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TLTF & Friends in the News

• ‼️ Last chance to be a part of the TLTF Summit Sessions! Applications close July 31st. There are 3 stages for startups, scale, and growth companies! Apply here.

• 📣 We launched The LegalTech Lab, a new platform designed to back the boldest early-stage companies building the future of legal services. Built around our vision of Law Firm 2.0, The Lab will invest in and support founders reimagining how legal work is delivered, scaled, and accessed. Applications are now open!

• 📄 In case you missed it: Read our report on The Future of Talent Development for the Age of AI.

• 🚀 We’re excited to announce our investment in HelloPrenup, a company modernizing one of the most misunderstood aspects of marriage: the prenuptial agreement. Ready why we invested here.

• 🚀 JustFund lined up a $200M warehouse facility from MA Financial Group to provide wider access to legal assistance for those going through divorce or separation. They also received the Excellence in Lending (Business & Consumer) award at the 2025 Fannie Awards, presented by FinTech Australia.

• 🤝 LifeLegacy teamed up with The Nokbox to make estate planning easier.

• 🚀 Noetica launched Term Ratings, the first ever holistic AI-powered rating of transaction terms based on proprietary market benchmarks, made for credit funds to assess term risk.

• 🎧 Dori Yona, Co-Founder & CEO of SimpleClosure, and Casey Tierney, Investor at TLTF, discussed an often-overlooked legal and operational challenge: company shutdowns.

• 🎧 LighthouseAI CEO Sumeet Singh unpacked how the company is redefining pharmaceutical compliance with AI.

• 🎧 In the Season 1 finale of Legal(tech) Briefs, Zach Posner sat down with Carta CEO Henry Ward to discuss how cap table software became private market infrastructure and why the real opportunity lies in selling directly to end users and reinventing the service model.

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News from the World of Law AI & LegalTech

• Mind the AI gap: boomers trailed Gen Z in AI confidence at law firms.

• Employees aren’t waiting for IT: 1 in 5 workers buy GenAI tools without company sign-off, and more than half of employees are using free, consumer-grade AI tools on their own.

• AI employees only: professors tested what happens when a company is run entirely by AI agents.

  
  

 Privacy & Surveillance

• McHack: AI bot at McDonald’s leaked millions with ‘123456’ password flaw.

• Denmark’s law on deepfakes: a new bill would let citizens force social platforms to take down AI-generated forgeries of their likeness.

• DNA disaster: UK watchdog fined 23andMe £2.31M for data breach, impacting thousands of people.

  
  

 Legal System & Policy

• Big news from DC: Senate’s Title VII Bill overhauled QSBS to unlock more startup investment and liquidity.

• AI moratorium is dead: Senate voted 99–1 to kill 10 year ban on state laws.

• Texas set AI standards: new law established Texas AI Council and $200K penalties.

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Listen

• Damien Riehl and Horace Wu talk with Dr. Megan Ma (Stanford) about using multi-agent simulations to train young lawyers, the role of personas in AI, and the future of AI in law. (50 mins)

• Immigration attorney and Legal Rebel Greg Siskind joins the ABA Journal’s Victor Li to explore how generative AI is helping immigration lawyers keep pace with policy shifts, enforcement spikes, and client concerns. (38 mins)

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Tanner’s Other Page Turners

• Mattel partners with OpenAI: When Barbie hallucinates, it’s called vision.

• 1 million warehouse robots: Amazon nearly matched its human workforce with robots.

• Lost in Translation: AI failed to decode Gen Alpha’s online lingo.

• Dyson engineered the future: from suction to strawberries with high-tech farming.

• Music industry cranked down: no AI jam session across the blurred IP lines.

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On The Road

👋🏻 Want to meet with a portfolio company or TLTF at one of the events below? Fill out this form.

• August 4 - Lexamica and LawPro.ai at NTL Big Truck & Auto in Chicago, IL.

• August 10 - 14 - ECFx, Infodash, Oddr, SingleFile, Truth Systems at ILTACON in National Harbor, MD.

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