Tech & AI
Swedish legal AI firm Legora raises $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation, led by Atreides
The Stockholm-based start-up says annual recurring revenue has passed $200 million as Fidelity, Capital Group and J.P. Morgan join its investor base.
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Legora, a Stockholm-based developer of AI software for lawyers, has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round that values the company at $8.8 billion after the investment. The round was led by Atreides Management. New backers include Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity Management & Research, Glade Brook Capital Partners and J.P. Morgan, while existing investors including Accel, Benchmark, General Catalyst, ICONIQ and Salesforce Ventures also took part.
The valuation is up from $5.55 billion in March, when Legora raised a $550 million Series D led by Accel, and $1.8 billion at its Series C in October 2025. The company says annual recurring revenue (ARR), the yearly value of its subscription contracts, has passed $200 million. It took under 18 months to go from $1 million to $100 million of revenue and under six months to add the next $100 million.
Founded in 2023 and launched in October 2024, Legora says it serves more than 140,000 legal professionals at over 2,400 law firms and in-house legal teams in more than 80 markets. The US is its largest market by revenue and more than half of the AmLaw 50, the largest US law firms by revenue, are customers. In-house legal departments made up over 40% of new customers in the third quarter. The company plans to expand in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and to build out its agentic AI platform, aOS, which uses AI agents that carry out multi-step tasks.
Why it matters: the round puts large public-market mutual funds alongside venture investors in one of Europe's fastest-growing AI application companies, a sign that crossover money is moving into AI software as well as chips and infrastructure. Legora's valuation of roughly 44 times its stated ARR shows the premium investors are paying for growth in professional-services AI, and compares with US rival Harvey, which raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation about six weeks ago. Watch for pricing pressure on legal-information incumbents and for whether these private marks hold up as AI firms test public markets.