Harvey AMA

AI-powered legal assistant for professional workflows

Est. 2022 HQ San Francisco, CA Employees 1,082 Funding $1.2B+ total raised Valuation $11B (Mar 2026, $200M round co-led by GIC & Sequoia) Updated 2026-04-20

Read the Harvey AMA 2026-05-27 · r/legaltech

Rank trajectory2024-02 → 2026-05 · 28 months
HELD #19Steady across the full 28-month window
#1#5#10#25#50#1002024-02: #192024-03: #192024-04: #182024-05: #182024-06: #182024-07: #182024-08: #182024-09: #192024-10: #192024-11: #192024-12: #192025-01: #192025-02: #192025-03: #192025-04: #192025-05: #202025-06: #192025-07: #192025-08: #192025-09: #192025-10: #192025-11: #192025-12: #182026-01: #182026-02: #192026-03: #202026-04: #202026-05: #19 #19 now Q2 24Q3 24Q4 24Q1 25Q2 25Q3 25Q4 25Q1 26Q2 26May 26

How this is computed · one composite score, recomputed across all 28 months, ranked on a 3-month moving average

Hype Index trajectory2024-04 → 2026-04 · 24 of 25 months
4.32× · DOWN -112.0Fell from 116.3× to 4.32× — researcher interest cooling
0.0×13×25×38×50×2024-04: 116.29×2024-05: 173.43×2024-06: 77.57×2024-07: 60.56×2024-08: 165.11×2024-09: 49.64×2024-10: 49.91×2024-11: 40.64×2024-12: 90.56×2025-01: 48.06×2025-02: 32.47×2025-03: 32.05×2025-05: 26.14×2025-06: 39.14×2025-07: 17.38×2025-08: 32.00×2025-09: 17.28×2025-10: 11.69×2025-11: 11.81×2025-12: 11.69×2026-01: 14.08×2026-02: 9.46×2026-03: 8.31×2026-04: 4.32×4.32× nowQ2 24Q3 24Q4 24Q1 25Q2 25Q3 25Q4 25Q1 26Q2 26

How Hype Index is computed · prospect-to-user intent ratio over the 24-month window

What it is

Overview

Harvey is a generative AI platform built specifically for legal professionals. Founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg (CEO) and Gabriel Pereyra (President), the company emerged from a cold-email to OpenAI leadership and has grown rapidly to an $11B valuation as of March 2026.

Key Features

  • Legal Research — AI-assisted case law research with LexisNexis integration
  • Contract Review — Automated analysis and redlining
  • Brief Drafting — AI-generated first drafts with citations
  • Vertical Workflows — Specialised templates (e.g., pharmaceutical antitrust defences)
  • Ethical Walls & Governance — Firm-level data isolation and access controls
  • APIs & MCP Support — Custom integrations via Model Context Protocol

Team Composition

Approximately 20% of Harvey’s staff are lawyers working alongside engineers — a deliberate approach to building domain-specific AI rather than adapting general-purpose tools.

r/legaltech AMA (December 2025)

Harvey’s cofounders conducted the third vendor AMA on r/legaltech in December 2025. The session ran over two hours and covered:

  • Valuation: Weinberg stated “We need to earn that valuation every day”
  • Competition: Addressed positioning against LexisNexis, Westlaw, and emerging competitors
  • Employee Criticism: Responded to anonymous claims about weak engagement and average technology
  • Growth: Reported 81% increase in daily active users since 2023 launch

The AMA received mixed reception. The community appreciated the direct engagement but noted some questions received evasive answers.

Funding History

DateRoundAmountValuationLead
Feb 2025Series D$300M$3BSequoia
Jun 2025Series E$300M$5BKleiner Perkins, Coatue
Dec 2025Series F$160M$8BAndreessen Horowitz
Mar 2026$200M$11BGIC, Sequoia

Total raised: over $1.2 billion. Other investors include Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Evantic, and Kleiner Perkins.

Market Context

Harvey reports $190M ARR as of end-2025, with over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organisations using the platform. Clients include a majority of the AmLaw 100, over 500 in-house legal teams, and 50 asset management firms across 60 countries.

The legal tech market represents only ~3% of the $1 trillion total legal services sector. Harvey’s bet is on massive technology penetration growth, targeting the estimated 10 million global legal professionals.

Integrations

Platforms Harvey integrates with. Depth — where curated — reflects how native the connection is. Uncurated entries render without a depth dot.

Deep — bi-directional API Medium — one-way sync / webhook Shallow — middleware / Zapier-class

Pricing
Model
custom
Details
Enterprise pricing. More affordable tiers reportedly in development.

Pricing signals come from vendor-published tiers and community procurement threads. B2B pricing is negotiated — see the Friends of the wiki pledge on why we accept ball-park pricing from practitioners.

Community ratings
Vendor details
Founded
2022
Company size
scaleup
Founder is a lawyer
No

AMA on r/legaltech

2026-05-27 — Winston Weinberg (CEO) · Gabe Pereyra (President)

Round 2. Both co-founders returned six months after their first AMA. Live for ~2 hours. Revealed Harvey at ~$300m ARR (up from $190m at end of 2025). Gabe was blunt on whether Claude for Legal could replace Harvey: 'No.' Winston flagged IP/patent acquisitions as a watch area. Co-moderated by Melia Russell (Business Insider). Verbatim recap on rlegaltech.com.

Top questions answered:

↑19 · u/Adventurous_Wear371
How have you managed to build trust with large law firms when you first started
↑14 · u/PlatypusRough4312
Taking the top question from the announcement: Lexis+ AI/Protege, Westlaw CoCounsel and others are deeply tied to proprietary research databases, whereas Harvey historically sat on top of more general models and firm data
↑11 · u/HairTough3149
I wonder what do you think is the ultimate work setting for lawyers, say in the next 5 or 10 years

See the full AMA recap →

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Founders
  • Winston WeinbergCEO & Co-founder lawyer-founded source ↗
  • Gabe PereyraPresident & Co-foundersource ↗
Funding
  • 806MTotal funding reported by the TLTF directory · founded 2022 · as crawled 2026-02-09source ↗

Round-by-round data (dates, round names, investors) is not in our source crawl — only the total is shown.

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