Facts
- HQ
- Seattle, WA, US
- Sectors
- Software Development
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 33
- Stage
- Acquired
- Founders
- Gaurav, Emad, James
Khosla Ventures-led Series A Gives Lexion $11 Million; Wilson Sonsini and Madrona Join Existing Investors
Lexion, a Seattle-based AI contract-management startup spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2019, raised $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A led by Khosla Ventures. Previous investors Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Madrona Venture Group, who backed its $4.2 million 2019 seed round, participated in the round.
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.
WhyLabs, AI2 Spinout Led by Ex-Amazon Engineers, Raises $4M from Madrona, Bezos Expeditions and Others
WhyLabs, an AI monitoring startup spun out of the Allen Institute for AI, emerged from stealth after raising $4 million from investors including Madrona, Defy Partners, Bezos Expeditions and Ascend VC to commercialize a platform for monitoring ML data and models. The company is led by CEO Alessya Visnjic, joined by former Amazon ML engineers Andy Dang and Sam Gracie plus ex-Madrona principal Maria Karaivanova.
Panda AI, spun out of AI2, raises $3.3M with AI2 as first investor from its new pre-seed fund
Panda AI, a stealth startup spun out of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), raised $3.3 million in a round led by PSL Ventures with participation from AI2 and others; it is the first company to receive funding from AI2’s new pre-seed fund.
AI2 spinout Lexion launches Slack chatbot to instantly locate legal contracts; raised $4.2M seed
Lexion, an AI2 spinout in Seattle, launched a Slack chatbot that instantly finds legal contracts based on team viewing permissions, aiming to save in-house legal teams hours—CEO Gaurav Oberoi said it's especially useful for remote work. The company raised a $4.2M seed round last year and was named to CB Insights' list of 100 promising AI startups.
Panda AI launches inside AI2 in Seattle, led by CEO Aaron Goldfeder and CTO Yue Ning in stealth mode
Panda AI is a stealth B2B startup launched inside the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) in Seattle, led by CEO Aaron Goldfeder and CTO Yue Ning, both former AI2 entrepreneurs-in-residence. The company — currently two employees with early access interest and Smartsheet co-founder Eric Browne as product advisor — aims to build next-generation tools for knowledge workers using recent AI breakthroughs.
Lexion Raises $4.2M Series Seed Led by Madrona to Apply AI/NLP for Contract Management
Lexion, an AI/NLP contract-management startup spun from AI2 technology, announced a $4.2 million Series Seed round led by Madrona to help mid-market businesses extract and track key details from complex documents.
