Legal tech startup Vesence has raised a $9m seed round, backed by Emergence Capital, Creandum and Y Combinator.
A growing number of European startups are using AI to speed up legal workflows, with five such companies featuring in Sifted’s B2B SaaS Rising 100 2025, making it one of the best represented subsectors.
Vesence, headed by Swedish cofounders Henrik Hansson and Ludvig Swanström, uses AI agents to review law firms’ documents, emails and projects in Microsoft Office before they are shared with clients.
According to their YC profile, the pair “spent a couple of months living at a law firm [...] to refine the product and user experience alongside lawyers.”
Other investors in the round include Harry Stebbings’s 20VC, YC cofounder Paul Graham and Lovable founder Anton Osika.
“We’re building hundreds of agents that check details across documents, emails and projects, no matter if they were initially written by a human or an AI,” Hansson said in a video released to coincide with the announcement.
“With this funding, we’re able to push the boundaries of AI and deliver real-world impact at scale.”
Hansson and Swanström previously worked with Osika at his previous AI startup Depict which helped e-commerce companies design AI-led visual merchandising.
