Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has earned it Hexus — a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides — as the company continues its aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the legal tech market.
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, told TechCrunch that a San Francisco-based team has joined Harvey, while India-based engineers will join when Harvey creates a Bangalore office. Pratap added that he will lead an engineering team focused on streamlining Harvey’s offering for the in-house legal department.
“What he brings to Harvey is his deep experience building enterprise AI tools in an adjacent problem space,” Pratap said. “This expertise helps Harvey move faster in an increasingly competitive market.”
Hexus had raised $1.6 million from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and angel investors before the acquisition. While Pratap declined to share the terms of the deal, he said the structure is in line with “long-term team incentives.”
The acquisition comes as Harvey looks to solidify its position as one of AI’s hottest startups. The company confirmed last fall the current price $8 billion after raising $160 million, bringing funding in 2025 to $760 million. Andreessen Horowitz led the latest round, joined by new investors T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, along with existing backers Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and angel investor Elad Gil. (It starts the year with a valuation of $3 billion after Sequoia led a $300 million Series D round in the company.)
Harvey now claims more than 1,000 clients in 60 countries, including a majority of the top 10 US law firms.
When TechCrunch spoke with co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg in November, he traced Harvey’s origin story back to cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Weinberg, then a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra, a researcher who worked at Google DeepMind and Meta and Weinberg’s roommate at the time, tested GPT-3 on a landowner legal question from Reddit. When showing AI-generated answers to lawyers, two out of three said they would send 86 out of 100 responses with zero edits.
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“It was a moment when we were like, wow, this whole industry can be transformed by this technology,” Weinberg said.
He emailed Altman on July 4, 2022, called the same morning, and received his first check from the OpenAI Startup Fund shortly after. According to Weinberg, the OpenAI Startup Fund remains Harvey’s second largest investor.