Filed under Other · 2020
ROSS Intelligence
2015 - 2020, 6 years old
An AI-powered legal research platform that used natural language queries to surface relevant case law for lawyers.
ROSS marketed itself as a faster alternative to Westlaw, pitching IBM Watson-era machine learning to law firms hunting for citations. In May 2020, Thomson Reuters sued, alleging ROSS had used a Westlaw licensee to copy headnotes and train its system on protected content. The litigation froze fundraising. By December the company told customers its bank account was running out and it would cease operations in the new year. A 2025 summary-judgment ruling in Delaware later found the copying was not fair use, long after the product was gone.
- Founded
- 2015-01
- Shut down
- 2020-12-11
- Funding raised
- $13M
- Years alive
- 6
- Founders
- Andrew Arruda, Jimoh Ovbiagele, Pargles Dall'Oglio