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Flank is a Berlin, Germany-based enterprise software company that develops autonomous AI agents designed to automate repetitive support tasks for in-house legal, privacy, information security, and finance teams. The organization operates with approximately 25 employees and has secured $18 million in total venture capital funding, including a recent $10 million Series A financing round. Flank is backed by prominent institutional investors such as Insight Partners and Gradient Ventures, while its platform is utilized by corporate customers including TravelPerk, DeepL, and Mural. The software integrates into existing enterprise business communication tools, successfully processing up to 5,000 monthly automated requests for individual corporate clients to reduce manual workloads. Originally launched as Legal OS before executing a strategic pivot toward broader agentic AI solutions, the company was founded in 2018 by Lili Breidenbach, Charlotte Kufus, and Jake Jones.
Flank has raised $18.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Flank has raised $18.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Flank has raised $18.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Flank's investors include Insight Partners, 10x Founders, Gradient Ventures, HV Capital, 468 Capital, Cherry Ventures, Possible Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Martin Sinner, Christian Vollmann, Jan Deepen, Johannes Schaback.
Flank has raised $18.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $10.0M Series A in June 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2025 | $10M Series A | Insight Partners | 10X Founders, Gradient Ventures, HV Capital | Announced |
| Jan 1, 2022 | $6M Seed | — | 468 Capital, Cherry Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Insight Partners, Possible Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Martin Sinner | Announced |
| Jun 1, 2019 | $2M Seed | HV Capital | 468 Capital, Cherry Ventures, Possible Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Martin Sinner, Christian Vollmann, JAN Deepen, Johannes Schaback, Philipp Moser, Stefan Jeschonnek, Speedinvest | Announced |
Flank is a Berlin-based AI automation platform that builds autonomous AI agents for expert teams, primarily in legal, compliance, privacy, info-sec, and finance, enabling 24/7 on-demand support for commercial teams.[1][2][3][4] It autonomously handles workflows like triage, routing, drafting, redlining, negotiation, review, and Q&A, integrating seamlessly into tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, MS Word, Confluence, and Okta to eliminate bottlenecks and speed up operations.[1][3][4] Serving enterprises such as TravelPerk, DeepL, Mural, and DocPlanner, Flank solves the core problem of waiting for scarce expert input, which drags down growth, by deploying specialized agents trained on internal knowledge—achieving strong product-market fit with features like ISO/IEC 42001 certification for governed AI and rapid rollout (2–4 weeks).[1][2][4] With 11–50 employees and recent launches like an enterprise-grade agentic platform in October, Flank demonstrates robust growth momentum, handling thousands of requests monthly and expanding beyond legal into compliance and info-sec.[2][4]
Flank originated as Legal OS GmbH, founded in 2019 by a team of first-time founders with a vision to make legal knowledge more accessible.[1][5] The idea emerged from recognizing that expert support bottlenecks hinder scaling companies, starting with legal operations; in spring 2018 (pre-product as Legal OS with a four-person team), they pitched at a 15-minute Q&A at TU University, catching the eye of investor HV Capital, who invested a year later.[1] Pivotal early traction came from evolving into a category-leading solution, rebranding to Flank, and attracting high-profile customers while developing AI agents for broader expert teams—humanizing their journey through HV's supportive partnership that challenged and championed their bottleneck-free vision.[1]
Flank stands out in the AI-legal tech space through these key strengths:
Flank rides the agentic AI wave in enterprise software, where generative AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents that execute workflows, perfectly timed amid surging demand for efficiency as companies scale amid regulatory complexity and talent shortages.[1][2][3][4] Market forces like billions spent annually on process optimization—yet persistent expert bottlenecks—favor Flank, as it unlocks "organizations without bottlenecks" by embedding expertise on-demand, accelerating deal closures and reducing friction in high-growth sectors like SaaS and tech services.[1][4] In the legal tech ecosystem, it influences by transforming legal as the "first line of defense," inspiring internal AI strategies across functions and competing in a fragmented space with its Berlin-rooted, HV Capital and Insight Partners-backed momentum.[1][3]
Flank is poised to expand its agentic platform across more expert functions (e.g., finance, sales) and integrations like Salesforce, capitalizing on AI governance standards and enterprise adoption to scale from legal core to backbone AI infrastructure.[2][4] Trends like multimodal AI, deeper CRM/tool syncs, and regulatory AI mandates will shape its path, potentially evolving influence toward category leadership in "expert-on-demand" automation amid a $100B+ efficiency software market.[1][2] As bottlenecks vanish, Flank cements its role as the AI colleague scaling expert teams—starting with legal, now redefining frictionless growth.
