Harvey, the San Francisco legal AI company, acquired Hexus, a startup that built AI tools for creating product demos, videos and guides. Harvey announced the deal on 21 January 2026. It was Harvey's first acquisition. Terms were not disclosed.
Hexus founder and CEO Sakshi Pratap told TechCrunch that her San Francisco team had already joined Harvey and that she would lead an engineering group working on Harvey's products for in-house legal departments. Hexus's engineers in India were due to join once Harvey set up an office in Bangalore. Pratap declined to share deal terms but said the structure was built around "long-term team incentives."
Legal publication Artificial Lawyer described the deal as an acqui-hire. Harvey did not say what will happen to the Hexus product.
What Hexus built
Hexus was about two years old at the time of the deal, according to TechCrunch. Its software helped companies produce product demos, videos and how-to guides, with AI used to speed up the work. Harvey described it as an AI product demo company.
The company had raised $1.6 million from Pear VC, Liquid 2 Ventures and angel investors. Harvey described the team as former Google and X/Twitter engineers. Pratap previously held engineering roles at Walmart, Oracle and Google. Harvey named Kunal Baweja, a former X and Reddit engineer, as part of the team, according to Legal IT Insider.
Artificial Lawyer reported that the team was small, with two people joining Harvey in San Francisco and two more expected to join in India.
“Harvey is hiring engineers in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Bengaluru, but given our incredible growth, we also are always on the lookout for exceptional talent that can help support making our platform even better for our customers.”
Why Harvey is buying
Harvey said the Hexus team would speed up its work for in-house legal teams, the lawyers employed directly by companies rather than by law firms. Chief technology officer Siva Gurumurthy said Harvey was hiring engineers in San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Bengaluru but was also looking for exceptional talent to improve its platform.
Chief operating officer Katie Burke told Legal IT Insider that Harvey was looking at both product and talent tuck-ins to accelerate its product roadmap. CEO Winston Weinberg said the acquisition showed the company was open to more "intentional acquisitions."
Pratap told TechCrunch that her team brought experience building enterprise AI tools in neighbouring fields, which she said would help Harvey move faster in an increasingly competitive market.
Burke also told Legal IT Insider that the Hexus team had experience building the everyday software people use in their personal lives, and that it brought senior talent to Harvey's in-house legal work. Weinberg told Artificial Lawyer that the team was valuable for both its technical depth and its enterprise experience. Gurumurthy said Pratap and Baweja understood enterprise products and had a customer-focused approach.
Harvey's growth
Harvey was founded in 2022 by Weinberg, then a first-year associate at law firm O'Melveny & Myers, and Gabe Pereyra. TechCrunch reported that the pair emailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in July 2022 after testing GPT-3 on landlord-tenant law questions, and that the OpenAI Startup Fund wrote Harvey's first cheque and remains its second-largest investor, according to Weinberg.
TechCrunch reported that Harvey raised $760 million across 2025. It was valued at $3 billion early that year after a $300 million Series D led by Sequoia, and at $8 billion after a $160 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with T. Rowe Price and WndrCo also taking part. Other backers include Kleiner Perkins, Conviction and angel investor Elad Gil.
The Hexus announcement followed Harvey's 2025 year-in-review, in which the company reported significant growth in annual recurring revenue and said it had passed 1,000 customers in 60 countries. TechCrunch reported that these customers include most of the ten largest US law firms.
In March 2026, law firm Latham & Watkins said it had advised Harvey on the acquisitions of both Hexus and Lume AI, an integrations platform.
