Harvey, the rising legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus, a two-year-old company that specializes in creating tools for product demos, videos, and guides. This move is part of Harvey’s ambitious growth strategy in a competitive legal tech landscape.
Sakshi Pratap, founder and CEO of Hexus, previously worked in engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google. She shared with TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while engineers in India will come on board once Harvey sets up an office in Bangalore. Pratap will lead a new engineering team dedicated to enhancing Harvey’s offerings for in-house legal departments.
“What we’re bringing to Harvey is deep experience building enterprise AI tools in adjacent problem spaces,” Pratap said. “This expertise helps Harvey move faster in a market that’s becoming increasingly competitive.”
Before the acquisition, Hexus raised $1.6 million from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and various angel investors. Although Pratap didn’t disclose the terms of the deal, she mentioned it focused on “long-term team incentives.”
This acquisition positions Harvey to solidify its status as one of AI’s leading startups. The company announced last fall that it is now valued at $8 billion after raising $160 million, bringing its total funding in 2025 to $760 million. Andreessen Horowitz led this latest funding round, with participation from new investors T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, as well as existing supporters like Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and angel investor Elad Gil. At the beginning of the year, Harvey had a valuation of $3 billion following a $300 million Series D round led by Sequoia.
Currently, Harvey claims over 1,000 clients across 60 countries, including most of the top 10 law firms in the U.S.
When TechCrunch interviewed co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg last November, he recounted how Harvey came to be. It all started with a cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. At the time, Weinberg was a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and his co-founder Gabe Pereyra, who had worked at Google DeepMind and Meta, tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions sourced from Reddit. After showing the AI-generated responses to attorneys, two out of three indicated they would send 86 out of 100 answers without any edits.
“That was the moment when we were like, wow, this entire industry can be transformed by this technology,” said Weinberg.
They reached out to Altman on July 4, 2022, had a call that same day, and soon secured their first investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund. Weinberg noted that the OpenAI Startup Fund is still Harvey’s second-largest investor.
