Trellis provides litigators with an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that gives professionals access to state trial court data. Users can search through millions of court dockets and documents to uncover intelligence about parties’ litigation history and opposing counsel’s past strategy. The platform analyzes millions of state trial court cases to surface the most powerful analysis for a given case. Litigators can also track legal issues as they are being decided in real time. Trellis currently serves some of the largest law firms and legal departments. The company is co‑founded by CEO Nicole Clark and CPO Alon Shwartz. Trellis Research is a searchable database of state trial court data that offers an AI-driven analytics platform for legal practitioners. Its two main products, Smart Search and Judge Analytics, let users find past rulings, search opposing counsel dockets, review influential court documents such as motions, and analyze judges' ruling tendencies and biographical information. The company aggregates data from 362 trial courts across twelve states, with additional county-level coverage in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut planned by year-end. Co-founded by Nicole Clark and Alon Shwartz and based in Los Angeles, Trellis intends to accelerate product expansion and hiring and to broaden its use cases beyond the legal vertical. Management plans to introduce the platform into adjacent industries that need access to its data, including real estate and property management, financial services, and insurance. Financially, Trellis completed a $14.1M Series A that brought its total fundraising to $20M. Trellis Research builds a search and analytics tool for state court data and judicial analytics. The company operates the largest database of California Superior Court records and offers a freemium service where trial decisions and filings are accessible via organic search, while power users pay for full access, downloads, printing, and analysis. Individual subscriptions cost $100 and enterprise contracts are negotiable. Founder Nicole Clark began collecting the underlying data in 2016 and founded Trellis in 2018 after using the product as a litigator. Trellis graduated from Techstars and claims attorneys can double their win rate using its software. The company plans to expand into New York, Texas, Florida, and Delaware over the next year. Trellis Research offers a decision engine and smart search built on the largest database of California state trial court records, with more than 5.1 million records. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce judge biographies, decision history analysis, strategy reports, and predictions of settlement ranges and class member payouts. Trellis is already in use at several AM100 firms in California and positions itself as a must-have research tool for litigators. The company publicly launched its decision engine and plans to expand to New York in late 2019. Trellis was founded and is led by CEO and co-founder Nicole Clark and is a graduate of Techstars LA 2018. The product targets a large legal services market and aims to fill a gap left by incumbent research providers that focus on appellate rather than state trial court data.

Total raised

$36M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2023