The investment in the company, which was made public today, was led by Chicago Ventures<\/a>, with participation from OnDean Forward<\/a>, the investment vehicle led by Andrew Sieja<\/a>, founder of e-discovery company Relativity<\/a>, and other former Relativity executives, and The LegalTech Fund<\/a>, the first venture fund to focus exclusively on legal technology.<\/p>\n The company was founded in 2023 by Tom Baldwin<\/a>, who is well known in the legal industry as the former chief information officer and chief knowledge officer at several major firms, including Cadwalader, Reed Smith, and Sheppard Mullin, and who was most recently a partner at consulting firm Fireman & Company, leading its work in knowledge management and related areas.<\/p>\n The company will use the investment to accelerate development of its platform, which is already being used by several major law firms, to expand its AI-powered analytics capabilities, including to provide firms with the ability to interact with their data through a conversational interface, and to scale its go-to-market activities, including by deepening its partnerships with leading law firms.<\/p>\n Entegrata was formed to address a major challenge many law firms face, Baldwin told me in a recent interview: Firms are under increasing pressure to make data-driven business decisions, but their data systems are fragmented and siloed and their reporting tools are outdated.<\/p>\n \u201cLaw firms today are under immense pressure to become data-driven, yet most still rely on outdated, legacy systems not designed to handle the requirements of modern law firms,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cOur platform consolidates that data and transforms it into actionable insights \u2014 making complex data simple and driving better decision-making across the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n Founder and CEO Tom Baldwin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n It achieves that consolidation and transformation through its Azure-based data lakehouse, which provides firms with a secure, turnkey, scalable platform that centralizes, normalizes, and streamlines firm-wide data into a single source of truth.<\/p>\n While some firms have attempted to address this problem on their own by creating data lakes, Baldwin said that he too often hears from them that their lakes quickly turn \u201cswampy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s say I\u2019m at a firm and I DIY my own thing,\u201d he explained, \u201cand I\u2019ve got data from Aderant and Workday and Intapp and Foundation and Active Directory over here in this bronze tier, and now I\u2019ve got 15 fields of someone\u2019s first name. Which one of those is the right one? Which is the source of truth?\u201d<\/p>\n Entegrata\u2019s lakehouse approach solves this issue through its development of a proprietary legal data schema with 3,500 fields. That allows firms to create a unified, cleaned dataset from various sources, including HR systems, accounting platforms, CRM tools, and even building access card swipes.<\/p>\n \u201cNow all of a sudden \u2026 I\u2019ve left behind the swamp. It\u2019s organically cleaned, without me having to manually do anything, just by virtue of saying where the best data comes from. I\u2019ve now got the best version of data from firm systems married with enriched data from third parties.\u201d<\/p>\n Entegrata features connectors to more than 15 different law firm systems with plans to add at least 20 more this year. It also enables firms to enrich their data through integrations with third-party data providers, such as the integration it announced in October<\/a> with vLex Docket Alarm, a provider of court docket data.<\/p>\n The platform also provides a suite of pre-built Power BI templates, making it easy for law firms to deploy the platform rapidly and quickly begin to leverage their data for everything from financial reporting to diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n The company says that its platform enables firms to begin streamlining reporting and unlocking insights within weeks, rather than the months or years typically required by traditional systems.<\/p>\n As the company continues to develop the platform, Baldwin told me, it is focusing on incorporating gen AI in order to provide law firms with deeper intelligence that moves beyond static reports to a more conversational interface.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to let firms chat with their data,\u201d Baldwin said. Firm leadership will be able to ask questions about anything from basic financial metrics to complex predictive analytics. Want to identify which clients might be at risk of leaving the firm? Entegrata will be able to predict this based on engagement patterns across multiple data points, Baldwin said.<\/p>\n One early adopter of Entegrata was the law firm Dickinson Wright<\/a>. Mike Kolb<\/a>, its chief operating officer, says the platform offers the potential to use AI to transform the business of law, much as AI is already doing for the practice of law.<\/p>\n \u201cLaw firms have data scattered across countless systems, making it nearly impossible to create a single source of truth,\u201d Kolb said. \u201cWhile AI is already transforming legal work, its impact on the business of law has been largely untapped \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we work with Entegrata, we see the potential to bring firm-wide data together and leverage AI to answer critical business questions in real time. What once felt like a distant vision \u2014 interacting with data as easily as having a conversation \u2014 is quickly becoming a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n In my interview with Baldwin, he underscored that idea that AI\u2019s potential to impact the business of law remains largely untapped.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing is a little different,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you think about the use cases in legal to date, they\u2019ve been predominantly practice of law focused \u2026 We\u2019re focused on arguably a much bigger, wider, broader and more impactful set of use cases on the business side.\u201d<\/p>\n Eric Duboe<\/a>, a partner at Chicago Ventures, the firm that led this seed round, said his firm\u2019s interest in the company was driven by both its unique market opportunity and its founders\u2019 deep understanding of the legal sector.<\/p>\n \u201cTom and the Entegrata team are addressing a major gap in legal tech \u2014 helping firms unlock the full potential of their data,\u201d Duboe said. \u201cTom\u2019s extensive industry expertise and first-hand understanding of customer pain points make Entegrata uniquely positioned to lead this transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n OnDean Forward, Andrew Sieja\u2019s investment vehicle, has been an investor in Entegrata since its inception, and has also provided guidance and operational support.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to support Entegrata in its vision to be the single source of truth for the data law firms need to empower their critical business decisions and to enable AI-driven workflows,\u201d Sieja said. \u201cAs firms increasingly rely on technology, Entegrata is setting the new standard for trusted, actionable insights.\u201d<\/p>\n The third investor, The LegalTech Fund, has become a leading investor in legal technology, as well as a company recognized for spearheading thought leadership in legal tech through its annual TLTF Summit, which I once called the Davos of legal tech<\/a>, and which I more recently described<\/a> as \u201cthe single \u2018it\u2019 conference right now in legal tech.\u201d<\/p>\nConsolidating Fragmented Data<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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