DLA Piper
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning them to help companies with their legal needs around the world. DLA Piper strives to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to their clients. DLA Piper achieves this through practical and innovativelegal solutions that help their clients succeed. DLA Piper delivers consistent services across their platform of practices and sectors in all matters they undertake. DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. They also advise governments and public sector bodies. In 2005 DLA Piper became one of the largest business law firms in the world through a merger of unprecedented scope. The strategy was simple – to create a truly global firm capable of handling the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. Building strong client relationships is the compass for their business strategy and future development.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries DLA Piper invests in
Stages DLA Piper invests in
Countries DLA Piper invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$8.4M
- Series A
- $3M–$13M
- Series B
- $2.6M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (33%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- Information Technology 3 (20%)
- E-Commerce 2 (13%)
- Machine Learning 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (33%)
- Seed 4 (27%)
- Series B 4 (27%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 11 (73%)
- Cyprus 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Craig Lang
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
James Halpert
Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice
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Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lael Bellamy
Of Counsel
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Of Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mark Radcliffe
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Martin Bartlam
Partner, specialising in Structured Finance and Securities and Global Co-chair Fintech
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Partner, specialising in Structured Finance and Securities and Global Co-chair Fintech | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing & sales ops at the speed of thought | $13M / Series A / Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| SingleFile is an AI-powered compliance platform automating compliance filings and annual reports across 50 states for complex multi-entity organizations. The platform centralizes Secretary of State filings, annual reports, EIN applications, and service-of-process management in a single collaborative workspace designed for organizations managinglarge entity portfolios at scale.SingleFile's technology automates jurisdiction-specific requirements across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, processing thousands of filings in minutes rather than days. Services include entity formations, foreign qualifications, certificates of good standing, amendments, apostilles, and certified document retrieval.The multi-user platform enables seamless collaboration between organizations and their outside counsel or fund administrators, with audit-ready documentation and a pricing model that charges only for services performed—no per-user or per-entity fees. | $9.1M / Series A / Feb 19, 2025 | ||
| Wildfire is on a mission to reward organic commerce everywhere. We help companies monetize their users with white-label cash back and coupon services. Wildfire makes it easy for our partners’ users to save money and earn cash back from their favorite apps and websites. | $16M / Series B / Oct 28, 2024 | ||
| SingleFile is an AI-powered compliance platform automating compliance filings and annual reports across 50 states for complex multi-entity organizations. The platform centralizes Secretary of State filings, annual reports, EIN applications, and service-of-process management in a single collaborative workspace designed for organizations managinglarge entity portfolios at scale.SingleFile's technology automates jurisdiction-specific requirements across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, processing thousands of filings in minutes rather than days. Services include entity formations, foreign qualifications, certificates of good standing, amendments, apostilles, and certified document retrieval.The multi-user platform enables seamless collaboration between organizations and their outside counsel or fund administrators, with audit-ready documentation and a pricing model that charges only for services performed—no per-user or per-entity fees. | $6.5M / Seed / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form. | $8.4M / Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions. The company is helping HR and talent teams automate administrative tasks and deliver real-time candidate and employee communicationsParadox's flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessedwith improving and reinventing the candidate experience. It delivers one-to-one candidate experience at scale and even handles interview scheduling. It also allows talent acquisition and human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction, while focusing on experience, automation, and intelligence. | $200M / Series C / Dec 27, 2021 | ||
| Aumni is an investment analytics platform for private capital markets that include venture funds, family offices, university endowments, and corporate venture firms. By combining the best of A.I. and human expertise, Aumni’s platform extracts and analyzes critical deal data buried in dense legal agreements. Aumni has analyzed an unprecedentedbreadth and depth of private capital data representing investors with over $1 trillion in assets under management.The company was founded by former BigLaw corporate attorneys, Tony Lewis and Kelsey Chase in Salt Lake City, Utah. | $50M / Series B / Aug 26, 2021 | ||
| Thrilling is an online marketplace that offers curated vintage and secondhand items from the best boutiques across the United States. Thrilling is currently hosting 100 stores in 15 cities. | $8.5M / Series A / May 05, 2021 | ||
| Ubiq is a technology company that has simplified the complex and messy world of encryption through a set of APIs, that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet scalable and extensible enough to encrypt data effortlessly across diverse applications and programming languages, cloud environments, and storage types. By enabling developers toquickly integrate encryption into their applications, Ubiq is empowering innovators around the world to efficiently build more secure products and experiences. | $6.4M / Seed / Nov 19, 2020 | ||
| Aumni is an investment analytics platform for private capital markets that include venture funds, family offices, university endowments, and corporate venture firms. By combining the best of A.I. and human expertise, Aumni’s platform extracts and analyzes critical deal data buried in dense legal agreements. Aumni has analyzed an unprecedentedbreadth and depth of private capital data representing investors with over $1 trillion in assets under management.The company was founded by former BigLaw corporate attorneys, Tony Lewis and Kelsey Chase in Salt Lake City, Utah. | $3M / Series A / Oct 15, 2020 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does DLA Piper invest in?
DLA Piper invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is DLA Piper's check size?
DLA Piper typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.4M at Seed, $3M–$13M at Series A and $2.6M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DLA Piper participates in.
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Who are the partners at DLA Piper?
The team at DLA Piper includes Craig Lang (Partner), James Halpert (Partner & Co-Chair, Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Partner, IP & Technology Practice) and Lael Bellamy (Of Counsel), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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