LinkedIn (Felix Gerlach) · Apr 2026
Founder announcement of a $3.3M seed round backed by Y Combinator, Moonfire Ventures, Flex Capital, Zeno Partners, Combination VC, Palm Drive Capital, Mento VC, Orange Collective, and angels including Jawed Karim.
Company research
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Overview
Platus (legal name Openlaw Technologies Inc.) is a YC F24 legal-infrastructure company building an AI workspace and Notary-as-a-Service API that automates drafting, signing, notarization, compliance, and document workflows for SMEs, law firms, and fast-growing companies. Public sources conflict on some details (especially employee count and HQ wording), but the company’s official site shows a Delaware legal address plus offices in San Francisco and Munich.
Primary product
AI legal workspace / Notary-as-a-Service API for legal workflow automation
Founded
2024
Headquarters
Openlaw Technologies Inc. legal address: 1111B S Governors Ave #23587, Dover, DE 19904, United States; public profiles also describe Platus as headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
Team size
1-10
Industry
Legal Services
Sub-industry
AI legal workflow automation / legal infrastructure
Offices
2624 Leavenworth St, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States
Schwanthaler Str. 32, 80336 Munich, Germany
Business model
B2B SaaS
API
No-code workflow platform
Custom enterprise services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.9M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2026
Latest amount
$3.3M
People & investors
Work & culture
Founder-led, AI-first, privacy- and compliance-focused, and strongly oriented toward speed and automation; the site frames the mission as turning legal operations into a modular, future-proof system with 24/7 legal agents, strict governance, and a 'legal brain for SMEs.'
Product & market
Pricing
Free trial plus demo-led/custom enterprise pricing; no public price list found.
Differentiators
- —First Notary-as-a-Service API
- —No-code platform plus API
- —AI-powered legal agents
- —AI-powered signature-field detection
- —Cross-jurisdiction notarization
- —Workflow playbooks and custom workflows
- —Document intelligence and redaction automation
- —GDPR/compliance-focused infrastructure
Technology
AI agents
No-code workflow builder
REST/API
Document drafting automation
E-signature automation
Notarization API
Signature-field detection
Document intelligence
Redaction/PII removal
Compliance checking (GDPR/HIPAA/SOX)
Webhook-based automation
Browser app
GDPR-compliant EU hosting
Encryption
Canvas/custom workflow module
Customers
SMEs
law firms
fast-growing startups
mid-sized enterprises
legal teams
Competitors
LexisNexis
Onit
Streamline
Legl
Josef
KiteRa
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1M-$5M ARR (public estimate around $1.4M; no audited revenue disclosed)
Estimated monthly visits
1.2K
Latest news
Fondo · Feb 2026
Launch writeup covering Platus's no-code/API legal infrastructure, instant notarization, e-signatures, workflow automation, AI document intelligence, and Beglaubigt.de as first customer.
LinkedIn (Alexander Sporenberg) · Feb 2025
Founder post announcing Platus's Product Hunt launch and highlighting AI workspaces for legal teams, contract review/redactions/translations, and compliance automation.
Startbase · Nov 2024
German legal-tech coverage of the launch, describing Platus as a Munich-based startup using AI and automation to streamline legal services for SMEs.
Y Combinator · Nov 2024
Official YC launch describing Platus as a no-code platform and API for instant notarization, e-signatures, workflow automation, and AI-driven legal infrastructure; notes Beglaubigt.de as the first customer.
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