Legal contracts are the backbone of every major business relationship, yet managing them remains one of the most tedious and resource-draining workflows for in-house teams. That pain point just translated into serious capital. Ivo, the AI-powered contract intelligence platform, announced a $55 million Series B funding round today, led by existing investor Blackbird, with participation from Costanoa Ventures, Uncork Capital, and others.
This significant Ivo funding validates a massive shift in how enterprises are handling their legal burden, moving from manual review to automated, strategic analysis. The company’s mission is straightforward: remove the friction from contract review and transform agreements into reliable business intelligence.
The capital injection follows a year of explosive growth that has clearly caught the attention of investors. Ivo reported a 500 percent increase in annual recurring revenue and expanded its adoption within the Fortune 500 by 250 percent since its last raise. Total customers have grown by 134 percent. When companies like Uber, Shopify, Atlassian, Reddit, and Canva are signing on, it signals that the product is solving a real, high-stakes problem—confidentiality and accuracy in legal documents.
“Every key relationship in a business is defined by an agreement, yet most organizations struggle to extract the insights inside them,” said Min-Kyu Jung, CEO and Co-founder of Ivo. The company’s focus is to provide a trustworthy solution that helps in-house teams work faster and gain visibility previously impossible through traditional methods.
The challenge for modern enterprises is twofold: the sheer volume of contracts requires surgical accuracy under tight deadlines, and critical business insights remain locked within those documents, inaccessible to the wider organization. Ivo is positioning itself as the necessary bridge between the legal department and the operational needs of the business.
Turning Legal Documents into Strategic Data
Ivo’s core offering is purpose-built for in-house teams and focuses on two distinct areas: review and intelligence.
Ivo Review uses AI to standardize a company’s legal positions and precedents, ensuring that every contract is reviewed consistently against playbooks built and implemented by lawyers. This consistency is crucial for large and globally distributed teams where manual error rates can be costly. Customers report saving up to 75 percent of the time previously spent on manual review, a massive efficiency gain for stretched legal departments. Uber, for instance, selected Ivo because it was intuitive, demonstrated a high level of accuracy, and could meet stringent confidentiality requirements, according to Kate Gardner, Senior Manager of Contract Operations at Uber.
The second piece, Ivo Intelligence, is arguably the more strategic asset. It provides instant visibility into the entire contract library, identifying connections between agreements and highlighting standard legal positions without requiring manual input or metatagging. This capability allows contracting teams to answer business-critical questions about their agreements within minutes, rather than requiring months of manual auditing.
This shift from reactive review to proactive intelligence is what is driving the market validation. As Blackbird Principal James Palmer noted, in-house legal teams are "incredibly selective about the tools they trust." Ivo’s traction with major enterprises suggests it has cleared that high bar for accuracy and confidentiality, defining and leading the category of contract intelligence.
The $55 million in new Ivo funding will be deployed to accelerate product development and scale the platform’s reach across the hundreds of organizations already relying on it. As contracting teams face increasing pressure to manage complexity with fewer resources, Ivo’s successful Series B confirms that AI is no longer a novelty in the legal workflow—it is rapidly becoming an essential layer of enterprise operations, providing clarity and control where previously there was only friction. The long term vision is to elevate contracts into strategic assets for every business, making the experience of working with them effortless.
