Corporate legal departments face a critical challenge: every time a contract is signed or a lawyer transitions to a new role, institutional knowledge disappears into disconnected tools and outdated filing systems. This “corporate amnesia” forces legal teams to reinvent the wheel with each negotiation, searching through siloed repositories rather than leveraging the strategic intelligence embedded in past deals. Chamelio addresses this gap by creating a legal intelligence platform that transforms fragmented workflows into a unified system, converting unstructured legal content into structured intelligence that actively informs decision-making. The platform enables in-house teams to orchestrate their entire workflow, from intake and contract review to post-signature management, while maintaining institutional knowledge that evolves with each interaction. By consolidating the four to five disparate tools most legal departments juggle, Chamelio allows approximately 100 clients, including Wiz, Socure, Lightricks, and Fiverr, to reduce legal review time by up to 90% while shifting focus from routine contract processing to strategic business initiatives.
AlleyWatch sat down with Chamelio CEO and Cofounder Alex Zilberman to learn more about the business, its future plans, recent funding round, and much, much more…
Who were your investors and how much did you raise?
We recently closed our seed round, which brought funding to $10M. The round was led by Work-Bench, in addition to funding from Emerge and participation from additional investors.
Tell us about the product or service that Chamelio offers.
Chamelio is an AI-powered legal intelligence platform designed to unify the fragmented workflows of in-house legal teams. Rather than making lawyers jump between different tools for intake, contract review, and storage, we provide the connective tissue that enables departments to orchestrate their entire workflow. Our platform automates intake requests, generates intelligent playbooks for contracts and policies, and maintains a smart repository where data is interconnected and readily accessible.
What inspired the start of Chamelio?
The company was born out of the frustrations experienced by my cofounders and me when we founded and scaled previous companies. We saw firsthand how legal teams were drowning in manual tasks and disconnected software.
Our cofounder and COO Gil Banyas was previously a General Counsel, and he felt the pain of trying to manage institutional knowledge across siloed tools. We realized the status quo of legal tech wasn’t making legal teams more efficient. We built Chamelio to fix that. And our cofounder and CTO Gal Lellouche previously founded an AI company that was acquired by Sage, so we have the technical expertise to deliver the innovative solutions legal departments need.
How is Chamelio different?
Most legal tech today is specialized but siloed. You have different tools for different workflows. That segmentation isn’t efficient, and it decreases the value of your data.
Chamelio is the only platform that in-house teams use from the moment a request comes in through the final negotiation and then into a smart repository. Because all that data lives in one place, our AI can do things others can’t. Our legal intelligence platform can instantly tell you if you’ve worked with a specific counterparty before or surface specific clauses used in previous contracts while you’re still in the editing phase.
What market does Chamelio target and how big is it?
We target in-house corporate legal departments ranging from high-growth startups, like Wiz, Monday.com, and Socure, to publicly traded companies like Global-e and Fiverr. The legal technology market is expanding rapidly as teams face increasing pressure to do more with less. We see this shift toward AI-driven workflows as a multibillion-dollar opportunity in the market.
What’s your business model?
Our business model is subscription-based with a usage component.
Customers purchase an annual SaaS subscription priced per seat, which gives access to the Chamelio platform and core capabilities. On top of that, pricing scales based on usage, such as the volume of contracts and legal documents managed, workflows executed, and advanced features or integrations enabled.
This hybrid model aligns pricing with the actual value customers get as they grow their legal operations, while still providing predictable recurring revenue through annual subscriptions. As customers expand usage across more contract types, departments, and workflows, their spend naturally grows through usage-based expansion rather than renegotiation.
How are you preparing for a potential economic slowdown?
Every company wants to save time and money. When there are challenges, efficiency is more important than ever. Many legal teams are already being asked to reduce spend on outside counsel and manage larger workloads internally.
Chamelio is built to meet those needs. By consolidating four or five different tools into one legal intelligence platform, we help companies reduce their software overhead while significantly increasing their existing team’s output. In fact, most of our customers see positive ROI within the first six months of adopting our platform.
What was the funding process like?
It was highly collaborative. We were looking for partners who understood that the next generation of enterprise software isn’t just about adding AI to old workflows. It’s about reimagining the workflow from the ground up.
Working with Work-Bench and Emerge was a natural fit because they share our vision of Chamelio becoming the definitive system of record for legal ops. They understood the opportunity at hand very quickly, and it was an efficient process from first meet to term sheet. We knew they were the right partners for us. There were a few options available, and we are very happy to have moved forward with them.
What are the biggest challenges that you faced while raising capital?
The bar for AI companies is incredibly high right now. Investors have seen a lot of wrappers that don’t have much depth. It was important to show how Chamelio isn’t just a layer of AI on top, but it’s essential infrastructure that becomes even more valuable the more a company uses it.
The bar for AI companies is incredibly high right now. Investors have seen a lot of wrappers that don’t have much depth. It was important to show how Chamelio isn’t just a layer of AI on top, but it’s essential infrastructure that becomes even more valuable the more a company uses it.
What factors about your business led your investors to write the check?
It came down to a combination of category-defining vision and execution. Our month-over-month growth, as well as our execution on both the technological and business sides, demonstrated that what we’ve built is what the market needs. Our investors saw that we were building a new way for legal teams to function, and we proved we could move rapidly from pilot to an essential solution with many customers.
What are the milestones you plan to achieve in the next six months?
Our focus is aggressive product development and global go-to-market expansion. A major milestone will be the opening of our new office in New York City later this year to better serve our growing U.S. client base.
What advice can you offer companies in New York that do not have a fresh injection of capital in the bank?
Be obsessed with your customers. That’s a key differentiating factor. Always be there for them and provide amazing, unparalleled service. Then they will open up to you, tell you what they need, and refer their friends. You need to show up every single day to listen and build.
Where do you see the company going now over the near term?
We’re quickly becoming the one-stop shop for in-house legal teams. We’re deepening our platform’s capabilities even further to provide proactive insights, so it can anticipate what a legal team needs before they even ask.
What’s your favorite winter destination in and around the city?
I’m often in Midtown near Bryant Park. It’s a great place to spend time in any season. There’s so much on offer in the winter with the skating rink, shops, and food stalls.
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