Harvey has acquired Hexus to boost its legal tech services as competition grows. Hexus founder will lead efforts to enhance offerings for law firms.
Sakshi Pratap, the founder and CEO of Hexus, used to work at Walmart, Oracle, and Google. She said her team in San Francisco has joined Harvey. The engineers from India will come later when Harvey opens an office in Bangalore. Pratap will lead a team that makes Harvey’s tools better for legal departments.
She mentioned, “We bring a lot of experience making enterprise AI tools. This helps Harvey move fast as competition gets tougher.”
Before the buyout, Hexus raised $1.6 million from investors. Pratap did not share the details of the deal but said it’s based on “long-term team incentives.”
This buyout helps Harvey strengthen its spot as a top AI startup. Last fall, it was valued at $8 billion after raising $160 million. This brought its total funding across 2025 to $760 million. Andreessen Horowitz led this latest round with help from T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, as well as existing investors.
Harvey serves more than 1,000 clients in 60 countries, including many of the best U.S. law firms.
Winston Weinberg, Harvey’s CEO and co-founder, talked about how it all started. He and co-founder Gabe Pereyra sent a cold email to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. They tested an AI program on legal questions and found that lawyers liked the answers. This inspired them to transform the legal industry with AI.
They reached out to Altman on July 4, 2022, and soon got funding from the OpenAI Startup Fund, which is still one of their biggest backers.