Berlin-based legal tech company Xayn (soon to be Noxtua SE), developer of Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI Noxtua, announced recently it has completed its Series B investment round of about €80.7 million with C.H.Beck (Germany’s leading legal publisher) as the leading investor. And additional new investors on board include High-Performance Computing (HPC) specialist Northern Data, Germany’s largest business law firm CMS as Xayn’s long-standing partner and co-initiator of the Legal AI Noxtua, and global law firm Dentons.
What the funding will be used for: This financing round – combined with powerful strategic partners, an expanded product offering (including the Legal AI Beck-Noxtua), and the forthcoming expansion into additional markets – brings together comprehensive AI, legal, and computing expertise, cementing Noxtua’s position as Europe’s leading sovereign Legal AI.
C.H.Beck’s Strategic Investment: The exclusive legal data of market leader C.H.Beck will be combined with the Legal AI of the Noxtua (born out of research at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London and developed in close collaboration with CMS) to produce powerful results.
And with this specialized AI, legal experts can research legal matters and analyze and draft legally compliant and competent legal documents. The sovereign European Legal AI adheres to high professional, criminal, and data protection law requirements for attorneys (e.g. ,Section 203 of the German Criminal Code (StGB), Section 43e of the German Federal Code for Lawyers (BRAO)), enabling the use by professionals bound by confidentiality without requiring anonymization.
Through its partnership with C.H.Beck, Noxtua utilizes the publishing house’s exclusive legal data for training and further optimizing of the Noxtua Legal AI. And with over 9,000 available works, 80 specialist journals, and up to 1,000 new publications and new editions every year, the specialized publisher has by far the largest legal database in the German-speaking world with beck-online with well over 55 million documents covering all relevant areas of law.
Northern Data’s Strategic Investment: With tThe current geopolitical shifts lend additional weight to this investment in sovereign European technology, above all in AI. Along with high-quality data, Europe needs its own AI models and an autonomous infrastructure for more digital sovereignty and to avoid or reduce technological dependencies. This is where the strategic investor Northern Data, based in Frankfurt am Main brings extensive expertise in sovereign, European high-performance computing and hosting. And culturally, European values such as data protection and transparency must remain anchored in technology development.
KEY QUOTES:
“We are delighted about the successfully completed financing round and the new strong partners by our side – especially now, when Europe’s digital sovereignty is more crucial than ever. European digital sovereignty is not merely a political question, but one that must also be addressed with hard technical facts – which is why the successful Series B round is of high strategic relevance to us. With C.H.Beck, Northern Data, CMS, and Dentons as our new investors, we are bringing together a unique combination of AI, legal, and computing expertise. This enables us to expand our position as the leading sovereign Legal AI in Europe. In doing so, we are also continuing the journey we began in 2017: building powerful AI based on European values.”
Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, CEO & Co-Founder Xayn/Noxtua
“The connection between Noxtua and C.H.Beck publishing house is far more than the combination of leading legal specialist information with outstanding technology. Noxtua’s vision of a sovereign European Legal AI aligns hand in hand with our values as an independent family-owned company, bearing a special responsibility towards the legal system.”
Professor Dr Klaus Weber, member of the Executive Board at C.H.Beck
“This carefully selected partnership with Noxtua is a cornerstone of our innovation strategy. Together, we will further expand our portfolio of AI solutions. In the future, we will offer our customers not only high-quality content and research capabilities, but also comprehensive productivity solutions for their legal work.”
Dr. Oliver Hofmann, Head of Legal Tech at C.H. Beck
“We empower the world’s most innovative companies – not just through our technology, but also by fostering the ecosystems that spark groundbreaking ideas. Our strategic investment acknowledges how Xayn/Noxtua successfully combines cutting-edge AI applications, fine-tuned LLMs, proprietary databases, and powerful compute resources—all within our sovereign, legally compliant AI infrastructure. We are excited to support Xayn’s/Noxtua’s continued growth as they scale to meet the growing demand for Legal AI.”
Aroosh Thillainathan, Founder and CEO, Northern Data Group
“I am delighted that our vision of a European Legal AI has become a reality. With C.H.Beck as a partner, we are creating the basis for a new standard tool that can bring about lasting change to lawyers’ day-to-day work.”
Dr. Markus Kaulartz, lawyer and partner for Artificial Intelligence at CMS
“Noxtua’s users benefit from the fact that the AI was developed using law-focused training data right from the start – and we will continue to provide this input in the future.”
Dr Martin Vorsmann, Managing Partner at CMS
“Dentons has always been driven by the vision of being the law firm of the future, so innovation is in our DNA. As part of our wider strategy to embrace the power of artificial intelligence to transform our industry, we are excited by the opportunity for Dentons Europe to contribute our legal and innovation expertise to the development of Noxtua to address the specific needs of the European market.”
Wendela Raas, CEO of Dentons Europe
