Harvey valued at $15.6 billion after $550 million round
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Harvey, the legal technology startup, is now valued at $15.6 billion after raising $550 million in a funding round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Diffusion, a new firm co-founded by Kris Fredrickson, a longtime Harvey backer and former Coatue Management investor, Bloomberg reported. Sapphire Ventures and Whale Rock Capital Management joined the round alongside a number of existing investors, and Bloomberg reported that the capital is aimed at powering Harvey's effort to build its own AI models, a step beyond the fine-tuned third-party models on which most legal AI products have been built. Diffusion's involvement closes a loop: Fredrickson backed Harvey before leaving Coatue, and now returns as co-lead through a new firm. Lightspeed takes the other co-lead seat. The participation of Sapphire, Whale Rock and existing holders signals a round that was partly an insider continuation rather than a wholly new syndicate. The stated purpose distinguishes this raise from Harvey's earlier rounds. Previous capital scaled agents and workflows across law firms and enterprise customers; this round, as Bloomberg described it, funds the compute and research needed to train proprietary models for legal work. Harvey sells AI tools for legal and professional work, and TechCrunch identifies Winston Weinberg, a former first-year associate, as founder and chief executive of a company...
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