UAE's Qanooni Raises $2M to Turbocharge AI-Powered Legal Tech

Qanooni's Co-Founders (L-R): Karim Shiyab, Anuscha Iqbal, and Ziyaad Ahmed

The UAE-based legal tech startup Qanooni has secured a pretty impressive $2 million investment in its recent pre-seed funding round. Not bad at all for a company that's just starting to make waves in the legal sector.

Village Global, Oryx Fund, TA Ventures, plus a handful of angel investors jumped on board to back the ambitious platform. And those who've been keeping tabs on the Emirati startup scene (perhaps regular readers of Arageek) will know there's always plenty of excitement when a new company's raising serious capital.

What's special about Qanooni is its clever AI-driven solution, specifically built for legal professionals—it helps lawyers prep and review all those piles of legal paperwork and integrates smoothly with the different legal document management systems they already use. Honestly, anything that cuts back on the endless paperwork would probably be welcomed with open arms by any busy solicitor (and perhaps save some late-night coffee binges!).

The company was founded by trio Anuscha Iqbal, Ziyaad Ahmed and Karim Shiyab, who clearly saw a market needing a streamlined tech approach. The team plans to pump this new investment straight into beefing up their AI tools even more, keeping ahead in a tech-savvy sector that's moving faster than ever.

It's early days, obviously, but securing this kind of funding before even hitting the seed round tells you something about investor appetite in the region’s expanding tech scene. Especially with legal tech becoming such a busy space, raising smart money at this stage is a bit of a coup for Qannoni—definitely one to watch closely in the next year or two.

Source: Arageek