Harvey, the high-flying legal AI startup, has acquired Hexus, a two-year-old startup that builds tools for creating product demos, videos, and guides. This move continues Harvey’s aggressive expansion amid fierce competition in the legal technology market.
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap confirmed that her San Francisco-based team has already joined Harvey. The startup’s India-based engineers will come onboard once Harvey establishes an office in Bangalore. Pratap, who previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, will lead an engineering team focused on accelerating Harvey’s offerings for in-house legal departments.
Pratap stated that the acquisition brings deep experience in building enterprise AI tools for adjacent problem spaces. This expertise is intended to help Harvey move faster in a market that is becoming increasingly competitive.
Hexus had raised 1.6 million dollars from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and angel investors prior to the acquisition. While Pratap declined to share the specific deal terms, she noted the structure was aligned around long-term team incentives.
This acquisition comes as Harvey works to cement its position as one of AI’s hottest startups. The company confirmed last fall that it is now valued at 8 billion dollars after raising 160 million dollars, bringing its total funding across 2025 to 760 million dollars. Andreessen Horowitz led that newest round, joined by new investors T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, alongside existing backers Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and angel investor Elad Gil. Harvey started the year with a 3 billion dollar valuation after Sequoia led a 300 million dollar Series D round.
Harvey now claims more than 1,000 clients across 60 countries, including a majority of the top 10 U.S. law firms.
Co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg recently traced Harvey’s origin story back to a cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Weinberg, then a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra, a researcher from Google DeepMind and Meta, tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions from Reddit. When they showed the AI-generated answers to attorneys, two out of three said they would send 86 of 100 responses with zero edits.
Weinberg recalled that moment as the realization that the entire legal industry could be transformed by this technology. They emailed Altman on July 4, 2022, got on a call that same morning, and landed their first check from the OpenAI Startup Fund shortly after. According to Weinberg, the OpenAI Startup Fund remains Harvey’s second-largest investor.