Legistify raises fresh capital
On-boards leading investors Titan Capital, Indiamart, GSF Accelerator, and Java Capital
Facilitates a profitable (5X) cash payout, via partial stake sale, for early investors
New Delhi: Legistify, one of India’s leading tech-enabled, legal concierge platforms, has raised funds from leading venture capitalists and companies. Titan Capital (Personal fund of Snapdeal founders), Indiamart (Lead by Founder Dinesh Aggarwal) GSF Accelerator (Rajesh Sawhney, Roshan Abbas, Pras Hanuma, Murugavel Janakiraman, PowerHouse Ventures, Sin Growth, etc.), and Java Capital have invested in the company. Legistify founders have also facilitated a highly profitable (5X) cash payout for the partial stake sale of early investors viz. Ranjit Singh (Global COO & Board Member, Polyplex Corporation Ltd.), Ishaan Jalan (Co-founder Interweave Brands & Looma), Tushar Balsara (GoToMarket
Lead, Google Marketing Platform), among others. These investors continue to hold minority stakes in the company.
“The Indian legal services & tech market is estimated to be $5 Billion and is growing rapidly. Legistify aims to capture a 25% market share in the next 5 years. I welcome our new investors on board Legistify to join us on this very exciting journey as India’s legal-tech sector is poised to scale new heights. The 5X returns that we have been able to generate for our early investors in a relatively short span of time, is testimony to Legistify’s prowess and to the huge potential this sector offers. I also take this opportunity to thank our early investors for reposing their confidence in Legistify,” says Akshat Singhal, Founder & CEO, Legistify.
The freshly raised capital will be deployed to fund the expansion of services across geographies and towards the development of new products and services. Legistify is currently building a ‘market network’ for legal services, powered by Legistify’s tech platform, it will be able to solve some of the major issues various companies are facing viz. right lawyer discovery, cost control, transparent management of work, data drove insights and more. The idea is to disrupt a trust and human intuition-based industry using effective technology solutions backed by efficient data management and analysis.
INVESTOR SPEAK ON LEGISTIFY
Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital: “We’re super excited to become a part of Legistify’s rocketship. We waited for a long to figure out the right founding team in this space to invest in. Akshat and Pratik are visionary founders with clarity and strong execution ability. We believe legal is a huge & complex problem to solve and Legistify is doing great work solving it.”
Dinesh Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Indiamart: “We firmly believe that technology shall play a key role in improving the legal workflow over the coming years, and this opens a huge scope for Legistify to grow exponentially. We are excited to partner with Akshat and Pratik as they bring in a mix of tech capabilities and domain expertise to this business. The investment in Legistify will support IndiaMART’s commitment to helping businesses transform themselves by providing them an ecosystem of innovative software
solutions.”
Rajesh Sawhney, Founder & CEO, GSF Accelerator: “We always back the founders. And Legistify’s founders are deeply committed to solving the big problems in the legal space for big customers. They have insights and have a strong execution mindset. It’s a large white space…digital transformation on the legal side of corporates is the need of the hour. Legistify is well placed with its suite of tech products and services to be a reliable partner to large corporates. I see immense scope; I think large corporates to SMBs, startups
to consumers will be their customers in one form or other.“
The company is looking to rapidly expand its product and services portfolio to gain market share. In line with this strategy, Legistify has recently introduced its flagship Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solution, LegisTrak designed to empower in-house legal teams to excel in their core functions depending on their industry. Legistify’s holistic solutions cover all aspects of litigation, IPR, legal notices, and legal contracts management.
About Legistify
Legistify is one of India’s leading tech-enabled, legal concierge platforms. The company works with mid-market & large enterprises providing an avant-garde enterprise legal management suite (ELM) along with access to over 10,000 pre-verified lawyers PAN India, on-demand. Our holistic solution covers all aspects of litigation, IPR, legal notices, and legal contracts management. Legistify also offers the nation’s only platform providing real-time, data-backed insights on externally engaged lawyers alongside predictions on possible litigation outcomes using 200 million+ historic case data from over 7000 Indian courts. The
company’s network spans 300+ cities. Legistify already has 100+ corporates as clients. The list includes some of the world’s leading enterprises viz. SBI General Insurance, Amazon, Snapdeal, Whirlpool, Indiamart, Panasonic, Havells, Max Insurance, JCB, Dell, etc. The company aims to disrupt a trust and human intuition-based industry using effective technology solutions backed by efficient data management and analysis.
