News / 22 July 2026

Pre-seed round closed: over €700K raised, 85%+ in equity

Umbrella Forensics has closed its pre-seed round with over €700,000 raised, more than 85% of it in equity. The company is now completing SENTRIX and preparing to launch pilots with law firms across the Nordic and Baltic region.Umbrella Forensics

Umbrella Forensics closes pre-seed round with over €700K raised, of which over 85% in equity

Umbrella Forensics Oy, the Espoo-based company behind SENTRIX — a Legal Intelligence Infrastructure platform for AI-assisted legal work — has closed its pre-seed funding round, securing over €700,000 in total capital, of which more than 85% was raised in equity.The round brought in over 45 investors, reflecting strong early confidence in Umbrella Forensics' vision: a foundational trust and verification layer that sits beneath AI legal tools, giving legal teams a way to establish trust in the material feeding AI-assisted legal reasoning before it ever reaches an algorithm.

Where the capital is going

The funds are being directed toward two priorities: finishing core development of SENTRIX, and preparing the platform for its pilot phase with law firms across Finland, Estonia, and the wider Nordic and Baltic region.On the product side, the team is completing the guided verification workflows at the heart of SENTRIX — the step-by-step processes that establish trust in evidence and documentation before it's used in AI-assisted legal reasoning. SENTRIX is built as a foundational trust and verification layer, designed for other legal and AI tools to depend on. This includes hardening the platform's security architecture in partnership with its technology development partner, ahead of onboarding law firm clients who handle sensitive client data.On the go-to-market side, capital is funding the operational work of standing up a pilot program: onboarding processes, integration testing, and the legal and compliance groundwork needed for law firms to trial SENTRIX safely alongside their existing AI tools. Umbrella Forensics is currently in active pilot discussions with several leading Nordic and Baltic law firms, with the first pilot engagements launching in the second half of 2026.

From our co-founders

Closing this round is a real vote of confidence, and we don't take that lightly. Thank you to every investor who backed us early — you've given us the runway to build SENTRIX properly, not just quickly. We're now focused on getting it into the hands of the law firms who'll shape how it's used, and on building toward the next chapter for the company.— Andrew Bond, Co-Founder & CEO, and Ari Palosaari, Co-Founder & COO

What's next

With the pre-seed round closed, Umbrella Forensics is turning its attention to its pilot rollout and to preparing for the next financial round to fund broader commercial deployment across the region.

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