tech
January 24, 2026
Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus as competition heats up in legal tech
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey, while the startup's India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes a Bangalore office.
TL;DR
- Harvey, a legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus, a company that creates tools for product demos, videos, and guides.
- The acquisition aims to accelerate Harvey's offerings, especially for in-house legal departments.
- Hexus founder Sakshi Pratap will lead a new engineering team at Harvey.
- Hexus had previously raised $1.6 million from investors.
- Harvey is valued at $8 billion after raising $160 million, bringing its total funding to $760 million.
- Harvey serves over 1,000 clients in 60 countries, including most top U.S. law firms.
- Harvey was co-founded by Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, with its origin traced to testing GPT-3 on legal questions.