Legora has finalised a deal to purchase Swedish AI legal research start-up Qura.
The firm said the acquisition marked a significant step in building its AI platform, as it will incorporate Qura’s specialised search engine that allows in-depth semantic searches across millions of documents.
Qura’s roughly 10-strong team will join Legora’s existing legal research organisation, where the intention is to expand, with the US a primary target market.
Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora, said: “Legal research will be a cornerstone of the legal AI stack, and Qura has built one of the most impressive foundations in the world.
“We evaluated legal research start-ups globally, and Qura stood out by a wide margin. Their ability to combine deep legal understanding with truly AI-native infrastructure is exceptional. Together, we’re building the world’s best legal research product that works across jurisdictions and sets a new standard for the industry.”
Legora said that legal research presented many difficulties, as only a small fraction of legal data is available to general-purpose AI models, leaving the remainder of the information existing in fragmented archives and unstructured sources.
Qura builds AI-native legal databases and systems that go beyond traditional retrieval methods or RAG (Retrieval-Augumented Generation), Legora said, with its product enabling precise, reliable legal reasoning, rather than surface-level search.
It added that Qura had demonstrated the disruptive potential of this approach, winning over law firms that have previously relied only on traditional publishers. The company has shown early scalability internationally, particularly in competition law, where its product is now live across 27 jurisdictions, while revenue has grown 40% month-over-month.
Qura CEO, Arvid Winterfeldt, said the firm had been launched with the ambition to “rethink legal research”.
He added: “We’ve built a system that doesn’t just retrieve legal information but understands it in context. Joining Legora allows us to scale that vision globally, faster. Together, we have the team, technology and conviction to build the future of legal research.”
Winderfeldt founded Stockholm-based Qura in 2023 alongside Erik Nordmark, Kevin Kastberg and Elisabet Dahlman Löfgren. Before Qura he was vice-chair for venture capital firm Curitas Ventures and earlier served in the Swedish Armed Forces.
Nordmark similarly served in the Swedish Armed Forces and before Qura had a brief stint at financial services firm Capillar Equity.
Meanwhile Kastberg was the founder and developer of software consultants BrightKast AB for just over three-and-a-half-years, and earlier was developer and CAD designer for technology consultants Spiking Neurons AB.
Dahlman Löfgren previously worked for top Swedish law firm Mannheimer Swartling for over 20 years, where she most recently held a leadership position in its innovation lab.
In March this year, Legora also acquired Canadian agentic legal AI platform Walter AI, to expand in the Canadian market.
The deal followed a $550m Series D funding round at a $5.5bn valuation, led by venture capital firm Accel, alongside other existing investors including Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners and General Catalyst.
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