Increasing numbers of startups are getting funded in the UK and all require legal help with their financing.

SeedLegals identified a big burning pain: no founder wants to handle a bad fundraising experience because of legals. Previously founders would have to pay a decent chunk of the money they've just worked hard to raise, but the SeedLegals platform has provided a step change in cost.

The focus on a very specific niche (startups) has meant they have built a very tailored product, and word of mouth within startups is strong.

While they primarily focus on helping companies with fundraising, they also offer additional services (e.g. option schemes), and they're in a strong position to expand their offering to other legal needs.

SeedLegals is transforming legal services for startups. Under the leadership of serial-entrepreneur Anthony Rose, and angel investor Laurent Laffy, SeedLegals is one of the early innovators in the transformative lawtech sector - built off the UK’s strong legal services industry (lawtech companies in the UK raised £155m in 2020, up from £94m in 2019). Seedlegals provides all of the legal services needed to start and grow a startup. Instead of instructing a lawyer, every component of a funding round is transformed into an automated process, shrinking funding round timeframes.

Not only are they an innovative and fast growing scaleup themselves, SeedLegals also enables the whole of the tech ecosystem to grow and for innovation to flourish. In these uncertain times, this kind of technology has become even more important, whether companies are thriving or not, cutting burn rate, through technology like this is key to success. Founded in 2016, SeedLegals is now the largest closer of funding rounds in the UK, having worked with over 15,000 companies - this year SeedLegals also announced it’s launch in France, as it begins expanding the platform to Europe.