Although the legal industry is massive ($300B), it is seeing a drop in funding by 16% year-over-year as investments are concentrated at the seed stage and exit activity is lukewarm. Funding to legal tech startups barely topped $100M across 30+ deals, with the largest deal representing 45% of total investments.
Deal Flow
Oddly enough, the industry actually experienced a 41% increase in deal activity despite the 16% decrease in actual funding as depicted in the graph below:
Graph thanks to CB Insights.