Legora

Extracted Attributes

• Founded

  2023

• Valuation

  $5.55 billion (as of April 2026)

• Former Name

  Leya

• Headquarters

  Stockholm, Sweden

• Core Offerings

  AI-powered legal workspace, Tabular Review, Assistant, Playbooks

• CEO and Co-founder

  Max Junestrand

• Total Funding Raised

  Over $585 million (including $550 million Series D)

Timeline

• Legora (originally named Leya) is founded in Stockholm, Sweden, by Max Junestrand. (Source: Wikidata)

  2023-01-01

• Legora participates in the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch. (Source: Y Combinator)

  2024-01-01

• Legora raises $550 million in a Series D funding round, reaching a valuation of $5.55 billion. (Source: Forbes)

  2026-03-01

• Legora is reported to serve around 500 law firms globally, including Cleary Gottlieb and Goodwin. (Source: Forbes)

  2026-04-16

General Catalyst

General Catalyst (GC) is an American venture capital firm headquarted in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, it invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than US$43 billion in assets as of December 2024. The firm has invested in more than 800 companies. Its portfolio includes Airbnb, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Stripe, Canva, HubSpot, Legora, Samsara, Anduril, Mistral, Ramp, Mercor, and Helsing.

Web Search Results

• Legora | Legaltech Hub

  Process Improvement/AI Legal Assistant Legora is an AI-enabled legal workspace designed to support lawyers with document review, drafting, research, and collaboration. It is used for contract analysis, due diligence, legal research, and precedent-based drafting, with integrations including Microsoft Word and document management systems. The platform supports the application of internal playbooks and workflow automation across legal processes. Key Features and Functions: [...] Key Features and Functions: Tabular Review Legora transforms large folders of contracts, agreements, or case materials into an organized, interactive grid where each document becomes a row and AI-generated prompts correspond to columns. This enables extraction of key data, clause comparison, and identification of inconsistencies at scale—whether analyzing hundreds or thousands of documents. Firms use this feature for due diligence, compliance, and mass review projects. Assistant This conversational AI “assistant” allows lawyers to interact with internal and external documents across any language, asking questions and receiving responses that include source citations. Users can also manage and reuse expert-crafted prompts that guide the assistant’s outputs. [...] Playbooks Legora lets firms codify internal standards—like clause checklists, negotiation guidelines, or redlining preferences—into playbooks that can be automatically or manually applied during drafting or review. While detailed documentation on their website is limited, their availability within the Word Add-in suggests deep integration into the drafting workflow .

• Legora launches in the US

  Founded in 2023 and led by our CEO and Y Combinator alum Max Junestrand, Legora is designed to unlock unparalleled collaboration between lawyers and machine intelligence. Our platform is utilized in nearly 20 countries by over 250 clients and enhances lawyers’ abilities to complete end-to-end tasks more quickly and accurately, helping reduce write-offs, future-proofing ways of working, and freeing up time for complex problem-solving and high-impact legal work. [...] “At Goodwin, we’re always looking for ways to push the industry forward and better serve our clients. AI is an incredible tool that, when applied thoughtfully, can enhance decision-making and be an intellectual force multiplier. Our partnership with Legora allows us to be hands-on in shaping AI-driven solutions that deliver real impact—helping our lawyers work smarter and giving our clients even better results,” said Mary O’Carroll, Goodwin’s Chief Operating Officer. To date, Legora has raised over $35 million in funding from investors, including Benchmark, Redpoint, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and others. WIRED named Legora one of Stockholm’s hottest startups in 2024, and Business Insider listed the company as one of 43 startups to bet your career on earlier this year. [...] Gustaf Alströmer, Group Partner at Y Combinator said, “Legora is equipping lawyers with everything they need to transform their practice from the ground up. The team's collaborative approach to building AI with their clients is unique, and it is the reason Legora has found unparalleled product-market fit. Once onboarded, lawyers don't want to work without it. Over the years, I've seen hundreds of companies in legaltech, but nothing like the team and the product behind Legora." About Goodwin

• Legora: The AI workspace for lawyers | Y Combinator

  Home›Companies›Legora Legora The AI workspace for lawyers Winter 2024 Active Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AILegalTech --- ### The AI workspace for lawyers 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 Active Founders Max Junestrand Max Junestrand Founder

• How Legora is transforming the legal workspace using Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft Customer Stories

  Legora is disrupting the legal space at a breath-taking pace. Combining deep industry knowledge with AI, Legora is showing what’s possible in an AI-powered legal workspace, using Microsoft infrastructure and LLM model service. “Our mission is to give superhuman capabilities to the modern lawyer.” Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of legal tech company Legora, is describing his organization’s ambitions and how AI is helping to realize them. “Legora acts as an AI-powered workspace and has been adapted to better understand the intricacies of legal work—serving as an intelligent colleague to every legal professional,” he explains. [...] # How Legora is transforming the legal workspace using Azure OpenAI Service Share the story ## Share this story Legora is transforming the legal workspace using Azure OpenAI Service. Legora is disrupting the legal space at a breathtaking pace. Combining deep industry knowledge with AI, Legora is showing what’s possible in an AI-powered legal workspace, using Microsoft infrastructure and LLM model service. Legora's AI-powered platform, built on Microsoft Azure, has streamlined legal tasks, enhanced compliance, and improved efficiency for thousands of lawyers globally, delivering tangible results for leading law firms. Legora Note: The company formerly known as "Leya" has changed its name to "Legora." All references to "Leya" in this story have been updated to "Legora."

• Legora | Company Overview & News

  PROFILE # Legora Stockholm, Sweden From the Editor ## Last Updated Apr 16, 2026, 6:30am EDT Stockholm-based Legora helps lawyers get through time-consuming work like document review and contract drafting by using AI to speed up research, analyze large sets of documents and edit contracts directly within tools like Microsoft Word. Founded in 2023 by CEO and cofounder Max Junestrand, the startup now serves around 500 law firms, including Cleary Gottlieb and Goodwin, who are adopting AI in their day-to-day workflows. In March 2026, Legora announced it had raised $550 million in a Series D round at a $5.55 billion valuation to fuel its expansion in the U.S. ## Legora Stats As of April 2026 Founded : 2023 Headquarters : Stockholm Country/Territory : Sweden CEO : Max Junestrand

• Country

  Sweden

• Instance Of

  Q4830453

• Inception Date

  1/1/2023