The generative AI authorized tech startup Harvey has raised $21 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by Sequoia Capital.
Once I first wrote about Harvey in November, the beforehand stealth startup had simply emerged with information that it had raised $5 million in funding led by the startup fund of OpenAI, the corporate that’s the developer of the GPT AI know-how.
In February, Allen & Overy, one of many world’s largest legislation companies, announced that it had built-in Harvey into its world follow, the place it could be utilized by greater than 3,500 legal professionals throughout 43 places of work working in a number of languages.
Then, in March, PwC announced a global partnership with Harvey, offering PwC’s Authorized Enterprise Options professionals unique entry among the many Massive 4 to Harvey’s platform.
Now, Sequoia has confirmed previous reports that it has led a $21 million spherical of funding for Harvey, all whereas the product has but to develop into commercially out there besides by invitation.
“Harvey is the primary and greatest instantiation of a brand new breed of firm: the AI tremendous app,” Sequoia companions Pat Grady and Charlie Curnin wrote on Sequoia’s website. “Harvey is within the enterprise of giving individuals superpowers. First, legal professionals. Subsequent, skilled companies. Ultimately, all of data work.”
Harvey was based final yr by Winston Weinberg, previously an affiliate at legislation agency O’Melveny & Myers, and Gabriel Pereyra, previously a analysis scientist at DeepMind and a machine studying engineer at Meta AI, and claims to have been the primary firm constructed on high of GPT-4.
“We at Sequoia are delighted to be in enterprise with Gabe, Winston and all the group at Harvey,” Grady and Curnin wrote. “We sit up for serving to them unlock the ability of LLMs at work and, in doing so, usher in a brand new period of superhuman productiveness.”