Sandstone

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Location United States
Latest Stage Series A
Total Raised $40M
Website https://sandstone.com
Sector
legal-tech ai vertical-saas

Investors

Sequoia Capital seed (2026)
SV Angel seed (2026)
SV Angel series-a (2026)
Operator Partners series-a (2026)

Founders

Nick Fleisher CEO & Co-Founder
Jarryd Strydom COO & Co-Founder
Liam Germain Co-Founder

About

Sandstone is a Legal Relationship Management platform designed for in-house legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses. The platform helps legal departments manage intake from multiple channels (Slack, email, Jira), route and triage work using AI agents, and build custom workflows for drafting, reviewing, and legal analysis 1 2. CEO Nick Fleisher previously worked as a corporate legal consultant at McKinsey & Co, and co-founder Jarryd Strydom is a former in-house attorney 3. The company reports having onboarded customers including Wayfair, Grindr, Mercury, Cox Media, and ElevenLabs, with revenue growing more than 40x in the 90 days prior to the Series A 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-01-13 Seed $10M Sequoia Capital SV Angel, Kearny Jackson, 20+ general counsel angels 3
2026-06-09 Series A $30M Lightspeed Venture Partners Mantis VC, SV Angel, Operator Partners, Kearny Jackson, Daybreak Ventures, Litquidity Ventures 1 2

What Investors Say

Guru Chahal of Lightspeed Venture Partners on the Series A: “The best vertical AI companies win because they understand the profession as deeply as the technology.” 2

What Founders Say

CEO Nick Fleisher on the opportunity: “In-house legal has been underserved by software for too long, and it’s finally fixable.” 2

Fleisher on Sandstone’s approach: “For the first time, the system actually understands the relationship behind the work, not just the document in front of them.” 2

Sources

  1. Marina Temkin, “Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams,” TechCrunch, June 9, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/sandstone-raises-30m-to-bring-ai-to-in-house-legal-teams/↩↩↩

  2. “Sandstone Raises $30m For AI-Native Inhouse Teams,” Artificial Lawyer, June 9, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2026/06/09/sandstone-raises-30m-for-ai-native-inhouse-teams/↩↩↩↩↩

  3. “Sequoia Leads Backing of AI Legal Technology Startup Sandstone,” Bloomberg Law, January 13, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-ops-and-tech/sequoia-leads-backing-of-ai-legal-technology-startup-sandstone↩↩

  4. Sandstone company website, accessed June 2026. https://sandstone.com/↩