2025 in review

2025 was the year Pandektes went from an ambitious Danish legal research platform to a company ready to compete across Europe. We raised our seed round, completely rebuilt the product, expanded into Germany, grew the team from a handful to 30 people across 9 nationalities, and earned the trust of more than 250 organisations. Here's a look back at what we shipped and what it took to get here.

Funding and foundation

We kicked off the year by closing our €2.9M seed round, led by People Ventures and Interface Capital. The round gave us the resources to do what we'd been planning since day one: invest deeply in data quality and infrastructure rather than chasing feature breadth. That conviction that legal AI is only as good as the sources behind it has shaped every decision we've made since.

Team

We grew from a small founding team to 30 people across 9 nationalities. Each of these hires has strengthened our ability to build, sell, and support the product and just as importantly, they've shaped the culture we're building.

Security and compliance

We received our ISO 27001:2022 certification in April, a milestone that required months of preparation across our entire organisation. Combined with our GDPR compliance, BRAO compliance for the German market, and infrastructure choices: EU-only hosting on Scaleway, customer-managed encryption keys, SSO and strong tenant isolation we've built a security posture that meets the highest standards our customers demand.

The new Pandektes

In September, we launched a completely redesigned platform. This wasn't a visual refresh. We rebuilt the core product from the ground up with new search architecture, a new AI assistant, and a fundamentally different approach to how legal professionals interact with sources.

The redesign was driven by a simple observation: lawyers don't just need answers, they need to verify those answers against primary sources. Every response from the Pandektes AI assistant is grounded in our legal database, with direct links to the underlying legislation, case law, and preparatory works. We've seen this approach build the kind of trust that actually changes how lawyers work day to day.

iOS

In October, we brought Pandektes to the iPhone. Legal research shouldn't be tied to a desk, and with the iOS app, our users can search case law, query the AI assistant, and access their projects from anywhere. The response from users has been overwhelmingly positive. It turns out lawyers do a lot of reading on the go.

Partnerships

We established data partnerships with two significant organisations this year: the Danish Property Federation (Ejendom Danmark) and the Danish Building and Construction Arbitration Board (Voldgiftsnævnet). These partnerships give our users access to specialised decisions and materials in construction, real estate, and rental law. Areas where proprietary case law is critical and historically difficult to access.

Entering Germany

Expanding into Germany was one of the most complex challenges we took on this year. The German legal market is large, sophisticated, and comes with a regulatory environment unlike any other. Lawyers in Germany are bound by the Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO), which imposes strict confidentiality obligations that go far beyond standard data protection law.

We invested heavily in ensuring that Pandektes meets these requirements: from our EU-sovereign infrastructure and strict tenant isolation to dedicated BRAO compliance. We now serve over 80 German law firms and legal departments, and we're continuing to build out our German legal database.

What's next

We're heading into 2026 with a clear roadmap. We'll be expanding into new markets, launching new product capabilities, and continuing to grow our legal database. We have some things in the works that we're genuinely excited about. More on that soon.

Thank you to every customer, partner, team member, investor, and advisor who made 2025 what it was. We're just getting started.