Harvey, the high profile legal AI startup, acquired Hexus — a two-year-old startup that creates tools for creating product demos, videos and guides — as the company continues its aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the legal tech market.
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle and Google, tells TechCrunch that its San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers will come on board once Harvey sets up an office in Bangalore. Pratap adds that she will lead an engineering team focused on accelerating Harvey’s offerings for in-house legal departments.
“What we bring to Harvey is deep experience building enterprise AI tools in adjacent problem spaces,” said Pratap. “This expertise helps Harvey move faster in an increasingly competitive market.”
Hexus had raised $1.6 million from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures and angel investors before the acquisition. While Pratap declined to share the terms of the deal, she said the structure was aligned around “long-term team motivation.”
The acquisition comes as Harvey looks to cement its position as one of the hottest AI startups. The company confirmed last fall that it is now valued 8 billion dollars after raising $160 million, bringing its 2025 funding to $760 million. Andreessen Horowitz led this newest round, along with new investors T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, along with existing backers Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction and angel investor Elad Gil. (He started the year with a $3 billion valuation after Sequoia led a $300 million Series D round in the company.)
Harvey now claims more than 1,000 clients in 60 countries, including a majority of the top 10 US law firms.
When TechCrunch spoke with co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg in November, he traced Harvey’s origin story to a cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Weinberg, then a senior partner at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra, a researcher who worked at Google DeepMind and Meta and was Weinberg’s roommate at the time, tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions from Reddit. When they showed the AI-generated responses to lawyers, two out of three said they would send 86 out of 100 responses with zero edits.
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“That was the moment we were like, wow, this whole industry can be transformed with this technology,” Weinberg said.
They emailed Altman on July 4, 2022, called the same morning, and received their first check from the OpenAI Startup Fund shortly after. According to Weinberg, the OpenAI Startup Fund remains Harvey’s second largest investor.
