Contractbook, a legal tech automation company based in Copenhagen, announced that it has raised a $9.4 million Series A investment round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Existing investor Gradient Ventures also participated in the Series A round. Earlier, Gradient Ventures, which is Google’s AI-focused venture fund, led the company’s €3.5 million seed round.
The new funding will be used to expand its operations into the U.S. market and accelerate the rollout of new smart contract analysis features that will result in further time savings and productivity improvements for customers.
“We’re just at the beginning of our mission to deliver the world’s most advanced contract lifecycle management system. We’ve invested in future-proofing our customers’ businesses since inception and are only beginning to see the results of data-driven document automation. I’m excited to partner with our new investors as we continue to grow our customer base, expand into the U.S. market and offer customers a smarter way to work with contracts,” said Niels Martin Brøchner, Contractbook’s CEO and cofounder.
“The organic virality of the product has impressed upon us that Contractbook’s quick geographical growth is evidence for the global demand for document automation’s expansion. Contractbook’s CLM-platform solves key pain points for SMBs in a lightweight, easy-to-use product that has immediate customer ROI by automating work,” says Mary D’Onofrio, a vice president overseeing growth investments in cloud software for Bessemer Venture Partners. “We see Contractbook as being the 2.0 of document automation.”
In connection with the investment round, Mary D’Onofrio and David Cowan, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will join Contractbook’s board of directors.
“When we saw how delighted people are to use and share Contractbook, we had to invest. Who’d have thought contract workflow automation could be such a sexy business?” said Bessemer’s David Cowan.
Founded in 2017 by Jarek Owczarek, Niels Martin Brochner and Viktor Heide, Contractbook serves over 100,000 users in more than 75 countries with data-driven document automation.
Companies in every industry are motivated to reduce manual and paper-based processes. Yet, many of the tools in the market only offer partial solutions, leaving most SMBs to rely on multiple workflow partners, resulting in greater costs and lost productivity. Contractbook solves this problem by providing a collaborative cloud-based platform that manages the end-to-end contract lifecycle.
