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Cooley

3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, United States

Overview

Cooley is a legal services company that solves legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies. Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP matters, and bet-the-company litigation, often where innovation meets the law. Cooley was founded in 1920 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Total investments
30
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Document Preparation
  • Legal
  • Professional Services
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Investment portfolio

  • FSH Technologies

    Participated · Series A · Aug 2026

    FSH Technologies develops end-to-end software for public-sector clients, targeting municipalities, school districts, and state agencies to modernize legacy government systems. The company emphasizes solving the whole procurement and change-management problem rather than only delivering software, and it avoids billable consulting hours and traditional sales or consulting teams—describing its staff as builders. FSH frequently competes with large consulting firms such as Accenture for government contracts and has reported winning bids against them. The founder and CEO, Lilly Chen, is a former Meta engineer who started the company after leaving Meta; reporting notes her personal background and leadership but does not specify the company's founding year. Financially, FSH has raised $25 million in total funding, including a $5 million seed and a $20 million Series A led by Lachy Groom. The articles do not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics.

  • Idilio

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Idilio produces vertical micronovelas with episodes of one to three minutes and seasons that can reach up to 80 chapters, aiming for strong hooks in the first three seconds. The company describes itself as data-first: it writes and produces initial chapters, publishes them in-app and on social, and uses rapid metrics to decide whether to rewrite or scale a story. Idilio reports roughly two million downloads in 120 countries and about 45 minutes of daily use per user, which the company says is double Netflix's mobile time by its metrics. Founder Gabriela Tafur, a Colombian lawyer, TV presenter and Stanford MBA, built the product after observing short-form dubbed dramas in mobile use. The company targets Latin American melodrama as a cultural differentiator versus Chinese-origin micro-series and aims to scale its audience internationally. The model emphasizes low-cost, fast production cycles but faces sector risks such as low retention and variable content quality.

  • Steward

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Steward provides an AI-first platform that automates AML and KYC workflows for complex investor onboarding and ongoing monitoring, integrating document collection, screening, risk assessment, and reviews into a single system. The company uses AI to interpret multi-layered and cross-border ownership structures and offers secure, shareable Investor Profiles to streamline data exchange between firms. Steward reports its system manages roughly $100 billion in investor assets and delivers same-day onboarding in 80% of cases. Its client roster includes Connect Ventures, Unruly Capital, IAB Group, Motive Partners and Outward VC, plus several Tier 1 institutional allocators. Steward was founded by CEO Arik Oslerne and CTO Moshe Lieberman, and is dual-headquartered in New York and London. The company plans to use the new funding to expand product capabilities and grow its team.

  • Slice Global

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    Slice Global Equity offers a single system that automates the entire equity lifecycle—cap tables, grants, exercises, reporting, and multi-country tax and legal compliance—so finance, legal, HR, and payroll teams can operate across jurisdictions without manual work or spreadsheets. The platform embeds jurisdiction-specific tax rules and legal requirements directly into workflows, delivering what the company calls an “agentic” experience that can actively execute tasks rather than serve as a static record. Customers report a 60 % reduction in equity-operations cycle times and an 80 % cut in outside local-counsel fees when using Slice. The product is trusted by high-growth startups and unicorns such as Wiz, VAST Data, Wayve, Aidoc, Orca, and Silverfort. Slice meets enterprise security standards including SOC 2, SOC 1, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CPRA. Headquartered between New York and Tel Aviv, the company has now raised a total of $32 million. The new capital will be used to deepen its AI-native compliance infrastructure, grow product and engineering teams, and scale go-to-market efforts worldwide.

  • Cork

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

    Cork is building a protocol that supplies tokenized risk infrastructure, enabling standardized pricing, market-driven hedging, and redemption-liquidity backstops for on-chain assets such as vault tokens, yield-bearing stablecoins, liquid (re)staking tokens, and real-world assets. The system lets asset managers and issuers spin up custom swap markets to enhance redemption liquidity, improve risk transparency, and bolster market confidence. Its composable risk primitives integrate directly with ERC-4626 vaults and other yield-bearing ERC-20 assets, making risk management a native, programmable component of on-chain finance. Future plans include bringing the company’s first risk markets into production, expanding integrations with vault and asset issuers, and supporting regulated product pathways. Cork has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to finance these initiatives, providing the capital base for continued product development and market launch.

Team

  • Stephen Neal

    CEO

  • Arthur Cooley

    Founder

  • Matthew Bartus

    Founder & Curator, Cooley GO

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  • Louis Crowley

    Founder

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