LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Trellis
Research (Trellis), a comprehensive AI-powered state court research
and analytics platform built by litigators for litigators, today
announced a $14.1 million Series A
round led by Headline, with participation from Calibrate Ventures,
Craft Ventures, and Revel Partners. Some of the legal industry's
heaviest hitters participated in the Series A as angel investors,
including Colin Stretch, former
general counsel of Facebook, Julius
Genachowski, the former FCC Chairman, David Hantman, former head of public policy at
Airbnb, Eddie Lazarus, EVP Sonos,
and Matt Mazza, general counsel at
Appfolio. This latest financing brings Trellis' total fundraising
to $20 million.
Launched in 2018, Trellis is a searchable database of state
trial court data, offering a powerful AI-driven data analytics
platform to legal practitioners. By analyzing data across state
courts, Trellis gives lawyers access to information that was not
previously standardized nor searchable. Aggregated via Trellis's
two products — Smart Search and Judge Analytics — users are able to
seamlessly find past rulings, easily search opposing counsel's
dockets, review influential court documents — such as past motions,
and understand a judge's ruling tendencies and biographical
information including evidentiary rules.
"The opacity of the state court system is unacceptable." said
Nicole Clark, co-founder and CEO of
Trellis. "By creating a way to aggregate data, and providing legal
teams with a streamlined way to access critical case-making
insights, we are modernizing the world's largest court system.
Harnessing digitally-accessible data to create successful
litigation strategies will be the new baseline for the legal
industry."
Attorney teams, from boutique firms to large corporate legal
departments, utilize Trellis to access clearly-distilled
information on a judge, venue, or specific law firm's trial court
performance, improving trial outcomes, decreasing research time and
reducing case costs.
"Accessing state court data is a major pain point in today's
legal process," said Jett Fein,
Partner at Headline. "Nicole, Alon, and the Trellis team built a
platform that completely transformed a decades-old process, and in
turn, democratized access to legal insights for litigators and
others across the United States.
We look forward to being a part of Trellis' continued momentum as
they bring greater access and transparency to state court
data."
Trellis currently aggregates data from 362 trial courts across
12 of the most litigious states in the nation. Every county
analyzed by Trellis includes 15 years of historical trial case
data, verdict analysis, visualizations, and searchable filed
documents. Trellis' database contains over 90 million documents,
serving as the only comprehensive, searchable platform of state
trial court data.
"Trellis has harnessed AI to make state trial data accessible
and searchable for the first time, putting a powerful tool into the
hands of corporate and law firm litigators," said Kevin Dunlap, managing partner at Calibrate
Ventures. "We invest in visionary founders who understand that
automation will drive every aspect of life going forward, and
Trellis co-founders Nicole, a lawyer herself, and Alon, a serial
founder, have what it takes to build a leading legal data analytics
powerhouse. We're thrilled to support Nicole and Alon on their
company-building journey."
The latest funding will be used to fuel product expansion and
hiring efforts as the company seeks to extend its reach, focusing
on the vast amount of data in trial courts across all 50 states.
The financing will allow for Trellis to expand its use cases beyond
the legal vertical, and introduce the platform to other adjacent
industries that need access to its data — including real estate and
property management, financial services and insurance.
About Trellis
Trellis was co-founded by Nicole
Clark a prior employment defense litigator, and Alon Shwartz a technologist and serial
entrepreneur. Frustrated and fed up by a fragmented trial court
system with no single source of truth, Clark began working with
developers to aggregate and structure trial data from county trial
courts to surface strategic insights and build more leverage within
her own cases. Today, over 1500 law firms across the country use
Trellis, including litigation boutiques and AM100 firms. Trellis
currently aggregates court data from twelve states including CA,
DE, FL, IL, MA, NV, NY, PA, TX, WA, with additional coverage of
trial courts in counties across NJ, OH, and CT launching by end of
year. For more information, please visit https://trellis.law/.
About Headline
Headline is a global venture capital firm that uses its own
technology and international team to discover – and invest in – the
world's boldest outliers. With $2B of
assets under management, Headline is composed of a network of four
regionally-focused early stage funds in the US, Europe, Brazil, and Asia and a Global Venture Growth fund that
invests worldwide. Since its founding in 1999, Headline has proudly
worked alongside Founders from Jacksonville to São Paulo, from
marketplaces to SaaS. Its portfolio includes Acorns, AppFolio,
Bumble, Cameo, Farfetch, Gopuff, The RealReal, Segment, Sonos,
Sorare and Yeahka, among others. Learn more at Headline.com and
https://twitter.com/HeadlineVC.
Media Contact
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909-9603, mike@trellis.law
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