Pandektes Raises €13.5M Series A to Build Europe’s Legal Data Infrastructure

Pandektes has raised €13.5 million in a Series A round led by Alstin Capital as the Copenhagen-based legaltech startup looks to challenge the established legal research market and build a structured data layer for the next generation of legal technology.

PROfounders, Scale Capital and several existing investors also participated in the round. Pandektes plans to use the capital to expand across Europe and North America, grow its team and make more of its legal data infrastructure available to external developers through an API.

Founded in Copenhagen in 2022 by Casper Laursen and Søren Brokær, Pandektes has built a platform that collects, organises and links legislation, court rulings and administrative decisions. The platform can also connect this legal information with documents belonging to an organisation, helping legal teams conduct research across different jurisdictions.

The company says its revenue has grown sixfold over the past year and that it now serves more than 500 customers. Its team has grown to around 55 employees.

Challenging a market dominated by established providers

Legal information may be publicly available, but finding, collecting and validating it is a different problem.

Legal professionals often need information spread across thousands of government sources, courts and administrative bodies. They also need confidence that the information is accurate enough to use in professional and court-related work.

That fragmentation has helped established providers become the default sources in individual countries.

Pandektes wants to challenge that model.

The company names LexisNexis, Westlaw, Beck and Karnov among the established providers it aims to compete with. Pandektes argues that the legal research market has developed "monopoly-like dynamics", where switching providers can be difficult and customers have had limited alternatives.

Karnov illustrates the scale of the companies Pandektes is going up against. The group serves more than 400,000 users and employs approximately 1,200 people across six countries. Its third-quarter 2025 net sales reached SEK 654 million, with organic growth of 3.9%.

Pandektes is taking a different approach by treating legal information as structured infrastructure rather than simply a destination where lawyers search for documents.

"Building a serious challenger was always deemed impossible," said Casper Laursen, CEO of Pandektes. "Today, we can collect and make sense of legal information at a scale that was not feasible before."

The company's customer base already includes Energinet, the Danish energy company. Pandektes was also named Danish Legal Tech Firm of the Year 2026 at Nordic Legal Tech Day in Copenhagen, according to posts shared by Laursen.

Building the data layer for legal AI

The timing of the funding is important.

Legal AI has attracted substantial amounts of venture capital, but much of that investment has gone toward applications that lawyers use directly.

Harvey, for example, raised $550 million in September 2026 and reached a valuation of around $15.5 billion. Legora has also raised substantial capital, including a $600 million Series D that reportedly valued the company at $5.6 billion.

European legal AI companies including Luminance, Lawhive and Genie AI have also raised significant rounds.

Pandektes sees these companies differently.

Rather than competing directly with every legal AI application, it wants those companies to use Pandektes' underlying legal data through its API.

The argument is straightforward: an AI legal product can only be as reliable as the legal information it uses.

That becomes more complicated when the product needs to work across jurisdictions. Laws, court decisions and administrative rules differ from country to country, while the sources, formats and methods used to publish them can vary significantly.

Pandektes wants to standardise that information and make it accessible to developers building legal AI products.

The company believes this could create a position underneath the application layer, where multiple legal technology products can rely on the same structured legal data.

Its planned API expansion is therefore a major part of the company's next phase. Pandektes says it is preparing to make more of its infrastructure available to external developers, with an API waitlist already being used to measure interest.

Cross-border legal research

Cross-border research is another major part of Pandektes' proposition.

A legal team working across multiple countries may need to research different legislative systems, court decisions and administrative rules. Today, that often means dealing with separate information providers and different interfaces for different jurisdictions.

Pandektes wants to provide this information in a consistent format.

The company plans to expand its infrastructure into additional European and North American markets, which could make the platform more useful to organisations operating across borders.

That expansion will also test one of the hardest parts of the business: collecting reliable legal information across jurisdictions at scale.

Pandektes has already spent years building its underlying data infrastructure. The next challenge is expanding that infrastructure without compromising the accuracy and reliability that legal users expect.

A crowded legal AI market, but a different position

The broader legal AI market is growing quickly.

Fortune Business Insights estimates that the legal AI software market could reach $5.21 billion in 2026 and grow to $40.94 billion by 2034, representing a projected annual growth rate of 29.4%.

That growth is attracting companies focused on everything from legal research and document review to contract analysis and AI assistants.

Pandektes is betting that another layer of the market will become equally important: the data underneath those applications.

The company had previously raised approximately €3.9 million, including a February 2025 seed round backed by People Ventures, Interface Capital and Nordic business angels.

The new €13.5 million Series A gives the company significantly more capital to expand its geographic coverage, increase its team and develop the API infrastructure needed to work with external legal technology companies.

Alstin Capital's Andreas Schenk said the firm saw an unusual opportunity in a market where many end users want to change their core legal research systems but historically have had few practical alternatives.

For Pandektes, the bigger opportunity may therefore extend beyond replacing individual legal research platforms.

If it can become a reliable, structured source of legal information for both lawyers and AI developers, the company could occupy a position much closer to the infrastructure layer of legal technology.

That is also the harder bet.

Selling directly to law firms is one thing. Convincing other legal AI companies to license the data they need rather than building their own systems is another.

The API rollout and developer waitlist will provide an early indication of whether the market is ready to treat legal data as infrastructure rather than another standalone software product.