Avvoka, a legal drafting automation platform used by law firms and enterprise legal teams, has raised £14 million in growth investment in a funding round led by Valhalla Ventures, the investment firm of Mark and Lindy O’Hare. The round represents Valhalla Ventures’ first investment since the sale of Preqin to BlackRock in 2025.
Founded by David Howorth and Eliot Benzecrit, Avvoka develops software that enables legal teams to turn institutional knowledge and precedent into structured drafting systems. Its platform combines document automation, governance controls, and AI-assisted drafting to help legal organizations handle complex drafting work at scale while maintaining consistency and oversight.
The company said the funding arrives at a time when law firms and corporate legal departments face increasing pressure to deliver drafting work faster and at larger scale while maintaining accuracy and compliance. Avvoka’s platform is designed to support high-volume, high-variation legal drafting by embedding generative AI within structured automation frameworks rather than replacing existing legal workflows.
According to the company, the platform has been built over the past decade to provide infrastructure for large legal organizations to apply AI safely and consistently across matters. The system enables firms to reuse drafting frameworks, supervise automated outputs, and maintain institutional standards across teams.
Avvoka plans to use the new capital to expand its presence in the United States and to enhance the platform’s capabilities to support more organizations as they modernize their legal drafting operations. The company said the next phase of development will focus on helping firms operationalize generative AI while preserving governance, institutional knowledge, and drafting accuracy.
