UK LegalTech startup Lawhive secures €50 million to scale AI-driven consumer law firm model

Lawhive, a London-based LegalTech company transforming how consumer legal services are delivered, has raised €50 million ($60 million) in Series B funding to accelerate its expansion across the US and scale its model of building an AI-native consumer law firm.

The round was led by Mitch Rales, co-founder of Danaher Corporation, with participation from TQ Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Balderton Capital, Jigsaw, Anton Levy and LTS. The investment comes within a year of Lawhive’s €37.9 million Series A. Annual revenue now exceeds €29 million ($35 million), having grown sevenfold in the past year.

Pierre Proner, CEO and co-founder of Lawhive, says: “The pace of growth over the past year reflects the scale of the problem we are tackling. Everyday legal matters remain costly and unpredictable for millions of people, while lawyers are held back by manual processes that limit their efficiency and scale of their legal practices.

“AI is finally making it possible to achieve a breakthrough in delivering consumer legal services with the speed and consistency people expect. The reaction from lawyers and clients in the US has been exceptionally strong, and this funding allows us to build on US momentum and scale our model.”

Activity across 2025 and early 2026 shows sustained investor interest in AI-driven LegalTech, spanning both enterprise legal workflows and consumer-facing services.

Large growth rounds include Legora, which raised €70.6 million in Sweden to scale its collaborative AI platform for law firms and legal teams, and Orbital, which secured €50 million in London to expand AI-powered real-estate law workflows. Mid-stage activity includes Italy-based Lexroom, which raised €16 million to grow its generative-AI legal services offering.

At the earlier end of the spectrum, funding rounds highlight a widening range of legal AI applications: Denmark’s Pandektes raised €2.9 million to automate legal research and legislative navigation; London-based Augmetec secured €2.4 million for its AI investigation platform; Switzerland’s Ex Nunc Intelligence raised €1.8 million pre-Seed for its legal AI infrastructure; Amsterdam-based Saga collected €1.5 million to expand its lawyer-centric AI platform; and Madrid’s iPNOTE raised €857k to scale its AI-powered IP services.

Taken together, these rounds represent approximately €146 million invested into European LegalTech over this period.

Against this backdrop, Lawhive’s €50 million Series B places it among the largest recent raises in the sector and is notable for its consumer-law-firm-as-a-platform model, contrasting with many peers that focus primarily on tooling for law firms or in-house legal teams.

Vidu Shanmugarajah, partner at GV, adds: “For too long, consumer legal services have been expensive, slow and out of reach for many people. Lawhive is changing that by using technology to make high-quality legal help more accessible without compromising on standards. That focus on access and outcomes for consumers is why we’ve continued to support the company as it scales across the US.”

Founded in 2021, Lawhive is an AI-native law firm that uses agentic AI to transform the delivery of consumer legal services. Its platform combines a network of lawyers with AI-powered workflow tools that automate routine tasks, improve operational performance and make everyday legal services more accessible.

The company is targeting one of the largest and most underserved segments of legal services. According to figures provided by Lawhive, the consumer legal market in America generates €169 billion ($200 billion) revenue annually, yet research suggests that up to €848 billion ($1 trillion) in legal needs go unmet annually because of cost, backlog and highly manual processes.

Lawhive believes that everyday issues such as family law, landlord/tenant disputes and employment law remain slow, costly and unpredictable for many, while consumer lawyers are constrained by administrative work and legacy systems.

Mitch Rales, co-founder of Danaher Corporation, says: “Lawhive is democratising legal services by providing access to high quality and transparent consumer legal services. I’m excited for my business building firm, New Bearing, to partner with Lawhive’s talented management team to build operational excellence into everything that Lawhive does for consumers and lawyers. Pierre, his co-founders and I share a mindset that we are building Lawhive for the next decades ahead of us.”

To date, Lawhive has helped tens of thousands of clients navigate family law, landlord and tenant disputes, property transactions, civil disputes, and consumer rights matters.

Demand is being driven both by consumers who want faster, more affordable access to their legal rights, and by lawyers who want to be more productive, profitable and efficient by leveraging AI to scale their legal practices.

The company now operates in 35 states, making the US its fastest growing market. In addition to Lawhive’s Austin office, a New York office is being opened to support this next stage of US growth.

In 2025 Lawhive completed the acquisition of Woodstock Legal Services in the UK. Lawhive now plans to expand their model in the US, where the consumer legal market is highly fragmented and dominated by thousands of small firms that lack modern infrastructure.

Lawhive’s technology supports lawyers and back-office teams by automating tasks such as document drafting, research, case management, client intake and payments. Lawhive’s AI paralegal, Lawrence, works alongside lawyers and support staff to collaborate on casework and administrative tasks.

Schuster Tanger, co-founding partner of TQ Ventures, said: “What sets Lawhive apart is its business model scales as quickly as its technology and operating leverage improves. Cutting-edge agentic AI, strong fundamentals and a clear opportunity to capture a fragmented market are rare. We believe Lawhive, with its remarkable pace of domination thus far, is on track to be the global champion of consumer law.”

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