LexisNexis has announced the second round of participants in its Silicon Valley Legal Tech Accelerator program, which launched with five participants in April 2017.
The new companies are: Contract Wrangler, dealWIP, Lawcountability, Medilenz, ThreadKM, Vijilent and vTestify, which were selected from a long list of applicants based on “the interesting nature of their businesses and their innovative use of technology.”
The program is based in the Menlo Park, CA offices of Lex Machina and for the first time, at the Raleigh Technology Center for LexisNexis on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University.
Participants receive hands-on mentoring, enjoy access to cutting-edge tools technologies and data, and are given use of a workspace within Lex Machina’s offices in Silicon Valley for up to three months for three employees.
Once again, the program will be led by Lex Machina’s CEO Josh Becker, with support from LexisNexis’ CTO Jeff Reihl; Chief Product Officer Jamie Buckley; Vice President of US Product Management Jeff Pfeifer (pictured); and Lex Machina Chief Evangelist Owen Byrd. We will shortly be bringing you details of a conversation we had this week with Buckley around the benefits of the startup and the innovative work that LexisNexis iLabs is doing.
“We’re very excited to welcome a new group of innovative legal technology companies to our accelerator program,” said Pfeifer. “During the first phase of the program, we were pleased to observe a very high level of engagement and collaboration between participants and mentors, and the feedback from participants who completed the program was overwhelmingly positive. We look forward to helping this new group of startups take their vision and business practice to the next level.”
Here’s more detail on those seven participants:
Contract Wrangler (San Francisco, CA): Contract Wrangler uses advanced machine learning technology to uncover hidden data in business relationships and help clients maximize profitability and reduce risk.
dealWIP (Baltimore, MD): Cloud-based workflow integration platform for complex legal transactions that provides a secure, frictionless and transparent environment for transactional attorneys and their valued clients to plan, manage, automate and streamline every element of their most important high-stakes corporate legal matters.
Lawcountability (New York, NY): A cloud-based software platform designed to help lawyers network more effectively for their business and professional development. It is a cost-effective way to offer regular marketing and business-development training online and on-the-go.
Medilenz (Philadelphia, PA): AI-powered technology at the intersection of legal and health care helping companies and law firms, for example, mine medical records for critical data and providing medical expert services to life sciences clients, addressing business and scientific needs.
ThreadKM (Alpharetta, GA): A web-based, real-time legal knowledge management platform that allows lawyers and other professionals to securely and effortlessly build cases and work together. It combines the benefits of broad-based document and knowledge management with the precision of a purpose-built tool for lawyers.
Vijilent (Raleigh, NC): Automates people search for the legal industry. Data science company using machine learning to gather insights using social media data and working with law firms to harness the richness of that data and turn it into actionable knowledge.
vTestify (Cary, NC): A virtual testimony platform that is developed to leverage advances in technology to improve both the quality of testimony and the methods through which it is obtained. vTestify address the needs of lawyers, legal professionals and above all the clients it serves, by tackling inefficiencies in the system through the use of technology.
For more information, or to apply to the tech accelerator program, please email [email protected].