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Priori raises $6.3M to help large companies hire outside legal help
November 2, 2020 — Priori Legal, a startup rethinking the way that large corporations hire outside counsel, has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding. Founded by CEO Basha Rubin and CPO Mirra Levitt (who met while classmates at Yale Law School), Priori launched...
Lawmatics raises $2.5M to help lawyers market themselves
November 2, 2020 — Lawmatics, a San Diego startup that’s building marketing and CRM software for lawyers, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. CEO Matt Spiegel used to practice law himself, and he told me that even though tech companies...
D2C Brands Like Mack Weldon Stay Nimble Through Pandemic
November 3, 2020 — While many apparel retailers were rattled by the novel coronavirus pandemic, direct-to-consumer men’s essentials brand Mack Weldon benefitted from an unexpected tailwind after the initial shock of the first two weeks of pandemic disruption. Since...
Cookware startup Caraway raises $5.3M as it eyes new product categories
June 10, 2020 — Caraway, a direct-to-consumer startup selling ceramic pots and pans, is announcing that it has raised $5.3 million in seed funding. The new funding comes from investors including Republic Labs, Bridge Investments, Springdale Ventures...
Casetext launches automated brief-writing product
November 1, 2020 — Casetext has developed an automated legal-writing product that purports to create an entire document with just a few simple clicks of the mouse. The technology called Compose, which publicly launched today, automates the first draft of a legal brief.
How a $1.2 Million Business Was Built From Selling Soap
November 2, 2020 — For Danielle Vincent, the path to a business started with a honeymoon and some well-timed sniffs. After her wedding in December 2012, she and her husband, Russ, traveled to Paso Robles, Calif. While there, she stopped at a farm store and picked up...
Fisher Phillips Boosts AI Capabilities With LegalMation, Thomson Reuters
August 18, 2020 — If lawyers and clients can’t agree on everything, it’s still easy for both groups to align on the value of predictability, which has been fueling a greater interest in artificial intelligence. Nationwide labor and employment specialist Fisher Phillip
Meet The Entrepreneur Who Just Raised $5 Million For His Cookware Startup
June 2, 2020 — In late 2017, Jordan Nathan put a non-stick frying pan coated with Polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE (also known under the trademark name Teflon) on his stove, forgot about it, and 45 minutes later his apartment was in fumes. He felt...
ConverseNow’s New Funding Will Help Restaurants Increase Sales, Contactless Offerings
May 13, 2020 — In this COVID-19 environment, many quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are touting a “contactless” customer experience when ordering and receiving food. As more QSRs adopt this as the “new normal,” ConverseNow Technologies Inc., an Austin, Texas-based..