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Fortune
Luisa Beltran

Legal AI startup Ontra raises $70M to automate back office tasks for Wall Street

(Credit: Courtesy of Ontra)

Troy Pospisil loved working for private equity firm H.I.G. Capital where, as an investment professional, he looked at hundreds of deals. But one thing Pospisil hated was the high volume of routine legal contracts, including non-disclosure agreements, that he and other executives had to review and negotiate. Pospisil estimates that he spent about 15% to 20% of his day on this “most painful aspect of workflow.” His solution was to quit PE and start a company to automate these time-sucking tasks.

“I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I had to give it a go,” said Pospisil, who made good on his plans and founded a firm called InCloudCounsel.

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