Overview

• Battery Ventures and Inovia Capital co-led the seed round, with participation from CIBC Innovation Banking, MVP Ventures, Maple VC, and Haystack VC.
• Bench IQ says its platform uses a proprietary judicial dataset, large language models, and thousands of AI agents to surface how judges think and rule.
• The company reports early adoption that includes four of the top five Am Law 200 firms and notes several elite tech law firms are investors.
• Coverage today centers on federal courts, with the new capital earmarked to extend Bench IQ’s dataset to state courts and to hire engineers and customer support staff.
• Bench IQ was founded by CEO Jimoh Ovbiagele, Jeffrey Gettleman, and Maxim Isakov, a team that includes alumni of ROSS Intelligence, which shut down after an adverse ruling in Thomson Reuters’ copyright suit.