Former international boxer’s LegalTech startup EstateMin raises €1 million to scale in the US

EstateMin, a LegalTech startup founded by an Irish co-founder and CEO, Isabella Hughes, has raised €1 million in pre-Seed funding to expand its operations in the United States. EstateMin offers an AI-powered platform that simplifies estate planning, administration, and trust matters by automating client intake, organizing information, extracting data from documents, and supporting form preparation.

The platform's AI Case Reviewer identifies missing fields, inconsistencies, and additional forms required for submission. EstateMin's platform integrates with existing legal case management systems, such as Clio, and can be operational in just two minutes with minimal configuration. The company currently manages over €686 million ($770 million) in estate values across 777 matters, with law firms saving five to seven hours on estate planning matters and five to ten hours on estate administrations.

The funding round was led by NDRC, First Port Syndicate, and Enterprise Ireland, with angel investors Mike Hanrahan, Moira McKenna, and Conor Stanley also participating. Hughes, a former international boxer, experienced the problem EstateMin addresses firsthand when she manually retyped client information in her legal executive role.

She partnered with Oisín Dolphin, a machine learning expert, to develop the platform, and the duo joined forces after meeting at an NDRC founder weekend in 2024. The pre-Seed funding will focus on customer acquisition in the US, scaling the go-to-market operations, and expanding the engineering and product teams.