026 Legora had grown from just over 40 to nearly 400 employees in a single year, and its platform was used by more than 800 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 50 markets globally. Firms that have adopted the platform across their entire operations include international giants such as Goodwin, BCLP and Debevoise. In addition to its headquarters in Stockholm, the company has expanded internationally with offices in London, New York, Denver, Sydney and Bengaluru, and alongside the spring 2026 investment it announced continued focus on the US market through new offices in Houston and Chicago. Legora positions itself around the idea of "legal work, without limits" and describes its offering as the world's first truly collaborative AI for lawyers. Its mission is to empower exceptional lawyers by unlocking unparalleled collaboration between lawyers and clients, enabling them to review, draft and deliver projects together. The company markets a Legora aOS™ — an agentic operating system for legal work — that connects information, communication and the execution of legal work through large language models, an agentic harness, data and integrations, context and knowledge, legal capabilities, products and interfaces, and security and governance. Product modules include the Agent for end-to-end execution of complex legal work, Monitors for staying ahead of regulatory change, and Lists for keeping legal work organised, owned and connected. Legora is backed by investors including Benchmark, General Catalyst and Accel.

Legora was founded in Stockholm in May 2023 under the name Leya by Max Junestrand (CEO), Sigge Labor and August Erseus. The goal was to automate time-consuming legal processes using large language models. After participating in the American accelerator Y Combinator in 2024, the company raised $10.5 million in a seed round led by Benchmark, and then $25 million in a Series A in the summer of the same year. In February 2025 the company officially changed its name from Leya to Legora to avoid brand confusion and to facilitate continued global expansion. Legora has completed several large funding rounds in a short time. In May 2025 it raised $80 million in a Series B, and in October 2025 the company reached unicorn status with a valuation of $1.8 billion in its Series C. On 10 March 2026 a Series D round of $550 million led by Accel was announced, more than tripling the company's valuation to $5.55 billion. By March 2026 Legora had grown from just over 40 to nearly 400 employees in a single year. The platform was used by more than 800 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 50 markets globally. Some firms that have adopted the platform across their entire operations include international giants such as Goodwin, BCLP and Debevoise. In addition to its headquarters in Stockholm, the company has expanded internationally with offices in London, New York, Denver, Sydney and Bengaluru. In connection with the spring 2026 investment, Legora announced continued focus on the US market through the establishment of new offices in Houston and Chicago.

• Founded in Stockholm as Leya by Max Junestrand, Sigge Labor and August Erseus

• Participated in Y Combinator; raised $10.5 million seed round led by Benchmark

• Raised $25 million Series A

• Officially renamed from Leya to Legora

• Raised $80 million Series B

• Reached unicorn status with $1.8 billion valuation in Series C

• Announced $550 million Series D led by Accel, valuing company at $5.55 billion

• Grown to nearly 400 employees; platform used by over 800 law firms and in-house teams across 50+ markets

Collaborative AI for exceptional lawyers; legal work, without limits.

• Legora aOS™

  Agentic operating system for legal work that connects information, communication and execution.

• Agent

  End-to-end execution of complex legal work; plans, executes, reviews and delivers.

• Monitors

  Continuously scans global regulation and surfaces what matters before it impacts business.

• Lists

  Keeps legal work organised, owned and connected; can be generated by the Agent from documents.

• Tabular Review

  Tool for reviewing and extracting data from tens of thousands of documents simultaneously, often used in due diligence.

• Microsoft Word integration

  Allows lawyers to use AI directly in the word processor to draft, rework texts and ensure firm standards.

• Agentic web search

  Autonomous AI agents that formulate search queries, evaluate internet sources and compile legal analyses.

• Precedent

1. 1Legora official websitelegora.com
2. 2About | Legoralegora.com
3. 3Legora - Wikidatawikidata.org
4. 4Legora - Swedish Wikipediasv.wikipedia.org
5. 5Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise to automate law firm workflows with AI agentstimesofindia.indiatimes.com
6. 6Google unveils agentic AI platform for lawyersabajournal.com
7. 7Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuationtechcrunch.com