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Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy.
The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of Parrot, a platform for transcribing, scheduling and managing depositions, and its fourth acquisition ever.
The deal also strengthens Filevine’s stated strategy to become an AI-first operating system, by building, acquiring and evolving AI technologies.
Although the companies have not yet formally announced the acquisition, sources within Filevine tell me that the all-cash deal closed last Thursday, Dec. 18.
The deal comes just three months after Filevine announced it had raised $400 million across two funding rounds during 2024 and 2025. Added to the $226.1 million it had previously raised, Filevine is now one of the most well-capitalized companies in legal tech.
The acquisition brings aboard Pincites’ sister co-founders Sona Sulakian and Mariam Sulakian, along with their team of approximately four employees. Both founders will continue with Filevine post-acquisition, with the company planning to establish a new San Francisco office anchored by the Pincites team.
They will join a team of some 700 Filevine employees, led by cofounder and CEO Ryan Anderson.
Strategic Expansion into Corporate Legal
For Filevine, a company that started with a focus on the litigation market, the Pincites acquisition represents its most significant push into the corporate legal and transactional law space.
Building on Filevine’s 2021 acquisition of Outlaw, the contract lifecycle management platform that had developed proprietary document technology, the Pincites deal fills a long-standing gap in Filevine’s contract redlining and Word-native workflows.
Pincites’ technology has been adopted by major enterprises including Meta, Vercel, and Rubrik. The Pincites platform is trusted by legal teams in high-stakes, security-sensitive environments, the source said, with adoption in both enterprise legal departments and law firms.
Second AI Acquisition of 2025
The Pincites deal follows Filevine’s earlier 2025 acquisition of Parrot, a deposition technology company with AI capabilities for medical chronology work.
Both acquisitions, the source told me, demonstrate Filevine’s “AI-first” strategy, which has been evolving over the past three years.
The source stressed that Filevine is both building AI internally and pursuing outside acquisitions, noting that the company recently launched Lois (Legal Operating Intelligence System), an AI assistant that allows legal teams to ask questions and draft documents directly from live case files, notes, calendars and custom fields, all within Filevine.
The source said the acquisition was a predominantly cash deal in the eight figures, adding that it signals continued M&A momentum and balance-sheet strength for Filevine.
The company is on pace to close out what the source characterized as its best quarter and best year ever.
Notable Backing and Talent
A significant aspect of the Pincites acquisition is the pedigree of its investors and founders. Nat Friedman, who Meta recently recruited to lead its Superintelligence Labs, served as one of Pincites’ lead seed investors.
Cofounders Mariam Sulakian (left) and Sona Sulakian.
As cofounders, the Sulakian sisters bring complementary expertise: Sona Sulakian is a former big-law attorney at law firm Ropes & Gray who also worked in strategy roles at Evisort and Salesforce.
Mariam Sulakian is a former GitHub product lead and Meta engineer with deep security and scale background.
The source described their combination of legal domain knowledge and AI engineering capabilities as instrumental in enabling them to build a “best in class product.”
The source noted that Filevine’s internal legal team had been using Pincites for some time and were “obsessed” with the product, which helped validate the acquisition decision.
San Francisco Expansion and Hiring
The acquisition will serve as the foundation for Filevine to launch a new San Francisco office, positioning the company in the heart of the AI ecosystem. The office will be in downtown San Francisco close to major AI companies such as Anthropic and Meta.
The office will provide a base for Filevine to continue to expand its hiring of AI talent over the next year, the source said.
When I spoke with CEO Anderson in September at the time the company announced its $400 million raise, he told me that the primary use of the new capital would be talent acquisition, particularly in gen AI and machine learning.
“The primary thing I think you’ll see us do is try and go out and compete to get the very best talent,” he said then.
Strengthening the ‘Legal Operating Intelligence System’
The source positioned the acquisition as part of Filevine’s broader strategy to build a comprehensive “legal operating intelligence system” that serves law firms, enterprises and government agencies – a sector that has seen strong growth for Filevine this year, the source said.
The source indicated that while Filevine has been successful in the corporate legal market, the Pincites acquisition “will be massive” in further opening opportunities with enterprise legal teams.
The deal comes as Filevine continues to position itself at the intersection of legal technology and artificial intelligence, with the company having made AI a central part of its product strategy and go-to-market approach.
More About Pincites
Pincites is an AI-native contract review and negotiation platform that embeds directly into Microsoft Word to automate redlining, risk review and playbook-driven guidance for in-house and enterprise legal teams.
Founded in 2023, the company went through Y Combinator that year. It markets itself as “Legal AI for the enterprise.”
It runs as a Word add‑in so lawyers and business users can review and negotiate contracts without leaving the application in which they most commonly work.
The platform applies configurable playbooks to contracts, automatically redlining clauses, inserting comments and flagging deviations from preferred positions.
It supports multi-language review in more than 80 languages and includes translation and summarization tools for cross-border deals.
Pincites announced a $3 million seed round in September 2023, led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, who frequently invest together in AI technology, with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Liquid 2 Ventures.
