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Fenwick & West

801 California St, Mountain View, CA, 94041, United States

Overview

Fenwick & West provides legal advisory services focusing on high technology and life sciences industries. The firm's practice areas include antitrust and unfair competition, appellate, complex business litigation, copyright, corporate and securities, employment and labor, executive compensation and benefits, intellectual property, and IP litigation. Additionally, it offers legal advisory services in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, patent prosecution, privacy, and information security, securities litigation, start-ups, and venture capital, domestic and international tax, tax controversies, technology transactions, and trademarks. The firm's clientele includes Blue Sky Research, Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., ICTV, Inc., Siemens Technology, Inc., Sunrise Telecom, Inc., Ubicom, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Adforce, Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., and Exodus Communications, Inc.

Total investments
16
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
4
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Advice
  • Consulting
  • Employment
  • Intellectual Property
  • Legal
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Investment portfolio

  • Norm AI

    Participated · Series C · Jul 2026

    Norm Ai develops agentic law systems that embed legal expertise into AI agents and power Norm Law, an AI-native law firm that operates on the same platform. The company positions its approach to enable supervised, high-stakes legal work with senior attorneys calibrating and improving the agents. Norm Law runs natively on Norm Ai's technology and uses outcome-based pricing rather than hourly billing. Norm Ai reports serving clients that together manage more than $30 trillion in assets under management. Since its founding less than three years ago, Norm Ai has raised over $260 million in funding. The company plans to use the latest round to hire more staff, broaden practice areas, and further develop supervisory agents for regulated enterprise AI deployments.

  • Advocacy

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Advocacy offers a context-driven platform that captures, organizes, and applies matter-critical information for litigators, moving work from isolated point solutions to a unified, memory-based workspace. Its technology ingests evidence—including documents, audio, and video—and continuously maps it to a centralized case timeline, boosting accuracy for research, drafting, analysis, and strategy. Built by experienced litigators, the system aims to eliminate the risk of AI hallucinations by preserving deep, matter-specific context throughout a case’s lifecycle. The product is already in use with paying clients and is running pilots at top-tier plaintiff and defense firms, including Am Law 100 practices. Recent updates extend the proprietary memory layer across every surface where litigation work occurs, enabling seamless context orchestration. With fresh capital, the company plans to grow its product and engineering teams, hire legal alignment experts, and deepen partnerships such as its ongoing collaboration with e-discovery leader Relativity. Though revenue figures have not been disclosed, Advocacy reports accelerating demand among large law firms and specialized boutiques.

  • 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.

  • Nava

    Participated · Series C · Oct 2025

    Nava Benefits operates as a modern benefits brokerage, combining proprietary technology with deep benefits expertise to lower costs and reduce administrative burden for growing businesses. Its platform delivers renewal strategy guidance, back-office benefits administration, and member support, positioning itself as a one-stop shop for HR teams. The company recently introduced HQ, a compliance-oriented workflow tool that flags errors and tracks deadlines, backed by SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA certifications for enterprise-grade security. Proceeds from the latest funding will accelerate Nava’s AI roadmap aimed at further automating routine benefits tasks for HR professionals, employees, and the firm’s own service staff. Nava touts itself as one of the first U.S. brokerages to tightly fuse technology with human expertise in the employee-benefits space, and its customer base is primarily comprised of small and mid-sized employers seeking cost savings and modern support. While no revenue or user metrics were disclosed, the company’s continued product rollout and venture backing underscore its growth ambitions.

  • SingleFile Technologies

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

    SingleFile provides automated compliance solutions designed to help businesses navigate complex regulatory environments. Led by CEO Aaron Finn, the company emphasizes innovation and customer success in legal and compliance technology. It intends to use the $9M Series A to expand operations and IT development efforts. The company added Mindy Lauck as Chief Product Officer and Teresa Kotwis as Chief Financial Officer. Since its 2019 founding, SingleFile has raised over $24M in total funding, including $15M in the past 12 months. The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. SingleFile provides cloud-based compliance software to automate filings to local, state, and federal agencies, aiming to replace email, PDFs, and spreadsheets in the compliance process. Its product set covers Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) compliance, company formation documents, business license renewals, employee-related filings, and state franchise, excise and use taxes. The startup sells to law firms (including Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick and Gunderson Dettmer) and customers in venture capital, private equity and real estate. SingleFile positions itself as the “Stripe of compliance,” seeking to pull company data from systems of record and pass it to government agencies with minimal human interaction. The company is focused on the U.S. market, was incubated out of Pioneer Square Labs, and employs more than 25 people. CEO Aaron Finn (joined 2021) and founder/CL O Sean Flynn are leading growth as regulatory changes such as the CTA create demand tailwinds. SingleFile provides technology that files formation documents and annual reports with secretary of state offices, effectively acting as a registered‑agent and compliance filing platform. Its service is used by law firms (including Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick and Gunderson Dettmer) and by customers across venture capital, private equity and real estate. Customers named in the article include Techstars, AngelList, High Alpha Innovation and Pacific Current Partners. The company spun out of Pioneer Square Labs and is a Seattle‑based business; Wilson Sonsini is both a partner on its Neuron startup platform and an investor. SingleFile has 10 full‑time employees, and CEO Aaron Finn said revenue has grown 3X in the past 18 months. Founder Sean Flynn remains with the company as chief growth officer; Finn joined as CEO in 2021. SingleFile is a Seattle-based startup offering an online filing and registered agent platform that simplifies filing and compliance workflows for companies and law firms. The company launched its beta product in 2019 and has processed thousands of orders from hundreds of customers. It works with six national law firms and is a technology partner for Wilson Sonsini’s Neuron startup platform. Law firms use SingleFile to file formation documents, act as registered agent, and track and file annual reports to avoid falling out of good standing. The company has 10 employees and expects to add three or four more in the near term. Management was bolstered with Aaron Finn named CEO while founder Sean Flynn shifted to chief growth officer to focus on customer acquisition and operations; the new capital is intended to scale the business and accelerate growth.

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