Companies

DeepJudge

deepjudge.ai

DeepJudge gives legal teams governed access to institutional knowledge for enterprise search, AI applications, and LLM workflows.

HQZurich, Not applicable, Switzerland
Employees11-50
Funding$51.9M
Valuation$300M
23 active roles
Profile 8mo agoJobs checked 3d ago
Specialization
Not classified
Business
Software Applications
Market
Legal Services
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Enterprises
More details
Organization type
Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Legal Services
Customers
Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, Professional Services
Revenue models
Subscription, Services Fees
Listing status
Not classified
Latest equity round
Series A
Reported funding amount
$50M-$200M

About

DeepJudge builds an enterprise-search and AI-workflow platform that indexes and understands law firms’ internal data, enabling legal teams to build AI applications and LLM agents. It sells to law firms and in-house legal teams, differentiating itself through governed, context-aware access to institutional knowledge without complex implementation or data migration.

Market

DeepJudge competes in legal AI, specifically the intersection of enterprise knowledge search, legal document intelligence, and AI-agent workflow orchestration. It positions itself as a retrieval-first, LLM-agnostic platform that securely connects AI to a law firm's full internal knowledge base, emphasizing permissions, transparency, governance, and customization; this differentiates it from broader legal AI platforms focused primarily on research, drafting, document analysis, or structured review.

Target Customers

DeepJudge primarily serves elite and large law firms, their practice groups, and legal teams that need secure access to institutional knowledge; it also serves corporate legal departments. The principal buyers and champions appear to be Chief Innovation Officers, Heads of AI/LegalTech, and other legal-operations or technology leaders responsible for firm-wide AI adoption.

At a Glance

Problem

Legal firms possess valuable institutional knowledge, but it is fragmented across documents, archives, emails, and individual lawyers. This creates a productivity and opportunity-cost problem: lawyers spend time searching for prior work and relevant insights instead of focusing on strategy, while firms risk failing to reuse the expertise they have already paid to create. The central use case is giving every lawyer rapid access to the firm’s collective knowledge so that work can begin from relevant precedent rather than from scratch.

Product / Service

DeepJudge provides an AI-powered legal enterprise-search and workflow platform. Its Knowledge Search indexes and understands data wherever it lives, interpreting language, context, relevance, and institutional knowledge rather than relying on conventional keyword search. On top of that search layer, DeepJudge AI Workflows lets firms build, manage, orchestrate, and govern AI applications, multi-step workflows, and LLM agents using internal firm data, without requiring firms to restructure or upload their data.

The benefit is a single, governed access layer for institutional intelligence: lawyers can find precise information faster, reuse collective expertise, automate recurring work, and spend more time on higher-value strategic activity. The platform is delivered as enterprise software for legal teams, with the company positioning it as a core AI platform rather than only a standalone search tool.

Market

DeepJudge competes in legal technology, specifically AI-powered enterprise search, legal knowledge management, and workflow automation for law firms. Its competitive set includes adjacent legal-AI vendors such as Harvey, Legora, Centari, and SimplyAgree, which DeepJudge lists alongside itself in its legal-AI vendor material. The company’s positioning is differentiated by combining internal knowledge retrieval with the construction and governance of firm-specific AI workflows and agents.

DeepJudge was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Zurich, with teams in the United States and Canada serving clients worldwide. It is backed by investors including Coatue and Felicis, so it is not presented as pre-revenue; third-party estimates put annual revenue at $13.1 million, although funding estimates vary between $53 million and $63.1 million across sources. The company’s public materials do not provide a precise customer count or audited financials, so the revenue and funding figures should be treated as indicative rather than definitive.

Founders & Leadership

Paulina GrnarovaFounder
CEO and Founder
Kevin RothFounder
COO and Founder
Yannic KilcherFounder
CTO and Founder
PascalCRO
Tony EnsingerSVP of Sales
Jacqueline JohansenSVP of Legal

Funding History

2021-01
SpinoutN/A

ETH Zurich

2021-06
Support ProgramCHF150k

Gebert Rüf Foundation

2021-12
GrantCHF150k

Venture Kick

2023-06
Early VCN/A

SICTIC

2024-06
Seed$10.7M

Coatue

2025-11
Series A$41.2M

Felicis

Recent News

2026-10-06exec_change
DeepJudge appoints Pascal Debets Chief Revenue Officer

DeepJudge announced that Pascal Debets joined as Chief Revenue Officer and would lead its global revenue organization and go-to-market strategy. The announcement describes his prior sales leadership roles at Gainsight and inSided.

2026-09-20partnership
DeepJudge strengthens its partnership with Homburger as adoption exceeds 80%

DeepJudge said it was strengthening its partnership with Homburger after more than a year of the firm’s use of DeepJudge Search. DeepJudge reported that adoption had exceeded 80% of Homburger’s legal professionals.

2026-08-13product_launch
DeepJudge launches Agent Handoff Protocol with Harvey and Thomson Reuters support

DeepJudge introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol that lets users move between AI platforms while carrying the context needed to continue their work. Harvey is implementing an integration entering beta in August, while Thomson Reuters said it will support the protocol in CoCounsel for Legal.

2026-04-21partnership
DeepJudge and Epiq Partner to Scale AI Across Law Firm Institutional Knowledge

DeepJudge and Epiq announced a partnership to help law firms adopt AI across the enterprise using trusted institutional knowledge. The partnership supports permission-aware agentic workflows, structured implementation, and governed adoption.

2025-11-03funding
DeepJudge Raises $41.2M Series A to Power Elite Law Firms with AI-Driven Knowledge

DeepJudge announced a $41.2 million Series A led by Felicis, with continued support from Coatue. The funding is intended to accelerate product innovation, expand the partner ecosystem, and support international growth; the announcement also identified Freshfields as a core customer for its AI and knowledge strategy.

2025-10-22partnership
DeepJudge Partners with Thomson Reuters to Advance the Next Generation of Legal AI

Thomson Reuters announced a partnership integrating DeepJudge’s AI knowledge platform with CoCounsel Legal. The integration is designed to unify internal firm know-how with Thomson Reuters content and support secure, multi-step legal AI workflows.

Active Roles

23
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Operations/9d ago
Remote - UK/Operations/9d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Product/10d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/32d ago
Remote - Remote - Canada/Marketing/33d ago
Remote - Remote - USA/Marketing/33d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/37d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/48d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/61d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Sales Engineer/61d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Forward-Deployed Engineer/61d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/75d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/100d ago
Remote - Remote - USA; Boston; Washington DC; New York/Sales/120d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/130d ago
Remote - Remote - USA; New York/Customer Success Manager/130d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Engineering/226d ago
OnSite - Zurich HQ/Product/241d ago
Multiple Locations; UK; Remote - Canada; Remote - USA/Other/241d ago

Business Model

DeepJudge sells its software services to customers on a contract-based subscription basis, granting users a limited license to access the platform; subscription fees are specified in customer order forms. It also charges implementation and, where requested, professional-services fees, with agreements generally renewing annually.

Products

DeepJudge Knowledge SearchDeepJudge AI WorkflowsAI Workflow BuilderCustom AI applications, multi-step workflows, and LLM-agent implementations

Customers

FreshfieldsHolland & KnightCozen O’ConnorArentFox SchiffSchoenherrGunderson DettmerCMS SwitzerlandHomburgerLenz & StaehelinGreenberg TraurigVorysLEXRWenger VieliAdvestraSBB Legal & ComplianceRoth+PartnerFreeman, Mathis & Gary

Tech Stack

Enterprise-scale search engineLarge language models (LLMs) and generative AILLM-agnostic agentic reasoningAI agents and workflow orchestrationPermission-aware indexing and access controlsModel Context Protocol (MCP)

Competitors

Harvey
Legora
Hebbia
vLex / Vincent AI

Key Investors

Felicis Ventures, Coatue