Pandektes lands €13.5M Series A led by Alstin to build Europe’s legal data infrastructure

Pandektes has closed a €13.5 million Series A, with Alstin Capital leading the round. PROfounders, Scale Capital and several existing investors also chipped in. The Copenhagen legaltech startup says the money will go into Europe, North America, hiring, and a bigger API that lets other developers use its structured legal data.

The pitch is blunt: legal research is still dominated by country-by-country incumbents, and that makes switching painful. Pandektes wants to challenge names like Karnov, LexisNexis, Westlaw and Beck by building a cross-border layer for legislation, court rulings and administrative decisions, then tying that material to a customer’s own documents. The company says the result is legal work that can actually cross borders instead of stopping at them.

The numbers behind the startup are still modest next to the giants, but they are moving in the right direction. Pandektes says revenue has grown sixfold over the past year and that it now has more than 500 customers. It was founded in Copenhagen in 2022 by Casper Laursen and Søren Brokær, and today it has around 55 employees. Before this round, it had raised about €3.9 million, including a February 2025 seed round backed by People Ventures, Interface Capital and Nordic business angels.

What makes the company unusual is that it is not just chasing law firms. It also wants legal AI developers to license its data rather than scrape together their own. That is a tougher sell, because the legal AI money has largely gone to assistant tools and model makers, not infrastructure. Pandektes is betting that the real moat is the data layer underneath all that software, and that Europe’s fragmented legal system is exactly where such a layer matters most.