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DraftWise tests its latest generative AI features with MDR Lab

DraftWise tests its latest generative AI features with MDR Lab

Last week, Draftwise, a leading AI legal platform, met with leadership from Mishcon de Reya’s LegalTech incubator and investment arm, MDR Lab, to field test its latest generative AI features and garner critical feedback from legal professionals. DraftWise CEO, James Ding, as well as leadership from the DraftWise product and AI research teams, joined Nick

24 October 2023

MDR Lab Alumni company DraftWise raises $5 million funding

MDR Lab Alumni company DraftWise raises $5 million funding

US-based legaltech start-up and MDR Lab Alumni company DraftWise has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by venture capitalist firm Earlybird. DraftWise, which was founded in 2020 by former Palantir and Google engineers James Ding, Emre Ozen, and former Clifford Chance senior associate Ozan Yalt, is a Gen AI contract drafting, knowledge

29 June 2023

Spotlight on Della

Spotlight on Della

Christophe Frerebeau is a co-founder of Della. The solution makes it easy to find answers in complex documents. Using proprietary artificial intelligence and natural language processing, Della provides google-like functionality enabling legal professionals to ask questions about their contracts in plain English among many other languages, it then provides clear answers and actionable insight into their

9 February 2022

Spotlight on FundRE

Spotlight on FundRE

Yann Idelsen is the Founder and CEO of FundRE, a platform that facilitates the origination of European Commercial Real Estate finance for institutional investors. The platform streamlines the execution process and provides accurate market data to improve the underwriting process for investors, lenders and debt advisors. Yann started his career at Joans Lang LaSaelle and

9 February 2022

Thirdfort – Where are they now?

Thirdfort – Where are they now?

In 2018, co-founders Olly Thornton-Berry and Jack Bidgood of Thirdfort Limited joined MDR LAB. Inspired by a mutual friends experience of being defrauded when buying a flat, they set out on a mission to solve this problem by building a secure payment platform combining digital on-board verification. During their time in the LAB, Olly and

18 August 2021

MDR LAB: Orbital Witness raises £3.3m seed round

MDR LAB: Orbital Witness raises £3.3m seed round

MDR LAB company Orbital Witness has raised a seed round of £3.3m led by LocalGlobe and Outward VC with participation from previous investors, including Seedcamp and JLL Spark. With this investment, Orbital Witness aims to create a universal risk rating for property and land similar to a credit check to provide a high-level view of property risk to all

16 July 2020

MDR LAB alumni Solomonic completes first round of external investment funding

MDR LAB alumni Solomonic completes first round of external investment funding

A big congratulations to our 2019 MDR LAB company Solomonic, for completing its first round of external investment funding. The fact that it comes during a period of challenge and uncertainty, is a testament to the hard work of all those involved. We hope this latest round of funding will help support the continued growth

6 April 2020

MDR LAB alumni PING raise $13m in Series A round

MDR LAB alumni PING raise $13m in Series A round

MDR LAB Alumni PING have raised $13.2m Series A funding. Discussing Mishcon’s involvement with the start-up Chief Strategy Officer Nick West says, “We’ve partnered with Ping since our MDR LAB programme in 2017 and it has been a delight to help them reimagine how timekeeping is done. Ping transforms how lawyers work.” Read the full release here. Further

12 November 2019

MDR LAB alumni Thirdfort raises £700k seed round

MDR LAB alumni Thirdfort raises £700k seed round

MDR LAB 2018 company Thirdfort has raised a seed round of £700,000 led by Mishcon de Reya and a personal investment from Chris Marks, CEO of NatWest Markets, with support from all existing investors including Alex Chesterman and Lawyer Checker. It brings the company’s total investment raised to £1.3 million and will be used to accelerate product

9 October 2019

MDR Lab Spotlight on… Thirdfort

MDR Lab Spotlight on… Thirdfort

Thirdfort is a secure payment platform for residential property transactions. Founded in September 2017 and London headquartered, Thirdfort is addressing the highly inefficient and insecure methods money flows through when properties are purchased. We began looking at this transaction after learning our friend was defrauded out of £25k when buying a house last year.

31 August 2018

MDR Spotlight on… Digitory Legal

MDR Spotlight on… Digitory Legal

Digitory Legal is a cost analytics and management platform. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, USA, Digitory Legal has a user-stage product: a pricing prediction and management tool for litigators. Using historical data and industry trends, it helps customers understand what legal matters cost and why.

31 August 2018

MDR LAB Spotlight on… dealWIP

MDR LAB Spotlight on… dealWIP

Founded in 2017, dealWIP Inc. is a cloud-based, collaborative workflow platform for transactional matters. Offering an end-to-end platform for all stakeholders, the dealWIP platform enables real-time progress tracking, and seamless and transparent document drafting, negotiation, execution and management for transactional lawyers.

31 August 2018