Checkbox, a company that sells software for handling requests to in-house legal teams, raised a US$23m Series A round announced on 28 January 2026. Touring Capital led the round. Forbes Australia put the figure at about A$32.7m.
Peak XV, formerly Sequoia Capital India, Conductive Ventures, Tidal Ventures and Five V Capital also took part. Angel investors included Jerry Ting, who is vice president and head of agentic AI at Workday and a former co-founder and chief executive of Evisort, according to Checkbox's release and Artificial Lawyer. No valuation was disclosed.
“We're building the AI Legal Front Door — a single system that captures all legal demand”Evan Wong, CEO, Checkbox
What Checkbox does
Checkbox calls its product an AI legal front door. It captures legal requests from business users in email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce and intranet portals, then lets AI agents handle routine work through self-service while routing complex or high-risk matters to lawyers. The company's website lists intake and triage, matter management, workflow automation and dashboards that show where legal work comes from and where it gets stuck.
Artificial Lawyer reported that the agents can turn conversations into automated workflows, such as drafting contracts and approving conflicts of interest. Evan Wong, chief executive and co-founder, told the publication the goal is to help legal teams scale without necessarily adding headcount or outside counsel spend.
Customers and origins
Checkbox says it has more than 100 enterprise customers. The company's release named SAP and PepsiCo, and Forbes Australia listed Telstra, Woolworths, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Macquarie Group, Hitachi, PepsiCo and Xero. Hitachi reported that 83% of its routine legal and compliance requests are now partially or fully automated, according to both the release and Forbes.
Forbes Australia said Checkbox was founded in 2016 by two Sydney friends and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni, Wong and James Han, who is chief product officer. The sources disagree on location: the company's release carried a New York dateline, Artificial Lawyer said Wong is based in New York, and Forbes called it an Australian company. None of them names a headquarters, so this article does not either.
What the money is for
The company said the funds will expand the AI Legal Front Door, grow its AI capabilities, deepen integrations across the technology stack and increase adoption. Han said the funding will fuel Checkbox's vision to build a system of intelligence for legal work.
Wong said the company has seen tremendous demand for the legal front door. Evan Wijaya, a principal at Touring Capital, said Checkbox is defining the category for legal service management.
The sources do not report Checkbox's earlier funding or headcount. Checkbox's release said the product was named in Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle. Jeannine Moran, director of legal operations at Hitachi, said Checkbox really surprised the team and exceeded its expectations. To mark the round, the company offered legal teams the chance to build their first AI intake agent at no cost.
Company website: checkbox.ai