31 Oct 2025Legora $150M Series C, 1X NEO Robot, NVIDIA $5T, Vesence $9M, Lovable Launched Ambassador Program
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Vessence Founders: Building Cursor for Lawyers
Vessence co-founders Henrik Hansen and Ludwig Swanström recount starting the company in February, passing the YC interview in a week, and being invited to Paul Graham's kitchen, where he said there are a hundred ways to poke holes in the idea but he could see it working. They explain building a "linter" for lawyers inside Word — checking AI and human work via track changes, inspired by Cursor — which is driving 90% weekly active usage at their first law firms. They describe embedding at their first customer's offices for months, coding live in front of lawyers, and how the $9M will fund hiring and rising token costs.