Preparation, discipline, maintaining confidence under pressure. It's how the greatest athletes succeed, and how the best legal work gets done. Today, Legora is proud to announce a strategic partnership with @Venuseswilliams: one of the most accomplished competitors in sport, and someone who embodies the discipline behind elite performance. Because in tennis and in law, top performers hold themselves to the same standard. They prepare thoroughly. They improve continuously. They remain composed under pressure. Welcome to Legora, Venus!

Today, we're introducing Lassie and $47M in funding led by a16z. We're building AI that runs small businesses, starting with doctors' offices. Lassie is already trusted by 700+ practices across the country, working autonomously to provide them with 30 hours of labor per month. To get here, we first had to leave Robinhood and Superhuman to work in offices ourselves. Here's how that went.

$550M Series D led by @Accel. $5.55B valuation. One year into our U.S. expansion, we’re doubling down: accelerating across America and building AI with the lawyers who use it every day. Grateful to our customers, partners, and team. More: legora.com/blog/series-d

Today, I am really excited to announce that Yuri Sagalov (@yuris) is joining @generalcatalyst as a Managing Director to lead our seed efforts in the US. I have often said that our core at GC is early stage investing. Partnering with the most ambitious founders at seed enables us to fulfill our own ambition to transform industries. Yuri founded Wayfinder Ventures and has backed incredible companies like Supabase, Verse Medical, Stoke Space, Decagon, Finni Health and many more. Previously, he spent 5 years at @ycombinator as a Visiting Group Partner and served seed stage founders with real passion. At GC, we have been striving to back founders at Seed with the same rigor, focus and passion as smaller firms who dedicate to seed as their only focus. We are keen to continue to partner with them as we improve. I feel really fortunate that Yuri (Wayfinder), Jeannette (La Famiglia) and Neeraj (Venture Highway) as founders of seed firms have all decided to bring their entrepreneurial energy to shape our seed value proposition at GC to be what the world's best founders deserve from a company like ours. Our seed proposition is to help founders figure out their business in the midst of uncertainty and ambiguity, and lay the foundation to endure for the long term. Seed is NOT an option call for future series A, nor is it the phase to impose undue governance - it's a time to lock arms with founders to inspire talent to join, tackle the highest risks and build conviction to make it their life's work. One important call out about our seed proposition going forward is that we aim to consistently do pro rata in the next financing after leading or co-leading a seed so that we eliminate any "signalling risk". Yuri - Welcome to GC and thanks for helping us continue to get better at our core.

Exclusive: Databricks and Perplexity cofounder Andy Konwinski, early backer Pete Sonsini and Antimatter CEO Andrew Krioukov have launched Laude Ventures. The $150M seed fund will focus on research-driven, technical startups at Berkeley and elsewhere. forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/…