San Francisco, CA — January 13, 2026 — AlphaLit, the AI company automating legal intake to uncover high-quality claims at scale, announced a $3.2 million seed round today with participation from Lux Capital, Slow Ventures, and Bright Ventures, alongside notable angels including Ken Cornick (Co-founder of CLEAR) and Jason Boehmig (Co-founder of Ironclad). They join previous investors including Sequoia Scout Fund, Base Ventures, and Jake Heller (Co-founder of Casetext).
Founded in 2024 by legal technology veteran and former litigator Anand Upadhye, AlphaLit is unlocking a multi-billion dollar market of overlooked small cases.
Currently, traditional law firms cannot financially justify vetting small cases. As a result, over 64% of calls to attorneys from prospective plaintiffs are ignored. This leaves over 55 million meritorious civil claims unfiled annually, particularly in working-class communities, leaving billions of dollars in potential value unrealized.
AlphaLit solves this by deploying voice AI and algorithmic case scoring to automate the most friction-heavy parts of the pre-litigation process. First, the voice AI platform engages with prospective plaintiffs to understand their stories, evaluate their evidence against legal frameworks, and automatically draft case memos. Next, AlphaLit utilizes its proprietary AlphaLit Score, a technology which evaluates liability, evidence quality, and potential damages in real-time. This ranking system allows attorneys to profitably accept high-quality cases they previously would have ignored.
“Unless your case is worth millions or you are well-connected, it’s almost impossible to get a lawyer on the phone,” said Anand Upadhye, Founder and CEO of AlphaLit. “By using AI to handle the heavy lifting of intake and fact-gathering, we are lowering the cost of pre-litigation and opening legal access for millions of Americans.”
Peter Hebert, partner and co-founder at Lux Capital, commented: “AlphaLit is attacking a massive, latent market. The legal industry has struggled with the economics of high-volume, lower-dollar claims. Anand and his team have built the technical infrastructure to turn these overlooked claims into a viable, scalable asset class.”
About AlphaLit
AlphaLit is a San Francisco-based legal technology company that uses voice AI and algorithmic scoring of fact patterns to identify, conduct intake on, and evaluate legal claims at scale. The company’s mission is to use technology to unlock legal access for millions of people.
