Dubai’s Qanooni raises $2 million pre-seed to automate authorized workflows with AI 

Dubai-based authorized tech startup Qanooni has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Village World, with participation from Oryx Fund by Salica Investments, TA Ventures, and a community of strategic angel buyers, it introduced on Tuesday.

Based in 2024 by serial entrepreneurs Anuscha Iqbal, Ziyaad Ahmed, and Karim Shiyab, Qanooni is constructing an AI-powered authorized platform that integrates instantly into Microsoft Outlook and Phrase, enabling legal professionals to draft, evaluation, and handle paperwork utilizing AI that adapts to their writing type and inside requirements.

The startup’s strategy differentiates it from conventional authorized tech instruments by eliminating the friction of switching platforms. As an alternative of requiring legal professionals to study new software program, Qanooni works throughout the Microsoft Workplace surroundings that authorized professionals already use each day, making adoption seamless.

Anuscha and Zahid beforehand co-founded Spotii, a buy-now-pay-later platform that was offered to Australian fintech Zip Co in 2021, adopted by Spotii-in-a-Field, which was acquired by NymCard in 2023. Iqbal additionally brings 13 years of funding banking and personal fairness expertise, together with a task as Managing Director at Abraaj Group.

Shiyab, the authorized skilled on the crew, based Legalintro, a consultancy specializing in serving to corporations increase within the GCC area, and beforehand served as a senior lawyer at Al Tamimi and Firm, the area’s main regulation agency.

The brand new funding will gasoline Qanooni’s growth throughout the UAE and UK markets whereas enhancing its proprietary AI engine tailor-made particularly for authorized workflows. The platform allows regulation corporations and authorized departments to organize and evaluation paperwork quicker and extra precisely, whereas seamlessly connecting with present doc administration programs.

Qanooni’s generative AI is designed to imitate particular person legal professionals’ tone, writing type, and inside agency requirements, making it a customized authorized assistant somewhat than a generic instrument. This customization functionality addresses a key problem in authorized AI adoption, the place corporations want expertise that aligns with their particular practices and high quality requirements.

The spherical attracted notable particular person buyers together with Ben Casnocha, Sri Batchu, Josh Rodger, Viktoriya Tigipko, Andrew Verbitsky, Jimmy Stone, Nicholas Nottebohm, Ashish Shetty, and Miguel Rodrigues.

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