The Venture Codex

Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

LegalMation is a Los Angeles, CA–based SaaS market leader in generative AI-driven solutions for high-volume litigation. Its platform dynamically produces fully formatted responsive pleadings, discovery requests and responses, and other documents, tailoring claims, allegations, and requests to jurisdictional requirements and an attorney’s style and response strategy. Led by co-founder and CEO James M. Lee, the company targets legal departments of large corporations, insurance carriers, and law firms. Customers include the nation’s top insurance carriers, large enterprises such as Walmart, and numerous law firms including Sheppard Mullin, Ogletree Deakins, Fisher Phillips, Nelson Mullins, Baker Donelson, and Jackson Lewis. The company raised $15M in a Series A financing. It plans to use the funds to deepen platform functionality, support growth of its customer base, and build new end-to-end litigation workflow automation and analytic tools. LegalMation builds next‑generation AI and machine‑learning platform tools for law practices, including pleading and discovery AI applications and a litigation analytics platform to improve how cases are handled, assigned, settled, valued, and resolved. Its platform is used by corporate legal departments and law firms, including Walmart and Ogletree Deakins, as well as several national insurance carriers. The company intends to use newly raised funds to continue expanding operations and its business reach. LegalMation launched in the Spring of 2018 and is led by CEO James M. Lee; it is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company raised a funding round of undisclosed amount. Backers include REV Venture Partners, Relativity, Bridge Investments and Key Venture Partners.

Led · Series A · Apr 2015

Empathetics is a Boston, MA–based empathy and communications training company that provides CME/CE-accredited web-based courses to the healthcare sector. Its core product is web-based empathy and communications training tailored for hospitals, health plans and medical malpractice companies. The company plans to use newly raised funds to expand sales and business development resources to implement its training across healthcare organizations. It also intends to develop additional eLearning programs and systems to reach new constituencies within the healthcare sector. Empathetics recently closed a $1.5M financing round led by GDN Holdings, LLC and Key Venture Partners. As part of the financing, Nathaniel Opperman, President of Key Venture Partners, will join Empathetics’ board of directors. The company is led by Dr. Helen Riess, who serves as Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer.