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Pandektes Raises €13.5 Million to Build Legal Data Infrastructure
Copenhagen-based Pandektes raised €13.5 million in a Series A led by Alstin Capital. The company plans to expand its legal information platform and open more of its data through an API for other legal technology products.
AI.info Team · Written with AI ·
More than 500 law firms, companies and public institutions use Pandektes less than two years after its launch, the Copenhagen company says. On October 5, it announced a €13.5 million Series A to expand its legal research platform and build a data layer that other legal technology products can use. Alstin Capital led the round, with PROfounders, Scale Capital and existing investors participating.
From research platform to shared data layer
Pandektes gathers legal materials that are often public but scattered across many sources: legislation, court decisions, administrative rulings and regulatory documents. The company says the work is not simply collecting texts; it also involves keeping them current, tracking amendments and connecting documents that refer to one another. Pandektes argues that this foundation matters as law firms, courts, ministries and technology companies develop their own AI systems.
The company says roughly two-thirds of organizations that test its platform become customers. It also says some customers are replacing legal research services they have used for decades. Those figures come from Pandektes’ announcement; it did not disclose a customer list, revenue, valuation or the size of each investor’s stake.
Opening more of the platform through an API is central to the company’s stated plan. Rather than requiring every legal software developer to assemble and maintain its own database, Pandektes wants developers to access structured legal information and build their own products and workflows on top. The announcement does not specify the API’s release date, pricing or the jurisdictions it will cover first.
Why legal data is difficult to maintain
Legal information changes over time and differs across jurisdictions. A statute can be amended, a court decision can interpret it, and administrative guidance can add another layer. Pandektes says compiling millions of documents from thousands of sources and keeping their relationships current historically required large editorial operations and years of accumulated infrastructure.
AI can help automate parts of that ongoing work, the company says, including collecting new materials, classifying documents and tracking changes. Pandektes presents that automation as support for legal professionals, not a replacement for their judgment: people still need to interpret the law and assess the quality of the underlying information. A generated answer, in this view, is only as dependable as the sources and links beneath it.
Investors back a less visible part of legal AI
The funding backs a strategy focused on the information beneath legal applications rather than only on a lawyer-facing assistant. That distinction could matter as more legal products add AI features: developers may need reliable, traceable materials across different legal systems, while building and updating those collections themselves would duplicate work. Pandektes’ proposed API is meant to sell access to that foundation beyond its own research interface.
In a LinkedIn post announcing the round, Casper B. Laursen wrote: “We’re building it as infrastructure that the rest of the industry can build on, globally.” His post also says the company intends to expand its coverage into new markets and open the platform through its API. It does not name specific markets or set a timetable for that expansion.
Expansion still depends on coverage and trust
More than 500 organizations using the product offers an early measure of adoption, but it does not show how widely customers rely on the service or how much of their research it replaces. The two-thirds trial-to-customer figure is another company-reported indicator, without a disclosed period or breakdown by customer type. Those limits make it difficult to judge how the platform performs across different legal systems from the announcement alone.
The Series A gives Pandektes capital to pursue a broader role: maintaining legal information that other products can draw on. Its case rests on keeping that material current, connecting it to original sources and expanding across jurisdictions without losing reliability. The company has announced the funding and its API ambition; the announcement leaves the API’s availability, commercial terms and initial coverage unanswered.