Legal AI start-up Harvey opens Singapore office
Harvey AI, a legal tech start-up, is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific region by opening a new office in Singapore and hiring over 32 people.Summary
San Francisco-based legal AI start-up Harvey AI is establishing a Singapore office in June, aiming to hire over 32 professionals in sales, operations, and legal engineering. This expansion is driven by the company’s growing client base of over 100 in the Asia-Pacific region, following previous expansions to Bengaluru and Sydney. Katie Burke, Harvey’s COO, highlighted Singapore’s progressive approach to legal AI and the significant demand for AI assistance as key factors in the decision.
Founded four years ago and named after the character Harvey Specter from the series *Suits*, Harvey AI provides an AI platform powered by large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, trained on legal data. The platform assists lawyers with tasks like document summarization, drafting, and legal research. Prominent Singaporean law firms such as Rajah & Tann, Drew & Napier, and WongPartnership are already clients, utilizing Harvey AI for document repositories and legal searches.
Notably, the Singapore Judiciary is also adopting Harvey AI technology, planning to launch a generative AI tool in 2025 for the Small Claims Tribunals to provide case summaries and document translation into Chinese, Malay, and Tamil. Valued at US$8 billion in December 2025, Harvey AI is currently seeking a valuation of around US$11 billion and has been adopted by over 100,000 lawyers across 60 countries.
(Source：The Straits Times)