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- Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, announced Wednesday, with the round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
- Harvey's valuation jumped from $11 billion in March and $8 billion in December, nearly doubling in about nine months; the company has now raised more than $1.55 billion total.
- Harvey has completed at least eight priced rounds since 2023 — five of them since 2025 — and, like Databricks, did not name the round (possibly a Series F, per PitchBook estimates).
- Harvey recently launched its first in-house model, Harvey Tenet, built on open-weight model Kimi K3 and post-trained with legal data using inference provider Fireworks, which also helped Cursor train its homegrown model.
- Harvey is encouraging its customers to adopt and post-train their own open-weight models, positioning itself as an example of how the legal sector can rely on AI without depending on proprietary frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Why it matters: Harvey has nearly doubled its valuation to $15.5 billion in nine months while explicitly steering customers toward open-weight models rather than frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic — meaning the $550 million round underwrites a legal-AI stack that competes with, rather than rents from, the biggest names in generative AI.
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