Everlaw provides a cloud-native platform for investigations, eDiscovery, and litigation case preparation, built for collaborative work across legal teams. Its product portfolio includes Storybuilder (a no-cost case preparation tool), Slack and Microsoft Office 365 connectors for rapid data ingestion, and a legal-holds tool. The company touts strong adoption: used by 91 of the Am Law 200, all 50 U.S. state attorneys general, Fortune 100 corporate counsels, and dozens of household brands; total cases on the platform have more than doubled since its Series C in March 2020, while case volumes at Am Law 100 firms grew over 4x. Everlaw achieved FedRAMP Moderate certification on AWS GovCloud with sponsorship from the U.S. Department of Justice, enabling broader U.S. government adoption. The company emphasizes data security and continued product innovation, and plans to expand go-to-market, channel partnerships, and global growth. Everlaw is based in Oakland, California. Everlaw provides eDiscovery software that brings modern data management, visualization and machine learning to the process of reviewing large amounts of evidence. The platform includes search, data-visualization tools (including a timeline) and both supervised and unsupervised machine-learning algorithms to help narrow searches and support iterative, human-led investigations. It also offers collaboration features that let legal teams create work product and coordinate around evidence, replacing manual spreadsheet- and email-based workflows. Founded in 2010 with the product taking shape in 2015, the company has over 200 employees, serves 300 customers and is processing roughly 3,000 cases. Its customers include every state’s attorney general and major law firms, and Everlaw provides the product free to non-profits, educators and investigative journalists. The company says it will use the new funding to accelerate growth and innovate faster. Everlaw provides a cloud-based platform that helps attorneys and review teams save time in discovery, collaboration, and litigation preparation. The platform includes drag-and-drop uploading, flexible productions, blink-speed document search, automatic predictions based on machine learning, AI-powered analytics, and real-time collaboration. The company was founded in 2010 by AJ Shankar (CEO) and is based in Berkeley, California. Everlaw says it will use the new funding to accelerate development of its collaborative litigation software. Last year the company more than doubled revenue and added customers including Zenefits, Benesch, Hanson Bridgett, Macfarlanes, and McDonald Carano. Its platform is used by all 50 U.S. state attorneys general, in-house counsels at major organizations, and eight of the top ten class-action law firms. Everlaw builds an AI-enhanced litigation and e-discovery platform that indexes and analyzes documents, transcripts, scans, and other evidence to help attorneys find key materials. The company charges clients based on the volume of data its software processes. Everlaw says it serves nine of the top ten class-action law firms and more than 65% of state Attorneys General, and it employs a 22-person team. Its highest-profile engagement to date involved support for plaintiffs’ attorneys in litigation related to General Motors’ 2014 ignition-switch recall. The company was bootstrapped initially with $1.5 million from friends and family as the team perfected its technology. Everlaw plans to expand beyond search and review into collaboration tools and a unified litigation platform that incorporates artificial intelligence and data visualization.

Total raised

$297M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Nov 2021