(L-R) TechCrunch senior writer Anthony Ha; GGV Capital managing partner Hans Tung; Google Cloud head of startup programs Samantha O’Keefe; Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Jeremy Liew; Greylock Partners general partner Sarah Guo; Toyota AI Ventures’ Jim Adler; and McCarthyFinch co-founder and CEO Nick Whitehouse speak onstage during the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 at San Francisco’s George R. Moscone Convention Center on Sept. 5, 2018.
McCarthyFinch, a 15-month-old legal technology startup from New Zealand, was one of 21 companies chosen to compete at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco.
The company, the latest upstart seeking to use artificial intelligence in an effort to simplify legal services, was formed in 2017 as a joint venture between leading New Zealand law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts and Auckland-based boutique venture capital firm Goat Ventures. The two sponsors gave McCarthyFinch about $2.5 million in pre-seed money to get started.
