What Zuva does

Zuva Inc. is a Toronto-based legal technology company, founded in September 2021 as a spin-out from Kira Systems following Litera's acquisition of Kira. The company retained a copy of the underlying Kira machine learning stack — the legal AI platform used by 18 of the world's top 25 M&A law firms at the time of Kira's sale — and operates an AI-first document intelligence platform purpose-built for sell-side M&A due diligence.

Zuva's core technology combines natural language processing, named entity recognition, document classification across 225+ document types, and a pre-built library of 1,400+ legal provision definitions (AI Fields) including change-of-control, non-compete, exclusivity, MFN, and IP-assignment clauses. The platform also exposes signature detection, OCR, and developer APIs, and is supported by a PhD-level research team that publishes at venues such as SIGIR, CIKM, ICAIL, and IEEE TrustCom, with granted patents covering NER techniques for legal documents and passage identification methods for due diligence datasets.

Commercially, Zuva sells fixed-fee Diligence Reviews at $10,000–$75,000 per engagement, pairing purpose-built AI with ex-Biglaw M&A lawyers to deliver reviews in 1–2 weeks at roughly 20% of comparable Biglaw cost. The company also operates Bidder Question Management (in beta) for active-deal Q&A workflow, and self-serve products Analyze, API, and Create that target developers, legal ops teams, and smaller buyers with usage-based or subscription pricing. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales targeting CFOs, General Counsel, and PE sponsors running portfolio exits, supplemented by self-serve distribution and Microsoft Power Automate / SharePoint integrations. The company has raised $20 million CAD in Series A funding from Insight Partners (the same investor that previously backed Kira Systems), is SOC 2 Type II certified, and is led by CEO Noah Waisberg, co-founder of Kira Systems.

Name

Zuva

Legal name

Zuva Inc.

Website

https://zuva.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Zuva is a Toronto-based legal AI company that provides sell-side M&A diligence reviews pairing purpose-built contract AI with ex-Biglaw lawyers, plus self-serve Analyze, API, and Create products for document intelligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal AI Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Legal Services (5411)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Author Business Tools & Analytics (Royalty Tracking, Pricing, Keyword/Market Research) (MPAJAJAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

E-book Subscription & Bundling Services (MPAJAMAB), Litigation & Dispute Valuation (damages, shareholder disputes) (FSAEAHAI), Rights, ISBN & Publishing Administration Services (Identifiers, Metadata, Royalties) (MPAJAJAK)

Keywords

• Legal contract AI
• M&A due diligence
• Document intelligence
• Contract analysis software
• Legal technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Diligence Reviews (Professional Services): Fixed-fee professional services for sell-side M&A legal due diligence reviews. Pricing ranges from $10,000 to $75,000 per engagement. Combines AI technology with experienced ex-Biglaw M&A lawyers to deliver comparable results at ~20% of Biglaw cost. 1-2 week turnaround time.
2. SaaS/API Subscriptions: Self-serve products (Analyze, API, Create) available as subscription or usage-based pricing. Analyze and API products have pricing tiers with usage-based billing. Create allows building custom AI fields. Bidder Question Management currently in beta.
3. Licensing Royalties: Licensing of AI technology and DocAI platform to law firms and enterprises. DocAI was the first product launched, serving as an AI-powered document intelligence platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Zuva provides AI-powered legal document intelligence for sell-side M&A transactions. Its Diligence Reviews service pairs experienced ex-Biglaw M&A lawyers with purpose-built AI to scan contracts for 1,400+ deal-relevant provisions, identify change-of-control risks, and produce disclosure schedules at approximately 20% of Biglaw cost. The company also sells self-serve products — Analyze (document analysis), API (developer integration), and Create (custom AI field builder) — enabling legal teams and developers to extract contract data and classify documents independently.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DocAI: Original product name for document intelligence platform, later renamed to Analyze
• Zuva Analyze
• Zuva API
• Zuva Create
• Contract Central
• Diligence Reviews
• Bidder Question Management

Products and services

• Diligence Reviews Managed service that pairs experienced ex-Biglaw M&A lawyers with purpose-built AI to deliver sell-side M&A legal diligence reviews for ~20% of Biglaw cost. Scans every contract for 1,400+ deal-relevant provisions (change-of-control, non-competes, exclusivity, MFN, IP assignments), produces disclosure-schedule-ready outputs, with 1–2 week turnaround at fixed fees of $10K–$75K.
• Bidder Question Management AI-powered questionnaire management system that ingests bidder question lists from Excel and Word, flags similar/duplicate questions across bidders, surfaces how questions were previously answered, and enables team coordination during M&A deals. Currently in beta with pilot requests available.
• Zuva Analyze Self-serve AI-powered document analysis platform enabling users to upload contracts, extract fields, classify documents into 225+ types, detect defined terms, compare documents, and score risk without requiring a full Diligence Reviews engagement.
• Zuva API Public developer API enabling integration of Zuva's document intelligence into existing systems and workflows. Supports file submission, classification, field extraction, OCR, and language workflows with usage-based pricing and rate limits. Python SDK available; documentation at api-reference.zuva.ai.
• Zuva Create Self-serve platform for building custom AI fields tailored to specific document types or organizational needs, extending beyond the pre-built 1,400+ AI Fields library, with custom field training and subscription pricing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces management time on disclosure schedules by >7x
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability7 records

Feature10 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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