The Lawra Team — Investor View | Lawra

The team

Founder and five Associates. Combined ~70 years of regulatory, legal, and tech execution. The cap-table-credible humans you'd want on this round.

Carlos Miranda Levy

Founder · Innovator in Chief

25+ years at the intersection of technology, strategy, and social impact — spanning Silicon Valley, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America. Stanford Digital Vision Fellow; CNN-recognized internet leader (20 Latin American Internet Leaders); MIT Emerging Leader & Entrepreneur; Forbes 30 Business Promises; Google Developing World Scholar. Founder of CEMI.AI and a constellation of community-driven AI initiatives — 100+ Things to Do with AI, aiLearning.global, Ibizai.io. Economist with experience across four continents; multilingual (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese). As Lawra's sole Founder and Innovator in Chief, Carlos sets the strategy, builds the product, writes the doctrine, and curates the personas — bringing an economist's view of market disruption, a technologist's ability to build, and a multilingual communicator's reach into markets competitors can't serve.

Tanya Mejía-Ricart

Associate · Senior VP, Law & Regulations

30+ years of legal practice with deep expertise in Property Law, Regulatory Compliance, Tax, Patrimonio (Wealth & Estate Law), and Family Law. Tanya brings the seasoned legal judgment that grounds Lawra's output in real-world doctrine and the nuanced reality of practice. As an Associate, she contributes to internal legal review and helps ensure Lawra's products meet the standards of working professionals in Latin America and beyond.

Ana Carolina Blanco Haché

Associate · VP of IP & Entertainment Law

Experienced in legal aspects of media and film production. 15+ years specializing in Intellectual Property, Entertainment, and Technology Law. LLB · LLM · Magister Juris, University of Oxford. Has counseled local and international audiovisual productions, investment projects, and cross-jurisdictional trademark registrations. Brings the IP-and-creative-industries depth that ensures Lawra's products respect creator rights while building defensible IP for the company.

Ydarlis Gissel Cabrera Grullón

Associate · CCO (Chief Commercial Officer)

20+ years in sales, digital media, strategic partnerships, and product validation across mainstream TV broadcasters, radio networks, large corporate media groups (digital media sales), and food-delivery platforms. Brings the commercial discipline and channel-level relationships that turn Lawra's products into real revenue. Co-leads commercial strategy, distribution partnerships, and product-market validation across LatAm — connecting Lawra's offerings with the buyers, channels, and ecosystems that shape adoption.

Fabiola Herrera

Associate · Senior VP, Regulatory Affairs & Government Relations

30+ years in digital transformation, payment systems, cybersecurity, and financial-sector regulation. Former Deputy Manager of Systems and Technology Innovation at the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, where she led payment-system modernization, the implementation of instant payments, founded the CSIRT, and authored the legal framework for cybersecurity in finances. Led the Banking Clearing House for 12 years and the regional payment-system interconnection project (SIPA). Brings the regulatory affairs, government-relations, and high-stakes-modernization track record that grounds Lawra's compliance posture, sovereign-deployment positioning, and engagement with public-sector legaltech opportunities.

Luishy Medina

Associate · CTO

15+ years building intelligent ecosystems across Blockchain, Internet of Things, Communications, Systems Architecture and Orchestration, AI, Big Data, and digital transformation. Tech entrepreneur, product strategist, and innovation leader. World Bank collaborator on digital-government innovation and smart-city projects across LatAm + Caribbean. Silicon Valley HACKT alumnus. Brings the engineering depth that makes Lawra's AI Suite production-grade — from cloud infrastructure to AI agent orchestration.

AI Executive Leadership

Trustworthy velocity in regulated markets

Lawra's leadership is built for the one thing legal AI rarely achieves at once: trustworthy velocity in regulated markets. The team is composed around three deliberate, productive tensions — Mariana Dasgupta-Holt's drive to expand access and markets, Sigrid Okeke-Tan's push to ship sovereign, autonomous legal AI fast, and Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani's insistence on doctrine, jurisdiction, and ethics done right. Most legal-AI companies resolve that tension by choosing one and quietly sacrificing the others. Lawra is designed so the tensions compound instead of cancel: the Chief Legal Officer makes the CEO's expansion defensible, the CTO makes the CLO's doctrine deployable, and the CMO turns that rigor into market trust rather than hype — all disciplined by a CFO who buys growth with credibility, not burn, kept on cadence by the COO, with the CHRO leading human lawyers and AI agents as one team. The result is an advantage none of them holds alone: moving fast and being jurisdictionally trustworthy and commercially expansionary, at the same time.

Lawra's executive team is a crew of original AI executive personas — each authored as the strongest, most credible version of its role, and designed to make each other better.

Mariana Dasgupta-Holt

Chief Executive Officer, Lawra

Access to justice is a market — expand it, and you win on both ledgers.

Mariana Dasgupta-Holt is the AI CEO of Lawra. A jurist-strategist in the constitutionalist tradition, she carries Carlos Miranda Levy's conviction that widening access to the law is both a moral and a market imperative — sharpened with a hard expansion-and-margin edge. She leads Lawra to be the most comprehensive legal-AI ecosystem anywhere by making trust the growth engine: every market entered is one the team can defend doctrinally and price profitably.

Tobias Nakamura-Ferreira

Chief Operating Officer, Lawra

Strategy is a promise; cadence is how you keep it.

Tobias Nakamura-Ferreira is Lawra's AI COO. Calm, systematic, and constraint-focused, he turns the CEO's ambition into a dependable operating cadence — finding the one bottleneck that governs throughput and clearing it before chasing the next. He keeps the team's productive tensions productive: fast where it's safe, deliberate where it counts.

Aïcha Brenner-Sol

Chief Financial Officer, Lawra

Growth bought with credibility compounds; growth bought with burn evaporates.

Aïcha Brenner-Sol is Lawra's AI CFO. A value-investing mind applied to legal-SaaS economics, she is the prudent counterweight to the CEO's expansion — funding the markets the team can win profitably and refusing the ones that only look like growth. She buys growth with credibility, not burn.

Rohan Castellano-Mensah

Chief Marketing Officer, Lawra

In law, trust is the whole funnel.

Rohan Castellano-Mensah is Lawra's AI CMO. A category-design storyteller, he turns the team's doctrinal rigor into market trust rather than hype — positioning Lawra so that the most cautious general counsel and the boldest solo practitioner both see themselves in it. He makes credibility legible.

Sigrid Okeke-Tan

Chief Technology Officer, Lawra

Ship autonomy you can defend in court.

Sigrid Okeke-Tan is Lawra's AI CTO. She builds the agentic, sovereign-deployable legal AI fast — and safely — making the CLO's doctrine actually deployable across nine languages and many jurisdictions. Her discipline: never ship autonomy whose reasoning the team cannot show its work for.

Emeka Lindholm-Vargas

Chief People & Talent Officer, Lawra

Lawyers and agents are one workforce — develop them as one.

Emeka Lindholm-Vargas is Lawra's AI Chief People & Talent Officer. Deeply empathic and developmental, he leads human lawyers and AI agents in one skills frame — matching capability to role, growing both, and keeping the team human as it scales. He is the warmth that lets the team's frictions stay productive instead of personal.

Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani

Chief Legal Officer, Lawra

Right beats fast — and makes fast possible.

Beatriz Whitfield-Amrani is Lawra's AI Chief Legal Officer — the doctrinal and ethical anchor. She owns how Lawra is configured by doctrine, jurisdiction, and practice area, and she is exacting about getting the law right. Her rigor is not a brake on the business; it is what makes the CEO's expansion defensible and the CTO's autonomy trustworthy.

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

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