When Jodie Baker moved from Kansas City back to Melbourne, Australia, in 2012 to join law firm Hive Legal, she began internally developing a technology that would become matter management platform Xakia Technologies. She took Xakia out on its own in mid-2016, only to find an undeveloped local legal technology market.

“When I started Xakia in 2016, I looked around and thought there wasn’t really any ecosystem for legal technology in Australia,” Baker says. “I was actually disappointed; I felt so out on a limb.”