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My name is Raymond Blijd and I am Legalcomplex.
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Breach: New Players in Contract Management
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Read time: 3 min. Traditionally, managing contracts was a byproduct for lawyers. The real money was in drafting new or reviewing existing ones. Not anymore and here’s why. Gates Our society is glued together by agreements. Contracts are the engine of our economy. At the top we have treaties and…

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Exits Action
Exits: Actual $ Value of Legal Tech [Infographic]
 Exits: Actual $ Value of Legal Tech [Infographic] 1024 333 Raymond Blijd
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We've collected 194 acquisition exits since 2016 to find out: what is a Legal Tech company actually worth? Law vs LegalTech Dropbox bought HelloSign for $239 million to kick start the year. Crunchbase unpacked the deal and estimated that HelloSign's latest investors got 2 times their investment back. Some may not consider HelloSign a "LegalTech" company [...]read more
a world at peace
Why I left my job? To power world peace
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If I could ever offer a small contribution to world peace, then this data-driven approach may be my best chance yet. Sentry Syria is an early warning system for air strikes based on crowdsourced intelligence. It is one of the 170 CivicTech examples harvested in the Legalpioneer dataset. Bark, another company in this category, is [...]read more
Last 2018
2018 Rewind: Facts, Fantasy and The Future of LegalTech
 2018 Rewind: Facts, Fantasy and The Future of LegalTech 1024 541 Raymond Blijd
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The year 2016 was the hottest year in Legal Tech and 2017 was all Blockchain. This year was about the investments. And that may have been a distraction. FactsFact is, 2018 was pretty weird and much of it was caused by the enormous injections of capital into the industry. It also revealed the investors behind the [...]read more
Investor Escape
Investor Landscape of the Legal Industry [Infographic]
 Investor Landscape of the Legal Industry [Infographic] 1024 529 Raymond Blijd
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In 2018, we found 1941 individuals and organizations as an investor in companies impacting legal. Who is funding the legal industry? And Why now? The InvestorIf you kept an eye on the legal industry this year, you may have noticed something brewing. It started with an ICO craze we detailed in February and resulted in some outrageous announcements. Such as, Block.one [...]read more
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RiskTech: Will This Save The Legal Industry?
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Since 2016, the only sector impacting the legal industry which showed measurable growth of new ventures and funding is RiskTech. So is this the new "LegalTech"? What is RiskTech? RiskTech is technology that is helping you avoid prosecution from the government, litigation from anyone or bankruptcy by stupidity. We'll get to the stupidity in a bit. Originally [...]read more
What is Legal Research 2
What is Legal Research?
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[update: July 28, 2018] Download PDF "What is Legal Research" We added a pdf version which includes 69 links to some of the coolest technology companies in legal research. [orginal post] Recently a friend asked us how many legal research portals Legalpioneer has in the dataset. Here’s how the conversation went: Me: Well, we have about [...]read more
First Half of 2018 Legal Tech Raised $1.2 Billion in Cash
 First Half of 2018 Legal Tech Raised $1.2 Billion in Cash 1024 417 Raymond Blijd
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[update: October 24, 2018]  Added the line graph from the LegalTech Funding Landscape infographic to LegalTech Charts. var m_chart_highcharts_8082_3 = { chart_args: {"chart":{"type":"spline","show_labels":true,"renderTo":"m-chart-8082","height":400},"title":{"text":"Funding Legal 2018-19"},"subtitle":{"text":"VC monthly funding in Legal"},"legend":{"enabled":true},"credits":{"href":"https://www.crunchbase.com","text":"Crunchbase"},"exporting":{"enabled":false},"plotOptions":{"series":{"dataLabels":{"enabled":true,"format":"${y:,f}"},"connectNulls":true},"spline":{"dataLabels":{"enabled":true}}},"xAxis":{"categories":["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"title":{"text":""}},"yAxis":{"title":{"text":""}},"series":[{"name":"2018","data":[93254247,171844854,186298355,75451000,190709900,432632014,733400000,262785525,126034461,218233536,37197268,14537065]},{"name":"2019","data":[485263296,147434850,4800000,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null]}],"tooltip":{"valuePrefix":"$","shared":true}}, post_id: 8082, instance: 3 }; (function( $ ) { m_chart_highcharts_8082_3.render_chart = function( ) { $( '.m-chart' ).trigger({ type: 'render_start', post_id: this.post_id, instance: this.instance }); $( '#m-chart-' + [...]read more
How To Find New Legal Technology
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Since January the Legal Industry has seen a flurry of maps, meetups, hackathons, awards, and conferences. All these activities are aimed at sizing the market and finding the next big hit. But what are we really looking for? And are we looking in the right place? What is legal technology? More then Core Before we [...]read more
ICO particles
ICO: Fascinating Fields of LegalTech Dreams
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I looked at 304 Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) to find the ones impacting the legal industry. I was simply fascinated and slightly fearful seeing all the beautiful solutions on the Blockchain. Here are my notes and numbers. Fields I see Blockchain as a technology that is naturally suited to improve the law. If legal contracts were [...]read more
2017: Year of Recognition, Records & Reckoning
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We've witnessed an amazing year. Recognition Legalcomplex First some notable numbers from our main platform: 1 Dark mode: go ahead and toggle it, your eyes will be sooo grateful; 2 Charts on LegalTech and Regtech updated every month. I will get to the Law Charts one day; 3 Products launched: Legalpioneer Where, Who (aka Status) [...]read more
ODR
Unexpected Trends of 2017 in LegalTech: Peace, Privacy & Party
 Unexpected Trends of 2017 in LegalTech: Peace, Privacy & Party 721 797 Raymond Blijd
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Our 2016 year review hinted Artifical Intelligence and Blockchain would make all the noise in 2017. However, this year’s data revealed three other signals which appeared on our radar. PeaceWe released a live sheet with now 78 CivicTech initiatives and an Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) dashboard. At one point this year CivicTech was the most valuable market in the Legalpioneer dataset. If CivicTech [...]read more