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JusticeText
Evidence management software
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Legal
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Data Integration
- Social Impact
- Westpark, Irvine, CA
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Company mission
To expand access to legal representation for low-income criminal defendants.
Our take
Public defenders are underpaid and overworked, and technological advancements in evidence discovery are is only making things worse. When defending a client they can be overwhelmed with a deluge of digital information, making it a heroic task to find the relevant evidence that might help in court. Enter JusticeText, a startup which stores, analyses and shares evidence, making it easily accessible and searchable to public defenders.
This solution has been taken up with enthusiasm, and is already live in more than 50 public defender agencies including the District of Columbia, New York and Virginia. Lawyers have reported a 30-50% increase in time savings, and the technology is mature enough to be trusted to prioritise video evidence, allowing defenders to focus on only the footage that is likely to be useful for their caseload.
JusticeText has closed a seed funding round led by Bloomberg Beta and True Ventures. It is looking to scale their impact by bringing in new talent, recruiting especially in customer relations, marketing and business operations in order to expand its network of attorneys.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2024
$3m
EARLY VC
Dec 2023
$0.3m
GRANT
Total funding: $5.6m
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Leadership
Devshi Mehrotra
(CEO)Interned with Standford Law School, the Government of Sierra Leone and Deepmind while completing a Master of Science at the University of Chicago and a Master of Global Affairs at Tsinghua University.
Leslie Jones-Dove
(CTO)Was a Software Engineer with Google after completing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Chicago.