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- GC AI raises $60 million in Series B funding at a $555 million valuation, bringing total funding to $73 million to expand its AI platform purpose-built for in-house legal teams.
- Used by over 1,000 companies, GC AI provides instant expertise on contracts, compliance, regulatory issues, employment law, and more with tools like AI contract agents, Microsoft Word redlines, custom negotiation playbooks, and more.
- The company grew ARR from $1 million to $10 million in less than a year and saved customers an estimated 600,000 hours of legal time. We will use this new funding to deepen enterprise integration, improve accuracy, and build a cutting-edge AI action layer for corporate legal teams.
PRESS RELEASE — GC AI, an AI platform for in-house legal teams, announced that it has raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone, with participation from strategic investors including Sound Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, SilverCircle Partners, News Corp, The Council, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. This round values the company at $555 million and brings total funding to $73 million.
Today, over 1,000 companies including News Corp, Nextdoor, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, TIME Inc., and Zscaler use GC AI to move faster and work smarter across their legal teams. The platform provides instant expertise on all internal legal matters, including contracts, policies, compliance, regulations, and employment law.
“In-house teams need technology that is built for their unique reality,” he says. Cecilia Giniti, co-founder and CEO of GC AI. “As an in-house lawyer at Amazon and Replit, I recognized the potential of AI to help legal teams become real drivers of business. That’s why we built something that lawyers actually use and trust. And our NPS of 70 is proof of that.”
The in-house legal population, made up of lawyers employed by companies, is growing at more than twice the rate of lawyers working in law firms and government agencies*. Still, every legal AI company focuses on law firms. GC AI is taking a different approach by bringing AI where legal needs arise: to corporate general counsel and their teams. The company was founded by a former general counsel and has exploded in popularity with over 1,000 companies. Users love that GC AI has features such as:
- Built for in-house lawyers. GC AI was founded by the former Replit team: Cecilia Ziniti, a three-time general counsel and attorney with over 15 years, and Bardia Pourvakil, an AI engineer and CTO, to solve specific challenges faced by corporate legal teams. The platform covers jobs in all areas including commerce, employment, products, privacy and corporate governance. It integrates seamlessly into the way your company communicates, collaborates, and makes decisions.
- The in-house legal agent your company needs. GC AI combines state-of-the-art, accurate AI chat with a commercial contracting agent who can create redlines directly in Microsoft Word, and a custom negotiation playbook to deliver instant value. This allows legal teams to quickly review, summarize, and provide advice based on more context.
- Easy to deploy and manage changes. More than 5,000 legal professionals have taken GC AI’s legal AI courses to leverage and apply AI in their legal practice. These programs are becoming the standard curriculum for the next generation of internal leaders, driving adoption, advocacy, and unparalleled engagement.
GC AI grew from $1M to over $10M in ARR in less than a year, with an average month-over-month growth of 23% in 2025. Most customers log in every day and report lower outside legal fees, faster turnaround times, and faster business. GC AI has saved an estimated 600,000 hours of legal work across all our clients. Sales teams close deals faster. The product will be released as scheduled. The legal department becomes a strategic partner rather than a bottleneck to the business.
Robert Schlossman, Chief Legal Officer at Zscaler, said: “As a cybersecurity company, our customers trust us to protect their digital transformation, and we must move quickly while maintaining the highest standards. GC AI will make our legal team more efficient, reduce our reliance on outside counsel, and deliver better legal outcomes for Zscaler’s rapidly expanding business.”
“Sometimes names tell a story, and GC AI is one of them,” said Rory O’Driscoll, partner at Scale Venture Partners. “The company’s AI-enabled products are specifically designed to meet the needs of in-house legal teams, which are very different from the needs of lawyers at large AmLaw firms. Since introducing the product 18 months ago, GC AI has experienced significant growth and acquired over 1,000 customers.”
Series B funding accelerates product development, expands enterprise capabilities, and deepens investments in integrations, agents, and even higher precision for high-precision document work. GC AI is focused on building the most trusted and intelligent legal AI action layer for in-house legal teams around the world.
About GC AI
GC AI is the trusted AI workspace for in-house legal teams, helping them move faster, work smarter, and move your company forward. With industry-leading accuracy, Microsoft Word integration, and enterprise-grade security and compliance, GC AI serves more than 1,000 legal teams, including more than 50 public companies, 25 unicorns, and brands like News Corp, Nextdoor, Skims, Zscaler, Liquid Death, Vercel, and TIME Inc. Founded by Cecilia Ziniti and Bardia Pourvakil, GC AI combines deep legal expertise with world-class engineering to help companies transform their legal practices into competitive enterprises. advantage. We are based in San Francisco and have a distributed team. For more information, please visit gc.ai.
*Source: ACC Report
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