Nextlaw Ventures

Apperio Limited is a London-based company specializing in legal spend management through its innovative platform that offers businesses real-time visibility into their legal expenses. The platform enables clients to receive tenders from various suppliers for legal services in areas such as corporate, commercial, dispute resolution, and intellectual property, among others. By connecting directly with law firms’ practice management systems, Apperio provides structured and accessible data, allowing clients to analyze both billed matters and work-in-progress legal fees effectively. This approach not only helps in-house legal teams maintain control over their spending but also fosters a collaborative relationship with external counsel. Established in 2011 and originally named Legal Tender Limited, Apperio changed its name in 2013 and offers tools that empower organizations to make informed financial decisions regarding their legal services.

Libryo is a technology company that offers an automated, cloud-based platform designed to assist compliance professionals and in-house lawyers in navigating legal requirements efficiently. The platform provides context-specific and location-based summaries of applicable regulations, enabling organizations to understand their legal obligations in real-time. By delivering on-demand, plain language explanations of relevant legislation, Libryo empowers employees to grasp what is required of them in their specific situations. Additionally, the platform tracks changes in legislation and notifies users, ensuring they remain compliant with evolving legal standards. This approach reduces legal insourcing costs and enhances overall compliance effectiveness within organizations.

ProFinda Ltd. is a London-based company that specializes in cloud-based productivity, talent, and people analytics solutions. Established in 2008, it offers a comprehensive platform designed to optimize workforce management by aligning organizational work priorities with employee skills and aspirations. ProFinda's technology facilitates the intelligent connection of people and projects, enabling organizations to make data-informed decisions that match the right talent to the right tasks efficiently. By leveraging machine intelligence, the platform creates detailed, 360-degree talent profiles based on individual contributions and activities, providing organizations with visibility into their entire talent supply chain, including both internal and external resources. ProFinda serves various sectors, including professional services, civil engineering, and government, enhancing workforce productivity and improving the overall employee experience.

FileFacets offers a cloud-based data analytics and content migration platform that enables businesses to effectively manage and migrate data. Its solution automates the categorization of data and the attribution of file metadata, facilitating the seamless migration of unstructured content from various sources into structured enterprise content management systems. By employing advanced algorithms, FileFacets simplifies the process of locating critical data and can scan files without interruption, identifying duplicate files prior to migration. The platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance data discovery and content search capabilities across corporate networks, improving efficiency in file management processes. As a pure Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, FileFacets provides scalable support for multiple users across various locations while ensuring data security.