Checkbox.ai

Checkbox.ai is a privately held, venture-backed legal technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with further offices in New York and Singapore. It builds software that gives corporate legal departments a single front door for legal work, covering request intake, triage, matter management and reporting, and it sells only into the in-house legal and legal operations market.

Co-founders Evan Wong and James Han began Checkbox.ai as a no-code automation platform for any business process before concentrating on corporate legal, where unmanaged inbound demand proved the most acute problem. The company raised early capital from Australian investors, then closed a US$23 million Series A in January 2026 led by Touring Capital with Peak XV, Conductive Ventures, Tidal Ventures and Five V Capital participating, which funded an expansion of its North American presence.

Checkbox.ai at a glance:

• Founded: Founded in 2016 in Sydney by Evan Wong and James Han, who met as students at the University of New South Wales.
• Headquarters: Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, where it was founded, with further offices in New York and Singapore serving North American customers.
• Ownership: Privately held and venture-backed, with a US$23 million Series A closed in January 2026 led by Touring Capital alongside Peak XV and Five V Capital.
• Legal Technology Portfolio: Sells a single product, Checkbox, an AI legal front door spanning intake and triage, workflow automation, matter management and cycle time reporting.
• Market Focus: Serves legal and legal operations teams at large enterprises across Australia, North America and Asia, and sells to legal departments rather than to law firms.

What legal teams should know: Checkbox.ai fits departments whose central problem is unmanaged demand and invisible workload rather than contract drafting or outside counsel spend, and the usual buyer is a legal operations lead. The company is young and still venture-funded, so procurement should weigh its scale against larger incumbents, while its enterprise reference base and recent Series A give it runway.