jEugene
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
jEugene was a New York legal-tech startup from Y Combinator's Summer 2015 class, founded by Harry Zhou — a first-year lawyer who had been tasked with proofreading a 250-page contract. Its software automatically scanned legal documents and highlighted hard-to-spot drafting mistakes, notably definitional errors (undefined terms and unused definitions) that could be fatal to a document's validity. Used by firms including White & Case and Fenwick & West and distributed via Clio, it raised $120,000 and is now listed by Crunchbase as closed. No failure event has been reported.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Harry Zhou launches jEugene in Y Combinator's Summer 2015 class: software that automatically combs through legal documents and detects definitional errors.
- Early traction
jEugene is used by White & Case LLP, trialed by Fenwick & West, and offered to smaller firms via Clio's cloud legal management software.
- Listed as closed
Crunchbase lists jEugene with operating status 'Closed' after one seed round.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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