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Sandstone raises $30 million for AI-native in-house legal departments

Sandstone raised a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed to build what it calls an operating layer for AI-native legal departments.

BY FRONTIER DESK · JUNE 15, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

Sandstone raised a $30 million Series A led by Lightspeed to build what it calls an operating layer for AI-native legal departments. Its pitch is a unified legal relationship and context surface across counterparties, stakeholders, matters, obligations, contracts and history. The legal-frontier theme is moving in-house as well as into law firms: legal departments are becoming buyers of systems that turn institutional context into repeatable legal operations and workflow automation.

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