LawPivot operates a Quora-like, crowdsourced legal Q&A platform focused on technology companies, with questions kept confidential. The site recently launched LawPivot Recommendations, a personalized algorithm that matches companies to the best lawyers based on past interactions and data trends. The service is positioned as a lower-cost way for startups and mid-sized companies to access specialized legal expertise and for lawyers to generate new business. The founding team includes attorneys and tech executives such as Jay Mandal (lead M&A attorney at Apple), Nitin Gupta (intellectual property litigation lawyer), and Steven Kam (software engineer with IP litigation experience). LawPivot currently offers a free trial to California companies and is free for California lawyers; the company plans to charge companies for advice and charge lawyers for leads in the future. Financially, the company has raised a total of $1 million to date after the most recent $600,000 investment. LawPivot operates a Quora-style, confidential legal Q&A platform where technology companies submit legal questions answered by multiple attorneys. Questions and answers are kept confidential and attorneys answer without seeing others' responses. The site is currently free for both companies and attorneys. The company has expanded to six employees. Founders include CEO Jay Mandal (formerly a lead M&A attorney at Apple), cofounder Nitin Gupta (former intellectual property litigation lawyer) and VP Engineering Steven Kam (software engineer with IP litigation experience). LawPivot has raised a $400,000 angel round and plans to begin charging companies either a monthly fee or a per-question fee, then later to charge lawyers for surfaced client opportunities. Because content is not published publicly, the service does not benefit from SEO and must rely on word of mouth for discovery.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2011