Clearbrief
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, Washington
- Sectors
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 33
- Stage
- Series B
GeekWire 200 Q2 2025 Lists Top 10 Fast-Growing Pacific Northwest Startups in AI, Robotics, Energy, and More
The GeekWire 200 ranking highlights the fastest-growing private tech startups in the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing innovators in AI, robotics, energy, and more for Q2 2025. This quarterly list, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, tracks regional tech development and emerging companies.
Find Ventures Shuts Down After Six Years Due to Funding Challenges, Donates Remaining Funds to UW
Find Ventures, a nonprofit supporting early stage Washington startups and underrepresented entrepreneurs with non-dilutive funding, is shutting down due to funding challenges after six years. The organization raised $700,000 in 2022 but could not secure capital for a second cohort amid a challenging macro environment and declining donor interest.
Seattle Legal Tech Startup Supio Raises $60M Series B to Expand AI Software for Personal Injury and Mass Tort Law
Seattle startup Supio raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to expand its AI-powered software that helps lawyers efficiently manage personal injury and mass tort case data. The company, led by co-founders Jerry Zhou and Kyle Lam, has seen its annual recurring revenue quadruple since August and has raised a total of $91 million to date.
GeekWire Awards 2024 Startup of the Year Finalists Auger, CalmWave, Clearbrief, Oleria, and Yoodli Showcase AI-Driven Innovations
The five finalists for the GeekWire Awards’ Startup of the Year—Auger, CalmWave, Clearbrief, Oleria, and Yoodli—are all leveraging AI to enhance their products and internal processes, utilizing automation and AI-driven insights across diverse sectors such as supply chain, healthcare, legal, web3, and communications. Their CEOs shared how AI empowers their companies to innovate and improve customer experiences.
Supio, Founded by Ex-Microsoft Engineers, Raises $25M Series A for AI Legal Tech Platform Optimizing Data Analysis in Plaintiff Cases
Seattle-based legal tech startup Supio, founded by ex-Microsoft engineers Kyle Lam and Jerry Zhou, raised $25 million in Series A funding to enhance its AI-powered platform that helps lawyers efficiently analyze case data, particularly in personal injury and mass tort plaintiff law. The company, with 27 employees and plans to double its workforce, charges subscription fees based on case volume and boasts successful use in complex cases such as a TorHoerman Law victory against Abbott Labs.
Seattle Legal Tech Startup Clearbrief Raises $4M to Boost AI Software for Lawyers
Seattle-based legal tech startup Clearbrief raised $4 million to enhance its AI-powered software that helps lawyers find, verify, and summarize facts in legal documents. The software, used by hundreds of law firms and Microsoft’s legal team, generates litigation exhibits and detects citation errors.
Clearbrief Raises $3.5M Seed Round Led by Reign Ventures with Court Lorenzini, Jack Newton and Others
Clearbrief, a product that strengthens legal writing, has raised a total of $3.5 million in seed funding led by Reign Ventures and announced on August 30, 2021; new investors include Court Lorenzini, Jack Newton, Amy Weaver, Hadi Partovi and Lata Setty. The company previously attracted early backers such as Mark Britton, Bryan Garner and Bill Neukom.
Clearbrief raises $3.5M seed to scale AI that flags misrepresentations in litigation briefs
Clearbrief, a Seattle startup, raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Reign Ventures to expand its AI-powered tool that uses NLP to flag unsupported or misrepresented statements in litigation documents and surface underlying evidence. CEO Jacqueline Schafer says the software helps lawyers and judges quickly verify claims, improve strategy, and increase access to legal materials as courts move online and adopt new filing rules.
Khosla Ventures leads $11M Series A for Seattle AI contract startup Lexion as revenue quadruples
Seattle startup Lexion, which uses AI to parse contracts and create searchable repositories, has quadrupled revenue and added 50 customers in four months. The 30-person company raised an $11 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures to expand from reporting into workflow features and accelerate growth.
Advocat Technologies wins $200,000 top prize at San Diego Angel Conference for AI legal-drafting platform
Seattle-area legal tech startup Advocat Technologies won the $200,000 top prize at the San Diego Angel Conference for its AI system that automates intake and drafting for enterprise legal departments, saving in-house attorneys significant time. The Bellevue company, led by CEO Pradnya Desh, was previously bootstrapped, has raised an additional $800,000, and participated in several accelerator programs.
Clearbrief raises $1.2M from Sequoia, Madrona and Avvo founder to commercialize AI legal-writing tool
Seattle startup Clearbrief raised $1.2 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Avvo founder Mark Britton to commercialize AI-powered legal writing software that checks sentences against supporting evidence and integrates with Microsoft Word and the cloud.
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Jacqueline Schafer Executive, CEO, Founder and CEO
