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Harvey

Legal Tech · Enterprise AI · Vertical AI

Funding

Harvey raises $550M at $15.6B valuation as legal AI revenue tops $400M

September 9, 2026

Raised

$550M

Investors are now pricing a single legal-AI vendor near 39 times revenue, treating it as the category's reference asset.

  • Harvey closed a $550 million round at a $15.6 billion valuation, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Diffusion, a new firm founded by ex-Coatue investor Kris Fredrickson.
  • Harvey builds AI for legal and professional-services work—research, drafting, due diligence, litigation support—used by more than 3,000 organizations including Latham & Watkins, Microsoft's in-house legal team, and 80% of the Am Law 100.
  • Annual recurring revenue passed $400 million and roughly doubled in six months, while customers grew from about 1,300 in March to over 3,000 now, lifting valuation from $11 billion to $15.6 billion.
  • Alongside the raise, Harvey acquired AI-agent security startup Guardrails AI, its fourth acquisition of 2026, with founders Shreya Rajpal and Zayd Simjee joining Harvey's product and engineering teams.
  • New capital will fund proprietary AI development, following Harvey's release of Tenet, its first fine-tuned legal model built on Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • The nearly 39x revenue multiple shows investors betting legal AI can become one of the largest enterprise software categories born from generative AI, rather than a thin wrapper around foundation models.

Lead Investors

Lightspeed Venture PartnersDiffusion

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