Is Harvey publicly traded?

Harvey is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.

What products does Harvey make?

Harvey's products in the TECHi Atlas: Harvey.

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Harvey

Harvey builds legal-specific AI for law firms and in-house teams; backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, valued at $11B.

Founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg, a former O'Melveny litigator, and Gabriel Pereyra, an ex-DeepMind research scientist, San Francisco-based Harvey sells custom LLM workflows for legal research, drafting, and diligence — named after Suits' Harvey Specter. It serves over 1,000 law firms and corporate legal departments, hit roughly $190M ARR by early 2026, and raised $200M at an $11B valuation led by GIC and Sequoia. It was an early OpenAI Startup Fund investment, and the models underneath remain largely OpenAI's — Harvey's product is the legal workflow wrapped around them.

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Harvey

Domain-tuned AI for law firms: research, drafting, diligence, and agentic legal work.

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Why it matters

Harvey is the test case for whether vertical AI wrappers deserve platform-sized valuations. The sharper tension is with its own customers: law firms bill by the hour, so software that compresses a ten-hour research task into twenty minutes attacks the revenue model of the people buying it. Firms are paying anyway, which says the fear of falling behind rivals currently beats the fear of cannibalizing billables.

Core moat

Trust and references among the most conservative buyers in software — firm-by-firm implementations and word-of-mouth across large law firms compound into a sales moat that a technically equal rival can't shortcut. The moat is commercial, not technical; the foundation models are rented.

Risks

In law, a hallucinated citation isn't a quality issue, it's a sanctions risk — one high-profile failure inside a major firm could freeze the whole category's procurement. And because Harvey rents its intelligence from OpenAI, nothing structurally stops the model vendors from going direct to legal buyers.

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Frequently asked about Harvey

What does Harvey do?: Harvey builds legal-specific AI for law firms and in-house teams; backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund, valued at $11B.
Is Harvey publicly traded?: Harvey is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.
What products does Harvey make?: Harvey's products in the TECHi Atlas: Harvey.
What is Harvey's competitive advantage?: Trust and references among the most conservative buyers in software — firm-by-firm implementations and word-of-mouth across large law firms compound into a sales moat that a technically equal rival can't shortcut. The moat is commercial, not technical; the foundation models are rented.