Max Junestrand

Swedish entrepreneur Max Junestrand cofounded Legora, a legal tech startup building collaborative AI tools for lawyers, in 2023. Today, the startup touts 300 law firms as customers including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin and others, and has grown to 100 employees.

A Y Combinator alum with no legal background, Junestrand started out by interviewing some 100 lawyers to learn more about the inner workings of the profession. He would send LinkedIn messages to lawyers, asking them to meet for lunch and offer to pay them their hourly rate, Junestrand said on a recent podcast. The company has raised some $260 million in total funding including its recent $150 million Series C funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, valuing it at $1.8 billion.