Sandstone Raises $30 Million Series A for In-House Legal AI Tools
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 9
Sandstone Raises $30 Million Series A for In-House Legal AI Tools
1 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 9
Summary
$30 million in Series A funding will help Sandstone expand AI software built for in-house legal departments rather than law firms, with Lightspeed Venture Partners leading the round.
Six months after a $10 million seed round led by Sequoia, Sandstone is targeting small and mid-sized businesses whose legal teams juggle requests from Slack, email and Jira.
Its platform uses AI to route and triage incoming work, then supports custom workflows for drafting, review and legal analysis instead of the legal-reasoning focus seen at rivals such as Harvey and Legora.
That specialization reflects investor demand for vertical AI, but Sandstone is entering a crowded market as legal-tech startups raise heavily and Anthropic broadens Claude for Legal with new case-law and deposition tools.