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SeedLegals

One-stop platform for legals for startups

101-200 employees
  • B2B
  • HR
  • Fundraising
  • Legal
  • Investing
  • SaaS
  • Venture Capital
296 - 302 High Holborn, Holborn, London, GB

Company mission

To help entrepreneurship become accessible to everyone by providing founders with tools to create, build, and scale their ideas.

Rocket List 2021
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40% female employees

-11% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Increasing numbers of startups are getting funded in the UK and all require legal help with their financing.

SeedLegals identified a big burning pain: no founder wants to handle a bad fundraising experience because of legals. Previously founders would have to pay a decent chunk of the money they've just worked hard to raise, but the SeedLegals platform has provided a step change in cost.

The focus on a very specific niche (startups) has meant they have built a very tailored product, and word of mouth within startups is strong.

While they primarily focus on helping companies with fundraising, they also offer additional services (e.g. option schemes), and they're in a strong position to expand their offering to other legal needs.

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Volunteer days - Up to 3 days per year

Company values

  • We are driven by customer success
  • We are committed to a growth mindset
  • We invest and trust in each other
  • We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$3.9m

SERIES A

Jul 2017

$1m

SEED

$4.9m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Serial entrepreneur, founded two businesses before (6tribes and Beamly) and launched BBC iPlayer

Laurent Laffy

(Chairman)

Previously Managing Partner of Arts Alliance (VC Fund) and has a Harvard MBA

People progressing

Joined as Startup Funding Associate, being promoted to CX Team Lead after 1 year and Head of Customer Experience 1 year later

Joined as Startup Funding Associate, being promoted to Options Team Lead after 1 year, 6 months

Joined as Startup Funding Associate, being promoted to CX Team Lead after 1 year

Diversity & Inclusion at SeedLegals

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Michelle Keelin (Head of HR)

  • Here at SeedLegals we recognise diverse teams are more effective and solve problems more creatively. The challenge is to create an environment where individuals feel empowered to be themselves and use their diverse talents, backgrounds and characteristics to create positive outcomes for the business.
  • We believe it is critical we work hard across teams to create psychologically safe spaces where people can voice ideas, be themselves. To ensure our employee voices and opinions are heard we created our Impact Team, built from volunteers in a variety of roles across the business, to give each person a voice and a platform to be heard and allowing them to help structure policies and commitments to diversity and inclusion.
  • Adding to this, in September 2023 we launched our new values with DE&I an huge part of those. 'We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion'. We create an environment where we all: * can be authentic * feel psychologically safe * appreciate everyone's unique skills and abilities * embrace different identities, perspectives, beliefs and norms * listen to and hear every voice We commit to DE&I by building it into our hiring practices, training programs, policies, and overall culture.
  • If you would like to know more on our Values, please feel free to reach out to me and I will be happy to talk further.

Endorsements

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Opportunities to learn (3)

Nice people (2)

Hard working team (2)

Challenging work (1)

Career progression (1)

Autonomy (1)

Intelligent people (1)

My opinions are valued (1)

Open and honest communication (1)

Innovative product (1)

There are plenty of opportunities to develop your career - great work is recognised and we regularly have promotion announcements on weekly our team standup calls. You can progress into a team lead position quickly if you put the work in and take ownership of your progression. There are also opportunities for lateral moves and we’ve had people move eg from the legal team to the development team and from customer experience to sales/account management. So you can really build your career and gain experience in various areas.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Career progression

Apr 2022

I’m working with so many industry experts with a wealth of knowledge in different areas, and everyone is really happy to share their knowledge with you. It’s a really open culture and you can learn a lot from people both within your own team and outside. There are also secondment opportunities across teams so if you join for example the customer experience team but you’re curious to see how the tech team works you can apply for a secondment to work with the tech team for a few months.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Opportunities to learn

Apr 2022

Everyone takes real pride in their work and works hard. There’s a real team spirit which has been great to see even though the team has almost doubled in size in 6 months. You’re expected to put the work in but there’s also a lot of support from the team - everyone is super nice so its easy to ask questions if you get stuck with a project. There’s also a lot of trust, you can take ownership of your projects and there isn’t a lot of micromanagement that you sometimes see in other companies.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Hard working team

Apr 2022

The people at SeedLegals are amazing! I've found my team and management to be super supportive, approachable, and just so friendly.

Operations & Strategy

Nice people

Jan 2021

The company, and my team, is transparent on all levels. We have regular company-wide meetings where it's great to check in with people from different teams and learn about the work we're doing in all areas.

Operations & Strategy

Open and honest communication

Jan 2021

There are really so many opportunities to learn. In my team (CX) you have the chance to learn about the startup industry as a whole, as well as the innovative products our company offers. We have legal training on a variety of different areas, and also have regular Q&A sessions with our CEO!

Operations & Strategy

Opportunities to learn

Jan 2021

We're constantly improving our current offerings, researching new offerings and building new products based on team and user feedback!

Operations & Strategy

Innovative product

Nov 2020

I've watched my team grow from a team of 5 at the start of Covid to a team of 13 which has been incredible.

Operations & Strategy

Growing fast

Nov 2020

There's loads of opportunities for your ideas and feedback to be heard by the company as a whole. It's a place where the work you do has immediate impact and comes with real responsibility.

Operations & Strategy

My opinions are valued

Nov 2020

The company is growing rapidly, busy and driven to push forward. Things are fast paced but mindful of staff, so continuously working on ways to create a positive and supportive working environment for all.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Hard working team

Nov 2020

Projects are always happening, there are great minds working in the company across all areas of the business, where great ideas are pushed forward, encouraged and given a chance to grow.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Challenging work

Nov 2020

Across the company there is such an array of talent and fabulous minds, I feel honoured to work alongside them!

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Intelligent people

Nov 2020

There's open communication between the different teams, with the tech, CX and legal team constantly bouncing ideas off each other and sharing their perspectives on new proposals.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Opportunities to learn

Nov 2020

The management trusts you to make the right call - they're there to help you but you feel free to define and take ownership of your project.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Autonomy

Nov 2020

The people at SeedLegals are ever mindful of each other's boundaries and stay civil even at the busiest of times.

Finance, Legal & Compliance

Nice people

Nov 2020

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