Nextlaw Labs, Nextlaw Ventures and Legal Geek team up on European legal tech startup road trip

Nextlaw Labs, Nextlaw Ventures and Legal Geek team up on European legal tech startup road trip

Nextlaw Labs, the innovative legal tech venture development company launched by global law firm Dentons, and Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, partnered with Legal Geek in an unprecedented European road trip to scout high potential legal tech startups. The road trip will cover five European capitals, which are active hubs for […]
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Nextlaw Ventures invests in next generation AI-powered ‘expertise finding’ platform ProFinda

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, today announced its investment in AI-powered expertise finding platform, ProFinda. ProFinda’s artificial intelligence engine builds an entire map of all the skills, knowledge, connections and expertise available across a company, providing a single view of an organisation’s talent pool. ProFinda then enables employees, through matching algorithms, […]
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Nextlaw Ventures expands portfolio with investment in Canadian legal tech startup FileFacets

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, today announced its investment in FileFacets, a data analytics and content migration software platform. FileFacets provides an efficient way for law firms to identify case files across multiple repositories, offices and locations to facilitate the discovery process and share information between co-counsels. FileFacets’ cloud-based data analytics […]
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Dentons, Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Ventures at the forefront of lawtech developments in Legal Futures’ article

Legal Futures published an article which provides a helpful snapshot of where the legal tech market is now at the start of 2017. The overarching message is that the disruptive world of legal tech startups can not be ignored as they are becoming increasingly visible and relevant in the daily lives of lawyers whether they […]
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Nextlaw Ventures’ Portfolio Summarized by The American Lawyer

The American Lawyer published a great year-end summary of the startups in our portfolio. The article begins with an overview of the legal tech market in 2016 mentioning that the “legal community has begun to build up some of the key infrastructure needed to support startups in the field” and that “Dentons was among the first to […]
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Nextlaw Ventures expands portfolio with investment in Canadian legal tech startup Beagle

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, today announced its investment in Beagle, a legal tech startup that is using artificial intelligence to transform the legal contract review process. Beagle streamlines the review process by scanning contracts and highlighting key information, providing a real-time collaboration platform that simplifies contract negotiation and finalization. Clients […]
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Nextlaw Ventures enters the on-demand economy with online legal marketplace platform Hire an Esquire

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, expanded its portfolio today with an investment in Hire an Esquire, a startup venture that is transforming the legal marketplace with on-demand workforce technology. With today’s investment, Nextlaw Ventures continues to expand Dentons’ vision of innovation by developing a suite of new technologies that fundamentally change […]
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Apperio Wins an Alt.Legal Innovation Award

We are delighted to announce that our portfolio company Apperio, has earned an Alt.Legal Innovation Award in the practice management category. Alt.Legal is a column on Above the Law which focuses on alternative sides of the legal profession. The Alt.Legal Innovation Awards are intended to recognize companies developing innovative products or services that are shaking up the […]
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Clause Produces The World’s First ‘IoT-Enabled’ Legal Contract

Read the latest blog post from our new portfolio company, Clause: Today brought fascinating news of the world’s first shipment of goods supported by a letter of credit using blockchain-based smart contracts and the Internet of Things (IoT). The sale and delivery of 88 bales of cotton from Texas to China between affiliates of Brighann […]
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Nextlaw Ventures expands portfolio with legal services quality assessment provider Qualmet

Nextlaw Ventures, the global legal technology-focused venture capital fund, today announced its investment in Qualmet, an early-stage startup that brings quality assessment metrics to in-house counsel and law firms. The investment marks the sixth company to enter the Nextlaw Ventures portfolio. Qualmet provides a streamlined cloud platform and standardized process for in-house counsel and law […]
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