Clerky

Legal paperwork software for startups

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Productivity
  • Legal
  • SaaS
Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA

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Company mission

To make legal paperwork as easy and painless as possible by building software to handle the mundane clerical tasks.

Our take

Navigating legal paperwork, especially for new startups, is often a messy, intricate, and time-consuming process. Clerky steps in to streamline and expedite this procedure, providing emerging businesses with a more efficient way to complete their legal documentation.

Founded by two attorneys who recognized the challenges faced by new startups, Clerky's solutions aim to help companies save on legal costs by minimizing the time and effort spent on paperwork. Notable startups such as Coinbase, DoorDash, and Instacart, along with a strong presence among Y Combinator startups, attest to Clerky's popularity and effectiveness.

Recently Clerky was acquired by Stripe, marking a new chapter for the company. Rather than staying a standalone legal tool, Clerky is now part of a much bigger push by Stripe to be involved with startups from the very beginning, helping them incorporate and handle legal paperwork, not just process their payments once they're up and running. If Stripe incorporates Clerky's tools into Atlas as expected, founders could soon handle incorporation, equity, fundraising, hiring, and payments all in one place.

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Benefits

  • Nutrition - For the co-located folks, we're stocked with healthy snacks and have nutritious meals delivered every day
  • Health Insurance - We cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums – because your health is the foundation on which everything is built
  • Education - We're constantly looking for ways to improve our craft. Have a book you want to read, or a class you want to take? Just ask!
  • Set Your Own Hours - We work hard and view time as a scarce resource. Set your own hours to optimise for your productivity. It's about results here, not face time!
  • Remote First - We work with the best, wherever they're located. Some of us are co-located, but we believe that optimising for distributed work results in a stronger team

Funding (1 round)

Sep 2011

$0.2m

SEED

Total funding: $0.2m

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Leadership

Darby Wong

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously worked as an Attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Prior to that, they worked in UI and Engineering for Redfin.

Chris Field

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as an Attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for over 6 years. They also served as a Director at TippingPoint Technologies.