Lausanne-based Ex Nunc Intelligence, the developer of a LegalTech platform Silex, has as we speak introduced the closing of an oversubscribed pre-Seed spherical of €1.8 million ($2.15 million) to create the infrastructure layer for authorized intelligence.
The spherical was led by Spicehaus Companions, with participation from Bloomhaus Ventures, Lively Capital, Aperture Capital, Core Angels, and a gaggle of angel traders.
“Our ambition is to not construct one other authorized device, however to create the underlying infrastructure that may energy the subsequent period of authorized intelligence,” stated Kyriaki Bongard, co-founder and CEO of Ex Nunc Intelligence. “Authorized professionals want programs they’ll belief. That’s what we’re constructing.”
Within the context of 2025 European LegalTech funding exercise, Ex Nunc Intelligence’s pre-Seed spherical sits amongst a gentle circulate of early-stage funding into AI-driven authorized infrastructure and workflow instruments.
Within the Netherlands, Saga raised greater than €1.5 million to increase its lawyer-centric AI platform past Europe, whereas Denmark-based Pandektes secured €2.9 million to automate legislative navigation throughout jurisdictions. Within the UK, Augmetec closed a Seed spherical of over €2.4 million to develop its investigative and regulatory authorized platform, whereas Italy’s Lexroom.ai raised €2 million to advance a vertical generative-AI answer for authorized analysis and doc work.
On the development finish of the spectrum, Sweden-based Legora attracted €70.6 million in Sequence B funding to scale its collaborative AI instruments for regulation corporations and in-house groups.
Taken collectively, these rounds symbolize roughly €79 million in LegalTech funding in 2025 alone. Towards this backdrop, Ex Nunc Intelligence’s pre-Seed spherical is comparable in dimension to different early-stage raises within the sector, notably these targeted on AI-assisted authorized information and workflows, and displays continued capital allocation in the direction of trusted, domain-specific authorized AI platforms in Europe.
“Ex Nunc Intelligence is fixing one of many hardest issues in authorized tech: constructing AI that attorneys can actually belief,”, says Pascal Stürchler, co-founder and CEO of Bloomhaus Ventures. “With a uncommon mixture of authorized area experience, top-tier AI engineering, and early traction, the crew is effectively positioned to construct core infrastructure for the way forward for authorized work.”
Based in 2022, Ex Nunc Intelligence is paints themselves as one of many first firms actually native to each regulation and AI, quite than a authorized product constructed on prime of generic AI. A key differentiator of Ex Nunc Intelligence is its capability to mix public authorized sources with every consumer’s non-public information.
By safe and remoted information silos, regulation corporations and authorized departments can reportedly join inside paperwork with out compromising confidentiality.
This structure addresses one of many fundamental obstacles to AI adoption in regulation: information safety, whereas remodeling inside paperwork into structured, reusable, and strategic information property.
The place most authorized AI instruments wrap off-the-shelf fashions and apply customary preprocessing, Ex Nunc Intelligence says they mix deep authorized experience with superior AI engineering to design actually clever authorized processing pipelines.
The corporate has constructed a proprietary authorized intelligence stack, designing its personal fashions, a full-stack strategy and structure from information ingestion and authorized structuring to retrieval, reasoning and technology.
“At Ex Nunc Intelligence we imagine that the place AI can actually make a distinction within the authorized sector will not be by changing attorneys, however by augmenting their experience, securing their information, and remodeling each private and non-private authorized info right into a strategic asset,” added Kyriaki in a public assertion.
This new funding will speed up the event of Silex, help the rollout of a brand new technology of specialized AI brokers devoted to particular areas of regulation and the enlargement of its authorized information infrastructure.
As a part of this roadmap, Ex Nunc Intelligence can be growing a local digital authorized publishing layer built-in into Silex, enabling authorized students and practitioners to publish doctrinal content material immediately throughout the platform, whereas making certain clear and improved compensation fashions for authors.
The platform Silex is presently utilized by “a number of hundred regulation corporations, notary workplaces, and company authorized departments, underscoring sturdy demand and market validation“. In contrast to generic digital instruments, Silex is constructed particularly for skilled authorized use, with each reply grounded in express authorized sources and no hypothesis.
This development is additional supported by strategic partnerships with key authorized establishments and expertise suppliers, accelerating market adoption and reinforcing Ex Nunc Intelligence’s place as a trusted infrastructure accomplice for the authorized sector.
