Founded in London in August 2024 by Gus Neate (ex-Clifford Chance) and Alex Wang (ex-D.E. Shaw), Claren launched as WilsonAI with a mission to build the world's first AI paralegal for in-house legal teams. The platform automates contract review, redlining, key-term extraction and legal Q&A with citations, and early deployments showed it automating over 50% of routine legal queries while cutting contract review time by up to 70%.
WilsonAI raised a $1.7M pre-seed round in early 2025 led by Nomad Ventures, with participation from Autopilot Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Transpose Platform and a number of exited founders and law firm partners. The company has since rebranded as Claren, an AI contract assistant for legal teams, and continues to operate from London.
