
Reed Elsevier Ventures
1-3 Strand, London, England, WC2N 5JR, United Kingdom
Overview
REV is a global venture capital partnership. They are backed by one of the world's largest content, technology and analytics companies, RELX Group. Their mission is to help build companies that can transform their markets through the application of data, technology and analytics. Since 2000 they have invested over $200m in Big Data, Digital Health, Internet and Enterprise Technology companies. They have been early investors in disruptive category leaders like Palantir, Healthline, Babbel and Netli. Their portfolio of companies is part of a large, extended family of businesses that also includes the entire Reed Elsevier Group. Collaboration is actively encouraged and supported. Their focus is high growth, internet, media & technology businesses based in the US, Europe or Israel. Their typical sectors include: new media, mobile, big data & analytics, healthcare information & software and groundbreaking analytic technologies. They will invest at any stage of a company's development, from early/seed stage to growth capital and whatever their initial capital investment, they remain committed to helping the company achieve market leadership. They are a global investor active in all the major western venture capital hubs - San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Berlin and Tel Aviv. Their largest portfolio cluster is in California.
- Total investments
- 40
- Lead investments
- 13
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Business Development
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Orbital Witness
Participated · Series B · Jan 2026
Founded in 2018 by Will Pearce and Ed Boulle, Orbital Witness operates from New York City and London, offering an AI platform purpose-built for real-estate law. The software supports law firms, in-house legal teams, real-estate developers, title companies, and REITs throughout the transaction process. By the end of 2025, the company had facilitated 200,000 real-estate transactions across the US and UK. Its customer base spans AM Law 100 and Magic Circle firms, highlighting traction in both North American and European legal markets. Orbital Witness’s technology aims to streamline due-diligence, reduce risk, and cut transaction times. The company serves both US and UK markets and plans to deepen adoption across the broader real-estate transaction ecosystem. To date, it has raised $75 million in venture funding to fuel continued expansion.
- EvenUp
Participated · Series E · Oct 2025
EvenUp offers a specialized artificial intelligence platform that streamlines the full lifecycle of personal injury cases, from initial intake through settlement. More than 2,000 law firms rely on the software to draft demand letters and other legal documents, automate complex workflows, and optimize case outcomes. By reducing repetitive tasks, the system helps attorneys improve efficiency and accuracy while freeing staff for higher-value work. The company plans to invest heavily in research and development to add new features and enhance its core technology stack. With fresh capital, EvenUp also intends to broaden its market reach and accelerate customer acquisition across the personal injury segment. Management views the rising demand for AI solutions in legal tech as a catalyst for continued growth. The recently raised Series A funding marks the first publicly disclosed institutional round and underscores investor conviction in the company’s leadership position.
- Harvey
Participated · Series E · Jun 2025
Harvey is described as a standout legal tech company of the AI era that builds tools for legal workflows. The company has rapidly increased its market valuation, most recently confirmed at $11 billion following a $200 million financing. That latest round brought Harvey’s total capital raised to more than $1 billion. Investors in the most recent round included GIC and Sequoia as co-leads, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Evantic, and Kleiner Perkins. Harvey’s valuation has climbed through a series of rounds over the past year, moving from $3 billion to $5 billion to $8 billion and now $11 billion. Sequoia in particular has co-led three of the company’s rounds since its Series A.
- LegalMation
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.
- Gigasheet
Led · Series A · Jun 2022
Gigasheet provides a no-code analytics platform that lets organizations investigate massive data sets without a database, an IT team, or knowledge of query languages like SQL. The company offers a free community version where users can upload large CSV or JSON files and a Premium paid tier that adds capacity and direct integrations with SaaS platforms, databases, and cloud storage. Gigasheet is led by CEO Jason Hines and CTO Garth Griffin. The company plans a forthcoming enterprise offering that will bundle advanced features for sectors such as cybersecurity and sales and marketing operations. Gigasheet raised $7M in Series A funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate growth and expand its business reach.