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January 30, 2026
•Jesse LandryJesse Landry

Checkbox Secures $23M in Series A Funding for Legal AI Solutions

Checkbox did not start as a pitch deck fantasy. It started as friction. In 2016, Evan Wong was scaling Hero Education and drowning in legal and compliance complexity that moved slower than the business it was supposed to protect. Forms everywhere. Requests scattered across inboxes, Slack threads, half-remembered hallway conversations. Law was reactive, not operational. Evan Wong, James Han, and Paul Wenck saw the same thing from different angles and decided the problem was not legal talent. It was the absence of a real front door.

Fast forward to January 28, 2026, and Checkbox just closed a $23 million Series A led by Touring Capital, with participation from Peak XV Partners, Tidal Ventures, Conductive Ventures, Five V Capital, Five V Capital, and angel investor Jerry Ting of Workday and Evisort. The post money valuation landed at $100 million, but the more interesting number is how many enterprises have already walked through the door. More than 100 global organizations now run legal intake through Checkbox, including SAP, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, BMW, Allianz, Hitachi, and Woolworths.

Checkbox is headquartered at 99 Wall Street in New York, with roots in Sydney and a growing presence in Singapore. The product is deceptively simple in concept and brutal in execution. Checkbox is the AI powered front door for in house legal teams. It captures legal requests from email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, and intranets, then routes, automates, or escalates them based on real rules, real risk, and real institutional knowledge. No code. No IT dependency. Just legal teams building their own workflows.

At Hitachi, that approach automated or partially automated 83 percent of routine legal and compliance requests in months, not years. At Coca Cola Europacific Partners, more than 5,000 documents were generated across functions, shaving days off turnaround times. This is not theory. This is throughput.

Evan Wong relocated to New York in 2024 to press the U.S. market. James Han continues to push product depth and AI capability. Paul Wenck brings the commercial muscle that helped Everyday Hero move over $500 million in donations. Touring Capital’s Evan Wijaya called Checkbox a category defining orchestration layer, and that language matters. Checkbox is not selling automation. It is selling order.

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