Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

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Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing.

LawX, the Berlin legal-tech startup founded by Dr Norman Koschmieder, has raised a €7.5M seed round led by Motive Partners, with participation from WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures, plus a group of angels from the German tech and legal scene.

The round, announced on Monday, takes the company past €7m in total capital raised.

The product LawX is selling is narrower than the legal-AI category, as it is usually pitched. Most of the well-funded legal AI of the past two years has been built around lawyers’ own work, which is to say research, drafting, contract review, and matter analysis.

LawX is targeting the half of a law firm or notary’s day that nobody...

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