The legal AI market just got tighter. Harvey, the $8 billion legal AI darling backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI, has acquired Hexus, a two-year-old startup that built tools for product demos and guides. The deal marks Harvey's first acquisition as competition intensifies in the red-hot legal tech space, and signals the company's strategic push into India with plans for a Bangalore engineering hub. With over 1,000 clients and $760 million raised in 2025 alone, Harvey is moving fast to consolidate its lead.
Harvey just made its first acquisition, and it's a signal that consolidation in legal AI is accelerating faster than anyone expected. The $8 billion legal tech unicorn has snapped up Hexus, a San Francisco-based startup that built tools for creating product demos, videos, and interactive guides. While Hexus might seem like an odd fit at first glance, the deal is really about talent and geography.
Sakshi Pratap, Hexus's founder and CEO who previously engineered at Walmart, Oracle, and Google, tells TechCrunch that her San Francisco team has already joined Harvey. The India-based engineers will follow once Harvey establishes its Bangalore office, a strategic expansion that gives the company access to deep technical talent in one of the world's fastest-growing tech markets. Pratap will lead an engineering team focused specifically on accelerating Harvey's offerings for in-house legal departments, a crucial market segment as corporate legal teams race to adopt AI.
"What we're bringing to Harvey is deep experience building enterprise AI tools in adjacent problem spaces," Pratap said in the interview. "This expertise helps Harvey move faster in a market that's becoming increasingly competitive."
That competition is real. The legal AI space has exploded over the past two years, with everyone from established players like Thomson Reuters to scrappy startups racing to capture law firms and corporate legal departments. Harvey's aggressive M&A move suggests the company isn't just content to grow organically - it's buying the pieces it needs to stay ahead.
