UK-based
legaltech platform Avvoka has secured £14 million in growth funding in a round led by Valhalla Ventures, founded by Mark and Lindy O’Hare.
Avvoka develops
AI-powered drafting infrastructure for law firms, helping legal teams convert
legal documents into structured templates that can be reused and refined over time.
Its automation engine uses large language models to identify
variables, clauses, and conditions, while built-in controls ensure drafts
remain consistent with a firm’s established standards. The system is designed
to support high-volume legal work that requires high accuracy.
The company was
founded by former Magic Circle lawyers Eliot Benzecrit and David Howorth, who
developed the platform by working with large legal organisations to convert precedent and institutional knowledge into structured drafting systems.
Rather than replacing existing processes, Avvoka integrates AI into the
rules-based automation frameworks commonly used by law firms.
Eliot Benzecrit,
co-founder of Avvoka, said advances in AI are changing the pace of legal
drafting, as rising client expectations and increasing workloads make
traditional document-by-document automation less scalable. He added that law
firms increasingly require drafting infrastructure that combines AI
capabilities with structured processes, governance, and human oversight in
order to maintain quality while scaling output:
Avvoka exists to
build that infrastructure. We help legal teams turn their knowledge into
structured, supervised systems that increase output while protecting their
edge.
The investment
follows recent expansion for the company and comes as law firms increasingly explore operational uses of generative AI. Avvoka has focused on developing
infrastructure designed to support structured drafting processes that
incorporate governance and oversight.
The new funding
will be used to expand Avvoka’s presence in the United States and further
develop the platform’s capabilities to support high-volume legal work while maintaining consistency.