Streamline AI, a company founded in 2020 by a former DoorDash attorney to address the challenges she encountered in her legal work, today said it has closed an $8.6 million Series A round, to bring its total funding to $14 million.

This latest round was led by Blumberg Capital, with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners, Acronym Venture Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, and Scribble Ventures.

Streamline AI is an intake and matter management platform designed for in-house legal teams. Its customers include the legal departments at companies such as Gusto, 8×8, Acorns, and Bloom Energy.

The company said it will use this new capital to drive its expansion in the market, particularly among mid-market and enterprise legal departments.

The company says that its platform was built from the ground up to handle the complexities of legal operations. Its AI-powered intake automatically extracts and structures information from incoming emails, while its conversational AI assistant handles routine questions that would otherwise consume attorney time.

The company was founded in 2020 by Kathy Zhu, a former commercial counsel at Medallia and DoorDash, and Julian Wimbush, a product lead and ex-engineer at Google who now serves as the company’s CTO.

Zhu says she created Streamline AI to address challenges she encountered in her legal roles — particularly the lack of scalable technology for managing the growing volume and complexity of legal requests as DoorDash saw explosive growth during the pandemic.

“I witnessed firsthand how manual intake and workflow processes can cripple even the most talented legal teams,” Zhu said. “This funding will accelerate our mission to eliminate the frustrations and inefficiencies that plague in-house legal departments.”

The company says that its platform supports more than 500 in-house lawyers and has been credited with major efficiency gains, including 40-50% reduction in request turnaround times, 25% faster response times, and new metrics and insights to identify process bottlenecks.

The platform has also expanded to include features for matter management, cross-functional collaboration, AI-powered knowledge management, automated reminders, and document generation.

“Kathy, Julian and team bring an exceptional, inside-out understanding of how legal teams operate — and they’ve translated that into a platform that’s driving real results for customers today,” said Pramod Gosavi, senior principal at Blumberg Capital and Streamline AI board member.

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