Dublin-born co-founder Robbie Falkenthal previously worked at KPMG, Flutter Entertainment and RSM Ireland.

Irish co-founded legal-tech start-up Wordsmith AI has plans to expand and hire in Ireland after a $70m Series B funding round backed by Highland Europe and Index Ventures.

The Series B – which takes the company’s total funding to $100m – will help Wordsmith expand its workforce to 300 across the US, the UK, and Europe, Middle East and Africa by the end of this year, while supporting a stronger push into its base in the US, the company said.

The New York-headquartered company employs 130 people with offices also in London, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Edinburgh.

Wordsmith intends to open an Irish office this year to meet demand in the domestic market, it said, with hopes to build out a “multidisciplinary team of sales professionals and lawyers” in the country.

The company is yet to decide on an EU headquarters, but said that Ireland is a strong contender for the role.

Wordsmith was co-founded in 2023 by Dublin-born chief operating officer Robbie Falkenthal, who spent six years at KPMG in Dublin before occupying senior roles at Flutter Entertainment, RSM Ireland and TravelPerk.

“Ireland is where I’m from, and as a country with so many major companies basing their European headquarters here, it’s a place where we see great potential,” said Falkenthal, a Wexford native.

“We are going to be expanding in Ireland this year and building out a presence which will support our growing Irish customer base.”

Alongside Falkenthal as co-founders are CEO Ross McNairn, a former lawyer who helped scale Perk and held senior roles at Skyscanner, and chief technical officer Volodymyr Giginiak, who held senior engineering roles at Facebook and Instagram.

“Wordsmith is the front door that does the work,” said McNairn. “Requests come in, the routine gets handled, lawyers approve what needs judgement, and every step is recorded as it happens.”

Wordsmith is used by more than 500 in-house legal teams worldwide, the company said, with clients including the Financial Times, Revolut, BT and Irish fintech Wayflyer. Its AI platform cuts cost by helping businesses reduce reliance on outside legal counsel, according to the company.

The platform receives and routes requests and aims to handle routine work, thereby leaving matters to legal experts only when “real risk or judgement” is associated with an action.

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