- Published on August 11, 2025
- In AI Startups
Columbia Grads Create ‘August’ to Bring AI to Midsize Legal Practices
“August gives midsize law firms the freedom to shape AI around their own playbooks.”
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- By Siddharth Jindal
AI tools are changing the way legal work gets done, whether it’s reviewing contracts or handling research across multiple jurisdictions. Yet, so far, most of these technologies have been built for large law firms with deep pockets, thereby leaving midsize firms out in the cold.
That is exactly the gap August, an AI platform for midsize law firms, is trying to close. The company has raised $7 million in a seed round led by NEA and Pear VC, with additional backing from Afore Capital, leading law schools and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Ramp CPO Geoff Charles, OpenAI head of engineering David Azose and Bain Capital Ventures partner Kevin Zhang.
The company said the funding will go towards expanding August’s modular AI agent platform and personalised onboarding model, whi
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Siddharth Jindal
Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.
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