Legal AI platform Legora has secured USD $550 million in new funding, pushing the company’s valuation to roughly USD $5.55 billion and positioning the fast-growing startup to accelerate its expansion across the United States.
The Series D round was led by Accel and included participation from existing investors Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Y Combinator. New investors in the round include Alkeon Capital, Bain Capital, Firstmark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Sands Capital, Starwood Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.
The funding comes as adoption of AI tools continues to accelerate across the legal sector, with law firms and corporate legal departments increasingly moving beyond experimentation and embedding AI directly into their workflows.
Founded in Stockholm, Legora develops collaborative AI tools designed to help legal teams research, draft, review, and manage legal work more efficiently. The company positions its platform as an AI “operating system” for legal services, integrating AI agents and automation into the daily work of lawyers.
“Over the past year, the pace of adoption in the U.S. has exceeded our expectations, as leading firms and in-house teams move decisively from experimentation to embedding AI across their organisations,” said Legora co-founder and CEO Max Junestrand. “This funding enables us to accelerate our U.S. growth—investing in talent and infrastructure, strengthening our presence in key markets, and ensuring we can support customers on the ground as they integrate AI into their core workflows.”
The announcement coincides with the first anniversary of Legora’s entry into the U.S. market. The company opened its first American office in New York in March 2025 and has since secured several high-profile law firm customers, including White & Case, Cleary Gottlieb, and Goodwin.
To support further growth, Legora plans to expand its U.S. footprint with new offices in Houston and Chicago, adding to its existing presence in New York and Denver. The company expects to employ more than 300 people across its U.S. operations by the end of 2026.
Accel partner Arun Mathew said the investment reflects growing confidence that AI will reshape the structure of legal work.
“Max and team are relentlessly focused on building the AI operating system for the legal industry,” Mathew said. “As in other service industries, work is quickly shifting to end-to-end workflows run by agents, and more of that work is happening on Legora.”
Legora says its growth has been driven in part by a collaborative deployment model, working closely with law firms and in-house teams from early experimentation through full-scale rollout and ongoing optimisation.
Over the past year, the company has expanded rapidly, growing its workforce from roughly 40 employees to more than 400 across offices in Stockholm, London, New York, Denver, Sydney, and Bengaluru.
Today, the Legora platform supports tens of thousands of lawyers each day across approximately 800 customers in more than 50 markets, reflecting the broader shift toward AI-assisted legal work across the profession.