Legalist is a start-up that focuses on litigation financing.

Based on data - their algorithms analyze millions of court cases to source, vet, and finance commercial litigation- Legalist can finance your lawsuit.

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The company originally intended to be a central database for state court records, which are notoriously hard to search.

^[4]Legalist pivoted to litigation finance at Y Combinator when they realised the enormous potential they had with their data.

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One of the co-founders, Eva Shang, is a former Theil Fellowship recipient.

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Legalist was in Y Combinator in Summer 2016. During it, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz founded Legalist to be very intriguing. ^[-1]