Carlos Miranda Levy
Founder · Innovator in Chief
Stanford Digital Vision Fellow · CNN-recognized tech leader · economist · 4 continents · founder of CEMI.ai · multilingual (EN/ES/FR/PT)
Seed Round · Open through Q3 2026
Pre-revenue · 1,950+ pages live · 50-tool product catalog operational · Public launch May 16, 2026
Pre-money
$6,000,000
SAFE with post-money cap
Round size
$1,000,000
Rolling close · 6–10 signers target
Min ticket
$25,000
No floor for strategic angels
Instrument
SAFE
YC standard, post-money cap
Use of funds
Product 25% · GTM 25% · Ops 20% · Compliance 15% · Infra 10% · Reserve 5%
Revenue
Premium $149/mo · Complete pkg $499 · Consulting + AI Suite enterprise tiers
Practice-area coverage
10 areas · commercial · corporate · litigation deep · employment · IP · privacy · regulatory · AI governance growing · family · tax on roadmap
Market signal — May 2026
Capital is voting on legal AI — and on Latin America
Two recent rounds validate both the category and our geography:
Harvey AI — $11B valuation
As of March 2026, Harvey AI is valued at $11 billion after a $200M round led by Sequoia Capital and GIC — up from $8B in late 2025. Their growth reflects strong AmLaw 100 adoption and accelerating enterprise demand for AI-driven legal workflows. The category is hot, the buyer is willing to pay, and the market is much larger than the AmLaw segment Harvey is currently winning.
Enter — Latin America's first legaltech unicorn
In May 2026, Brazil's Enter became Latin America's first AI unicorn, valued at $1.2B after raising $100M. Their earlier $100M+ Series B was led by Founders Fund, with Ribbit Capital, Sequoia Capital, ONEVC, Atlantico, and Kaszek participating. Validation: LatAm legaltech scales internationally, and tier-1 global capital follows.
Lawra sits at the intersection of these two trends. We don't compete head-on with Harvey for AmLaw 100 enterprise. We don't compete head-on with Enter for Brazilian corporate / labor litigation at scale. We compete on the dimensions both leave open: multilingual delivery, sovereign deployment, education + tooling + consulting bundled, doctrine-configurable, transparently priced. The same capital thesis that took Harvey to $11B and Enter to unicorn status applies to a multilingual, mid-market-anchored, education-first platform — at a fraction of the entry valuation.
Sources: industry reporting on Harvey's March 2026 round (Reuters, The Information); Enter's May 2026 raise and prior Series B (Bloomberg Línea, TechCrunch, Pitchbook). Figures as publicly reported at the time of writing.
Use of Funds — 18 months
$1M ARR by month 18 → Series A trigger at $20M–$50M valuation. Conservative path: services-first revenue (consulting, case implementation, training) + Lawra Incorporate Premium freemium → SaaS subscriptions ramp.
- 25% Engineering + Product
- 25% Sales + Customer Success
- 20% Marketing + GTM
- 15% Compliance + Legal
- 10% Cloud Infra + AI APIs
- 5% Reserve + Runway Buffer
25% $250,000
Engineering + Product
Stripe paywall + AI Suite Premium subscription gating; mobile app (Lawra.app) launch; Word + Outlook add-ins (Microsoft AppSource); Phase 3 RAG over 1,950-page corpus; multi-provider AI proxy (Claude, OpenAI alongside Gemini); SOC 2 readiness implementation work.
25% $250,000
Sales + Customer Success
2–3 hires: enterprise sales lead (LatAm), customer success manager, demand-gen specialist. Outbound to mid-size firms across MX/CO/BR/PE/AR + Iberia. Enterprise pilot conversions.
20% $200,000
Marketing + GTM
Stealth-mode exit campaign + investor-validated launch. Legal conferences in LatAm (CEDEX, ABA LatAm, LegalTech Forum BR). Content marketing in 9 languages. Brand visibility for the Council of Jurists, Trial Simulator, Lawra Incorporate Premium as category-defining products.
10% $100,000
Compliance + Legal
SOC 2 Type II audit (Q4 2026 target) via Vanta or Drata; ISO 27001 + 42001 (AI Management System) preparation; international trademark filings (USPTO + EUIPO + INPI BR + IMPI MX); ongoing legal counsel; Lawra, S.R.L. formalization.
10% $100,000
Cloud Infra + AI APIs
Gemini API at scale + planned Claude/OpenAI multi-provider proxy via Cloud Functions; Firestore + Firebase Auth + Hosting; Pagefind search infrastructure; backup + DR provisioning; monitoring + observability.
10% $100,000
Reserve + Runway Buffer
Working capital cushion for the unexpected — partner data delays, longer sales cycles, opportunistic moves, Series A bridging if needed.
With strategic funding
- Immediate market launch with full product suite
- Market presence at 4–6 major conferences in Year 1
- Break-even 2–3 months earlier
- Competitive window secured
Bootstrapped
- Organic growth on services revenue only
- Product improvements happen gradually
- Market capture is slower
- A competitor could enter Latin America first
All investor materials
Five surfaces. Same numbers, different depth.
1-page summary
Pre-money, ask, traction, team — everything in 90 seconds. Print-ready.
Pitch deck
15 slides · keyboard-navigable · downloadable as PDF.
Business plan
Diligence-grade: market, GTM, financials, risks, roadmap.
Investor FAQ
15 Q&A: terms, conversion math, governance, process.
The team
CV-grade detail on each of the 6 co-founders.
What Investors Get
- Equity participation — negotiated as part of the round, with preference for partners who bring strategic value beyond capital
- Quarterly updates — Financial reports, metrics, and strategic updates
- Advisory access — Direct communication with the founder; input on strategic decisions welcomed
- Premium access — All Lawra AI Suite tools included
- Network effects — Introductions to the growing Latin American legal tech ecosystem
Already shipped, not promised
The round funds scaling what's operational — not building a hypothesis.
Already has a live product
1,950+ pages across 9 languages, 20+ interactive tools, multi-persona AI assistant, fully operational 50-tool product catalog (10 autonomous agents), 38-jurist Council, Trial Simulator, Lawra Incorporate Premium freemium 5-tier generator, 95+ doc incorporation library
Already has all 7 revenue lines ready to sell
Validated pricing, developing + developed world tiers, no further development needed
Already has a market position
Latin American beachhead, multilingual moat, no direct competitors at the multilingual + civil-law + sovereign + education-paired intersection
Already has a clear financial path
Conservative break-even at month 8-14; revenue compounds across 50 AI tools across 6 product categories, 9 service lines, and Lawra Incorporate Premium ($499 one-time / $149/mo bundle), targeting LatAm + global multilingual mid-market.
Already adopting the Anthropic Legal playbook
Anthropic open-sourced claude-for-legal in April 2026 — 80+ workflow agents across 11 practice areas. We have adapted the full portfolio of agents and tools, enhanced them, calibrated them for international, regional, and local legislation including civil-law jurisdictions, translated them across our 9 languages, and integrated them with our own existing portfolio of tools, services, and agents — for a combined total of 50+ legal agents available to Lawra users today.
The team
Six co-founders. Combined ~70 years of regulatory, legal, and tech execution. The cap-table-credible humans you'd want on this round.
Tanya Mejía-Ricart
Co-Founder · Senior VP, Law & Regulations
30+ years legal practice · Property, Regulatory, Tax, Patrimonio, Family Law · grounds Lawra in real doctrine
Ana Carolina Blanco Haché
Co-Founder · VP of IP & Entertainment Law
Oxford LLM · IP & Entertainment Law · contracts and compliance backbone of the AI Suite
Ydarlis Gissel Cabrera Grullón
Co-Founder · CCO (Chief Commercial Officer)
20+ years sales · digital media · strategic partnerships · TV, radio, digital media + food-delivery distribution
Fabiola Herrera
Co-Founder · Senior VP, Regulatory Affairs & Government Relations
Former Deputy Manager, Central Bank of the DR · authored cybersecurity legal framework · founded the CSIRT · led Cámara de Compensación 12 years
Luishy Medina
Co-Founder · CTO
Blockchain · IoT · Communications · Systems Architecture & Orchestration · AI · Big Data · World Bank collaborator · Silicon Valley HACKT alumnus
The Ask
We are open to a strategic seed round. Round size, structure (SAFE / priced equity / convertible / revenue share), and equity participation are negotiated with each investor based on what they bring beyond the wire — network, distribution, jurisdictional expertise, sector relationships.
The funding doesn't build products — they're already built. It doesn't fund a hypothesis — it funds scaling what's already operational and expanding what the broader ecosystem just open-sourced.
This page is for informational purposes and does not constitute a securities offering. Investment terms are subject to definitive legal documentation.
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