DeepJudge set for global growth

Worldwide law firms and legal departments have accumulated hundreds of millions of documents containing decades of invaluable expertise, but they wrestle with error-prone keyword searches to surface relevant information or resort to sending firm-wide email inquiries. With the newly launched Knowledge Search, DeepJudge is offering a solution that connects legal professionals to their internal documents, eliminating the hassle of finding while enabling them to focus on other important tasks.

Knowledge Search is powered by the company’s cutting-edge and proprietary Colinear Technology, which blends the capabilities of semantic and keyword search to deliver an effortless knowledge retrieval experience. Colinear Technology uses advanced Artificial Intelligence models to understand the content within each document regardless of document type, and enables legal professionals to search in their own words, without struggling to find the perfect keywords. Additionally, each document is automatically classified into an extensive taxonomy for easy filtering and AI-predicted tags enrich existing metadata. With DeepJudge’s Knowledge Search, legal professionals can efficiently reuse prior work product to provide better client service. 

Unlike some AI technology, DeepJudge’s Knowledge Search ensures that no information is shared with external third parties, respecting existing security protocols whether deployed on-premise or in a secure cloud environment. The tool automatically integrates to the DMS via a secure single sign-on, including iManage Work and Microsoft SharePoint, maintaining all native ethical walls and access permissions. Knowledge Search is 100% ready to use out-of-the-box with no additional training, and its performance can be optionally fine-tuned on client and enterprise data.

Ready for international operations
Since its founding in 2021, DeepJudge has developed a strong presence in Switzerland, secured over a million in non-dilutive funding and is backed by prominent investors such as Dr. Felix Ehrat, ex-General Counsel of Novartis, Daniel Sauter, ex-Chairman at Julius Bär, Dr. Christian Wenger, partner at Wenger & Vieli, Dr. Thomas Hofmann, former Director of Google and Professor in AI at ETH Zurich, and Dr. Thomas Duebendorfer, serial entrepreneur and president of SICTIC, and it is currently fundraising to boost its growth. The startup works with major Swiss law firms with about 200 lawyers. With the success in the home market, the startup is set to onboard more customers from across the globe to fuel its growth.

“Our solution has been received by the legal landscape with resoundingly positive feedback. The DeepJudge Knowledge Search is the first-of-its-kind to connect legal professionals with their firm’s internal knowledge in a secure, scalable, and intuitive way. We eliminate the frustration of slow, error-prone keyword searches and the hassle of writing emails to colleagues to surface relevant documents, which is a significant and previously unsolved pain point for law firms and departments across the world. Even leading law firms in the USA and UK have welcomed our product launch, saying that they’ve been waiting for a Knowledge Search that works for a long time. This is the momentum with which we are expanding beyond Switzerland”, said Paulina Grnarova, CEO and cofounder of DeepJude.

A strong team of AI experts and a new hire
The startup boasts a strong team of 20 employs including experts with a strong foundation for deploying trusted Generative AI models, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and auditability, which are key when it comes to sensitive legal data. The co-founders Paulina Grnarova, Kevin Roth and Yannic Kilcher are all ex-Googlers. Yannic Kilcher, who is also the DeepJudge’s CTO, previously led the development of OpenAssistant, an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. He thus brings keen expertise in Generative AI to DeepJudge. Kennan Samman, who previously led global product sales at Litera has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer to spearhead DeepJudge’s expansion initiatives globally. Kennan Samman is a vision-driven growth strategist whose exceptional sales, leadership and client relationship management skills have been demonstrated throughout his career at prominent legal technology companies like Litera, Kira Systems and Thomson Reuters. This combination of experienced legal tech advisors and breakthrough technology researchers puts DeepJudge in a unique position to deliver high-impact solutions to the global market.

(Press release/RAN)