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Luminance

Application

Legal AI company whose models read, negotiate and summarise contracts for in-house and law-firm legal teams.

Total funding$168M

Valuation$400M

Employees459

Founded2015

HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Luminance AI Contract Review Application

  Legal-grade AI platform that reviews contracts, flags non-standard clauses and risk, and supports negotiation directly inside Word.

Inside Luminance

• Luminance Analyze Application

  Organizes and compares all contracts across the enterprise, surfacing 1,000+ legal concepts, obligations and anomalies via AI Q&A.

• Luminance Collaborate Application

  Centralizes legal queries via ticketing and drag-and-drop workflow management, letting non-legal staff review/amend contracts within guardrails.

• Luminance Comply Application

  Instant compliance checks on uploaded third-party agreements (sanctions, media exposure) with automated escalation and remediation guidance.

• Luminance Draft Application

  Automated contract generation from customizable templates, letting non-legal teams self-serve compliant contracts.

• Luminance Investigate Application

  Accelerates discovery for investigations, arbitration and litigation with search/filter across datasets, visual case analysis and PII redaction.

• Luminance Negotiation Application

  AI markup and auto-negotiation of contract clauses against a company's standards, with a Legal-Grade chatbot for contract queries.

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larger scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareRARobin AIAbsorbedLuminance AI Contract Review and Robin First Pass do comparable work on legal drafting and review; Robin AI is absorbed, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareWWorkdayPublic · $49.3BLuminance AI Contract Review and Workday Contract Lifecycle Management do comparable work on document extraction and legal drafting and review; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareVSVeeva SystemsPublic · $45.5BLuminance AI Contract Review and Vault AI in PromoMats do comparable work on document extraction and legal drafting and review; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMLMintplex LabsPrivateLuminance AI Contract Review and AnythingLLM Cloud do comparable work on document extraction; Mintplex Labs's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNANorm AiPrivate · $1.2BLuminance AI Contract Review and Norm Ai Legal and Compliance Agents do comparable work on legal drafting and review; larger scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareTRThomson ReutersPublicLuminance AI Contract Review and CoCounsel Legal do comparable work on legal drafting and review; Thomson Reuters's scale not recorded; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareDDropboxPublic · $7.8BLuminance AI Contract Review and Dropbox Dash do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareHHebbiaPrivate · $700MLuminance AI Contract Review and Hebbia Matrix do comparable work on document extraction; ships AI agent and agent platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareRRogoPrivate · $300M raisedLuminance AI Contract Review and Rogo do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships AI agent and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareOOpenTextPublicLuminance AI Contract Review and OpenText Aviator do comparable work on document extraction; OpenText's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBoxPublic · $4.8BLuminance AI Contract Review and Box AI do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareCAContextual AIPrivate · $100M raisedLuminance AI Contract Review and Contextual AI Platform do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships API service, agent platform and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareSServiceNowPublic · $130.1BLuminance AI Contract Review and ServiceNow Document Intelligence do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAdobePublic · $115.9BLuminance AI Contract Review and Adobe Acrobat Studio do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAbridgePrivate · $5.3BLuminance AI Contract Review and Abridge for Revenue Cycle do comparable work on document extraction; 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similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TLuminance AI Contract Review and Azure Content Understanding do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareNANomic AIPrivateLuminance AI Contract Review and Nomic Platform do comparable work on document extraction; Nomic AI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent and API service rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKHKakao HealthcarePrivateLuminance AI Contract Review and PASTA do comparable work on document extraction; Kakao Healthcare's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRRilletPrivate · $1BLuminance AI Contract Review and Rillet ERP do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareWWriterPrivate · $1.9BLuminance AI Contract Review and WRITER Knowledge Graph do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareIIntuitPublic · $97.9BLuminance AI Contract Review and Project Management Agent do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareEElicitPrivate · $100MLuminance AI Contract Review and Elicit do comparable work on document extraction; ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareYYandexPublicLuminance AI Contract Review and Yandex Vision OCR do comparable work on document extraction; Yandex's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareRReworkdPrivate · $4M raisedLuminance AI Contract Review and Reworkd do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships AI agent rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareLLlamaIndexPrivateLuminance AI Contract Review and LlamaParse do comparable work on document extraction; LlamaIndex's scale not recorded; ships API service, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAAutomation AnywherePrivateLuminance AI Contract Review and Context Intelligence Graph do comparable work on document extraction; Automation Anywhere's scale not recorded.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareLLightOnPublic · $29.6MLuminance AI Contract Review and LightOn API do comparable work on document extraction; smaller scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BLuminance AI Contract Review and ima.copilot do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareUUpstagePrivate · $958.8MLuminance AI Contract Review and Information Extract do comparable work on document extraction; same layer and the same scale band (early-stage private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedLuminance AI Contract Review and Sarvam Doc Agents do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAleph AlphaPrivate · $500M raisedLuminance AI Contract Review and PhariaAI do comparable work on document extraction; similar scale (private); ships model API and platform rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TLuminance AI Contract Review and Gemini Notebook do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (public).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BLuminance AI Contract Review and ChatGPT Gov do comparable work on document extraction; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompare

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Sources

Total funding

Third-party database · 1 Feb 2025

$168M raised across 7 rounds, most recently a $75M Series C in February 2025.

Valuation

Third-party database · 1 Feb 2025

PitchBook: valued at $400M following the Series C.

Employees

Third-party database · 1 Jun 2026

459 employees as of June 2026, Tracxn.

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Founded 2015 by Adam Guthrie and Graham Sills.

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