Ludwig Swanstrom
31 Oct 2025Legora $150M Series C, 1X NEO Robot, NVIDIA $5T, Vesence $9M, Lovable Launched Ambassador Program
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.
31 Oct 2025etn. Episode 6
Henrik Hansen & Ludwig Swanstrom, Vessence — seed round
Vessence co-founders Henrik Hansen and Ludwig Swanstrom join live from a law firm in Stockholm, describing raise-day chaos (a crashed waitlist, demos across time zones) and the round itself — $9M led by Emergence with 20VC, Creandum, Paul Graham and Anton participating. They recount getting into YC a week after applying and pitching Paul Graham in his kitchen, and explain the thesis: applying Cursor's principles to professional services via a "linting engine" inside Word that catches errors in lawyers' copy-pasted precedent documents, already at 90% weekly active users. They also cover plans for the capital, embedding themselves inside customer law firms, the "Cursor for Lawyers" pitch, and taste and empathy as the new startup delta.