Lexroom has raised $50m in a Series B round led by Left Lane Capital, underlining continued investor confidence in the LegalTech sector.
Left Lane Capital is a New York and London-based venture capital and growth equity firm, and the round included participation from Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, Acurio Ventures, Entourage and View Different.
The news comes only eight months after Milan-based Lexroom closed a $19m Series A round and brings the total capital raised to more than $73m.
Last year, London-based legal AI company Luminance raised £60m in a Series C funding round, while earlier this year Manchester-headquartered Summize completed a £40m funding and reinvestment round to accelerate global expansion.
Paolo Fois, CEO and co-founder of Lexroom, said: “When we started Lexroom, two things were immediately clear: lawyers needed a better way to work, and LLMs could deliver it.
“The missing piece was data – always-updated laws, relevant case law, and legal proceedings. Civil law countries need an AI legal engine that reasons data-first. Excited to partner with the Left Lane team to build the AI backbone of the legal industry.”
Founded in Milan in 2023 by Fois, Martina Domenicali and Andrea Lonza, Lexroom was built data-first on a proprietary infrastructure of more than six million verified legal sources.
Writing on LinkedIn, Fois wrote: “The question everyone is asking now: What happens if Anthropic builds this?
“Frontier model companies build the intelligence layer; we build the infrastructure layer for legal work.
“In Europe the dynamics are decisive. European legal work runs across 27 different legal systems, each with its own language, codes and jurisprudence – and the European leader in legal AI will be whoever builds the proprietary infrastructure to serve all of them.
“This is the bet we made from day one: data-first, not model-first.”
Paddy Dillon, VP at Left Lane Capital, said: “Paolo, Martina and Andrea have built an enterprise product with consumer-grade user love and engagement, which is exceedingly rare in an industry that is often sold to through innovation committees.
“We loved that Lexroom enables lawyers to build better businesses by serving their clients more thoughtfully and effectively, making AI friend not foe.”
Left Lane’s other investments include Bilt Rewards, M1 Finance, Talkiatry, WeTravel, Moove, Wayflyer, Holy and Blank Street.