# Nextlaw Ventures

> Nextlaw Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Legal. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.nextlawventures.vc

Nextlaw Ventures (NLV) is a global early-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on the legal technology sector. NLV was launched initially by Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, and works closely with Nextlaw Labs, the legal tech accelerator also launched by Dentons. As an autonomous firm, NLV finds and invests in promising startups,provides unmatched resources to help its portfolio companies grow and scale, and helps to deploy new technologies that are disrupting the legal profession. The growing NLV portfolio includes ten of the most innovative legal tech companies in the market and constitutes one of the largest legal technology portfolios in the world.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 100% |
| Legal | 2 | 67% |
| Legal Tech | 2 | 67% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| Education | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Jansen | Founder ,CEO and Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-jansen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apperio | Apperio’s legal spend management software provides real-time visibility to help control and optimise your external spend with law firms. Data is gathered automatically, structured consistently and presented simply for analysis to help you make informed business decisions. Our unique approach of connecting directly with law firms’ practicemanagement systems provides ongoing and historical data at the touch of a button. This gives you complete cost certainty on both billed matters and work-in-progress legal fees. Apperio helps in-house teams to stay in control of their legal spend and build trust with external counsel by offering a collaborative, rather than adversarial approach to legal spend management. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Libryo | Libryo reduces legal insourcing costs and promotes compliance best-practice by empowering organisations and their employees to know “what does the law require of me here and now?”. Libryo’s context- and place-specific collections of regulation provide on-demand, plain language summaries of specific sections of applicable legislation. Libryo alsotracks every applicable legislation change and notifies the parties involved. | $1.9M | Convertible Note | May 18, 2021 |  |
| ProFinda | ProFinda is a digital platform that intelligently organizes people around work by matching skills to relevant projects and bids. Built on artificial intelligence, ProFinda can index and ingest data to create and automate employee profiles. The system then becomes an intelligent directory that allows employees to ask questions and find the verybest people who can help. All interactions can be validated through a peer-to-peer reward system, creating a compelling reason to share knowledge. The out-put is data; an entire map of all skills, knowledge, expertize and connections across a company. | $6.3M |  | Jan 03, 2018 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Future Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Notion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Nextlaw Ventures invest in?

Nextlaw Ventures invests primarily in Software, Legal and Legal Tech startups, most often at Funding Round and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Nextlaw Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Nextlaw Ventures?

The team at Nextlaw Ventures includes Dan Jansen (Founder ,CEO and Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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