• Lawmatics

  Participated · Series A · Dec 2021

  Lawmatics offers an end-to-end legal CRM solution that combines client intake, CRM, and marketing automation for law firms. The platform is designed to help firms streamline the business side of their practice, improve client intake, and automate marketing. Lawmatics positions itself as a leading legal CRM used by firms of all sizes. The company says the product helps firms impress clients and win more business. With the new funding, Lawmatics plans to continue building and enhancing its legal CRM, client intake, and marketing automation capabilities. The announcement frames the Series A as enabling continued product development and growth. Lawmatics offers a CRM and marketing automation platform designed specifically for law firms, focusing on client intake and post-case relationship nurturing rather than case management. The product automates tasks like targeted messaging and client follow-ups to help firms generate referrals. Early customers are consumer-driven practices that rely on Google search for leads, such as personal injury, bankruptcy, and estate-planning firms. The company says the pandemic accelerated adoption as lawyers shifted to virtual work and needed better tools. Lawmatics raised $2.5 million in seed funding to support growth. CEO Matt Spiegel cofounded the company with CTO Roey Chasman; Spiegel previously founded MyCase, which was acquired by AppFolio (and later sold by AppFolio to a group of funds for $193 million).

• Adway

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2021

  Adway provides a patented advanced optical system with small, smart projectors that display static and video content on the sides of vehicles. Its platform combines geofencing, real-time data collection and analytics, and Bluetooth-based proximity detection to report audience exposure anonymously to advertisers. Devices collect and transmit data to clients' dashboards in real time so advertisers can monitor campaign performance and control spend and targeting more granularly. Drivers use the Adway driver app to monitor performance, facilitate payouts and earn passive income by displaying brand logos, ads and other graphics via projections. Advertisers including Cisco/Webex, Sweetfin, Rip Curl, Sandland, Sky Zone and ROW 8 have used the platform to target specific locations with dynamic messaging. The company, led by CEO Sasha Krylov, raised $6M in seed funding and intends to use the proceeds for commercialization of its system.

• Trellis

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2019

  Trellis Research, Inc., based in Los Angeles, provides an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that gives litigators access to state trial court data. Its platform lets users search millions of court dockets and documents to uncover parties’ litigation history and opposing counsel’s past strategy. The product analyzes millions of state trial court cases to surface powerful analysis for users’ matters. Trellis also enables litigators to track legal issues as they are being decided in real time. The company currently serves some of the largest law firms and legal departments. Trellis was founded by Nicole Clark and Alon Shwartz. Trellis Research is a Los Angeles-based startup developing decision-making tools for litigators. The company maintains a database of California court records. According to the startup, it has created a legal intelligence decision engine. On March 27, 2019, Trellis raised $2M in a seed funding round. The source of the funding was not disclosed. The article containing further details was available only to paid members of socalTECH.

• Trellis Research

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2019

  Trellis provides litigators with an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that gives professionals access to state trial court data. Users can search through millions of court dockets and documents to uncover intelligence about parties’ litigation history and opposing counsel’s past strategy. The platform analyzes millions of state trial court cases to surface the most powerful analysis for a given case. Litigators can also track legal issues as they are being decided in real time. Trellis currently serves some of the largest law firms and legal departments. The company is co‑founded by CEO Nicole Clark and CPO Alon Shwartz. Trellis Research is a searchable database of state trial court data that offers an AI-driven analytics platform for legal practitioners. Its two main products, Smart Search and Judge Analytics, let users find past rulings, search opposing counsel dockets, review influential court documents such as motions, and analyze judges' ruling tendencies and biographical information. The company aggregates data from 362 trial courts across twelve states, with additional county-level coverage in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut planned by year-end. Co-founded by Nicole Clark and Alon Shwartz and based in Los Angeles, Trellis intends to accelerate product expansion and hiring and to broaden its use cases beyond the legal vertical. Management plans to introduce the platform into adjacent industries that need access to its data, including real estate and property management, financial services, and insurance. Financially, Trellis completed a $14.1M Series A that brought its total fundraising to $20M. Trellis Research builds a search and analytics tool for state court data and judicial analytics. The company operates the largest database of California Superior Court records and offers a freemium service where trial decisions and filings are accessible via organic search, while power users pay for full access, downloads, printing, and analysis. Individual subscriptions cost $100 and enterprise contracts are negotiable. Founder Nicole Clark began collecting the underlying data in 2016 and founded Trellis in 2018 after using the product as a litigator. Trellis graduated from Techstars and claims attorneys can double their win rate using its software. The company plans to expand into New York, Texas, Florida, and Delaware over the next year. Trellis Research offers a decision engine and smart search built on the largest database of California state trial court records, with more than 5.1 million records. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce judge biographies, decision history analysis, strategy reports, and predictions of settlement ranges and class member payouts. Trellis is already in use at several AM100 firms in California and positions itself as a must-have research tool for litigators. The company publicly launched its decision engine and plans to expand to New York in late 2019. Trellis was founded and is led by CEO and co-founder Nicole Clark and is a graduate of Techstars LA 2018. The product targets a large legal services market and aims to fill a gap left by incumbent research providers that focus on appellate rather than state trial court data.

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