Lexroom launches legal AI agent two months after Praven Intelekt acquisition. Two months after acquiring Bulgarian legal tech company Praven Intelekt, Lexroom has launched lex, a WhatsApp-based AI agent designed to help lawyers manage daily tasks, conduct legal research, and draft documents. Italian-founded legal AI company Lexroom has launched lex, an AI-powered personal assistant for lawyers accessible through WhatsApp, just two months after acquiring Bulgarian legal tech company Praven Intelekt. The new product aims to help legal professionals manage administrative tasks, conduct legal research, and prepare documents directly through a messaging app. The launch marks another step in Lexroom's expansion into the Bulgarian market, following its September acquisition of Praven Intelekt. The company is positioning lex as a legal AI agent designed to move beyond answering questions and take on everyday tasks, subject to lawyers' approval. Available in closed beta from November 10, lex is initially being introduced in five European markets: Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. From legal research to managing daily workflows. Unlike conventional legal AI tools that require users to access a dedicated platform, lex operates through WhatsApp, allowing lawyers to interact with the assistant using text messages and voice notes. The product targets solo practitioners and small to medium-sized law firms, where lawyers often handle administrative responsibilities alongside their legal work. According to Lexroom, the assistant can monitor emails, calendars, client communications, and case files to identify tasks requiring attention. It can also suggest meeting times, schedule appointments, conduct legal research, and prepare initial document drafts. For example, a lawyer moving between court hearings could request a summary of urgent emails and upcoming deadlines or ask the assistant to research a legal question and prepare a draft for later review. The system is designed around a human approval process: lex can recommend actions, but nothing is sent, scheduled, or filed without the lawyer's authorization. "AI is finally becoming proactive. With lex, it goes from answering your questions to working for you," said Paolo Fois, co-founder and CEO of Lexroom. "Every Lexroom customer can now run their practice with the kind of back-office support that, until now, only large law firms had the resources to provide." Built on more than 16 million legal sources. Lexroom says the new assistant is integrated with its existing legal AI platform, which connects to more than 16 million verified and curated legal sources. This infrastructure allows lex to combine legal research and document drafting with information about a lawyer's clients, cases, and ongoing work. The company also emphasizes that its drafting templates and workflows have been developed by in-house legal professionals rather than relying exclusively on general-purpose AI models. By integrating these capabilities into WhatsApp, Lexroom aims to make legal AI more accessible to smaller practices that may lack dedicated administrative or research teams. However, the product remains in closed beta, and lawyers can join the waitlist to be the first to hear about the official release. lex will also be available in additional messaging apps in the near future. Lexroom's expansion into Bulgaria and beyond. The launch follows a period of growth and international expansion for Lexroom. In May 2026, the company raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Left Lane, with participation from Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, Acurio Ventures, Entourage, and View Different. Lexroom reports that it has since surpassed €30 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), serves more than 20,000 customers, and employs over 300 professionals. Its acquisition of Bulgarian legal tech company Praven Intelekt in September, alongside French company Query Juriste, marked the company's first acquisitions and expanded its presence to five European markets.

Entourage closes €100M second fund for AI and robotics. Belgian venture firm Entourage, an early backer of unicorn Aikido Security, will invest its €100M second fund in about 25 young artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and deeptech startups. Entourage, an early-stage venture firm based in Ghent, Belgium, has closed a €100M second fund to back startups in AI, enterprise software, robotics and deeptech, the term for companies built on scientific or engineering breakthroughs. At €100M, the new fund is more than three times the size of the first, which closed at $30M (about €27.7M) in 2024. Pieterjan Bouten, co-founder and former chief executive of the Ghent sales software company Showpad, founded Entourage and leads it as general partner. The firm set out to raise €75M for the new fund, reached that figure in about two weeks and then capped it at €100M. "The next decade will produce some of the most iconic technology companies in history," Bouten said. He also said: "AI is reinventing software and taking intelligence into the physical world." Entourage has not named the investors in the new fund. Backers of the first fund were mostly software entrepreneurs and family offices, among them Jason Lemkin, founder of the business software community SaaStr, and the founders of several Belgian software companies. How the fund will invest. Entourage plans to back about 25 companies from the new fund at pre-seed and seed stage, the earliest rounds of professional investment in a startup. Initial cheques will range from €1M to €5M. Part of the fund is held back so the firm can invest again in later rounds, and Entourage will look for companies across Europe and beyond. The first fund focused on European business software sold by subscription. The new one keeps software but adds robotics and physical AI, meaning AI that senses and acts in the real world through machines rather than only on a screen. Bouten works alongside partners Evert Beeckman and Maarten Mortier, and Erwan Gardelle, Sixtine Riescher and Illja Schiller have joined the investment team. The firm has also opened an office in London and has a presence in Paris. Early bets from the first fund. "We wrote the first cheques into companies like Aikido, Conveo and Lexroom," Bouten said. Aikido Security, a Ghent company that helps software developers protect their code and cloud systems, became Belgium's seventh tech unicorn, a startup valued at $1B or more, when it raised $60M in January in a round led by DST Global and PSG Equity. Conveo, which runs an AI consumer research platform, has gone on to raise $50M in its Series A, the first large funding round after seed. Lexroom, a legal technology startup, reached €30M in annual recurring revenue, the yearly value of its subscriptions, in under two years. The first fund also came with a venture studio, Entourage Studio, set up to build business software companies from scratch. The studio's first project was tekst.com, an AI platform for customer support and back-office work. Beyond business software. Entourage's first fund stayed close to the business software world its founder came from. With the second, the firm spreads its money wider, into robotics, physical AI and science-led startups, while still investing at the earliest stage. The fund also filled faster than its original target and ended up more than three times the size of its predecessor, giving Entourage a much larger pool for the 25 or so companies it plans to back.