Global Legaltech Venture Days

Connecting and fostering the entrepreneurial ecosystem to discover the startups disrupting the legal sector
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GLOBAL LEGALTECH VENTURE DAYS

LegalTech is rapidly expanding, and new players and startups are bursting onto the scene in extraordinary ways, providing powerful solutions and innovative opportunities for law firms, corporations and both private and public organizations. 

For this reason, through our Global LegalTech Venture Days we want to give back to this blossoming industry and help to young companies realize their potential to become harbingers of change and innovation.

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DESCRIPTION

With the aim of promoting a positive use of technology in the legal environment, IE University Law School launches the Global LegalTech Venture Days: international events designed to foster the entrepreneurial ecosystem, connecting the best startups, investors, corporations, accelerators and thought leaders.

Every Venture Day lasts between 4-8 hours, and its format is a combination of keynote speakers, panel discussions and a startup competition with the most-promising entrepreneurs of the region.

The conferences are open to the public, and IE students and alumni as well as individuals from the local and regional entrepreneurial communities are invited to participate.

These cutting-edge and highly anticipated competitions have been designed to seek out and support startups that have a positive and forward-thinking outlook on the major challenges faced by legal operators and legal systems today.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Inclusive innovators and startups that are using technology to solve important legal challenges faced by companies, governments, public institutions, and civil society in a wide range of areas.

We are particularly interested in projects that innovatively tackle issues in the operations of legal practice.

The startups participating in the competition must meet the following criteria:

  • Constituted or being constituted startup.
  •  Innovation: product/service, business model, and/or route to market.
  • Scalability: international commercial potential & scalable business model.
  • Team: relevant skills & experience mix.
  •  Market: clear & large market opportunity.

NEW EDITION

IE Law School, LexisNexis and the Law Schools Global League want to help promising young companies from Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Tokio (Japan) and Belfast (Ireland) unlock their full potential as catalysts for change and innovation in the legal industry.

The final of the sixth edition of the Global LegalTech Venture Days will take place at the South Summit Madrid 2024, the biggest annual event in the south of Europe that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, startups and corporations.

Rio de Janeiro

FGV Rio de Janeiro

16th of April

Tokio

Kyushu University

9th of May

Belfast

Queen's University Belfast

17th of May

PARTNERS

HOSTS AND PARTNER UNIVERSITIES

PAST EDITIONS

MEET THE WINNING ENTREPRENEURS

LegalTech Venture Days innovator from across the globe share their projects and experience.

BOGOTÁ - JUZTO

This company is dedicated to building a fairer society by offering legal services to Colombians over its digital platform.

ONLINE - AREXTECH

This Canadian startup has a SaaS Proptech that empowers institutional real estate investors to efficiently capture, analyze and share quality investment data in a connected digital environment.

SYDNEY - RESOLVE DISPUTES ONLINE (RDO)

This dispute resolution software as a service empowering ADR experts, courts and tribunals with innovative technology to improve access to justice around the world. The startup’s software allows clients to create and host their own branded negotiation, mediation and arbitration tools for case management, including valuable data insights and analytics.

LONDON - JUST: ACCESS

This non-for-profit legal tech start-up harnesses technology to overcome barriers accessing justice and advocates for a more open and transparent justice system. JUST: Access models alternative ways of providing legal services that benefit everyone, including the most vulnerable and uses an automatic speech recognition technology to revolutionize the legal transcription industry.

SAO PAOLO - JUIT

This online platform allows legal practitioners to work smarter, using technology as a bridge that will ease their work. Their goal is to organize judicial information in a way that nobody has done before, creating a universal legal data schema that takes aspects from every legal system into account.

TURIN - SLIDINGLIFE

This Italian startup provides a national list of professionals, useful for people involved in a divorce. Their platform, that serves as a specialized marketplace, can find the best professionals to help individuals in the divorce process and can also buy divorce documents from the Court. SlidingLife uses AI software to predict the outcome of the divorce case in the court.