It was great to see so many diverse companies in the exhibition hall at ILTACON 2025, from the largest billion dollar organisations to those in Startup Hub that in some cases have been around for less than a year. These are potentially the future million or even billion dollar organisations, and it was great to see them here at the outset of their journey.
So who are they, what do they do, and how can you find them? Here they are below in the order they were in the Hub.
Practical IG - founded in 2024
Website: practicalig.com
Practical IG provides expert consulting services to help organizations navigate the complex world of information governance. With decades of experience working with Fortune 100 companies, AMLAW 100 law firms, and smaller but highly regulated organizations, we understand the unique challenges of managing data in diverse industries and at varying scales.
Steve Bradley
Principal
Billables AI -founded in 2023
The Billables AI Automated Time Report is a first-of-its-kind professional service product, powered by AI and designed for lawyers, agencies, and consultants. We’re building state-of-the-art AI tools to help people reduce the time spent on mundane operational tasks. Our team brings a deep history of AI expertise, B2B software development, and user-centric product experiences to transform billing and timekeeping forever.
Arvind Sujeeth
Co-founder and CEO
Nancy Jeng
Co-founder
Phaselaw - founded in 2023
Phaselaw helps organizations review and redact large volumes of documents as part of litigations, investigations, requests for data from regulators, and privacy-related requests. Our AI tools handle the busy work of document review so you can get back to high impact work.
Josh Schwartz
Co-founder and CEO
David van Dokkum
Co-founder
truthsystems - founded in 2023
Website: truthsystems
Helping law firms build the future of AI Governance. A unified governance layer, our agent transforms your firm and client policies into intelligent guardrails to block non-compliant prompts and potential data leakages.
Anh Mac
CEO
Nam Nguyen
COO
Mikołaj Bocheński
Founding Engineer
OneRetain - founded in 2023
Website: OneRetain.com
We built an AI-powered platform that helps talent leaders in law firms engage and retain their people.
Inga Masjule
Founder & CEO
Antidote Legal - founded in 2024
Automate guideline checks, correct time entries instantly, and reclaim lost revenue, all inside your existing workflows. Built for leading law firms.
Nicholas d'Adhemar
Founder & CEO
August - founded in 2024
Thomas Bueler-Faudree
Founder
August, the first AI legal assistant that can research, draft, and revise autonomously.
Website: August — Configurable Legal AI
Joseph Parker
Founder
Rutvik Rau
Founder
&AI -founded in 2024
&AI is an AI-powered workspace designed for patent attorneys. Leverage agentic AI to accelerate entire prosecution & litigation workflows in one secure, collaborative workspace.
Herbert Turner
Founder, CTO at &AI
Caleb Harris
Founder, CEO at &AI
Crimson - founded in 2024
Crimson is an AI platform built for litigators. Litigation teams use Crimson to analyze case files, answer case-specific questions and draft documents tailored to each dispute. By automating manual workflows throughout the lifecycle of a case, Crimson helps lawyers save more than 10 hours per week on common litigation tasks.
Mark Feldner
Co-founder
David Strömbäck
Co-founder
Centari - founded in 2023
Centari is the platform for Deal Intelligence, combining secure LLMs with trusted precedent to accelerate transactions.
Kevin Walker
Founder & CEO
Lawstronaut - founded in 2025
Website: lawstronaut.com
Lawstronaut leverages the legal and technological expertise of filerskeepers (see below), which provides legal data and compliance solutions. www.filerskeepers.co has revolutionized how companies manage and comply with retention laws worldwide by offering precise legal insights and innovative data management tools.
Wanne Pemmelaar
CEO & founder
Atlas AI - founded in 2024
Atlas AI empowers your legal team to analyze complex agreements quickly, create accurate legal documents effortlessly, and streamline research. With seamless integration into your existing systems, Atlas AI helps you deliver high-quality work faster, driving productivity and precision across the firm.
Stephen Costigan
Co-Founder and CEO
fileread - founded in 2020
Freya Zhou
COO / Founder
Our AI-powered litigation tools open up a dialogue with your data, so your legal team can focus on what they do best: thinking.
Website: Fileread | Document Review Software
Chan Koh
Co-CEO / Founder
Daniel Hu
Co-CEO / Founder
AllRize - founded in 2024
Erik Ruda
CEO
AllRize is a comprehensive and customizable law practice management platform that was purpose-built by lawyers – for lawyers. Simply stated, we designed AllRize to help law firms and in-house legal teams streamline internal operations, increase staff productivity, and deliver superior service to clients.
NLPatent - founded in 2021
Stephanie Curcio
CEO & Co-founder
James Stonehill
Co-founder & CTO
NLPatent is an industry leading AI-based patent search and analytics platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Am Law 100 firms, and research universities around the world. The platform takes an AI-first approach to patent search; it’s built from a proprietary Large Language Model trained on patent data to truly understand the language of patents and innovation. Users simply describe their invention in full sentences and conceptually relevant results are generated instantly.
Confidencial.io - founded in 2021
Confidencial’s patented technology, originally developed under DARPA—an entity of the U.S. Department of Defense known for pioneering national security innovations—was incubated at SRI, a global hub for technological breakthroughs. This technology was initially created to meet the military’s critical need for protecting sensitive and proprietary information, enabling safe and predictable privacy-preserving data sharing while avoiding large-scale compromise.
Karim Eldefrawy
Co-founder & CTO and Acting CISO
descrybe.ai - founded in 2023
Descrybe uses AI to make legal research faster, smarter, and more affordable. Our free platform provides AI-generated case summaries and natural language search across over 3.6 million U.S. judicial opinions.
Kara Peterson
CEO & founder
Richard DiBona
Co-founder
filerskeepers - founded in 2018
Lost for words when your management asks about your company’s records retention policy? filerskeepers believes that companies should be able to know all retention periods that apply to them. It is our goal to make sure you will be up to date about the latest records retention periods at any time. This will allow you to find your golden standard retention period that you can actually implement into your IT-systems.
Wanne Pemmelaar
CEO & founder
Lexara - founded in 2024
Lexara helps law firms and legal departments adopt AI responsibly and effectively. We provide expert training, consulting, and tools to support AI governance, risk management, and innovation in legal practice. From custom GPTs to firmwide AI strategies, Lexara bridges the gap between emerging technology and professional standards.
Amy Swaner
Founder and CAIO
Traced - founded in 2024
Traced helps law firms and their attorneys save time and bill more hours.
Dayn Reoh
Co-founder
Aiden Bub
Co-founder
ModeOne - founded in 2018
ModeOne offers the industry’s first automated, truly remote mobile data acquisition solution for evidentiary, compliance, and/or investigation purposes – with global reach. Our patented SaaS framework helps clients target, collect, process, and review emerging forms of digital data and short-message chat information quickly, accurately and with cost-certainty. It is the first and only data acquisition solution that doesn’t require a physical mobile collection kit or onsite technicians. Same-day delivery!
Matthew Rasmussen
Founder & CEO
Newcode.ai - founded in 2021
The Newcode.ai platform helps professionals process documents faster, extract key insights, and reduce unbillable hours—all within a secure, 100% private instance.
Maged Helmy
Founder & CEO
Karini - founded in 2023
Generative AI Foundation Innovators: We simplify enterprise GenAI adoption, enabling rapid innovation with our comprehensive platform.
Deepali Rajale
Founder and CTO
Nitin Wagh
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Goodfact - founded in 2021
We founded Goodfact after Tali, a commercial litigation lawyer, couldn’t find a tool to automate the mind-numbingly tedious work of building a manual chronology for one of her files. She was going through thousands of email threads and parsing out every single message, just to see the story buried within all those documents.
Tali Green
Co-founder & CEO
Thomas Rubbert
Co-founder & CTO
Website: Home New
Element Standard - founded in 2019
Element Standard is a legal technology company transforming litigation practices. Founded and led by experienced litigators, we bring unique insights to the challenges faced by lawyers and their clients.
Jaron Luttich
CEO & Co-founder
Ryan Hudson
Co-founder & Board Advisor
Website: Founded by Lawyers, Led by Lawyers
Querious - founded in 2022
Querious is the first Legal Conversational Intelligence platform purpose-built to help legal professionals deliver sharper advice, reduce administrative burden, and uphold the highest standards of client confidentiality and professional ethics.
Hilary Brown
CEO, Querious