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Orrick

405 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States

Overview

Orrick's global Emerging Companies Group provides advice on tactical approaches to companies from incubation to their strategic exit and future growth opportunities. Their lawyers, who work intimately with founders in technology, are experts in the emerging space. Orrick’s TOTAL ACCESS Event Series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical and legal education through complimentary breakfast panels and lunch seminars.

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Advice
  • Emerging Markets
  • Law Enforcement
  • Legal
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Investment portfolio

  • Twin1

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Twin1 develops digital twins tailored for lawyers and has just come out of stealth. The company is led by CEO Lewis Z. Liu, previously CEO of Eigen, and co-founded with former Eigen colleagues Tom Cahn and Huiting Liu. Twin1 announced a $20 million Seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners to fund its initial scaling after launch. The articles note the broader context of multiple legal AI companies moving into related areas such as context development, personalization, and knowledge sharing. No operating metrics, valuation, location, or detailed product roadmap were disclosed in the pieces.

  • Sigma360

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

    Sigma360 offers an enterprise-grade platform that unifies global risk data, proprietary intelligence, screening technology, and AI automation to help financial institutions detect and prevent financial crime in real time. The solution supports point-in-time screening and perpetual client monitoring, reducing false positives and easing compliance burdens for banks, payment providers, fintechs, and other regulated corporations. Over the past two years the company achieved 5× revenue growth, reached profitability in 2025, and posts 140%+ Net Revenue Retention with 95% Gross Revenue Retention. Its technology now safeguards more than $2 trillion in assets and processes billions of dollars in transaction value each month. Recognitions include being named Chartis Research’s #1 adverse media screening platform in both 2025 and 2026 and a KYC quadrant leader in 2025. Future plans for the newly raised funds center on enriching proprietary risk datasets, deepening AI automation, and expanding global go-to-market efforts across regulated financial sectors. The company is headquartered in New York and was founded by former U.S. Treasury and National Counterterrorism Center official Stuart Jones, Jr.

  • AltaClaro

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

    AltaClaro provides experiential learning solutions for legal professionals and law firms through a personalized legal training technology platform. Its platform delivers short videos, interactive assessments, mock transactions and online feedback sessions with experts, combined with assessment tools and contextual delivery. The company positions its content and delivery to help professionals gain practical, practice-ready skills. AltaClaro is led by CEO Abdi Shayesteh and is based in Houston, TX. The company plans to use new funding to expand its course catalog and platform offerings and to grow its global market share. No operating metrics or revenues were disclosed in the article.

  • Priori

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2020

    Priori Legal runs a global Marketplace that matches in-house legal teams with vetted attorneys and a SaaS product, Scout, that manages outside-counsel panels and surfaces firm- and attorney-level insights. Marketplace hosts more than 8,000 attorneys, with lawyers in all 50 U.S. states and 55 countries covering over 700 practice proficiencies, and its Marketplace revenue grew approximately 250% year-over-year. Scout is in beta with customers including Hearst, Marsh McLennan, Zimmer Biomet and a Fortune 10 technology company, and more than 30 law firms (including Orrick and 13 other AmLaw 50 firms) have joined the Scout beta. The company says its platform saves corporate legal teams time and money and supports diversity and hiring goals. Priori plans to expand product functionality, accelerate new product development, scale go-to-market efforts, and substantially grow headcount across sales, marketing, engineering, and operations using the new capital. Priori Legal operates a marketplace of vetted lawyers that runs competitive bidding and streamlines billing and onboarding for companies hiring outside counsel. The company accepts about 10% of applicant lawyers and currently hosts more than 1,500 lawyers across all 50 U.S. states and 47 countries with 700 practice proficiencies. Priori says it saves companies an average of 60% on outside‑counsel spending and reduces search time by 80%; client spending on the platform increased 200% in the last year. Founders Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt launched the business as a legal marketplace for SMBs before finding its current enterprise model in 2016. Priori does not provide legal services itself and focuses on the process of rapidly identifying talent and making billing seamless. The company plans to use funding to grow the team, expand its international lawyer network, and build out data and machine‑learning capabilities across vetting, matchmaking, bidding and project scoping.

  • Free Agency

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2020

    Free Agency offers personal representation and career management for mid- to C-level tech candidates, arranging interviews and negotiating compensation on behalf of clients. The firm charges candidates 5%–10% of their first year’s salary and offers a free employer subscription that shares up to five candidates per week. To date it says it has arranged roughly 4,700 interviews and negotiated $200,000,000 in total salary offers, including a senior director placement worth more than $900,000 in total compensation. The company highlights a hands-off candidate experience—arranging interviews without clients submitting applications—and is building a Career Operating System for job search, performance reviews and compensation benchmarking. Free Agency acknowledges gaps in roster diversity (talent agents are 60% female and 20% from underrepresented groups) and plans to deploy resources for sales, customer acquisition and go-to-market programs to improve this. Free Agency, founded last year by Sherveen Mashayekhi and Alex Rothberg, provides career coaching, interview preparation, and salary-negotiation services to tech workers and takes 5–10% of a client’s first-year salary as its fee. The company is positioned as an agent-like career partner, aiming to manage careers long-term by helping talent develop skills, brands, and networks and by finding new opportunities. Free Agency is early-stage with about 11 employees and has reached 100 “Free Agents” on its platform. The founders and CEO frame the model as incentive-aligned with candidates and attractive to employers because better-paid, satisfied hires stay longer. The startup draws a parallel to income-share agreements in edtech and sees its service expanding beyond the job-search inflection point into multi-year career management and ancillary revenue opportunities.

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