Wordsmith, an Edinburgh-based legal AI startup building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, today announced a €60.2 million ($70 million) Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to €86 million ($100 million).
The funding was secured from Highland Europe and Index Ventures, among others. The round comes alongside an expansion of Wordsmith’s product and new enterprise customer wins, including Sage and Starling.
Ross McNairn, CEO and co-founder of Wordsmith, said, “Legal does not need another filing cabinet, and it does not need another copilot that simply helps one lawyer work faster. Wordsmith is the front door that does the work. Requests come in, AI agents process the routine, lawyers approve what needs judgment, and every step is recorded as it happens. We are building the system Legal runs on: one place where work comes in, gets owned, gets completed and measured.”
Founded in 2023 by McNairn, Volodymyr Giginiak (CTO), and Robbie Falkenthal (COO), Wordsmith states that it captures, triages, resolves and records every legal request from the business, so in-house teams work at the speed of AI.
According to the company, Wordsmith is built for in-house legal teams, whose job is to help the business move faster, manage risk, keep more work internal, and decide what truly needs outside counsel.
Wordsmith explains that the platform is structured around four key actions: Receive, Route, Resolve, and Record. All requests, whether initiated via email, Slack, Salesforce, Teams, or informal business questions, are collected in a single location. Each request comes with ownership, priority, and context included.
Wordsmith points out that it follows the legal team’s playbook to manage routine tasks, escalating to a lawyer when complex judgment or risk is involved. It records each step in real time: who made the decision, what was decided, and on what basis.
The company reports that this funding follows a year of rapid growth for Wordsmith, which is now used by more than 500 companies, including BT, Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, and Canva.
Jean Tardy-Joubert, Partner at Highland Europe, commented, “What is most exciting about Wordsmith is that this is a tool built for companies, rightfully involving all employees in legal affairs, in coordination with the in-house legal team. By taking a vertical approach, Ross and the Wordsmith team have established themselves at the forefront of the sector, with demonstrable market traction, impressive growth and more than 500 satisfied customers.”
With this new funding, the company aims to speed up the development of its AI platform, grow to 300 employees worldwide by year’s end and double down on the US market. It also plans to support growing demand from corporate legal departments seeking to handle more work internally, cut costs on outside counsel, and assess legal’s influence across the organisation.
