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Event-planning hub PartySlate raises $5.5 million
February 21, 2020 — PartySlate, one of the few Chicago venture-backed tech startups founded by a woman, raised another $5.5 million. The website for party planners, event professionals and their customers, launched in 2015, is in 14 cities, up from seven a year ago.
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.
LegalMation Announces Investments from the Leaders in the Legal Space
November 1, 2019 — LegalMation® announced today that it has entered into a private placement round which includes new investments from REV Venture Partners (the venture capital arm of RELX Group, parent company of LexisNexis), Relativity, and Bridge Investments...
This trendy adventure luggage brand is built to last
October 25, 2019 — In an era of Instagram-fueled wanderlust and flight deals flooding your inbox, travelers can put some serious wear and tear on their luggage. The founders of Baboon Bags wanted to solve that problem."We saw that accessories fell into two camps...
PartySlate Wants to Be Your One-Stop Shop for Event Planning
July 12, 2019 — “I was looking for a really elevated design, and I couldn’t find what I was looking for online,” the Chicagoan says. Eventually, she found what she was looking for—sort of. During a kitchen renovation, she discovered Houzz...
Hudson Yards Features Digital Brands, In Group
July 10, 2019 — "The Shops" at New York's $25 billion Hudson Yards development, feature the second level "Floor of Discovery". This collection of digital first brands and "unique to New York" concepts should give both tourists and locals a fresh mix of refined specialty retailers, not found elsewhere.
Tom Goldstein and Sarah Harrington review past Supreme Court term with Casetext’s Laura Safdie
July 9, 2019 — On June 28, SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein and Sarah Harrington participated in a webinar discussing the major cases at the Supreme Court this term. The discussion, moderated by Laura Safdie from Casetext, covered Department of Commerce v. New York, holding that a question about citizenship cannot be ad
Casetext and Tracers Announce Strategic Partnership
July 9, 2019 — Casetext, the leader in modern legal research solutions, and Tracers, one of the leading data providers for professional public records searches, announced a new strategic partnership to provide cost-effective investigative resources...
Interior Define collaborates with Jason Wu on new furniture line
July 8, 2019 — Interior Define is going high fashion with its most recent collaboration. The company, which is all about letting people customize the fit and fabric on dozens of seats, sofas, and bed frames, tapped fashion designer Jason Wu...
Xact Data Discovery Acquires Fellow E-Discovery Provider QDiscovery
July 2, 2019 — Fireworks this week aren’t limited to 4th of July celebrations—they also take the form of e-discovery M&A Xact Data Discovery announced today the acquisition of QDiscovery, looking to expand its discovery services in the Midwest and east coast.