Supio, a gen AI platform for personal injury and mass tort plaintiff law firms, today (27 August) announced a $25m Series A led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from existing investors Bonfire Ventures and Foothill Ventures. The new investment brings Supio’s total funding to date to $33m.
Founded in 2021 by former Microsoft engineer Kyle Lam (CTO) and Microsoft product manager for 365 Jerry Zhou (CEO), Supio leverages large language models to automate data collection, surface information relevant to a case, and summarise information. We’re told that it has helped service over 3000 cases in the past year. Customers pay a subscription fee based on case volume. Interestingly, Supio claims that its technology is hallucination free.
“We built Supio specifically to help personal injury and mass tort plaintiff lawyers gain an edge in litigation by making data readily accessible and actionable, whether they’re in the earliest days of building a case, or litigating in a courtroom,” said Zhou. “Most lawyers are data-rich and time-starved, but Supio automates time-sapping manual processes and empowers them to identify critical information to prove and expedite their cases. Because each week, month, or year that drags on waiting for a case to come together is time someone in a likely vulnerable state is not compensated. We think that’s absurd, unfair and often painful.”
TorHoerman Law recently represented the plaintiff in a bellwether case brought against Abbott Labs that resulted in the healthcare company being ordered to pay $495 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
“Supio was instrumental for our trial team in preparing for and winning our recent case against Abbott Labs, proving their preterm formula contributed to a dangerous and often deadly bowel disease in a premature infant,” said Tyler Schneider, an attorney at TorHoerman Law. “Our case involved over 40,000 pages of medical records. Supio enabled us to quickly and accurately identify critical data. It has greatly improved our litigation processes and our ability to deliver justice for our clients.”
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