Hustler Words – Legal AI powerhouse Harvey is making waves again, this time by acquiring Hexus, a promising two-year-old startup specializing in creating compelling product demos, videos, and guides. This strategic move underscores Harvey’s commitment to aggressive expansion in the increasingly competitive legal tech landscape.
Sakshi Pratap, founder and CEO of Hexus, brings a wealth of experience from her previous roles at Walmart, Oracle, and Google. Speaking to hustlerwords.com, Pratap confirmed that her San Francisco-based team has already integrated with Harvey, with the India-based engineers set to join upon the establishment of Harvey’s Bangalore office. Pratap herself will lead an engineering team focused on accelerating Harvey’s offerings tailored for in-house legal departments.
"We’re bringing to Harvey a deep understanding of building enterprise AI tools in related domains," Pratap stated. "This expertise will enable Harvey to move more swiftly in a market that is rapidly intensifying."
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Prior to the acquisition, Hexus had secured $1.6 million in funding from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures, and various angel investors. While Pratap remained tight-lipped about the specific terms of the deal, she indicated that the structure was designed around "long-term team incentives."
This acquisition comes at a pivotal time for Harvey, as the company aims to solidify its position as a leading force in the AI sector. Last fall, Harvey confirmed its impressive $8 billion valuation following a $160 million funding round, bringing its total funding to a staggering $760 million since 2025. The latest round was spearheaded by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from new investors T. Rowe Price and WndrCo, alongside existing backers such as Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Conviction, and angel investor Elad Gil. Earlier in the year, a $300 million Series D round led by Sequoia valued the company at $3 billion.
Harvey currently boasts a client base of over 1,000 across 60 countries, including a significant portion of the top 10 U.S. law firms.
In a previous interview with hustlerwords.com, co-founder and CEO Winston Weinberg recounted Harvey’s origins, tracing it back to a cold email sent to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Weinberg, then a first-year associate at O’Melveny & Myers, and co-founder Gabe Pereyra, a researcher with experience at Google DeepMind and Meta, initially tested GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions sourced from Reddit. The results were astounding, with attorneys indicating that they would use 86 out of 100 AI-generated responses with minimal editing.
"That was the defining moment when we realized the transformative potential of this technology for the entire industry," Weinberg explained.
The email to Altman on July 4, 2022, led to a call that same morning and subsequently secured their first investment from the OpenAI Startup Fund, which remains Harvey’s second-largest investor, according to Weinberg.
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