{
  "id": 18101924,
  "title": "Irish-founded Juritas raises €1.4m for contract intelligence tech",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/irish-founded-juritas-raises-1-4m-for-contract-intelligence-tech",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-04T09:40:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Silicon Republic",
    "slug": "silicon-republic",
    "url": "https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/irish-founded-juritas-raises-e1-4m-for-contract-intelligence-tech"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Irish-founded contract intelligence start-up Juritas has secured €1.4m in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-driven platform for finance, procurement and legal teams. The platform helps teams monitor contract commitments and identify payments due. Juritas was founded by Michelle Cotter, who previously worked at legal AI company Legora, fintech Revolut and music licensing company Epidemic Sound. Cotter, also CEO of Juritas, observed that teams frequently negotiate contracts, sign them, and then fail to utilize the knowledge contained within. Her ambition for Juritas is to become the intelligence layer safeguarding the value in every contract a business signs. The platform connects to online repositories like SharePoint and Google Drive, where it retrieves amendments, order forms and renewals, linking them so the contract is represented as it stands today. Each contract is scanned in full, recording the commitments and citing the relevant clause for each one. Teams can then ask simple questions, such as whether a supplier's volume discount has been triggered, and receive an answer that cites the exact clause and outlines the required action. Juritas emphasizes that encryption is integrated throughout the process and that all data is stored in the EU, with contracts never being used to train AI models. The initial focus is on supplier contracts, assisting procurement and finance teams to ensure suppliers deliver as promised and recover unclaimed value. The funding will be used to expand the engineering team in Stockholm, accelerate product development, and build the necessary security and infrastructure for large customers.",
  "summary": "Juritas was founded this year by Michelle Cotter, who previously held leadership roles at legal AI company Legora, Revolut and Epidemic Sound. 4m for contract intelligence tech",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}