Legora at a glance
Question | Answer | As of |
|---|---|---|
Who owns Legora? | Its founders, employees and venture investors; no acquirer and no public shares | Oct 2026 |
Annual recurring revenue | $200M+ | Oct 21, 2026 |
Valuation | $8.8B post-money, set by a $550M Series E led by Atreides | Oct 21, 2026 |
Total raised | About $1.4B across six rounds | Oct 2026 |
Customers | 2,400+ law firms and in-house legal teams; 140,000+ legal professionals in 80+ markets | Oct 21, 2026 |
CEO | Max Junestrand, co-founder | Oct 2026 |
Founded | 2023 in Stockholm, as Leya; renamed Legora in February 2025 | 2023 |
Headquarters | Stockholm; the US is its largest market by revenue | Oct 2026 |
Employees | 1,000+ across 18 offices | Oct 21, 2026 |
Acquisitions | Five in 2026: Walter, Qura, Graceview, Cadastral and Wexler | Jul 2026 |
Website | legora.com; staff email was on leya.law before the rename | Oct 2026 |
Email format | {first}@legora.com (about 61% of known addresses) | Oct 2026 |
Legora has two main companies: Legora, Inc., a Delaware corporation that sells shares to its investors (SEC), and Legora AB in Stockholm, company number 559338-6872, which its privacy policy names as the data controller (Legora).
Who owns Legora?
Legora is private and independent: no acquirer, no shares on any exchange and no announced IPO as of October 2026. It belongs to its founders, employees and investors; no ownership stakes have been published.
Investor | Role in Legora’s funding |
|---|---|
Atreides Management | Led the $550M Series E (Oct 2026) (Legora) |
Accel | Led the $550M Series D (Mar 2026) (Legora) |
Bessemer Venture Partners | Led the $150M Series C (Oct 2025) (Legora) |
ICONIQ and General Catalyst | Co-led the $80M Series B (May 2025) (Legora) |
Redpoint Ventures | Led the $25M Series A (Jul 2024); partner Jacob Effron joined the board (Legora) |
Benchmark | Led the $10.5M seed round (May 2024) (Tech.eu); partner Chetan Puttagunta is a director |
Y Combinator | Backed Legora in its winter 2024 batch (Y Combinator) |
Strategic investors | Salesforce Ventures, J.P. Morgan, and Atlassian and NVentures (NVIDIA), which joined in April 2026 (Legora) |
Legora, Inc.’s March 2026 filing for its Series D lists four directors: Max Junestrand, Sigge Labor, Chetan Puttagunta and Jacob Effron (SEC).
What is Legora’s revenue?
Legora passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue in mid-September 2026. Junestrand wrote: “Getting from $1M to $100M in ARR took us 18 months. The second hundred took less than six.” (X) Legora says no other enterprise software company selling through a direct sales team has reached $100 million faster (Legora).
Date | Annual recurring revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 21, 2026 | $200M+ | |
Mid-Sep 2026 | Passed $200M | |
Apr 2, 2026 | Passed $100M | |
Oct 2024 | About $1M, around its commercial launch |
The US is now Legora’s largest market by revenue, and more than half of the AmLaw 50, the 50 highest-grossing US law firms, are customers, although its first US office opened only in spring 2025. In-house legal teams, a small fraction of customers a year earlier, made up more than 40% of new customers in the third quarter of 2026 (Legora). Junestrand named Air Canada, Salesforce and Palo Alto Networks among them (X).
Date | Customers | Source |
|---|---|---|
Oct 21, 2026 | 2,400+ law firms and legal teams; 140,000+ legal professionals | |
Sep 22, 2026 | 2,100 firms and legal teams; 130,000 lawyers using it monthly | |
Apr 2, 2026 | 1,000+ law firms and legal teams in 50 markets |
Customers Legora has announced include Goodwin (Legora), Linklaters (Legora), White & Case across 43 offices (Legora) and Jones Day, which chose it for its 2,500 lawyers in October 2026 (Legora).
Legora doesn’t publish profit figures. The 2024 accounts of its Swedish company showed net revenue of about SEK 13 million, up from SEK 123,000 in 2023, and an operating loss of SEK 44.7 million (Realtid).
How much did Legora raise? Funding and valuation
Legora has raised about $1.4 billion in six rounds, five of them since May 2025. Its valuation rose from $675 million at the May 2025 Series B to $8.8 billion at the October 2026 Series E, 13 times higher in 17 months.
Round | Date | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 21, 2026 | $550M | $8.8B post-money | Atreides | |
Apr 30, 2026 | $50M | $5.6B post-money | Atlassian and NVentures joined | |
Mar 10, 2026 | $550M | $5.55B | Accel | |
Oct 30, 2025 | $150M | $1.8B | Bessemer | |
May 21, 2025 | $80M | $675M | ICONIQ and General Catalyst | |
Jul 17, 2024 | $25M | Not disclosed | Redpoint | |
May 16, 2024 | $10.5M | Not disclosed | Benchmark |
Why totals differ online: the Series D is reported both as $550 million at $5.55 billion (March) and as $600 million at $5.6 billion after the April extension; Legora’s filing for it offers $600.08 million (SEC). Before the Series E, the Financial Times reported talks at $10 billion or more (TNW); the round priced at $8.8 billion.
Its main rival, Harvey, raised $550 million at a $15.6 billion valuation in September 2026 (TNW). On October 13, 2026 the two launched products with the same name, Intake, hours apart (Legal Cheek).
Who is the CEO of Legora?
Max Junestrand is Legora’s co-founder and CEO. He studied machine learning at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and business at the Stockholm School of Economics, and worked at McKinsey and as a software developer at Ericsson and Abios before starting Legora (Y Combinator). Forbes put him on its 30 Under 30 AI list for 2026 (Forbes).
Person | Role | Since |
|---|---|---|
Max Junestrand | Co-founder, CEO | 2023 |
Sigge Labor | Co-founder; executive officer and director | 2023 |
David Eckstein | Chief financial officer; previously CFO of Vanta (Legora) | Jan 2026 |
Patrick Forquer | Chief revenue officer (Legora) | Not public |
Zeynep Inanoglu Ozdemir | Chief marketing officer; previously CMO of Atlassian (Legora) | May 2026 |
Bryan Tsao | Chief product officer; previously CPO of Jasper (Legora) | Aug 2026 |
Labor’s role is as listed in Legora, Inc.’s March 2026 SEC filing (SEC).
Full bio and contact routes: Legora CEO Max Junestrand: email address, LinkedIn and bio.
Where is Legora headquartered, and how many employees does it have?
Legora is headquartered in Stockholm; its privacy policy gives Box 7242, 103 89 Stockholm as its address (Legora). Its press releases now carry a “New York & Stockholm” dateline, and in July 2026 it announced an office at 11 Madison Avenue in Manhattan that will create more than 550 jobs (Legora). It had 18 offices by October 2026:
Opened or announced | Offices | Source |
|---|---|---|
2023 | Stockholm (headquarters) | |
By May 2025 | London | |
Mar 24, 2025 | New York, the first US office | |
By Oct 2025 | Denver, Sydney | |
By Mar 2026 | Bengaluru | |
Feb 27, 2026 | Houston, Chicago | |
Apr 15, 2026 | San Francisco, Toronto | |
May 25, 2026 | Singapore, Tokyo | |
Jun 10, 2026 | Madrid, Milan, Paris | |
Jul 28, 2026 | Mexico City | |
Jul 30, 2026 | Seoul | |
Sep 28, 2026 | Munich |
Date | Employees | Source |
|---|---|---|
Early 2024 | About 10 | |
Feb 2025 | 60 | |
May 2025 | 100 | |
Oct 2025 | Nearly 200 | |
Mar 2026 | 400 | |
Oct 2026 | 1,000+ |
That is about 100 times as many people in under three years. At 1,000+ people and $200 million in annual recurring revenue, Legora brings in about $200,000 per employee; Linear, whose software Legora’s teams plan their product work in (Linear), brings in more than $500,000 with a far smaller team.
Which companies has Legora acquired?
Legora made its first acquisition in March 2026 and four more by the end of July, mostly to add products and engineering teams:
Date | Company | What it adds | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
Mar 11, 2026 | Walter | Agentic AI for legal teams; anchors the Toronto office | |
Apr 23, 2026 | Qura | AI-native legal research | |
May 6, 2026 | Graceview | Real-time regulatory intelligence for compliance and risk teams | |
Jun 2, 2026 | Cadastral | AI for commercial real estate legal work | |
Jul 29, 2026 (announced) | Wexler | Fact-finding for disputes and investigations; its engineers found the London engineering hub |
What is Legora’s email format?
Legora employees mostly use {first}@legora.com (about 61% of known addresses) or {first}.{last}@legora.com (about 39%), according to RocketReach (RocketReach). Staff mail runs on Google Workspace at legora.com. Before the February 2025 rename, staff used leya.law.
Need | Official address |
|---|---|
General inquiries | contact@legora.com |
Customer support | support@legora.com |
Press and media | press@legora.com |
Privacy | privacy@legora.com |
All patterns, domains and official inboxes: Legora email format.
Key events: from a law firm’s conference room to $8.8 billion
Legora built its first version inside Sweden’s largest law firm, launched commercially in October 2024 and has since raised five rounds, opened 17 offices outside Stockholm and bought five companies.
Date | Event |
|---|---|
Oct 22, 2026 | Jones Day chooses Legora for its 2,500 lawyers (Legora) |
Oct 21, 2026 | $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation, led by Atreides (Legora) |
Oct 13, 2026 | Launches Intake for in-house teams, hours before Harvey launches a product of the same name (Legora) |
Sep 28, 2026 | Opens in Munich, its first German office (Legora) |
Sep 2026 | Passes $200M in annual recurring revenue (X) |
Aug 4, 2026 | Bryan Tsao joins as chief product officer (Legora) |
Jul 29, 2026 | Announces the acquisition of Wexler (Legora) |
Jul 24, 2026 | Announces a new New York office at 11 Madison Avenue, with 550+ jobs (Legora) |
Jun 10, 2026 | Announces offices in Madrid, Milan and Paris (Legora) |
May 7, 2026 | Launches the Legora aOS, an “agentic operating system” for legal work (Legora) |
Apr 30, 2026 | Adds $50M to the Series D, at $5.6B (Legora) |
Apr 13, 2026 | Signs actor Jude Law for its brand campaign (Legora) |
Apr 2, 2026 | Passes $100M in annual recurring revenue (Legora) |
Mar 11, 2026 | First acquisition: Walter (Legora) |
Mar 10, 2026 | $550M Series D at a $5.55B valuation, led by Accel (Legora) |
Jan 29, 2026 | David Eckstein joins as CFO (Legora) |
Dec 18, 2025 | White & Case rolls Legora out across 43 offices (Legora) |
Nov 7, 2025 | Launches Portal, for law firms to work with their clients in Legora (Legora) |
Oct 30, 2025 | $150M Series C at a $1.8B valuation, led by Bessemer (Legora) |
May 21, 2025 | $80M Series B at a $675M valuation (Legora) |
Mar 24, 2025 | Opens its first US office, in New York, with Goodwin as a partner (Legora) |
Feb 19, 2025 | Leya is renamed Legora (Legora) |
Oct 2024 | Commercial launch (Legora) |
Jul 17, 2024 | $25M Series A led by Redpoint (Legora) |
May 16, 2024 | $10.5M seed round led by Benchmark (Tech.eu) |
Winter 2024 | Y Combinator, W24 batch (Y Combinator) |
May 2023 | First version; Mannheimer Swartling hosts the team in its Stockholm office for nine months (Legora) |
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