Litigation Tech Is Drawing More Venture Money

Litigation software is one of the few parts of legal tech where deal count went up over the past year. In the four quarters from Q4 2025 through Q3 2026, companies in the litigation and eDiscovery category of the Legal Tech Circle funding tracker raised $215.6 million across 12 equity rounds. In the four quarters before that, they raised $34.7 million across eight.

One round accounts for almost half of the latest total. Enter, a Brazilian company that builds software for high volume civil and labor litigation, raised a $100 million Series B in May 2026. Without Enter, the category still raised $115.6 million across 11 rounds, more than three times the prior year.

How Much Did Litigation Tech Raise?

Beyond Enter, the two largest rounds were Steno, the court reporting and litigation support company, which raised a $49 million Series C in March 2026, and Syllo, which raised a $30 million growth round in October 2025. The rest were small: nine rounds between $2.5 million and $6 million.

The prior year had no litigation round above $10 million. The largest was Callidus Legal AI’s $10 million seed in July 2025.

Seed Activity Held Steady

The seed stage tells a quieter story. Across all of legal tech, seed and pre-seed rounds fell from 48 to 37 between the two periods, as we covered in our piece on the seed squeeze. Litigation held flat, with eight seed or pre-seed rounds in each period. That makes it a bigger share of a shrinking pool: about one in five of all seed deals the tracker logged in the latest four quarters.

Recent examples include Parambil’s $6 million seed in January 2026, Mary Technology’s $4.9 million seed in March, Discernis’s $2.5 million seed in August and Concorda’s $3.8 million seed in September.

Why Investors Are Looking at Litigation

Litigation work is document heavy, deadline driven and expensive, which makes it a natural target for tools that read, summarize and organize large records. It also has buyers on both sides, from plaintiff firms working on contingency to defense firms and insurers managing large portfolios of cases. Several of the new companies describe themselves as case intelligence, fact management or litigation workflow tools rather than classic eDiscovery platforms.

Litigation also had steady deal flow across the period. The category logged at least two rounds in six of the eight quarters we studied, which makes it less dependent on a single large deal than its total suggests.

That is a reading of how these companies position themselves, not a forecast. The category is still small. At $215.6 million, it was 5.8% of all legal tech equity in the latest four quarters.

What It Means for Buyers and Founders

For litigation teams, more funded vendors means more choice and more pilots on offer. Young companies with fresh seed money are often willing to price aggressively to win reference customers. The tradeoff is runway: a $3 million seed does not last long, so ask how a vendor will support your matters if its next round slips. Our guide to eDiscovery covers the questions to ask about data handling and export.

For founders, litigation is one of the categories where early stage investors are still active. The competition for those checks is rising, though, so a narrow starting use case with measurable time savings is likely to matter more than breadth.

Common Questions

How much did litigation tech startups raise in the past year?

$215.6 million across 12 equity rounds from Q4 2025 through Q3 2026, per the tracker.

What was the biggest litigation tech round?

Enter’s $100 million Series B in May 2026.

Is eDiscovery funding growing?

Yes. Excluding Enter, the category raised $115.6 million, up from $34.7 million the year before.

How many litigation seed rounds were there?

Eight seed or pre-seed rounds in the latest four quarters, the same as the year before, out of 37 across legal tech.

*Updated Oct 25, 2026 with corrected tracker data: litigation totals and the prior year’s largest round.*