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Harvey acquires Hexus to boost legal AI engineering
Legal AI startup Harvey has acquired Hexus, a startup specializing in product demos and guides, to accelerate its engineering capabilities for in-house legal departments.
Harvey, a developer of artificial intelligence tools for the legal tech sector—the market sector for technology used in the legal industry—has acquired Hexus. Hexus is a startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides. Following the acquisition, Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap will lead an engineering team at Harvey. This team will focus on accelerating Harvey’s offerings for in-house legal departments. Pratap’s San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup’s India-based engineers are planned to join once Harvey establishes an office in Bangalore. Before the acquisition, Hexus had raised $1.6 million in funding from investors including Pear VC and Liquid 2 Ventures.
The acquisition comes as Harvey expands its financial footprint. Harvey is currently valued at $8 billion, representing an increase from its $3 billion valuation at the start of the year. This growth follows a $300 million Series D round—which is a specific stage of venture capital financing—led by Sequoia Capital, and a subsequent $160 million funding round. In total, Harvey raised $760 million across 2025. The company’s recent $160 million round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from other investors.
Investors in Harvey include:
- Andreessen Horowitz
- T. Rowe Price
- WndrCo
- Sequoia Capital
- Kleiner Perkins
- Conviction
- Elad Gil
- OpenAI Startup Fund
Harvey now serves more than 1,000 clients across 60 countries, including a majority of the top 10 U.S. law firms.
The transaction reflects the increasing competition in the legal tech market. According to Pratap, the Hexus team brings deep experience building enterprise AI tools in adjacent problem spaces. “This expertise helps Harvey move faster in a market that’s becoming increasingly competitive,” Pratap said.
Harvey’s co-founders, CEO Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, started the company after testing GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions from Reddit. When they showed the AI-generated answers to attorneys, two out of three attorneys approved 86 of 100 responses without edits. Weinberg recalled that this test was the moment they realized the entire industry could be transformed by the technology. Following this, the founders emailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on July 4, 2022, which led to an investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. The fund remains Harvey’s second-largest investor.
Why it matters
Harvey is using mergers and acquisitions to consolidate its position in the competitive legal tech market. The company is leveraging Hexus’s engineering talent to scale its enterprise AI tools.