The LinkSquares CEO Vishal Sunak‘s conversation with Andrew Warner on Mixergy’s Startup Stories Podcast! https://hubs.li/H0GnN8w0
Teaser: “Imagine this: Your company is getting acquired and the buyers want to know what agreements are inside all of your contracts. How do you figure it out? That’s the problem today’s guest had while working with Backupify.
When he couldn’t find a simple solution, he decided to create one himself.”
BOSTON – November 16th 2020 – LinkSquares, provider of the fastest and most comprehensive AI-powered contract lifecycle management and analysis tool, today announced that it has been named a 2020 Cool Vendor in Contract Lifecycle Management and Advanced Contract Analytics by Gartner. According to the report, “Extreme market volatility has many organizations revisiting their ability to quickly identify, analyze and manage third-party contract risk.”1
Gartner shares, “Our research has shown that the typical legal department causes an additional three days in turnaround time for each contract.” The report also provides guidance for legal teams and application leaders, including the following:
Beau Sylvester, LinkSquares customer and head of Ubreakifix Strategic Initiatives for Asurion, said, “Two years ago, Asurion struggled with document management utilizing more than 25 different locations to store legal documents. After looking at numerous options, we landed on LinkSquares as the best platform for our document management solution. The partnership with LinkSquares has resulted in lowered risk for lost and breached documents, and better efficiency from our staff on search and retrieval of documents using cutting edge technology empowered through LinkSquares. My favorite characteristic of LinkSquares is how intuitive it is for the end user.”
Hundreds of customers trust LinkSquares to provide insights for millions of executed contracts. DraftKings, Fitbit, Asurion and other high-growth customers rely on LinkSquares to not only automate manual contract processes and provide data analytics, but also to help reposition legal teams and departments away from being a time- and resource-intensive cost center. With the AI-powered insights into existing contracts, customers can rely on outside counsel less, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. LinkSquares also eliminates the extra cycles involved in the manual teaching, data entry, upkeep and lengthy onboarding that other contract management solutions require.
“The pressures that legal teams face to quickly determine and mitigate business risks were amplified during the pandemic,” said Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares. “Now, legal teams, sales, procurement and other strategic arms of the organization are involved in contract lifecycle management in a big way, which means they need a central source of truth to communicate and guide future decisions. To us, being a Gartner Cool Vendor validates our commitment to empower business leaders to streamline a labor-intensive process and easily use artificial intelligence to stay agile.”
Details from the report can be found here. For more information about LinkSquares’ AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform, contact sales@linksquares.com.
1Gartner, “Cool Vendors in CLM and Advanced Contract Analytics,” Patrick Connaughton, Marko Sillanpaa, Kaitlynn Sommers, 12 October 2020.
2Gartner’s 2019 Gartner Legal and Compliance Automation Survey
LinkSquares, a Boston-based company that provides an AI-based contract management and analysis platform for corporate legal departments, is today announcing the roll-out later this month of a product that extends its platform to the pre-signature, contract-generation process, to offer enterprises an end-to-end platform for drafting, reviewing and managing contracts.
The company says that the new product, called LinkSquares Finalize, will work seamlessly with its existing post-signature product, which it now calls LinkSquares Analyze, to provide an integrated platform.
LinkSquares Finalize will provide three capabilities, the company says:
The company says it developed the product in response to feedback from its customers — which include DraftKings, Fitbit and Asurion — that wanted an integrated platform for pre- and post-signature contract management.
“In the race to accelerate contract generation and approvals while using a lean bank of tools and resources, legal teams demanded a solution that could handle both pre-signature activity and post-signature analysis,” Vishal Sunak, LinkSquares CEO and cofounder, said in a statement.
“The new pre-signature capabilities give legal teams one, end-to-end tool that can handle contracts at their inception through execution, which removes silos and improves transparency for a streamlined contracting process across the organization.”
In February, the five-year-old company announced that it had raised $14.5 million in a Series A financing round, bringing its total financing to $21.5 million.
Corporate contract management may be the hottest area in legal technology right now, at least when measured by investment dollars. Just last month, a single day saw investments in four companies totalling $70 million.
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Terms of Agreement
Kinaxis will acquire Rubikloud for US$60 million in an all-cash transaction that is expected to close within 60 days. Based on Rubikloud’s current revenue and expense profile, the company’s fiscal 2020 revenue and Adjusted EBITDA guidance, as reiterated in its May 6, 2020 news release, remains unchanged. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
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At LinkSquares, we think your internal legal and finance teams have better things to do than spending thousands of hours a year reviewing contracts one by one. So we built software that automatically reads and retrieves key data from your entire library of agreements, making review and diligence projects lightning fast and super simple. You'll be up and running on our AI-powered Contract Analytics cloud in a snap too - our white-glove onboarding will have you launched, trained, and fully integrated into your workflows in 30 days.
So go focus on raising money, getting acquired, or just plain growing as fast as you can. With LinkSquares, your contracts will become a source of knowledge the entire company can depend on.