The scale-up Contractify introduces its new AI feature, called Ada, to the general public today. Ada helps companies to register contracts three times faster and is therefore revolutionary for contract management. Contractify, as a Belgian scale-up, is now at the level of large international players when it comes to the use of AI. To highlight the time-saving AI feature, the company also gives all their employees an extra day off.  Who is Contractify? Steven Debrauwere and Herlinde De Buck started Contractify in 2015. As consultants, they began to help companies better manage their contra ..read more

TLP Advisory, a Nigeria-based legal firm focused on Africa’s tech industry, says that it is expanding into the UK, US and Canada. Founded in 2014 as The Longe Practice, TLP in 2015 launched DIYLaw, a self-service legal tech platform. DIYLaw recently introduced a digitized, B2B dashboard aiming to simplify and automate many of the processes required by Africa-focused entrepreneurs. TLP – which at nine employees (according to LinkedIn) is small – has facilitated $400m of investments over the past five years. Its self-service platform makes access to legal services simple and affordable through A ..read more

DocuSign, the world’s leading e-signature provider and contract manager, introduced DocuSign Ventures, a new investment initiative to target the growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs and startups in the legal tech sector. DocuSign Ventures focuses on co-investing in and partnering with companies raising early stage funding to innovate around the agreement process.  By staying close to and working with the startups innovating at the edge, DocuSign aims to help its customers identify and integrate new solutions. This includes technologies that facilitate pre-agreement work and negotiation, in ..read more

UK law firm Burges Salmon announced the launch of a new technology platform – BScale – which provides legal services for start-ups, scale-ups, founders and investors, to support fast-growth companies in the technology sector throughout their life-cycle. BScale platform is built to support high-growth businesses through the sharing of knowledge, provide free of charge legal documentation through the BScale Document Generator as well as high-quality legal advice at a price point that is realistic for early stage businesses, and to enable Burges Salmon to build lasting and strategic rel ..read more

DoNotPay, a startup that describes itself as a robot lawyer striving to beat bureaucracy, has more than doubled its valuation to about $210 million and plans to expand to the UK, according to Chief Executive Officer Joshua Browder, Bloomberg reported. DoNotPay, which has about 250,000 customers and charges an annual subscription fee of $144, intends to use the latest $10m funding to bolster its customer base to include small businesses, according to Bloomberg. The move was motivated by a class action that DoNotPay defeated earlier this year, as Browder said to Bloomberg, noting that the s ..read more

As part of its continued commitment to the global start-up ecosystem, technology law firm Wilson Sonsini unveiled Neuron, the latest step in the firm’s mission to disrupt the legal industry. Neuron, the digital home for a start-up’s legal needs, is a next-generation proprietary software platform that streamlines, automates, and digitizes the typical legal processes along a start-up’s journey – from formation to exit. Dedicated modules will include incorporation, capitalization management, corporate maintenance, and financings. Neuron completes routine legal processes in a fraction of the ..read more

PwC Tax & Legal, supported by Microsoft, created the Tax & Legal Tech Springboard with the aim of promoting legal-tech and tax-tech solutions in the Spanish market. The Springboard is a startup acceleration program that offers business, technical, commercial, and financial mentoring as well as access to training resources, clients, and investors to selected startups. International tax- and legal-tech startups at an advanced stage of the development of their tax- or legal-tech solution, which need to validate the integration and adaption of their product or service to the Spanish market ..read more

Von Mischa Peters Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung tritt am 25. Mai vollständig in Kraft. Für Unternehmen sind dann zahlreiche neue Anforderungen zu beachten, bei Verstößen drohen empfindliche Bußgelder. Gerade für den Mittelstand, der sich nicht wie große Firmen aufwendige Datenschutzmanagementsysteme leisten kann, braucht es machbare und sichere Lösungen. Hier setzten Hauke Holtkamp und Aazar Ali Shad an, als sie im vergangenen Jahr ECOMPLY.io gründeten. Im Video-Interview erklärt Aazar, was ECOMPLY.io ist, welche Geschichte hinter dem Startup steht und welche Ziele angestrebt werden. Einen k ..read more

DoNotPay, a startup that describes itself as a robot lawyer striving to beat bureaucracy, has more than doubled its valuation to about $210 million and plans to expand to the UK, according to Chief Executive Officer Joshua Browder, Bloomberg reported. DoNotPay, which has about 250,000 customers and charges an annual subscription fee of $144, intends to use the latest $10m funding to bolster its customer base to include small businesses, according to Bloomberg. The move was motivated by a class action that DoNotPay defeated earlier this year, as Browder said to Bloomberg, noting that the s ..read more

PwC Tax & Legal, supported by Microsoft, created the Tax & Legal Tech Springboard with the aim of promoting legal-tech and tax-tech solutions in the Spanish market. The Springboard is a startup acceleration program that offers business, technical, commercial, and financial mentoring as well as access to training resources, clients, and investors to selected startups. International tax- and legal-tech startups at an advanced stage of the development of their tax- or legal-tech solution, which need to validate the integration and adaption of their product or service to the Spanish market ..read more